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PAGE. 

J.  M.  W.  Turner  -         1, 

Bretton  Hall  Ballad       1,  191. 

Yorkshire  M.P's.,  1758  5. 

St.  John  of  Beverley     -        6. 
—  Extinct  Yorkshire  Magazines  7. 

Stanbury  Quaker  Register     9. 

Latter  Day  '  Sinner '     -       15. 

Akroyd  Scholarship       -       16. 

Akroyd'sWiU       -         -       18. 

Fire  of  London     -         -       19. 

Refusing  Knighthood    -       19. 

M.Ps.  for  York,  1718-1882  20. 

Ripley  Memorial  Slabs         28. 

W.  Riding  Sessions  Rolls, 
(numerous  topics)   28,47,78, 
188,  288. 

Yorkshire  Church  Livings   29. 

Quakerism  in  Sedbergh        29. 

York  Cattle  Fairs  -       82. 

Batley  Grammar  School      87. 

John  Berry's  Journal, 

(numerous  topics)      -       89. 

Cheap  Trips  -         -       44. 

Bullhouse  -         -       45. 

Bullhouse  Chapel  -      46. 

';  Yorkshire  Pottery  52,119,285. 

Village  Feasts       -         -       56. 

Fylfot  ...       66. 

Baildon         -         -  64,94. 

„         Darton  Registers  -       64. 

Fulneck        -         -  65. 

Reins  of  land        -         -       68. 

High  Sunderland  -         -       68. 

Woolcombers        -         -       77. 
•*/        Wentworth's  Letter,  1497    78. 

Ardsley  Notes       -         -       79. 

Kirklees  Nunnery  82,97. 

Eldwick  Stone  Circle     -     105. 

Ackworth  Parish  Registers, 

107,129,166. 

Reptile  Symbolism  118. 


PAGE. 

Muster  Rolls  -  -  118. 
Extinct   Congregational 

Colleges  -         -  124. 

Sir  John  Hotham  -  129. 

York  Mint  182,186,228. 

Pontefract  Shilling  -  188. 
Yorkshire  Waterfalls  and 

Caves        -         -         -  188. 

King's  Manor  House,  York  188 


141. 

-  142. 

150,  ass. 

-  158. 

-  159. 

-  160. 

-  161. 


178. 
178. 


County  Records 
Assessment,  1584  - 
Yorkshire  Crosses 
Holy  Wells 
Roman  Altars 
Halifax  Gibbet  Law 
Merry  Bauk 
Wordsworth  of  Wadworth  161, 

286 
Grassington  Schismatics 
Fors  Abbey 
Dr.   John   Hall's  MSS. 

[Nonconformist  History] 
Plague  of  Mirfield 
Ledgard   and   Shepley 

Bridges 

Briefs  -         191,198,284 

Ducking  Stool  at  Mirfield  195 
Rev.   J.   Ismay's  Diary, 

(numerous  topics)  -  196 
History  of  Mirfield,  1755  201 
Blount's  Yorkshire  Tenures, 

211,  228 
Saltaire  -  -  -  224 
Yorkshire  Coins  -       226 

Washburn  Place  Names     282 
Wakefield,     Pontefract, 

Knaresborough,    and 

Tickhill  Manors 
Halifax  Militia 
Silkstone  Registers 


175. 

187. 

187. 


288. 
285. 
286. 


Indexes 


241,  256. 


Scaleber  Force 

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.         .         . 

. 

PAGE. 
188.' 

Saltaire 

224. 

PAGE. 

PAGE. 

Bretton  Hall 

2. 

Keyingham  Stump 

- 

158. 

Ripley  Slabs 

28. 

Ravenspurn  Cross 

- 

154. 

Bullhouse  Chapel 

46. 

Keyingham  Cross 

- 

155. 

Fylfot,  (82  figures)         57,  64. 

Swine  Cross 

- 

155. 

Fulneck 

65. 

Hornsea  Cross 

- 

155. 

High  Sunderland 

69. 

Brandsburton  Cross 

- 

156. 

Baildon  Hall 

95. 

Leven  Cross 

- 

157. 

Heckmondwike  Academy 

126. 

Nunkeeling  Cross 

- 

157. 

Rev.  James  Scott 

127. 

Atwick  Cross 

- 

157. 

Sir  John  Hotham 

181. 

Stainland  Holywell 

- 

158. 

Edward  VI's.  Coins  (4) 

182. 

Roman  Altar,  Slack 

- 

159. 

Pontefract  Coin 

188. 

Roman  Altar,  Greetland 

159. 

Thornton  Force 

184. 

Sir  Titus  Salt 

- 

224. 

Easegill  Force 

186. 

Saltaire    Congregational 

Ingle  borough  Cave 

187. 

Church 

- 

225. 

Stainland  Cross 

150. 

Ulf  s  Arms 

. 

280. 

Beverley  Frithstool 

152. 

Ulfs  Horn 

. 

281. 

Bradford  Cross 

158. 

Bradford  Horn    - 

- 

281. 

[orfcsjjire  |totcs  wto  (Sutras. 


J.  M.  W.  Tubner.  "  There  was  no  County  in  England  to  which 
Turner  was  so  much  attached  as  Yorkshire.  .  ,  It  was  here 
on  the  Wolds,  and  beside  the  banks  of  the  Wharfe,  that  he  first 
(after  Wales)  saw  really  wild  scenery.  ...  He  loved  it 
because  he  had  gathered  in  its  ruined  Abbeys  the  chief  treasures 
of  his  *  Liber/  and  because  there  he  found  the  past  and  pre- 
sent times  in  the  most  striking  juxtaposition.  .  .  •  Mr. 
Buskin  says,  and  we  cannot  quote  a  higher  authority, — ' The 
scenery,  whose  influence  I  can  trace  most  definitely  throughout 
his  Works,  varied  as  they  are,  is  that  of  Yorkshire.' " — Thorn- 
bury's  Life  of  Turner. 


Vitus  on  a  fUmarkable  Ciraxmstanr* 

CONNECTED   WITH   BRETTON    HALL,    NEAR   BARNSLEY. 

[From  an  undated  Broadside,  once  very  popular,  and  taken  for 
fact.  Fortunately  for  their  credit  they  are  simply  styled 
Lines.] 

At  Bretton  Hall,  near  Wakefield,  known  so  well, 
Sir  William  Wentworth  Blackett  once  did  dwell ; 
That  mansion  was  his  own, — there,  with  his  bride, 
In  pomp  and  splendour,  he  did  once  reside ; 
Yet,  in  the  midst  of  all  that  he  possessed, 
A  rambling  mind  disturb'd  Sir  William's  breast. 
His  lady  and  his  home  he  left  behind, — 
Says  he,  *  The  end  of  this  wide  world  I'll  find ; 
The  earth's  extensive,  but  you  may  depend  on  't, 
Before  e'er  I  return  I'll  find  the  end  on  't. 
So  he  embark'd  on  board  a  ship  we  find, 
And,  sailing,  left  her  ladyship  behind, 
Who,  oft  in  sorrow  did  his  absence  mourn, 
And,  sighing  said,  '  0  that  he  would  return, 
For  be  his  voyage  rough  or  smooth  at  sea, 
It  is  a  cruel,  bitter  blast  to  me.' 
8ir  William,  he  rolls  on  through  winds  and  waves ; 
Undaunted,  he  all  kinds  of  weather  braves ; 
Nor  his  strange  project  ever  relinquish'd  he, 
Till  one  and  twenty  years  he'd  been  at  sea ; 

Y.N.Q.  B 


YORKSHIRE    NOTE8    AND    QUERIES. 

Then,  p'rhaps  he  thought,  '  Good  lack  the  world  is  round, 
The  end  is  nowhere,  so  it  can't  be  found ; 
And  as  I'm  weary  of  this  wild-goose  chase, 
At  home  again,  ere  long,  I'll  show  my  face.' 
Then  off  he  set,  but  little  was  aware 


What  would  transpire  on  his  arrival  there : 

For,  while  Sir  William  roved,  as  here  express'd, 

Another  •  Sir '  his  lady  thus  address'd : — 

*  Sir  William  *s  gone,  ne'er  to  return  again, 

Fast  this  world's  end,  which  long  he  sought  in  vain ; 

There's  not  a  doubt  he's  found  the  end  of  life. 


YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

But  don't  be  troubled,  yon  shall  be  my  wife.' 

She  listened,  till  at  length  she  gave  consent. 

And  straightway,  then,  to  church  this  couple  went. 

Sir  William  does  about  this  "wedding  hear, 

As  he  unto  his  journey's  end  draws  near ; 

And  thus,  he  does  within  his  mind  reflect — 

'  This  sly  usurper  I  shall  now  detect ; 

Soon  shall  he  know*  (though  much  against  his  will) 

At  Bretton  Hall  I  have  dominion  still. 

Those  woods  and  fertile  fields  my  own  I  call, 

With  this  magnificent,  this  splendid  hall ; 

And  now  I  come  to  claim  them  as  my  own, 

Though  by  my  dress  not  from  a  beggar  known, 

My  clothes  are  turned  to  rags ;  and,  by  the  weather, 

My  skin  is  tann'd  till  it  resembles  leather ; 

So  now  I'll  act  the  beggar,  bold  and  rude, 

And,  at  this  wedding  boldly  I'll  intrude ; 

And  though,  admittance  I  may  be  denied, 

I'll  rob  the  merry  bridegroom  of  his  bride.1 

Then  at  his  own  hall  door  one  rap  he  gave, 

Resolved  the  inmate's  charity  to  crave ; 

So  he  presented  his  request,  'tis  said, 

And  they  presented  him  a  crust  of  bread ! 

The  bread  he  took,  and  then,  to  their  surprise, 

He  ask'd  the  servants  for  some  beer  likewise. 

'  No,  no,'  said  they  '  beer  we  shall  give  you  none, 

Tou  saucy,  drunken  vagabond,  begone ! ' 

At  length  (with  much  ado)  some  beer  he  got, 

And  quickly  he  returned  the  empty  pot ; 

And  straightway  then  into  the  hall  went  he, 

And  said,  he  wished  her  ladyship  to  see. 

*  You  can  by  no  means  see  her,'  answered  they, 
'  She  is  newly  married !  'tis  her  wedding  day.' 

*  Married ! '  die  feigned  beggarman  replied, 

1  Then  I'll  not  go  till  I  have  seen  the  bride,' 
Then  towards  the  dining-room  his  course  he  bent ; 
The  servants  quick  pursued  with  one  consent, 
And  seised  him,  with  intent  to  turn  liim  out. 
4  Come  back,  you  villain ;  what  are  you  about  ? ' 

*  About  my  business,  to  be  sure,'  quoth  he ; 
'  The  room  I'll  enter  and  the  bride  I'll  see : 
'We'll  see  you  out  of  doors,'  the  servants  said! 
And  now  of  course,  a  clam'rous  din  they  made. 
Just  then,  the  bride,  on  hearing  such  a  clatter, 
Open'd  the  door  to  see  what  was  the  matter. 
This  noble  beggar,  thus  obtained  a  sight 

Of  her  who  erstwhile  was  his  heart's  delight ! 
He  viewed  her  in  her  nuptial  garments  dress'd, 


YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

And  did  of  her  a  glass  of  wine  request, 

Which  she  denied — who  little  did  suppose 

The  ragged  stranger  was  her  wealthy  spouse. 

Then  straight  into  the  dining  room  he  went, 

And  down  he  sat  among  the  guests,  content. 

Says  he,  *  You'll  grant  me  my  request,  I  know ; 

A  glass  of  wine  I'll  have  before  I  go.' 

The  bride,  at  length,  complied  with  his  request, 

Thus  thinking  to  dispatch  their  ragged  guest, 

But  when  he  did  this  glass  of  wine  obtain, 

He  drank  and  filled,  and  drank  and  filled  again. 

The  guests,  astonished  and  disgusted,  view'd, 

Whilst  he  proceeded  to  be  far  more  rude ; 

Around  the  bride's  fair  neck  he  threw  his  arm, 

And  gave  a  kiss,  which  did  her  much  alarm/ 

On  him  she  frown'd,  and  threaten'd  him  with  law, 

Says  he,  ( Your  threats  I  value  not  a  straw ; 

My  conduct  to  reprove  is  all  in  vain, 

For  what  I've  done  I  mean  to  do  again. 

Madam,  your  bridegroom's  in  an  awkward  case, 

This  night  I  do  intend  to  take  his  place. 

And,  while  upon  her  countenance  he  pores, 

The  guests  agree  to  kick  him  out  of  doors. 

1  The  deuce  is  in  the  beggarman,'  they  cried ; 

1  He  means  to  either  beg  or  steal  the  bride.' 

•No,  no,'  says  he,  « I  mean  to  claim  her  as  my  own.' 

He  smil'd,  and  then  he  did  himself  make  known ; 

Saying,  '  William  Wentworth  Blackett  is  my  name. 

For  my  long  absence  I  am  much  to  blame ; 

But  safe  and  sound  I  have  returned  at  last, 

So  let's  forgive  each  other  all  that's  past.' 

The  bride  did  her  first  bridegroom  recognize, 

With  joy  transported,  to  his  arms  she  flies : 

And,  whilst  they  each  other  tenderly  kiss, 

The  disappointed  bridegroom  they  dismiss ; 

Who  inwardly  did  his  hard  case  lament, 

Hung  down  his  head,  and  out  of  doors  he  went. 

*  I'm  robb'd  of  this  fair  jewel,  now,'  thinks  he ; 

*  How  cruel  is  this  tender  spouse  to  me ! ' 
Awhile  he  scratched  his  head,  then  heaved  a  sigh : 
Then  eyed  the  hall  again,  and  wiped  his  eye. 

Sir  WiUiam  freely  did  forgive  his  wife ; 

They  lived  together  till  the  end  of  life. 

My  honest  story  I  must  now  conclude ; 

Which  may,  by  some,  be  as  a  fiction  view'd ; 

But,  Sirs,  the  boots  in  which  Sir  William  went, 

Are  kept  in  memory  of  that  event ; 

The  very  hat  he  wore,  preserved  has  been 

At  Bretton  Hall — where  they  may  yet  be  seen. 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES.  5 

YORKSHIRE  M.Ps.  in  1758.     Ebor,  30  Menders. 

County. — Rt.  Hon.  Sir  Conyers  D'Arcy,  of  Aske,  Privy  Coun. 
Served  in  six  parliaments.  [Not  necessarily  for  same  consti- 
tuency.] Rt.  Hon.  Henry  Pleydei  Dawney,  Vise.  Downe,  in 
Ireland;  Cowick,  Yorkshire;  F.R.S. ;  chosen  in  April,  1750,  in 
the  room  of  Sir  Miles  Stapylton ,  who  was  made  a  Commissioner 
of  the  Customs. 

York. — William  Thornton,  of  Cattal,  Esq.  George  Fox,  of 
Bramham  Park,  Esq.,  and  of  East  Horsley,  in  Surrey.  Served 
in  three  parliaments. 

Kingston-upon-Hull. — Rt.  Hon.  Lord  Robert  Manners,  half- 
brother  to  the  Duke  of  Rutland,  Col.  of  a  Regiment  of  Foot, 
Lieut.  Gov.  &c,  of  Walcot,  Lincolnshire.  Thomas  Carter,  of 
Redbourn,  co.  Lincoln,  Esq. 

Knabesborough. — Sir  Henry  Slingsby,  of  Red  House,  Bart. 
Served  in  six  parliaments.  Hon.  Richard  Arundel,  of  Allerton 
Mauleverer,  Esq.,  F.R.S.,  Treasurer  of  His  Majesty's  Chamber, 
and  Clerk  of  the  Pipe  in  H.  Maj.  Exchequer  for  life.  Served 
in  six  parliaments. 

Scarborough. — Edwin  Lascelles,  Esq.,  (son  to  Henry  Las- 
celles,  Member  for  Northallerton),  of  Gawthorpe  Hall.  Served 
in  two  parliaments.  Roger  Handasyd,  of  Gaynes  Hall,  co.  Hunt., 
Esq.,  Lt.  Gen.  and  Col.  of  a  Regiment  of  Foot.  Served  in  four 
parliaments. 

Ripon. — William  Aislabie,  of  Studley  Park,  Esq.,  one  of  the 
Auditors  of  the  Imprest  for  Life,  and  Principal  Registrar  of  the 
the  Archbp's.  Consistory  Court  at  York.  Served  in  six  parlia- 
ments. Sir  Charles  Vernon,  of  Famham,  Surrey,  Kent. 
Served  in  three  parliaments. 

Richmond. — John  Yorke,  of  Richmond,  Esq.  Rt.  Hon. 
William  Kerr,  Earl  of  Ancram,  son  and  heir  to  Marquis  of 
Lothian,  chosen  in  the  room  of  Sir  Conyers  D'Arcy,  who  made 
his  election  for  the  County. 

Heddon. — Luke  Robinson,  Esq.,  Counsellor-at-Law.  Two 
parliaments.    Sir  John  Savile,  of  Methley,  K.B.,  LL.D. 

Boboughbridge. — Hon.  Will.  Murray,  Esq.,  Solicitor  Gen- 
eral. Uncle  to  Lord  Visct.  Stormont.  Two  parliaments. 
Hon.  George  Monson  Watson,  Esq.,  brother  to  Lord  Monson, 
chosen  in  April,  1750,  in  the  room  of  the  Earl  of  Dalkeith, 
deceased. 

Malton. — Hon.  Henry  Finch,  Esq.,  youngest  brother  to  the 
Earl  of  Winchelsea,  Surveyor  General  of  His  Majs.  Board  of 
Works,  F.R.8.  Served  five  parliaments.  John  Mostyn,  Esq., 
Col.  in  Foot-Guards,  Groom  of  the  Bedchamber  to  His  Majesty, 


6         YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

brother  to  Sir  Thomas  Mostyn,  Member  for  Flintshire.    Served 
two  parliaments. 

Thibsk. — Thomas  Frankland,  co.  Backs,  Esq.,  Capt.  in  Navy. 
Served  two  parliaments.  Bt.  Hon.  Wm.  Monkton,  Lord  Visct. 
Galway,  Beceiver-General  of  H.  M's.  Fee-farm  Bents  in  the 
six  Northern  Counties,  before  in  this  parliament  for  Pontefract, 
and  chosen  for  Thirsk  in  the  room  of  Frederick  Frankland, 
Esq.,  made  a  Commissioner  of  the  Bevenue  in  Ireland,  in 
March,  1749. 

Aldbobough. — Andrew  Wilkinson,  of  Borougnbridge,  Esq., 
Storekeeper  of  the  Ordnance.  Three  parliaments.  Nathaniel 
Newnham,  Jan.,  Esq.,  co.  Sussex,  brother  to  the  Member  for 
Queenborough.    Served  two  parliaments. 

Beverley. — Charles  Pelham,  Esq.,  co.  Lincoln.  Served  in 
five  parliaments.  Sir  Wm.  Codrington,  of  Dodington,  co. 
Gloucester,  Bart. 

Nobthallebton. — Henry  Peirse,  of  Bedal,  Esq.  Five  pari. 
Daniel  Lascelles,  Esq.,  chosen  in  March,  1752,  in  the  room  of 
his  father,  Henry  Lascelles,  Esq.,  who  accepted  a  place. 

Pontefbact. — George  Morton  Pitt,  of  Twickenham,  Esq. 
Served  in  three  parliaments.  Bobert  Monckton,  Esq.,  Col.  of 
a  Beg.  of  Foot,  chosen  in  November,  1751,  in  the  room  of  his 
father  John  Vise.  Galway,  who  was  chosen  in  Dec.  1748,  in  the 
room  of  his  son  William,  now  Vise.  Galway,  who  accepted  a 
place,  and  was  re-chosen  for  Thirsk. 

Thos.  Lister,  of  Gisburne  Park,  Esq.,  was  one  of  the  Mem- 
bers for  Clithero.  Edward  Wortley,  of  Wortley  Hall,  sen., 
Esq.,  sat  for  Peterborough.  John  Hill,  of  Thornton,  near 
Malton,  Esq.,  Governor  of  Scarborough  Castle,  F.B.S.,  repre- 
sented Higham-Ferrers.  Sir  Lionel  Pilkington,  of  Stainley, 
Bart.,  had  sat  for  Horsham  from  December,  1748,  in  the  room 
of  Charles  Ingram,  senr.,  Esq.,  deceased.  Charles  Ingram, 
Esq.,  Nephew  to  Lord  Yisct.  Irwin,  was  the  other  Member  for 
Horsham.  Sir  John  Bamsden,  of  Byram,  near  Ferrybridge, 
Bart.,  was  a  Member  for  Appleby.  Thomas  Duncombe,  of 
Duncombe  Park,  Esq.,  became  M.P.  for  Down  ton  in  April, 
1751. 

Some  of  the  places  then  represented  in  Parliament  are  mere 
hamlets,  and  the  choice  of  members  was  frequently  vested  in 
one  family.  The  Nobility  had  a  great  number  of  seats  at  their 
disposal.  Gband  Old  Man. 


Bevulby  and  its  Saint. — "Upon  the  taking  up  of  a  thick 
marble  stone,  lying  in  the  middle  of  the  choire  of  Beverley,  in 
Yorkshire,  neare  the  entranoe  into  the  choire,  was  found  under 


Y0BK8HIRE  NOTE8  AND  QUERIE8.         7 

it  a  vault  of  squared  free-stone,  five  foot  in  length,  two  foot  in 
breadth  at  the  head,  and  one  foot  and  a  half  at  the  foot.  In 
this  vault  was  discovered  a  sheet  of  lead,  four  foot  in  length, 
containing  the  dftst  of  St.  John  of  Beverley,  as  also  six  beades, 
three  of  which  were  cornelian,  the  other  crumbled  to  dust. 
There  were  also  in  it  8  great  brass  pins,  and  4  iron  nayles. 
Upon  this  sheet  of  lead  was  fixed  a  plate  of  lead,  whereon  was 
this  following  inscription,  a  copie  of  which  was  sent  to  A.  W. 

Anno  ab  incarnatione  Domini  mclxxxviii  (1188),  combusta  fuit 
iuec  ecclesia,  in  mense  Stpt,  in  sequenti  nocte  post  Festum  Sancti 
Mattiuri  Ajtosttdi,  et  in  anno  vcxcvn.  (1197),  vi  Id.  Martii,  facta 
fiat  Inqumtii  Heliquutrum  Bead  Johannu  in  hoc  loco,  et  inrenta 
*unt  httc  <Huta  in  orienUili  parte  Sepulchri,  et  hie  recondita,  et  pulvi* 
cemento  mijrtus  ibidem  inventus  <C  reconditm. 

A  box  of  lead,  about  7  inches  in  length,  six  inches  broad, 
and  five  in  height,  did  lay  athwart  the  plate  of  lead.  In  this 
box  were  divers  pieces  of  bones  mixt  with  dust,  yielding  a  sweet 
smell.  Sep.  14,  1664."— Life  of  Ant.  a  Wood.  The  *  sweet 
smell '  reminds  us  of  a  Yorkshireman's  story.  An  antiquary 
had  carefully  preserved  the  ashes  of  his  grandfather  in  a  small 
urn  on  the  mantel-piece,  but,  to  his  consternation,  a  rude 
Torkshireman,  who  took  a  fancy  to  this  snuff, '  snooked'  all  the 
precious  dust  up. 


Extinct  Yobkshibe  Magazines. — Just  a  century  ago  the  first 
Yorkshire  Magazine  was  started.  It  consisted  of  thirty-two 
pages,  monthly,  8vo.,  in  double  columns.  No.  1,  "  The  York- 
shire Magazine  for  January,  1786,"  opens  with  a  letter  to  the 
Editors  from  E.  (of  York),  who  writes — "I  have  sometimes 
thought  it  a  matter  of  surprize,  that  a  publication  of  the  above 
kind  has  never  yet  been  attempted  here.  The  extensiveness  of 
the  County  of  York,  its  population,  the  celebrity  of  its  capital, 
its  distance  from  the  Metropolis,  are  all  considerations  favour- 
ing the  attempt,  and  leave  little  room  to  fear  its  being  success- 
ful. A  similar  work  published  at  Edinburgh,  and  continued 
for  some  time ;  and  another  lately  begun  at  Newcastle,  are  the 
only  attempts  of  the  kind,  that  I  know  of,  out  of  London. 
Magazines  are,  especially  at  this  day,  read  with  avidity,  parti- 
cularly by  young  people."  Notwithstanding  this  favourable 
opening  "The  Yorkshire  Magazine,  or  Universal  Repository 
of  Arts,  Sciences,  and  various  other  branches  of  Polite  Litera- 
ture, for  the  Year  1786,"  as  the  engraved  title  reads,  ran  only 
one  year.  The  last  three  lines  of  the  Preface  to  this  Sixpenny 
Magazine  we  venture  to  appropriate  for  our  venture  of  1886 : 
M  77m*  aid  of  the  curious  and  candid  is  earnestly  solicited,  as  every 
article  of  instruction,  information,  and  entertainment,  which  comes 
recommended  by  merit r  wilt  ahcays  demand  a  place." 


S  YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

A  generation  passes  away,  and  then  another  attempt  is  made 
nnder  the  style — "Northern  Star,  or,  Yorkshire  Magazine," 
No.  1,  July,  1817.  This  was  a  venture  of  eighty  pages  monthly, 
and  emanated  from  Sheffield.  This  was,  in  every  sense,  greatly 
superior  to  its  predecessor,  and  is  very  highly  valued  for  its 
intrinsic  worth  now,  and  must  have  commanded  admiration 
then.  It  was  'embellished,'  like  its  forerunner,  but  in  a  much 
superior  style,  and  with  more  attractive  subjects.  From  the 
first  number  we  cull  a  short  paragraph,  and  would  ask  our 
Readers'  favours  in  like  manner :  There  are  very  fete  toicns  which 
do  not  2>088e*8  a  something  peculiar  to  themselres.  They  hare  eitlter 
some  interesting  piece  of  antiquity;  some  modern  edifice;  some 
relit fious  estttblishment ;  some  foundation  or  chanty  school ;  or  they 
possess  some  character,  which  either  is,  or  has  been,  remarkable  for  its 
eccentricity,  its  literature,  its  patriotism,  or  some  other  quality,  by 
which  it  stands  distinguished  from  the  general  mass  of  inhabitants. 
For  notices  of  such  singularities  either  in  places  or  in  jtersons,  as  well 
as  for  the  account  of  tlie  vegetable  or  mineral  productiotis, — the  agri- 
culture or  manufactures  of  any  jtarish  or  district ;  the  Editors  must 
solicit  the  communications  of  tlteir  Fiiends"  The  title  page  runs: 
"  The  Northern  Star,  or,  Yorkshire  Magazine :  a  Monthly  and 
permanent  Register  of  the  Statistics,  Literature,  Biography, 
Arts,  Commerce  and  Manufactures  of  Yorkshire,  and  the 
adjoining  Counties."  This  valuable  work  ran  to  a  third,  or 
part  of  a  fourth  volume,  that  is,  lived  nearly  two  years,  and, 
alas !  died  of  heart-disease. 

Nearly  two  generations  pass  away,  and  to  the  family  mem- 
orial tablet  must  be  added  the  record  of  the  birth  and  death  of 
the  third  child, — "The  Yorkshire  Magazine,"  or  as  the  full 
title  reads  "The  Yorkshire  Magazine,  a  Monthly  Literary 
Journal;"  bora  October,  1871,  and  ushered  into  the  world 
by  The  Yorkshire  literary  Union,  Limited.  Its  favourite 
flower  was  the  White  Rose,  which  even  blossomed  at  Christmas. 
Bradford  was  its  home,  and  there  it  struggled  on  until  June, 
1875,  when  No.  89,  or  No.  8  of  the  fourth  volume  proved  its 
death-stroke.  The  main  feature  of  this  child's  character  was 
story-telling,  though  many  valuable  archaeological,  biblio- 
graphical, biographical  apd  poetical  contributions  were  promin- 
ent :  embellishments  very  scarce. 

Eight  years  passed  by,  and  a  fourth  "  Yorkshire  Magazine  " 
was  anounced,  but  this  was  almost  strangled  at  its  birth,  for 
the  title  had  been  transferred  to  a  Bradford  printer,  who  en- 
closed about  a  dozen  pages  of  London  matter  in  a  quarto  cover, 
endorsed  "  Yorkshire  Magazine."  The  true  child  was  born  in 
December,  1888,  and  bore  the  name  "Yorkshire  Illustrated 
Monthly.'1  It  lived  until  August,  1884,  and  then  died  of  teeth- 
ing in  the  town  of  Bradford,  where  the  unhappy-titled  London- 
Yorkshire  (penny)  Magazine  still  lingers.    The  Editor  hereof 


YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES.  9 

issued  The  Isocal  Magazine  about  1871,  which  lived  two  full 
months,  and  cost  'a  bonny  penny.'  There  has  been  great 
mortality  amongst  Yorkshire  Serials,  especially  of  late.  "  The 
Yorkshire  Wonderful  Magazine,  or  Notes  from  my  Scrap  Book," 
(Bradford  again !)  opened  its  pages — like  our  own — to 

Archaeology,  Antiquities,  Apparitions,  and  Amulets. 

B  ibliography,  Biography,  and  Ballads. 

C  uriosities,  Country  Customs,  and  Charms. 

D  ialects,  Dark  Deeds  in  History,  and  Deeds  of  Daring. 

E  pitaphs,  Eccentric  Characters,  Earthquakes,  and  Volcanoes. 

Folk  Lore,  Fearful  Crimes,  Famous  Men  and  Women. 

G  arlands,  Garters,  Great  Battles,  Great  Sieges,  Inventions. 

H  istorical  Facts,  Heathen  Mythology,  and  Humorous  Sketches. 

I  nteresting  Truths,  Impostors,  and  Impositions. 

J  okes  of  Great  Men,  Jests. and  Jesters. 

K  ings,  King's  Evil,  Knaves,  and  Knavery. 

L  ocal  Legends  and  Local  History. 

M  ysteries,  Mutinies,  Murders,  and  Marriage  Customs. 

N  ature  and  Art,  Naval  and  Military  Heroes. 

Origins,  Old  Pedigrees,  Old  Coins,  and  Belies. 

P  opular  Tumults,  Proverbs,  Plays,  Players,  and  Pestilences. 

Queer,  Quaint,  and  Quiet  Men  and  Women,  Quacks,  and 
Quackery. 

Rhymes,  Becords,  Bings,  Boman  Belies,  Riots,  and  Rebellions. 

S  uperstition,  State  Secrets,  Sages,  Saints,  and  Scamps. 

Traditions,  Topography,  Topical,  Trophies,  Tempests,  and 
Tumults. 

Unabolished  Laws,  Uncaught  Scamps,  Undaunted  Heroes, 
and  Unmerciful  \  Uains. 

Visions,  Verdicts,  Veterans,  Villainy  Unpunished,  Valour  Un- 
rewarded, and  Valorous  Deeds. 

W  eather  Wisdom,  Wise  Sayings,  Wills,  Witches,  and  Witch- 
craft. 

X  cellent  Traits  in  Character. 

Yorkshire  Customs,  Yorkshire  Belies,  Nature,  and  Art. 

Zoography,  Zoology,  and  Zoophytes/' 

With  such  formidable  brain-power  and  a  small  stomach  there 
is  no  wonder  that  it  died  with  the  fifth  issue,  having  the  word 
"  Monthly  "  substituted  for  "  Wonderful." 
To  be  continued. 


Stanbttoy  Quaker  Register,  ( Haworth).  Pages  1  &  2  lost, 
and  Title  page  damaged.  Page  8.  The  birth  of  Joseph  Turner 
the  son  of  Jonas  Turner  the  :  80  :  10  :  month  Jan.  1668 

The  birth  of  Johnathan  Smith  the  Sonn  of  Joseph  Smith 
the  :  28  :  of  the  :  12  :  month  in  the  year  1668 


10  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 

The  birth  of  Annah  Tayler  the  donghter  of  John  Tayler  the  : 
4  :  day  of  the  :  9  :  month  in  the  year  167 — 

The  birth  of  Joshua  Crabtre  the  son  of  Richard  Crabtre  the 
:  15  :  day  of  the  :  6  :  month  in  the  year  1682 

The  birth  of  Nathan  Clayton  the  sone  of  Nathan  Clayton 
half  an  hour  past  Twelve  a  Clock  in  the  night  Seqen  befor  the 
:  16  :  day  of  the  :  11  :  month  in  the  year  1685. 

4  k  5  missing.  On  page  6 — The  birth  of  Richard  Crabtre 
the  son  of  Richard  Crabtre  the  :  20  :  day  :  6  :  month  in  the 
year  1692    (This  is  the  last  entry  of  births.) 


GDonsartung*  ilj*  JEarriag*  of  tlje  ptopl*  of 
ill*  lorfc  at  $ta|&blrarg. 

fforasmuch  as  it  hath  bene  Appearantly  manefest  before  vs  this 
day  Who  are  here  met  together  at  the  house  of  Joseph  Smiths 
in  Standbury  to  Wait  vpon  the  lord  to  be  tought  of  him  in  the 
pish  of  haWorth  k  County  of  york  that  Jonas  Turner  of  Lou- 
denden  in  the  pish  of  Halifax  k  County  of  Yorke  hath  taken  to 
Wife  Grace  Heaton  the  doughter  of  Nathan  Heaton  of  Stan- 
dbury in  the  pish  of  Haworth  k  above  Said  County  before  vs  k 
in  our  prsence  as  we  are  eye  Witteneses  whose  names  are  vnder 
Written  this  :  80  :  day  of  the  :  2  :  month  in  the  year  of  our 
lord  :  16G5 : 

JONAS  SMITH        JOSEPH  SMITH 

JOHN  TAYLOR       JOHN  PIGHEL8 

To  all  people  to  whome  this  prsent  Writing  shall  Consarn 
this  may  Certifie  you  that  William  Smith  of  Cloughbank  in  the 
pish  of  Eighley  k  County  of  York  husbandman  this  :  9  :  day  of 
the  :  8  :  month  in  the  year  of  our  lord  :  1679 :  hath  taken  to 
Wife  Susan  Smith,  of  Standbury  Within  the  pish  of  Bradford 
k  County  aforsaid  Spinster  before  a  lawfull  assembley  of  people 
at  the  house  of  Jonas  Smiths  of  Standbury  in  the  aforsaid 
County  the  said  William  Smith  k  Susan  Smith  having  publishd 
the  intents  of  this  marrage  seuerall  times  before  according  to 
the  order  now  vsed  amongst  Christeans  Within  this  our  Realmo 
Afrinds  k  Relations  of  both  pties  being  prsent  k  the  thing 
being  done  with  their  genarall  Consent  in  Wittness  where  of 
vnto  the  pties  aboue  mentiond  haue  joyntly  put  to  their  hands 
the  day  k  year  aboue  Written 

-SMITH        SMITH 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES.  11 

On  the  back  of  p.  4,  in  one  handwriting : 
The  Wittoeses      ■         for  William  k  Susan  Smith 
Jonas  Smith  John  Smith 

Susan  Smith  Ghristopr  Smith 

Sarah  Smith  Grace  Smith 

Ellin  Smith  Mary  Taylor 

John  Pighells  Thomas  Taylor 

John  Clayton  Thomas  Pearson 

John  Brigg 


Gonsarainge  th*  Stefmng*  ©f  tlft  $topk  of 
®lj*  Jtovb  at  JltanbimriJ 

In  the  :  11  :  month :  1661 : 

The  Constable  haueinge  a  war  ante  to  bringe  in  to  the 
Sessions  such  persons  as  meet  together  Contrary  to  the  Lawes 
of  the  nation  which  came  not  to  their  Chourch  Soe  Caled  and 
Soe  by  his  Warrant  apprehendes  Christopher  Smith  John 
Jessop  Jonas  Smith  John  Pighels  John  Clayton  Bobart  Clayton 
William  Clayton :  Bobart  Clayton  William  Clayton  and  being 
brought  before  the  Justises  at  the  Sessions  at  Wakefield  and 
the  oth  of  aleagense  tendered  to  them  and  they  Could  not 
Sweare  for  Consience  sake  was  Comitted  to  the  gaile  at  Yorke 
and  pute  in  amongest  to  felons  because  they  Could  not  hire 
Bewmes  and  beinge  soe  thronge  that  they  Could  not  lye  downe 
all  at  once  nor  not  haveinge  any  bedes  for  :  8  :  nightes  together 
and  then  the  gailor  beinge  trubled  Bemoued  them  into  better 
Bomes  and  soe  Bemained  prisonars  :  18  :  weekes  and  soe  being 
Caled  before  the  Judge  and  Bequired  to  obey  the  Kings  Lawes 
and  goe  to  there  Church  and  answers  beinge  made  that  they 
should  obey  all  Bightons  laws  but  unrightous  lawes  they  Could 
not  for  Consience  Sake  and  soe  haueing  a  debetation  made  to 
appeare  the  next  asises  went  to  there  outward  habetations  and 
did  appeare  the  next  asises  according  to  their  debetation  and 
was  Released. 

I  William  Clayton  being  at  a  meeting  at  Padeham  the  :  20  : 
day  of  the  :  7  :  month  1668  to  worship  the  Lord  in  Spirit  k  in 
truth  k  I  having  a  Word  of  Exortation  in  my  hart  to  speake 
vnto  the  people  there  mett  together  k  being  speaking  to  the 
people  there  Came  the  Constable  k  the  Preest  with  others  with 
a  Warrant  from  Colonal  Nowell  to  apprehend  some  of  us  k  the 
prest  Laid  vilant  hands  on  me  k  pulled  me  down  k  out  of  the 
meeting  and  Soe  pulled  me  into  the  towns  street  k  I  was  by 
the  Constable  and  others  brought  before  Thomas  Brauddell  k 
Thomas  Parker  Called  Justices  of  the  peace  for  Befusinge  to 
Sweare  was  Comited  to  the  goaill  at  Lonkaster  vntill  the  next 


12         YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

quarter  Sesions  lioulden  at  preston  in  Aroonderness  &  being 
brought  before  tbe  Justises  in  the  open  Sessions  &  there  being 
accused  to  haue  ben  at  an  vnlawfull  meeting  k  to  have  meet 
prseumptously  Contrary  to  the  Laws  of  the  nation  &  not  being 
permited  to  Reasan  with  them  but  the  Justises  being  filled  with 
Wrath  fined  me  in  fiue  pounds  And  for  Refusing  to  pay  the 
fine  was  comited  to  prson  for  thre  months  &  being  put  in  the 
hands  of  unreasonable  bailifs  to  be  Conuaied  to  the  house  of 
Corection  which  for  their  fees  &  Drnking  pulled  of  my  Coat  & 
Coneied  me  to  the  house  of  Corection  with  out  Coat  &  the 
gouernar  there  put  me  in  the  Dungon  fiue  dayes  &  fiue  nights 
vntill  modrat  people  of  the  towne  procured  my  Liberty  into 
better  Homes  &  thus  like  preist  like  Justise  Hke  bailiff  like 
gouerner  all  filled  with  wrath  &  conspired  together  to  punish 
the  Inosent  people  of  the  Lord  without  moderation  as  men  & 
without  mercy. 

The  Impropreator  of  bradforthdale  demanded  tith  wooll  & 
lambe  of  Christopher  Smith  of  Haworth  for  shepe  that  he  had 
&  Christopher  could  not  pay  tithe  for  Consience  Sake  there 
fore  the  Impropreator  Sued  him  at  the  Exch.  at  London  &  by 
a  writ  apprehended  Chris.  &  Christopher  was  Comited  to  prisan 
at  Pontifract  &  put  into  the  low  prisan,  &  Remained  prisan er 
fue  yeares 

Comited  :  8  :  month  1664     Released  :  9  month  1669 

William  Clayton  being  at  a  meeting  at  Halifax  the  :  22  :  day  of 
the :  5 :  month  (1669)  &  there  was  Apprehended  by  the  Constable 
brought  before  the  Justices  for  Refusing  to  take  the  oath  of 
Aleiganc  wa6  Comited  to  prisan  vntill  the  next  quarter  Sessions 
houlden  at  Wakefeld  &  there  was  brought  before  the  Justises  in 
the  open  Sessions  &  for  Refusing  to  take  the  oath  of  Aleigance 
was  Comitted  to  prisan  vntill  the  next  quarter  Sessions  holden 
at  Wakefeld  &  there  was  brought  before  the  Justises  in  the 
open  Sessions  &  there  being  a  bill  of  Inditment  drawn  ageanst 
the  said  William  for  being  at  an  vnlawfull  Asembley  at  Halifax 
as  aforsaid  &  is  found  by  the  Jurey  &  a  fine  of  forty  pounds 
was  Laid  upon  him  &  for  not  paying  the  said  fine  he  was  Com- 
itted to  prison  where  he  Remained  thre  years  &  thre  months  in 
all  &  then  was  Released  be  the  Kings  pardon  &  fiue  hundred 
more  in  the  Nation  of  England  dominion  of  Wals  &  town  of 
barweek  in  the  :  9  :  month  in  the  year  of  our  lord  :  1672 : 

Justis.  Will  Farrer  Will  batt  frasis  Whit  Sanforth  Neuell 
Edward  Copley  &  Will  Louther  Justises. 

And  Abraham  Tillitson  Constable  &  Thomas  Akroid  Churh- 
war.  did  make  distress  of  their  goods  &  did  take  goods  from 
Jonas  Smith  to  the  vallew  of  forty  shillings  &  from  William 
Clayton  goods  to  the  vallew  of  forty  Shillings  the  :  14  :  day  of 
the  :  5  :  month  1696  &  made  Saill  of  the  goods  &  Returned  the 
oner  plush  to  Jonas  Smith  Sixpence  &  to  William  Clayton 
Seuen  Shillings  in  goods. 


YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES.         18 

•  Joseph  Smith  being  at  a  meeting  at  Halifax  the  :  22  :  day  of 
the  :  5  :  month  &  being  apprehended  by  the  Constable  & 
brought  before  the  Justises  &  for  Refusing  to  take  the  oath  of 
aleigens  was  Gomitted  to  prison  vntill  the  next  quarter  Sessions 
houlden  at  Wakefeld  &  there  being  brought  before  the  Justises 
in  the  open  Sessions  &  for  Refusing  to  take  the  oath  of  Aleig- 
anee  was  Comitted  to  prison  vntill  the  next  quarter  Sessions  & 
there  at  Wakefeld  was  brought  before  the  Justises  in  the  open 
Sessions  Was  seet  at  liberty  being  near  nine  months  prisoner 
being  Comitted  by  Will  farrer  Will  Batt  francis  Whitt  Edward 
Copley  &  Sanforth  Neuell  Justises  in  the  year  of  our  lord  :  1669 
ffrance  Pemberton  prest  of  Bradforth  demanded  Small  Tithes 
of  Jonas  Smith  &  William  Clayton  for  Twenty  years  past  & 
according  to  a  lat  act  of  parlament  mad  in  the  :  7  :  year  of  the 
Beigne  of  King  William  the  :  8  :  Called  an  act  for  the  Spedy 
Recouery  of  Small  Tithes  hath  prseeded  According  to  the  act 
to  make  his  Compleant  to  Robert  ffarrand  &  Beniaman  Wade 
Justises  of  the  peace  &  they  gave  forth  a  warrant  for  said  Jon. 
Smith  &  Will  Clayton  to  appear  before  them  to  shew  their 
Reasons  why  they  would  not  pay  Small  Tithes  &  Will  Clayton 
did  appear  &  shewed  his  Reasons  why  they  could  not  pay  Small 
Tithes  before  the  said  Justises  &  Two  prests  &  they  did  prseed 
to  giue  forth  a  Warrant  to  the  Constable  &  Church,  of  Haworth 
to  make  destress  of  tbe  goods  of  Jon.  Smith  &  Will  Clayton  for 
charges  &  all  of  Jon.  Smith  the  sum  of  11  5s  &  of  Will  Clayton 
11. 10s  lOd.     See  Eighley  the  ii 


(RonsJLnunge  &b*  Suriall  of  ®b*  Seab  JUt 
%\}t  taring*  plare  JUt  £ianbIrartT 

The  buriall  of  Sonn  Still  borne  to  Jonas  Smiths  the  :  8  :  day 
of  the  :  8  :  month  in  the  yeare  1656 

The  buriall  of  John  Jecorngill  the  :  28  :  day  of  the  :  6th  : 
month  in  the  yeare  1659 

The  buriall  of  Michell  Crosley  the  :  18  :  day  of  the  first 
month  in  the  year  1660 

The  buriall  of  Ellen  Smith  the  doughter  of  Christopher 
Smith  the  :  21th  :  day  of  the  :  10  :  month  in  the  yeare  1660 

The  buriall  of  margrat  Smith  the  Wife  of  Christopher  Smith 
the  :  8th.  day  of  the  :  2  :  month  in  the  year  1661 

The  buriall  of  Robart  Clayton  the  :  21 :  day  of  the  :  6  :  month 
in  the  yeare  1662 

The  buriall  of  Sarrah  Crosley  the  :  29  :  day  of  the  :  7 :  month 
in  the  year  1664 

The  buriall  of  Susan  Smith  the  wife  of  Jonas  Smith  the  :  11 
:  day  of  the  fourt  month  in  the  year  1681     [correct  date.] 


14  YOBKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUEBIE8. 

The  burial  of  Mary  Clayton  the  Wife  of  John  Clayton  the  : 
12  :  day  of  the  :  8  :  month  in  the  year  1667 

TJie  buriall  of  Ann  Smith  the  wife  of  Joseph  Smith  the  :  25 
day  of  the  :  8  :  month  in  the  year  1669 

The  buriall  of  Jonathan  Smith  the  son  of  Joseph  Smith  the 
:  11  :  day  of  the  :  8  :  month  in  the  year  1669 

The  buriall  of  Robert  Smith  the  sonn  of  Jonas  Smith  the  :  1 
:  day  of  the  :  6  :  month  in  the  year  1678 

The  buriall  of  Joseph  Smith  of  Standbury  the  :  22  :  day  of 
the  :  11  :  month  in  the  year  1676 

The  buriall  of  Martha  Smith  the  :  28  :  day  of  the  :  12  : 
monthe  in  the  year  1681 

The  buriall  of  John  Taylor  the  :  8  :  day  of  the  :  1  :  month  in 
the  year  1681 

The  buriall  of  Patieance  Taylor  the  Wife  of  John  Taylor  the 
;  9  :  day  of  the  :  1  :  month  in  the  year  1681 

The  buriall  of  Joseph  Turnar  the  sone  of  Jonas  Tttrnar  the  : 
9  :  day  of  the  :  9  :  month  in  the  year  1688 

The  buriall  of  Grace  Pighels  the  Wife  of  John  Pighels  the  : 
21  :  day  of  the  :  10  :  month  in  the  year  1685 

The  buriall  of  Grace  Pighels  the  donghter  of  John  Pighels 
the  :  18  :  day  of  the  :  11  :  month  in  the  year  1685 

The  buriall  of  John  Pighels  of  Standbury  the  :  6  :  day  of  the 
:  2  :  monthe  in  the  year  1685 

The  buriall  of  Mary  Clayton  the  doughter  of  John  Clayton 
the  20  day  of  the  :  8  :  month  1686 

The  buriall  of  Eline  Bobart  the  Wif  of  Joseph  Robart  the 
Twelft  day  of  the  ninth  month  in  the  year  of  our  lord  1686 

The  buriall  of  Sarah  Smith  the  doughter  of  Jonas  Smith  the 
:  16  :  day  of  the  :  8  :  month  in  the  year  1688 

The  buriall  of  Nathan  Clayton  the  Sixth  day  of  the  third 
month  in  the  year  1690 

The  buriall  of  Susan  Pighels  the  Leaventh  day  of  the  third 
month  in  the  year  1690 

The  buriall  of  Ann  Pighels  the  22  :  day  of  the  :  8  month  in 
the  year  1690 

The  buriall  of  Christopher  Smith  the  :  20  :  day  of  the  fourth 
month  in  the  year  1690 

The  buriall  of  Edmond  Turnar  the  twenty  fourth  day  of  the 
:  8  :  month  in  the  year  1690 

The  buriall  of  Martha  Clayton  the  wife  of  John  Clayton  the : 
20  day  of  the  first  month  in  the  year  1694 

The  burial  of  Bichard  Crabtre  the  sone  of  Riohard  Crabtre 
the  :  9  :  day  of  the  :  12  :  month  in  the  year  1694 

The  buriall  of  Elessabeth  Pighels  the  :  18  :  day  of  the  Tenth 
month  in  the  year  1694 

The  buriall  of  Bobart  Turner  the  :  26  :  day  of  the  :  10 : 
month  1694 


YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES.         15 

The  bnriall  of  Martha  Widap  the  :  10  :  day  of  the  :  7  :  month 
1698 

The  bnrieall  of  Jonas  Smith  the  :  14  :  day  of  the  :  2  :  month 
in  the  :  82  :  year  of  his  age  1699 

The  Bnriall  of  Mary  Clayton  the  Wife  of  Michaell  Clayton 
the  :  21  :  day  of  the  :  2  :  month  in  the  year  of  onr  Lord  1699 

the  bnriall  of  John  Smith  the  20  :  day  of  May  1699 

The  Bnriall  of  William  Clayton  the  :  12  :  day  of  th  :  4  : 
month  1699 

The  bnriall  of  William  Clayton  the  5  day  of  th  8  month  in 
the  year  1700 

The  Bnriall  of  William  Pighels  the  :  8  :  day  of  th  :  9  :  month 
in  the  year  1700 

Sarah  Clayton  Widdow  to  Wm  Claton  Buried  the  16  day  of 
ye  9th  month  her  husband  died  in  1699  as  above  1700 

William  Clayton  of  Stanbnry  Taken  out  of  ye  Body  the  2d 
day  of  the  8th  month  and  buried  the  5th  of  the  same  1700 

Sara  Clayton  Wife  of  the  Same  William  Clayton  Taken  out 
of  the  Body  the  28th  of  the  9th  month  and  was  buried  the  3d 
of  the  10  month  1700 

Sara  Smith  Daughter  of  Jonas  Smith  of  Cold  Knowle  near 
Stanbnry  Taken  out  of  the  Body  the  28th  of  the  10th  month 
and  buried  the  27th  of  the  same  at  friends  burying  place  in 
Stanbnry  1700 

Jonas  Turner  of  Scoles  in  the  Parish  of  Eighley  and  County 
of  York  Buried  in  ye  Burying  place  in  Stanbnry  the  Day  of 
ye  5th  month  in  the  year  1705 

John  Clayton  near  Stanbnry  in  the  parish  of  Haworth  De- 
parted this  Life  the  28d  day  of  ye  2d  month  and  was  Buryed 
the  25th  of  ye  same  in  friends  Burying  plaoe  at  Stanbnry  1718 


Latter  Day  'Sinner,' — A  gravestone  in  Idel  Churchyard, 
now  turned  with  inscription  out  of  sight,  bears  the  follow- 
ing :  "In  memory  of  Lorenzo  de  Barnes,  who  died  Dec.  20, 

1840 He  was  a  native  of  the  United  States,  an  Elder  of  the 

Church  of  Jesus  Christ,  of  the  Latter  Day  Saints,  a  Member  of 
the  High  Priest's  Quorum  in  Zion's  Camp  in  the  year  1884. 
He  was  one  of  the  first  Gospel  Messengers  from  Novou  who 
has  found  a  grave  in  a  foreign  land. 

Sleep  on  Lorenzo  erelong  from  this 

The  conquered  grave  shall  yield  its  captive  prey, 
Then  with  thy  Quorum  shalt  thou  reign  in  bliss 
As  king  and  priest  to  an  eternal  day." 
The  grave  did  yield  his  body,  for  it  was  removed  one  mid- 
night about  1858,  by  leave  of  the  Home  Secretary,  we  presume, 
and  conveyed  to  America.  E.  Hutchinson. 


16        YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

A  Yorkshire  Scholarship  Examination. — Mr.  W.  Claridge, 
M.A.,  of  the  Grammar  School,  Bradford,  writes : — 

Will  you  allow  me  to  call  attention  to  the  present  administra- 
tion of  a  valuable  public  trust  ?  In  doing  so  I  wish  to  assure 
those  who  are  concerned  that  it  is  far  from  my  wish  to  com- 
ment on  the  past,  or  to  express  dissatisfaction  with  what  is 
beyond  recall,  but  simply  to  make  such  a  plain  statement  of 
fact  as  shall  lead  to  an  immediate  and  necessary  reform. 

The  Rev.  William  Akroyd,  rector  of  Marston,  near  York,  in 
1518,  founded  the  scholarship  in  question,  and  it  is  now  thrown 
open  to  competition  to  boys  of  Yorkshire  schools  who  are  pro- 
ceeding to  the  universities.  The  value  and  number  of  the 
scholarships  vacant  seem  to  vary  in  a  remarkable  way.  This 
year  there  was  one  vacancy.  The  examination  lasted  two  days. 
I  hope  that  the  following  account  of  the  examination  will  prove 
the  need  of  an  alteration  in  the  system.  On  the  first  day  three 
papers  were  set.  The  first — from  9.0  to  12.80 — was  a  Latin 
paper,  and  consisted  of  a  stiff  piece  of  "  prose,"  four  pieces  of 
"  unseen,"  from  Livy,  Cicero  de  Amicitia,  Catullus,  and  Lucre- 
tius, and  several  questions  on  grammar.  After  only  half-an- 
hour's  interval  a  paper  was  set  on  elementary  mathematics, 
and  lasted  from  1.0  to  8.80.  In  20  minutes  more  a  third 
paper,  on  history  and  geography,  was  set,  and  lasted  till  six. 
Here,  I  maintain,  were  two  errors  of  judgment.  It  is  prepos- 
terous— and  in  the  interests  of  the  candidates  we  are  bound  to 
protest  against  it — that  boys  should  undergo  a  severe  examin- 
ation for  nine  hours  together  with  only  two  short  intervals  of 
thirty  and  twenty  minutes  respectively.  The  other  error,  and 
it  is  one  which  every  classical  scholar  will  join  in  condemning, 
consists  in  including  "  prose,"  "  unseen  "  pieces,  and  grammar 
in  a  single  paper  which  was  intended  as  a  test  of  classical 
scholarship. 

On  the  second  day  there  were  again  three  papers.  The  first 
consisted  of  Greek  "  unseen,"  and  included  Demosthenes  adv. 
Leptinem,  Thucydides,  ^Eschylus  Prometheus  vinctus,  and 
Sophocles  (Edipus  Bex;  a  few  grammatical  questions  and 
about  eight  lines  of  "  prose  "  were  added.  The  second  paper 
consisted  of  French  and  German.  The  paper  announcing  the 
examination  said  French  or  German,  but  the  examiner  allowed 
candidates  to  do  both.  This  paper,  be  it  remarked,  was  much 
below  the  standard  of  the  Lower  Certificate  of  the  Oxford  and 
Cambridge  Board.  The  last  paper  was  in  higher  mathematics. 
Finally,  candidates  were  not  allowed  to  bring  away  with  them 
copies  of  the  questions. 

I  think,  Sir,  I  have  proved  my  case  that  there  is  urgent  need 
for  reform.  The  examination  as  at  present  conducted  gives 
absolutely  no  clue  to  the  real  abilities  of  the  candidates.  I 
venture  to  hope  that  those  who  have  charge  of  this  trust  will 


YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES.         17 

see  that  next  year  the  examination  is  conducted  on  rational 
and,  I  may  add,  humane  principles. 

Ackboyd's  Exhibition,  (from  the  Liber  Scholasticus,  1829.) 
William  Ackroyd  by  his  will,  bearing  date  12th  September, 
1518,  willed  and  devised  that  Henry  Ackroyd  fend  Edmund,  his 
brother,  with  Henry  Draper,  and  other  feoffees,  who  then  occu- 
pied the  lands  and  tenements  of  him,  the  said  William  Ackroyd, 
should  keep  one  scholar  at  the  University  of  Oxford  or  Cam- 
bridge, until  the  end  of  the  world,  and  that  such  scholar  should 
be  near  unto  him,  the  said  William  Ackroyd.  in  blood,  and  of 
his  name ;  and  if  there  should  not  be  one  of  his  name  able  or 
fit,  the  said  Henry  Ackroyd  and  Edmund,  his  brother,  and 
Henry  Draper,  should  choose  one  able  and  fit,  near  to  him  in 
blood,  and  of  another  name ;  and  when  that  scholar  should  be 
there  beneficed  to  the  value  of  10  marks  per  annum,  the  feoffees 
should  keep  another  there  out  of  their  expenses,  to  the  value  of 
six  marks  and  one  noble  by  the  year,  and  not  above ;  and  if 
there  should  be  none  capable  of  his  blood,  the  feoffees  should 
choose  one  out  of  Marston  or  Hutton  who  was  able,  so  that 
there  should  be  always  one. 

By  an  inquisition  and  decree  of  commissioners  of  charitable 
uses,  bearing  date  the  22d  May,  1699,  after  reciting  the  will, 
and  that  it  had  been  found  by  the  jurors  that  one  Richard 
Nettleton,  and  others  therein  named,  had  acted  as  trustees  of 
the  lands  given  to  the  charitable  use,  lying  in  Batley,  being  of 
the  value  of  132.  10s.  per  annum,  without  any  authority,  and 
had  nominated  a  scholar  in  Cambridge  to  receive  the  rents  and 
profits  of  the  said  lands  in  Batley,  who  was  not  of  the  blood 
of  the  donor,  nor  belonging  to  Marston  or  Hutton ;  it  was  de- 
creed, that  Thomas  Crofts,  and  three  other  persons  therein 
named,  with  the  Rector  of  Long  Marston,  for  the  time  being, 
should  be  trustees  for  the  said  charitable  use,  and  that  they,  or 
the  greater  number  of  them,  should  from  time  to  time  demise 
the  said  lands  and  tenements  to  the  best  advantage  of  the 
seholar  so  to  be  sent  to  either  of  the  Universities,  and  should 
from  thenceforth  nominate  such  scholar,  pursuant  to  the  will, 
and  receive  the  rents  and  profits  of  the  premises,  and  pay  the 
same  according  to  the  true  intent  and  meaning  thereof;  and 
upon  every  departure  or  removal  of  such  scholar,  should  elect 
another,  so  as  always  to  keep  a  scholar  at  the  University ;  and 
thai  when  any  of  the  trustees  should  die,  the  survivors,  or  a 
majority  of  them,  should  elect  others  in  their  place,  so  that 
the  same  number  of  trustees,  and  no  more,  might  continue  for 
ever. 

The  present  trustees  of  the  charity  are,  Thomas  Perrott,  Esq., 

of  Sandford  Park,  Oxfordshire,  the  Rev.  Joseph  Smith,  Vicar  of 

Kirby  Moorside,  the  Rev.  Waite  Robinson,  Rector  of  Badenham, 

in  Herefordshire,  and  James  Croft,  Rector  of  Saltwood,  in  the 

y.n.q.  c 


18         YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

county  of  Kent,  and  Alexander  Origan,  D.D.,  the  present 
Rector  of  Long  Marston. 

From  a  manuscript  account  of  the  charity,  of  a  very  early 
date,  in  the  possession  of  one  of  the  trustees,  it  has  been  sup- 
posed that  the  property  comprised  in  the  bequest  or  devise  of 
the  said  William  Ackroyd,  consisted  of  lands,  lying  part  in  the 
parish  of  Batley,  and  part  in  that  of  Buerley,  in  the  West 
Biding  of  this  county ;  but  the  only  property  now  held  by  the 
trustees,  or  that  can  be  traced  into  their  possession  from  the 
time  of  the  inquisition  in  1699,  and  even  before  that  period,  is 
the  estate  of  Batley  therein  mentioned,  which  is  situate  near 
Leeds,  and  consists  of  four  ancient  houses,  a  barn,  and  sundry 
inclosures,  containing  all  together  82a.  1b.  18p.,  in  the  occupa- 
tion of  several  different  tenants  from  year  to  year,  at  the  annual 
rent  of  1081.  18*.  being  the  full  value. 

The  estate  is  under  the  management  of  an  agent,  who  receives 
and  applies  the  rent,  subject  to  necessary  out-goings,  to  the 
use  of  a  student  at  one  of  the  Universities  of  Oxford  or  Cam- 
bridge, who  continues  to  enjoy  the  same  as  an  exhibition,  for 
the  term  of  three  years  and  a  half,  when  another  is  appointed 
to  receive  the  benefit  of  it.  The  objects  of  the  charity  are  se- 
lected by  the  trustees  from  the  founder's  kin,  and  their  places 
are  supplied  as  vacancies  arise ;  but  from  the  distance  at  which 
several  of  the  trustees  reside  from  each  other,  some  incon- 
venience is  experienced  in  the  execution  of  the  trust. 

An  account  of  receipts  and  disbursements  is  kept  by  the 
agent,  Mr.  John  Moisier,  of  Huntington,  near  York,  and  the 
account  is  examined  and  audited  by  the  trustees  from  time  to 
time. 

Will  of  Sib  William  Akbboyd,  Priest. — In  the  name  of 
God,  Amen.  Sep.  12,  1518.  I,  William  Akeroyd,  sound  in 
mind,  but  old  and  weak  in  body,  do  make  my  will  in  this  man- 
ner: First,  I  bequeath  my  soul  to  Almighty  God,  and  the 
Blessed  Virgin  Mary,  and  to  All  Saints,  and  my  body  to  be 
buried  in  my  chancel  of  Marston,  otherwise  Hoton-Wandsly, 
by  the  body  of  my  mother.  Item,  I  bequeath  my  best  beast  to 
the  most  reverend  Father  in  Christ,  Lord  Thomas,  Cardinal  of 
Borne,  of  the  title  of  St.  Cecilia,  and  Archbishop  of  York,  or 
any  other  having  canonical  possession  of  that  See,  as  my 
Mortuary.  Item,  I  bequeath  to  a  fitt  Priest,  seven  marks  of 
good  lawful  money  of  England,  that  he  may  pray  for  my  soul, 
and  for  the  souls  of  my  parents,  and  all  my  benefactors,  for  the 
space  of  one  year  in  the  said  church ;  and  one  gradual,  and  two 
quarters  of  fine  flour,  to  the  four  Orders  of  Brethren  in  the  city 
of  York,  to  be  divided  amongst  them.  Item,  I  bequeath  two 
quarters  of  malt,  made  of  barley,  to  the  poor  of  my  parishioners. 
Excerpta  Antiqua. 


YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES.         19 

Fire  op  London. — The  following  is  a  copy  of  a  letter  pre- 
served at  Shibden  Hall,  written  by  Mrs.  Phoebe  Lister  to  her 
son. 

Samuell. 

I  need  not  aquaint  yon  with  the  lamentable  acsedent 
that  hath  befalne  Londun.  I  know  yon  haue  heard  of  it  and 
indeed  it  is  a  most  heuy  judgement  not  only  upon  them  but 
upon  the  whole  land.  John  received  a  leter  this  day  from  my 
cosen  Thomas  he  saith  that  the  Lord  hath  delt  gratiously  with 
them  tho  their  house  be  burnt  yet  much  of  their  best  goods  is 
safe.  Thomas  Dicanson  hath  writ  to  Mr.  Palin  that  he  is  now 
redused  to  the  same  condition  he  was  at  first  and  where  as  he 
hath  been  able  to  releeve  others  he  fears  he  shall  now  nede  re- 
leefe.  I  suppose  yon  have  a  great  losse  with  the  rest  at  Blacwell 
Hall,  but  we  must  be  content  to  submit  to  the  wise  providence 
of  God,  and  as  we  have  had  a  hand  in  the  sin  that  hath 
brought  this  judgement  so  let  us  be  content  to  submit  to  the 
punishment.  I  would  not  have  you  discouraged,  but  trust  in 
the  Lord,  he  hath  bidden  us  cast  our  care  upon  him,  and  he 
will  certainly  prouide  for  his  in  these  said  prouidences.  I  have 
not  yet  heard  anything  of  Jerimie,  whether  he  be  alive  or  no. 
Remember  my  love  to  Mary,  and  to  all  our  frends  at  Shibden 
Hall  and  lower  brear. 

Your  louing  Mother, 

PHEBE  LISTER. 
Writ  whether  my  bridle  came  home  with  the  hors  or  no. 

The  letter  is  directed  at  the  back — 

For  Mr.  Samuel 

Lister,  at  Upper 

Brea,  nigh  Hallifax 
but  bears  no  mark  indicative  of  the  process  by  which  it  was 
conveyed  thither. 

Knighthood. — Mr.  John  Lister,  father  of  the  Samuel  above- 
mentioned,  was  fined  £10  for  declining  to  be  knighted  at  the 
coronation  of  Sing  Charles  the  First.  The  receipt  for  this  £10, 
of  which  the  following  is  a  copy,  is  preserved  to  this  day,  in  the 
family  records  at  Shibden  Hall. 

Sexto  die  mends  Octobris  annoqe  Regni  Eegno  Caroli  Anglice 
etc  Sexto  1630. 

Eboru.  Receaved  tlie  day  and  yeare  above  said  of  John 
Lister  of  North  Owram,  in  tlie  county  of  York  gent:  tlie  some 
of  Ten  pounds.  And  it  is  in  discharge  of  a  Composicon  by  him 
made  witli  my  selfe  and  others  his  mat  Comissioners  for  com- 
pounding the  fynes  and  forfeitures  for  not  attending  and 
receaveing  the  order  of  Knighthood  at  his  mat9  Coronacon 
according  to  the  lawe  in  that  case  provided.  I  say  receaved  tlie 
somme  of  x  lb.  Wbntwobthk.  J.H.T. 


20        YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

MEMBERS   OF  PARLIAMENT  FOR  YORK, 
17181882. 

General  Election,  1718— Sir  Wm.  Robinson,  Bt.,  1868, 
Robert  Fairfax,  Esq.,  885 ;  Tobias  Jenkins,  Esq.,  802.  Total 
votes— 8005. 

Gen.  EL,  1714— Robinson,  1888;  Jenkins,  1225;  Fairfax, 
844.  Total  8457.  Upwards  of  400  persons  were  admitted  to 
their  freedom  purposely  to  vote  for  Mr.  Jenkins.  Claimants  of 
freedom  by  patrimony  or  apprenticeship  have  now  to  give  a 
fall  month's  notice  of  claim,  and  can  vote  as  soon  as  admitted. 
Those  who  purchase  their  freedom  cannot  vote  for  twelve 
months. 

Gen.  EL,  1722.— Sir  Wm.  Milner,  Bt.,  1421;  Edward 
Thompson,  Esq.,  1899;  Sir  Tancred  Robinson,  Bt.,  1076. 
Total  8896. 

Gen.  EL,  1727.— Milner  and  Thompson.     Nem.  con. 

Gen.  EL,  May  1784.— Rt.  Hon.  Edward  Thompson,  re- 
elected, and  Sir  John  Lister  Kaye,  Bt.,  vice  Sir  W.  Milner. 

Gen.  EL,  May  18, 1741.— Rt.  Hon.  Edward  Thompson,  1447; 
Godfrey  Wentworth,  Esq.,  1825 ;  Sir  John  Lister  Kaye,  Bt., 
1815 :  Sir  Wm.  Milner,  Bt.,  1115.  Total  5202.  There  were 
only  27  single  votes,  which  were  given  to  Mr.  Thompson.  Sir 
W.  "Milner  withdrew  after  the  first  day. 

Election,  vice  Rt.  Hon.  Ed.  Thompson,  deceased,  8  July, 
1742.  Sir  John  Lister  Kaye,  Bt..  was  nominated,  but  declined 
next  day,  and  strenuously  recommended  George  Fox,  Esq., 
who  was  elected  on  the  21st,  and  great  rejoicings  took  place  on 
the  day  of  chairing. 

Gen.  EL,  June  27,  1747.— George  Fox,  Esq.,  re-elected. 
William  Thornton,  Esq.,  vice  Godfrey  Wentworth,  Esq.  Henry 
Ibbotson,  Esq.,  of  Leeds,  and  Mr.  Wentworth  retired. 

Gen.  EL,  April  15,  1754.— George  Fox-Lane,  Esq.,  was 
re-elected,  and  Sir  John  Armytage,  Bart.,  was  chosen  in  the 
room  of  Wm.  Thornton,  Esq.,  who  had  retired. 

Election,  1768,  consequent  on  the  melancholy  death  of  Sir 
John  Armytage,  who  lost  his  life  in  an  expedition  on  the  coast 
of  France.  Sep.  25th,  Wm.  Thornton,  Esq.,  was  nominated. 
Mr.  Robert  Lane,  son  of  Mr.  George  Fox  Lane,  of  Bramham 
Park,  came  to  an  agreement  to  withdraw,  but  broke  his  word, 
and  the  election  took  place  December  1st  to  7th.  Thornton, 
1289 ;  Robert  Lane,  994.  William  Jolliff,  Esq.,  of  Nunmonk- 
ton,  was  chaired  for  Mr.  Thornton. 

Gen.  EL,  March  27,  1761.— Sir  George  Armytage,  Bart., 
and  Robert  Lane,  Esq.,  who  were  chaired  in  usual  manner. 
Mr.  Fox-Lane  and  Mr.  Thornton  refused  re-nomination. 

Gen.  EL,  March  21,  1768.— The  Hon.  Lord  John  Cavendish 
and  Charles  Turner,  Esq.  Sir  George  had  declined  to  stand, 
and  recommended  Mr.  Turner,  of  Kirkleatham,  in  his  stead, 


YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES.         21 

who  was  nominated  with  Mr.  Kobert  Lane.  Mr.  Lane  also 
withdrew  on  account  of  bad  health.  Great  feastings  took  place 
on  the  21st,  the  day  of  chairing. 

Gen.  EL,  October,  1774. — Lord  John  Cavendish  and  Mr. 
Turner  offered  their  services,  but  Martin  Bladen  Hawke,  Esq., 
son  of  Sir  Edward  Hawke,  Ent.,  who  had  petitioned  to  be 
admitted  to  the  freedom  of  the  city,  and  was  admitted  at  a 
house  held  at  Onse-bridge  Hall,  declared  himself  a  candidate. 
On  the  10th  of  October,  after  parading  the  streets  on  horseback, 
the  three  candidates  proceeded  to  Guildhall,  and  the  poll  began. 
A  mob  of  young  men  who  claimed  their  freedom,  but  had  not 
given  due  notice,  caused  such  commotion  next  day,  that  a  post- 
ponement took  place  for  that  day.  On  the  16th  the  votes 
stood— Turner,  828 ;  Cavendish,  807 ;  Hawke,  647 ;  Total,  2282. 
The  two  first  were  thereupon  chaired  through  the  principal 
streets  of  the  city.  Mr.  Hawke  had  537  plumpers,  and  only 
1419  polled. 

Gen.  El.,  Sep.  11th,  1780. — Lord  John  Cavendish,  and 
Charles  Turner,  Esq.,  unopposed.  Instead  of  balls  and  treats, 
they  gave,  through  their  committee,  a  considerable  sum  to  poor 
freemen. 

Election,  April  8,  1782. — Rt.  Hon.  Lord  John  Cavendish 
was  re-elected  without  opposition,  having  vacated  his  seat  by 
accepting  the  office  of  Chancellor  and  Under-Treasurer  of  H.M. 
Exchequer.  He  resigned  the  Chancellorship  in  July  1782,  on 
the  death  of  the  Marquis  of  Rockingham. 

Election,  April  8,  1788,  having  accepted  the  same  office 
again,  Lord  John  Cavendish  asked  re-election,  and  was  elected 
nem.  con.     Peregrine  Wentworth,  Esq.,  acted  as  his  proxy. 

Election,  Nov.  17th,  1788.— Vice  Sir  Charles  Turner,  Bart., 
deceased.  Charles  Slingsby  Duncombe,  Esq.,  was  nominated 
Oct.  81.  Lord  Visct.  Galway,  who  had  retired,  was  induced  to 
become  a  candidate,  and  Mr.  Duncombe  retired.  Lord  Galway 
was  chaired  Nov.  17th. 

Gen.  EL,  1784,  March  81— April  6th,  Lord  Visct.  Galway, 
1088 ;  Richard  Slater  Milnes,  Esq.,  1024 ;  Rt.  Hon.  Lord  John 
Cavendish,  918 ;  Sir  Wm.  Mordaunt  Milner,  Bart.,  812  ;  total, 
8882.    The  two  former  were  declared  duly  elected,  and  chaired. 

Gen.  EL,  June  18,  1790.— Richard  Slater  Milnes,  Esq., 
re-elected.  Sir  Wm.  M.  Milner,  Bart.,  vice  Lord  Galway, 
resigned.     Chaired. 

Gen.  El.,  May  27, 1796.— Sir  W.  M.  Milner,  Bart.,  and  R.  S. 
Milnes,  Esq.,  re-elected.     Chaired. 

Gen.  EL,  July  5,  1802.— Sir  W.  M.  Milner,  Bart.,  re-elected. 
The  Hon.  Lawrence  Dundas,  vice  B.  S.  Milnes,  Esq.,  who  had 
resigned  on  account  of  ill-health.     Chaired.     Great  feastings. 

Gen.  EL,  Oct.  81, 1806.    Milner  and  Dundas,  re-elected. 


22  YORKSHIRE    NOTE8    AND    QUERIES. 

Gen.  El.,  1807.— On  the  Nomination  Day,  May  7th,  Sir  W. 
M.  Milner,  and  Sir  Mark  Masterman  Sykes,  Barts.,  were 
declared  eleoted  by  show  of  hands,  but  the  Hon.  Lawrence 
Dundas  demanded  a  poll,  which  was  concluded  May  14th. 
Milner,  1454;  Sykes,  1816;  Dundas,  967.  Total,  8787. 
Number  of  Freemen  who  voted  was  2288.  The  two  Members 
were  chaired  as  usual. 

Election,  1811.—  Vice  Sir  W.  M.  Milner's  decease.  Hon. 
Lawrence  Dundas,  then  Lord  Mayor,  was  almost  unanimously 
approved.    Unopposed.    Chaired. 

Gen.  EL,  1812. — Dundas  and  Sykes,  unopposed.  Chaired 
Oct.  6th. 

Gen.  EL,  1818.— The  Hon.  L.  Dundas,  and  Sir  Wm.  Mor- 
daunt  Milner,  Bart.,  of  Nun-Appleton,  son  of  the  late  Sir 
William  M.  Milner,  who  had  faithfully  represented  York  in  five 
Parliaments,  were  invited  to  stand  nomination.  Sir  Wm.  de- 
clining, Wm.  Bryan  Cooke,  Esq.,  eldest  son  of  Sir  George 
Cooke,  Bart.,  of  Wheatley,  who  began  his  canvassing  five  days 
after  his  opponents.  Dundas  and  Cooke  secured  the  show  of 
hands,  but  Sir  M.  M.  Sykes  demanded  a  poll,  which  commenced 
on  Friday,  June  19th.  At  the  close  of  the  fourth  day,  Col. 
Cooke  withdrew.  Sir  M.  M.  Sykes  and  Aid.  Chaloner  (as  proxy 
for  Mr.  Dundas,  who  suffered  in  health  in  consequence  of 
heavy  domestic  affliction)  were  chaired.  The  numbers  stood  at 
the  end  of  the  fourth  day — Dundas,  1446;  Sykes,  1276 ;  Cooke, 
1055.  Sir  M.  M.  Sykes  had  902  plumpers.  The  list  of  voters 
has  been  printed. 

Gen.  EL,  1820,  March  8th- 18th.— Hon.  Lawrence  Dundas, 
1647;  Marmaduke  Wyvill,  Esq.,  1527;  Lord  Howden,  1201— of 
whom  1072  were  plumpers.  The  list  of  voters  was  published 
in  book  form. 

Election,  1820. — Hon.  Lawrence  Dundas  succeeded  to  the 
peerage  as  Lord  Dundas,  and  Robert  Chaloner,  Esq.,  was 
elected  June  28th. 

Gen.  EL,  1826.— The  '  Blue  party '  had  taken  measures  for 
regaining  their  share  in  the  representation  which  was  lost  in 
1820,  owing  to  the  late  appearance  of  Lord  Howden.  Col. 
Wilson,  of  Sneaton  Castle,  came  out  as  Blue  Candidate,  and 
was  returned,  with  Marmaduke  Wyvill,  Esq.,  the  Hon.  Thomas 
Dundas  having  retired  after  two  days'  canvass. 

Gen.  EL,  1880,  July  29th-August  8rd.—  Samuel  Adlam 
Bayntun,  Esq.,  (Tory),  1928 ;  Hon.  Thomas  Dundas,  1907 ; 
Hon.  E.  R.  Petre,  1792. 

Gen.  EL,  1881.— Reform  test.  Bayntun  and  Dundas  re- 
elected without  opposition. 

Gen.  EL,  1882.— First  Reform-Bill  Election.  The  poll, 
limited  now  to  two  days,  commenced  Dec.  11th.  The  result 
was  declared  on  the  18th.    Hon.  E.  R.  Petre,  1505 ;  S.  A. 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 


23 


Bayntun,  Esq,,  1140;   John  Henry  Lowther,  Esq.,  884 ;  Hon. 
Thomas  Dtmdas,  872. 

EBOB. 

%*  A  continuation  will  be  thankfully  received. — Ed. 


Incised  Memorial  Cross  Slabs  at  Ripley. — In  the  church- 
yard of  Ripley,  in  Nidderdale,  is  a  number  of  incised  memorial 
slabs,  brought  there  from  the  ruins  of  the  old  church,  or 
"Sinking  Chapel,"  which  formerly  stood  near  to  where  the 
railway  station  is  now  situate.  The  materials  of  the  old  church 
are  said  to  have  been  used,  about  a.d.  1400,  to  build  the  pre- 
sent structure. 


The  design  on  eight  of  the  slabs  is  similar  to  that  on  no.  2, 
in  the  sketch  appended ;  some  of  the  crosses  having  shafts,  and 
some  being  without.  Three  bear  a  cross  like  no.  4,  and  there 
is  one  of  the  pattern  shewn  in  no.  8.  Most  of  them  are  of  small 
size.  The  most  peculiar  of  the  slabs  bears  a  design  on  each 
side,  sketched  in  figure  1.  This  has  often  been  a  puzzle  to 
antiquaries,  and  doubtless  many  readers  besides  myself  would 
like  to  know  the  meaning  of  the  vessel  represented  on  it ;  and 
also  the  approximate  dates  of  all  the  designs.    S.  M.,  Calverley. 


ANCIENT  SESSION  NOTES  EXTRACTED  FROM 
THE  ORIGINALS. 

Pillory. — Whereas  James  Oiler  ton,  of  Bowling,  was  indicted 
at  these  Sess:  [Leeds,  July,  1677,]  for  a  comon  barracter, 
and  upon  his  travse  to  the  same  was  found  guilty — whereupon 
the  Corte  ordered  That  for  the  said  offence  he  should  stand  vpon 
the  comon  pillorye  at  the  mkt  townes  of  Leeds,  Bradforth,  and 


24         YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

Hallifax  on  the  next  market  dayes,  one  houre  at  each  towne 
each  day  between  the  homes  of  eleven  and  two  of  the  clocke, 
with  a  paper  sett  on  his  head  with  this  Inscription  in  Text 
letters  to  witt :  James  Ollerton,  a  comon  barracter,  and  then  be 
taken  to  gaol  at  York  Castle  till  he  find  sureties  for  good  behavr 
for  7  years. 

Poor  Belief. — John  Sharp,  aged  3,  son  of  Samuell  Sharp, 
of  Manningham,  late  soldyer  in  H.M.  service ;  petition  for  his 
relief  and  support,  1680. 

Ordered  that  the  Chwdns  and  Overseers  of  the  poor  of  Skip- 
ton  pay  and  allow  one  Mr.  Ann  Mott,  being  sprung  of  that  good 
family  of  the  Malhams,  five  shillings  monthly  being  now  growne 
into  great  want  and  necessity,  1680. 

Coal  Pit. — David  Hartley,  sinking  a  Colepitt  in  Barkerend 
in  Bradford,  by  misfortune  of  a  fall  of  earth  was  most  lamenta- 
bly crushed;  petitions  for  relief,  Wakefield,  October,  1687. 

Oaths. — John  Sharp  of  Alford,  Lincolnshire,  Clerk,  produced 
[Wakefield,  October,  1688,]  certificate  from  the  hands  of  the 
Vicar  of  Bradford  of  having  received  the  Sacrament,  and  then 
in  open  court  took  the  oaths  of  Allegiance  and  Supremacy  and 
subscribed  to  Test  Act. 

Eavesdropbeb. — Bichard  Whitehead,  of  Horton,  was  charged 
with  frequenting  the  house  of  Thomas  Wainwright,  innkeeper, 
Bradford,  as  an  eavesdropper.     Wakefield,  January,  1690 

CAKRIEB8,  Bates.—  Pontefract,  April,  1692,  rates  fixed  by  the 
Justices  according  to  the  late  Act  of  Parliament : 

London  to  Leeds,  Halifax,  &c,  Id.  per  pound  throughout 
the  year. 

London  to  places  twenty  miles  further  than  Leeds,  2d.  per 
stone  more  than  the  said  penny,  and  so  for  every  additional 
twenty  miles. 

York  to  Wakefield  or  any  place  twenty  miles  from  York,  2d. 
per  stone,  proportionable  by  greater  or  less  distance. 

By  Carts :  Leeds  to  Selby  and  Turnbridge:  a  truss  containing 
four  horse  packs— May-day  to  Mchlmas,  6s.  6d. ;  Mmas  to 
Xmas,  10s.  6d. ;  Xmas  to  May-day,  15s.  6d. ;  and  so  ac- 
cording to  weight  and  distance. 

Selby,  Turnbridge  to  Leeds,  &c,  May-day  to  Mchlmas,  12s. 
per  tunne ;  Mmas  to  Xmas,  18s.  per  tunne ;  Xmas  to  May- 
day, 24s.  per  tunne.  A  fine  of  £5  liable  to  be  imposed  if 
carriers  demanded  more. 

Fibes.— Edward  Bradley,  of  Horbury,  gent.,  late  captain  m 
royal  cause,  having  suffered  imprisonment,  and  had  four  con- 
siderable houses  accidently  burnt  downe  att  the  cittye  of  Yorke, 
petitions  for  grant  from  the  riding;  Pontefract,  1675. 


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Peticon  of  Richard  B&ttye  of  Kilnsey  to  the  magistrates  at 
Skipton,  1675, — "  Losse  of  goods  by  a  sudaine  accident  of  fire 
which  happened  unfortunately  for  to,  burne  all  the  dwelling- 
house  wherein  he  inhabited,  and  barne  together  with  much  of 
hie  household  stufle  and  other  goods  whereby  yor.  petr.  was 
quite  beggerd  and  ever  since  hath  suffered  great  misery  for  want 
of  some  residence  ;"*  petitions  for  relief  against  winter. 

On  Thursday,  April  1st,  there  hapned  a  sudden,  sad,  and 
lamentable  fire  at  Snaith,  betwixt  the  houres  of  twelve  and  one 
of  the  clock  in  the  night,  wch,  in  two  houres  time,  burnt  and 
consumed  eight  dwelling-houses  with  sevrall  barne s,  stables, 
kilnes,  and  other  outhouses,  together  with  the  goods  and  chat- 
tels of  yor.  petitioners,  the  losse  whereof  doth  amount  unto 
£1002  lis.  6d.,  as  shown  to  the  Hon.  Ld.  Yisct.  Downe.  Peti- 
tion, Pontefract,  April  1686,  that  justices  present  the  same  to 
his  Matie  and  his  honourable  Councill  to  the  end  yor.  petitioners 
may  obteyne  his  Matie's  Gratious  lettrs  Pattern  [patent,]  for 
the  gathering  the  charity  of  all  well  disposed  persons  in  the 
countyes  of  Yorke,  Lincoln  and  Nottingham. 

Doncaster,  January  1682,  vpon  consideracon  had  of  .ye  hum- 
ble petticon  of  Thomas  Oervas  of  Whiston  setting  forth  That 
vpon  Sonday  the  nyneteenth  day  of  November  last,  between  the 
houres  of  eleaven  and  twelve  of  the  clock  in  the  night  tyme, 
there  happened  a  soddayne  and  lamentable  fyre  in  said  Towne 
of  Whiston  first  beginning  in  the  dwelling-house  of  the  said 
Thomas  Gervas  without  any  propr.  fault  or  negligence  of  his 
owne  and  by  reason  of  a  great  wynd  in  a  short  time  burnt  to 
the  ground  the  dwelling-house  of  the  said  Thomas  Gervas  with 
all  the  out-houses,  kilne,  corne  chambers,  and  other  buildings 
conteyneing  nyneteen  bages  and  consumed  most  of  his  corne, 
hay  and  other  goods  whieh  did  amount  in  the  whole  to  £150. 
Ordered  a  collection  to  be  made  in  all  parish  churches  and 
chappells  in  the  riding,  and  the  ministers  there  are  desyred  to 
stirr  upp  their  people  to  contribute  freely  to  soe  pyous  a  work. 

Skipton,  July,  1684 ;  petition  for  the  King's  letters  patent  on 
account  of  loss  by  fire  at  Sicklinghall  in  Kirby  Overblow  of  28 
houses,  2  barns,  kilns,  &c,  valued  at  £1180  05  00.  and  value 
of  goods  lost  £843  12  00. 

Skipton,  July,  1690;  fire  at  Ffollyfoot,  four  houses,  four 
barns,  &c,  value  £516  17  06. 

Pontefract,  April,  1696 :  the  vallue  of  the  losse  of  ffewston 
Church  viewed  and  vallued  by  substantiall  workmen  whose 
names  are  hereunder  written  : 

Imp.  the  value  of  the  stone  worke,  plasteringe,  leading  and 
glasse  £855 ;  for  the  roofe,  £249  18s. ;  sleepers,  boards 
and  seats  in  ye  church  £110 ;  ye  pulpit,  reading  Box  and 


YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

bannisters  betwixt  ye  church  and  Quire  and  four  doores 
£9  00  09 ;  whole  losse  is  £728  18  09. 


The  Justices  sent  an  address  to  the  Lord  Keeper  of  the  Great 
Seale  respecting  the  great  and  suddain  fire  at  ffewston  Church 
through  the  negligence  of  the  plumber  who  was  repairing  the 
leads. 

Witchcraft. — Whereas  Michael  Woodhouse  of  Wadsley, 
Tayler,  for  professing  to  declare  where  stolen  goods  were  to  be 
found — being  a  breach  of  the  Statute  concerning  Witchcraft, 
has  failed  to  find  sureties  for  good  behaviour,  ordered  to  be  sent 
to  York  gaol  till  he  find  such  sureties.    Barnsley,  Oct.  1677. 

Margaret  Reyner,  of  Wentworth,  went  to  Michael  Woodhouse 
(just  mentioned,)  to  know  who  had  stolen  a  spoon,  and  he  des- 
cribed a  young  man.  He  demanded  a  shilling ;  she  gave  him 
fourpence,  all  she  had.     Oct.  1677. 

William  Wilkinson,  of  Parkgate  in  Ecclesfield,  bound  to 
answer  for  goeinge  to  a  Wizard  or  Wiseman  to  enquire  for  a 
shirt  which  hee  had  lost.    Don  caster,  1677. 

Scolds. — Whereas  Ann  wife  of  Henry  Greene  of  Cudworth, 
and  Ann  Anderson  of  the  same,  stand  eevrally  indicted  these 
Sess.  for  common  scowlds  and  disturbers  of  his  Mats,  peace 
and  being  called  in  open  corte  to  plead  to  the  said  Indictment 
did  both  of  them  enter  their  travrses  but  did  not  fynd  suertyes 
for  ther  good  behavyer  wch  they  refused  to  doe.  These  are 
therefore  in  his  Mats,  name  to  will  and  require  you  to  receave 
into  yr  Gaole  (York  Castle)  the  bodyes  of  the  said  Ann  Greene 
and  Ann  Anderson  till  they  fynd  sufficient  suertyes.  Barnsley, 
Oct.  1677. 

Eliza  wife  of  Joshua  Rhodes,  of  Earlsheaton,  tried  for  a 
oomon  scould.     1678. 

Whereas  Sarah  wife  of  Mathew  Lund,  of  Wakefield,  stands 
Indicted  and  convicted  at  these  Sees,  for  a  comon  Skowld,  a 
great  Disturber  of  her  neighbours :  It  is  therefore  ordered  by 
this  Corte  that  the  said  Sarah  Lund  bee  sett  vpon  the  markett 
Crosse  at  Wakefield  the  next  friday  being  the  Markett  Day 
there  to  remayne  by  the  space  of  one  hour  with  a  papr.  signi- 
fyinge  her  offence.    Pontefract,  Apr.  1680. 

Treason  and  Oaths. — Tour  petitioner  (Robert  Rainer,  Master 
of  the  House  of  Correction  at  Wakefield,)  was  ordered  by  Sir 
John  Eay  and  Mr.  Horton  to  maintayne  one  James  Trenchard 
committ  to  yor  petticonr.  for  beeing  suspected  to  have  been  in 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES.  27 

the  late  plott,  yor  petticonr.  hath  kept  him  a  quarter  of  a  yeare 
which  cost  him  20s.    Pontefraot,  April,  1686. 

Robert  Beyner,  of  Wakefield,  gent.,  Keeper  of  the  Prison, 
took  the  sacrament,  1675. 

1693.  Henry  Hemingway  gives  information,  saying  that, 
being  sent  for  by  Mr.  Edward  Deane,  Vicar  of  Batley,  to  the 
house  of  Michael  Parker,  in  Dewsbnry,  alehouse  keeper, 
Nathaniel  Burd,  gent.,  of  Dewsbury,  talking  about  the  B.  of 
Boyne,  said  that  King  William  was  but  a  rebel. 

1692.  John  Barton,  of  Kighley,  bound  to  appear  for  drinking 
Sing  James'  health. 

Magistrates  had  to  produce  periodically  certificates  from  the 
vicar,  churchwardens,  and  two  other  witnesses,  that  they  took 
the  sacrament  as  administered  at  the  Church  of  England.  They 
were  also  required  to  deny  the  doctrine  of  tran substantiation. 
John  Gibson,  minister  of  the  Parish  Church  of  Hartshead,  and 
others  testify  that  Sir  John  Armytage  received  the  sacrament 
of  the  Lord's  Supper  there,  1677. 

John  Ellis  of  Bumsall,  charged  with  uttering  treasonable 
words.     Knaresborough,  Oct,,  1677. 

The  Battle  of  Mons  was  much  talked  about.  A  carrier  is 
charged  with  saying  that  he  knew  where  £700  was  held  for 
King  James.    Leeds,  July,  1691. 

Thomas  Bentley,  constable,  of  Southowram,  indicted  Thomas 
Wakefield  for  not  going  to  the  Parish  Church  at  Halifax,  calling 
the  constable  a  fforsworne  rogue,  and  saying  the  king's  precept 
was  a  f&atching  paper ;  and  others  of  the  locality  indicted  for 
not  receiving  the  sacrament.     1675. 

The  collectors  of  the  "  ffire-hearth  tax "  were  required  to 
take  the  oath.     1676. 

William  Woofenden,  constable,  of  Quarmby,  on  oath,  1677, 
gave  information,  as  collector  of  H.  Maties  revenue  of  hearth- 
money,  against  William  Hirst,  of  Quarmby,  for  saying,  when 
arrested  for  hearth-dues,  that  Woofenden  was  a  knave,  and  Sir 
John  Eaye  was  a  knave,  and  said  that  soon  one  could  not  let  a 
f— rt  but  a  Justice  of  Peace  was  ready  to  send  out  his  warrant. 
Fined  £10.    Leeds,  1677. 

William  Wilson,  of  Linton,  for  speaking  scandalous  and 
seditious  words  that  ye  king  was  a  knave  and  a  theife.  Wetherby, 
January,  1677. 

Christopher  Lancaster,  minister  of  Burnsall,  and  the  church- 
wardens certify  that  Ambrose  Bland,  of  Burnsall,  M.A.,  took 
the  sacrament.    1678. 

We  doe  hereby  certifie  that  Alexander  Stileman,  at  Turne- 
bridge,  this  day,  before  us,  two  of  His  Majesty's  Justices  of  the 
Peace  for  the  Bidd.,  tooke  the  several  oathes  of  allegeance  and 


28  YOBKSHIRE    NOTEB    AND    QUERIES. 

supremacy,  as  alsoe  the  oath  of  a  gager.  1677. — Thomas  Yar- 
burgh,  J.  Boynton. 

To  certifie  yt,  Thomas  Smith,  officer  of  ye  Excise,  received 
ye  sacrament  ye  80th  of  Sept.,  1677,  at  ye  Parish  Church  of 
Badsworth,  according  to  the  custom  of  ye  Church  of  England. 
Edward  Dodsworthe,  rect. 

Richard  Oddie,  of  Meagill,  and  Chr.  Brayshaw,  of  Skipton, 
leade  miner,  gave  information  on  oath,  before  Mr.  Cuth.  Wade, 
J.P.,  that  "  This  psent  morneing  they  heard  one  Henrie  Slater, 
of  Thorp,  a  collier,  say  yt  all  cavalears  weare  roagues,  and  yt 
the  king  was  no  better,  and  further  sayth  not."   Skipton,  1677. 

John  Buck  and  five  others,  of  Sheffield,  bound  to  appear  for 
beinge  unlawfully  assembled  in  the  towne  of  Sheffield  with  drum, 
guns,  swords,  and  other  weapons.  Exonerated  afterwards.  1677. 

A  number  of  Burstall  men  indicted  for  drinking  King  James* 
health.     1693. 

The  chief  constables  issued  orders  to  bring  Papists  before 
justices  to  take  the  oaths ;  also  to  disarm  them,  to  seize  their 
horses,  if  above  the  value  of  £5,  and  sell  them.  The  arms  to 
be  taken  for  their  Majesties'  use.     Skipton,  July,  1691. 

Mary  Coppley,  of  flarrigate,  widdow,  being  suppressed  from 
keeping  a  comon  tipleing  house,  because  she  was  a  Catholic, 
petitions  to  have  it  restored  on  account  of  her  poverty.  Wether- 
by,  January,  1691. 

Tempest  llling worth,  of  Tong,  labr.,  indicted  for  speaking 
severall  maliciouse  and  oprobious  words  in  contempt  and  dero- 
gation of  the  Booke  of  Comon  Prayer.    Leeds,  July,  1687. 

Revolution. — "  Yorke,  October  ye  2d,  88.  [16881  •  Gentlemen, 
Haueing  heere  reed  his  Maties  pclamaoon,  Insinuateing  that 
an  Invasion  of  this  Kingdom  is  designed  from  beyond  the  seas 
and  the  vsuall  way  for  giueing  notice  of  such  Invasion  to  the 
people  of  the  Kingdom  to  rise  for  the  defence  thereof  is  by 
fireing  of  the  Beacons  in  Every  place  where  they  were  sett  up. 
Now  being  given  to  vnderstand  that  the  Beacons  in  most  places 
are  either  quite  pulld  down,  or  rendred  vseless,  I  desire  that  at 
this  time  of  yr  Sessions  (The  prsent  Juncture  of  affairs  require- 
ing  it),  you  will  take  effect uall  order  that  they  bee  forthwith 
repaired  and  made  vsefull  if  there  shall  be  need  to  vse  them.  I 
hope  you  will  looke  upon  this  as  a  reasonable  thing  to  bee  done 
at  this  time  and  therefore  doe  recommend  it  to  you,  and  remain 
Gentlemen,  Yr  most  humble  Sernt,  T.  Rokeby." 

Pretender. — A  particular  list  of  the  names  of  all  persons 

within  the  township  of that  are  lyable  to  take  the  oath 

to  his  Majesty  and  Government  according  to  the  present  Act, 
1715 : 

Wyke. — Mr.  John  Empson,  sick,  Mr.  William  Richardson, 
jur.,  Wm.  Pollard,  Wm.  Law,  Wm.  Ashley,  Wm.  Brook,  jur., 
Isaac  Holdroyd. 


YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


29 


Thorneton. — Abraham  Brooksbank  Schoolemaster,  jur.,  Wil- 
liam Hyrd,  Quaker,  Jeremy  Gleydhill,  Joshua  Firth,  Timothy 
HorsfaU,  Thomas  Short,  William  Pearson,  Jonas  Pearson,  John 
Jennings,  John  Shackle  ton. 

Shelf. — Mr.  Wm.  Clifford,  clergyman,  Wm.  Holmes,  quaker 
[and  others]. 

Pudsey.— ^John  Milner,  gent.,  Dr.  of  phisick,  Mr.  Elcana 
Berry,  dissenting  minister,  &c. 

Heaton. — Joseph  Kittson,  Quaker,  &c. 

Hecxmoxbwike. — John  Lister,  clerk,  &c. 

Horton.— Isaac  Sharp,  Abraham  Sharp,  Mr.  Eli  Dawson, 
Dissenting  Preacher,  &c. 

DBiGHLiNOTON-crDM-GiLDERsoME.— Sam  Dickinson,  John  Thac- 
kerah,  Wm.  Reyner,  quakers,  &c. 

Idle. — John  Swaine,  Nehemiah  Sandall,  quakers,  Mr.  John 
Wilson,  preacher  Dissr.,  and  many  others.  J.H.T. 


THE  RICHEST  LIVINGS  IN  YORKSHIRE. 

There  are  ten  livings  in  the  diocese  of  York  over  £1000  a 
year,  and  nine  in  that  of  Ripon,  making  a  total  of  19  livings  in 
Yorkshire  of  £1000  each  and  upwards : — 

York  Diocese.  Ripon  Diocese. 


Darfield £1600 

Settrington 1500 

Leven 1800 

Rowley 1800 

Cherry  Burton 1268 

Bolton  Percy 1240 

Burton  Agnes 1075 

Barmston 1065 

Kirby  Misperton  1050 

Sheffield 1000 


Bedale £2000 

Halifax 2000 

Stanhope  (Dur.)  1650 

Wensley 1830 

Spofforth  1820 

Thornhill   1250 

Bradford 1200 

Leeds 1200 

Gilling  1000 

Yorkshire  Post,  1885. 


A  BRIEF  HISTORY  OP  QUAKERISM  IN  SED- 
BERGH  AND  ITS  NEIGHBOURHOOD. 

The  meeting  house  of  the  Friends  is  at  Brig  Flat  over  a  mile 
on  the  west  of  Sedbergh,  and  on  the  north  of  the  river  Rawthy. 
It  is  pleasantly  situated  in  a  fertile  plain  with  romantic  hills 
on  the  north,  east  and  south.  It  is  said  to  be  the  oldest  Friends' 
meeting  house  in  England  with  one  exception.  The  edifice  is 
plain  and  substantial  and  void  of  all  architectural  adornments. 


80  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 

It  was  built  in  1675  by  the  liberality  of  Friends  at  Sedbergh 
and  the  neighbourhood.  At  that  time  it  consisted  of  four  bare 
walls  and  a  roof  of  timber,  laths,  and  slate.  On  account  of 
this  unfinished  state  at  the  approach  of  winter  the  openings  in 
the  slates  had  to  be  stopped  with  moss  to  keep  out  wind,  rain, 
and  snow.  Modern  places  of  worship  after  this  model  would 
have  caused  a  sad  falling  off  of  worshippers  during  severe 
winters.  For  thirty-six  years  Friends  met  in  this  uncomfort- 
able building,  and  still  they  increased  and  became  so  numerous 
that  in  1711  it  was  considered  necessary  to  put  up  a  gallery. 

The  Friends  met  in  council  to  devise  means  for  defraying 
the  cost  of  this  addition  to  the  meeting  house.  Those  Friends 
who  had  timber  on  their  estates  were  requested  to  contribute  a 
sufficient  quantity  of  oak  for  the  erection  of  a  gallery,  and  those 
who  had  none  to  cart  it  to  the  place  free  of  cost.  After  the 
timber  had  been  carted  to  the  place,  a  meeting  was  held  for  the 
purpose  of  selecting  a  joiner  to  do  the  work.  A  deputation  was 
appointed  to  see  a  person  named  John  Gopeland,  who  made  a 
bargain  to  put  up  the  gallery  for  £5.  A  similar  piece  of  work 
at  the  present  day  would  cost  nearer  £50.    Shortly  after  the 

SUery  had  been  completed  other  improvements,  such  as  under- 
awing  the  roof  and  fixing  backs  to  the  seats,  were  made.  In 
connection  with  Brig  Flat  meeting  house  there  is  an  old  burial 
ground  which  is  nearly  full  of  the  graves  of  the  dead.  In  the 
17th  century  the  burials  in  this  old  graveyard  were  very 
numerous.  There  is  a  stone  in  one  of  the  walls  dated  1712. 
At  the  meeting  house  there  is  a  library  of  ancient  and  modern 
books  chiefly  of  Friends'  literature.  The  times  of  religious 
worship  are  weekly  on  the  mornings  of  First  and  Fifth  days. 

Though  Brig  Flat  Meeting-house  was  built  in  1675  the  intro- 
duction of  Quakerism  into  the  neighbourhood  was  at  a  much 
earlier  date.  In  1652  George  Fox  ascended  Pendle  Hill  from 
the  top  of  which  the  Lord  let  him  see  at  what  place  he  had  a 
great  people  to  be  gathered.  At  night  he  stayed  at  a  neigh- 
bouring Inn  where  he  felt  he  had  a  call  from  the  Lord  to  visit 
Wensleydale  and  Sedbergh.  Major  Bousfield,  who  lived  in  the 
neighbourhood  of  Sedbergh,  received  him  in  his  house  and 
treated  him  kindly.  Richard  Robinson  and  Justice  Benson 
opened  their  houses  for  meetings  which,  in  spite  of  cruel  perse- 
cutors, were  crowded  with  anxious  hearers.  Through  George 
Fox's  ministry  numerous  persons  were  convinced  of  the  truth 
and  a  large  meeting  of  Friends  was  gathered  at  Sedbergh. 
Happening  to  be  at  Sedbergh  during  the  time  a  great  fair  was 
held,  and  when  many  servants  were  there  for  hiring,  he  opened 
his  mission  in  the  street  and  declared  unto  the  listening  crowds 
the  day  of  the  Lord.  Afterwards  he  went  into  what  he  called 
the  steeple  house  yard  where  he  was  followed  by  many  of  the 
fair  people.  There  were  many  priests  and  professors  of  religion 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES.  81 

present.  Though  George  Fox  did  not  fail  to  deliver  his  mes- 
sage with  great  plainness  and  earnestness  he  had  upon  the 
whole  an  attentive  hearing.  A  captain  said,  "  Why  will  you 
not  go  into  the  church  ?  This  is  not  a  fit  place  to  preach  in." 
One  Francis  Howgill,  who  was  a  preacher  to  a  congregation, 
stood  by  him  and  said,  "  This  man  speaks  with  authority  and 
not  as  scribes."  One  of  the  priests  who  had  been  rather  too 
plainly  dealt  with,  said,  "  You  are  mad,"  and  then  went  away. 
A  Captain  Ward  on  this  occasion  embraced  the  truth,  and 
proved  his  sincerity  by  living  and  dying  in  it.  Francis  How- 
gill,  who  became  a  Friend  of  sterling  integrity  and  blameless 
life,  was  tried  in  1664  at  Appleby  Assizes  before  Judge  Turner 
for  refusing  to  swear  when  the  oath  of  allegiance  was  tendered 
to  him.  For  this  refusal  he  was  put  out  of  the  King's  protec- 
tion and  the  benefit  of  the  law.  His  land  was  confiscated  to 
the  King  and  his  goods  and  chattels  seized,  and  he  was  to  be 
a  prisoner  for  life.  After  suffering  in  prison  for  four  years  and 
eleven  months  he  "  sweetly  finished  his  course  in  much  peace 
with  the  Lord." 

The  day  after  Oeorge  Fox  held  his  meeting  in  Sedbergh 
Churchyard  he  went  to  Firbank  Chapel  on  the  north-west  side 
of  the  Lune,  and  not  very  far  from  Brig  Flat.  About  1000 
persons  gathered  together  to  hear  him  and  he  spoke  to  them 
for  the  space  of  three  hours.  It  is  a  question  whether  the  most 
popular  preacher  in  England  at  the  present  time  could  draw 
1000  persons  to  hear  him  in  a  neighbourhood  so  sparsely  popu- 
lated as  Firbank.  In  1668  George  Fox  again  visited  Sedbergh. 
At  that  time  there  was  a  large  meeting  and  a  precious  people. 
While  he  was  holding  a  meeting  at  John  Blakeling's,  Sedbergh, 
he  escaped  some  constables,  who  expected  to  find  him  at  a 
meeting  which  was  being  held  on  the  same  day  at  Ann  Audland's 
in  another  part  of  the  neighbourhood.  In  1674  Oeorge  Fox  was 
at  Thomas  Cam's  at  Cams-gill,  when  John  Blakeling,  of  Dran- 
well,  Sedbergh,  brought  him  to  his  house  where  he  stayed  for 
two  or  three  nights.  On  the  First  day  following  there  was  a 
large  meeting  at  Brig  Flat.  Friends  came  from  the  several 
meetings  round  about  so  that  there  was  a  concourse  of  500  or 
600  people.  This  appears  to  be  the  last  visit  George  Fox  paid 
to  Sedbergh. 

It  was  not  long  after  the  introduction  of  Quakerism  to  Sed- 
bergh before  the  believers  in  George  Fox's  teachings  had  to 
pay  dearly  in  goods  and  imprisonments  for  their  faith.  In 
1661,  Bichard  Bobinson,  of  Sedbergh,  for  a  church  rate  of  8d., 
was  deprived  of  goods  worth  £1  10s.,  and  John  Blakeling  for  a 
rate  of  £1  10s.  was  deprived  of  goods  worth  £&.  At  a  meeting 
at  Thomas  Taylor's  house,  Sedbergh,  in  1662,  fifty  persons 
were  taken  by  constables  and  retained  in  their  custody  until 
ordered  by  the  justices  to  appear  at  the  Sessions.    Out  of  that 


82         YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

number  twenty  of  them  were  committed  to  York  Castle. 
Whether  they  were  sinners  abdve  the  liberated  ones  or  not, 
their  names  are  worthy  of  being  recorded:  John  Blakeling, 
Bichard  Robinson,  James  Gray,  Edward  Atkinson,  John  Lang- 
ton,  Thomas  Greenwood,  William  Baines,  John  Hodgson,  John 
Holme,  Bichard  Walker,  Christopher  Walker,  Bichard  Harrison, 
Bichard  Speight,  John  Croft,  Joshua  Nelson,  William  Golding, 
F.  Blakeling,  Edward  Branthwaite,  Joseph  Baines,  and  Bichard 
Stones.  In  1668,  for  church  rates,  goods  worth  £1  6s.  were 
taken  from  John  Langton,  John  Thompson,  and  Edward  At- 
kinson, of  Sedbergh,  and  goods  worth  £3  from  Thomas  Winn 
and  Bichard  Wilson,  of  Grisedale.  In  1671  various  fines  were 
inflicted  upon  the  following  persons  by  Justice  Henry  Wilson, 
of  Eirby  Lonsdale,  for  attending  meetiugs  at  Sedbergh.  Bichard 
Walker  and  his  sister  Margaret,  of  Middle  ton,  were  fined  £1, 
James  Corney  and  Bichard  Parrott,  of  Eillington,  eaoh  15s., 
Joseph  Baines  and  Margaret  Walker,  of  Eillington,  £1  15s., 
Bobert  Atkinson  and  John  Thirnbeck,  of  Middleton,  £1  5s., 
Miles  Walker  of  the  same  place,  5s. ;  and  James  Corney  and 
John  Thirnbeck,  the  second  time,  £2  15s.  In  1682  George 
and  Anthony  Mason,  of  Dent,  and  John  Dent  and  James  Dick- 
inson, of  Sedbergh,  for  non-attendance  at  the  Parish  Church, 
had  cattle  taken  from  them  worth  £51.  In  1685  Edmund  At- 
kinson, Francis  Blakeling  and  James  Thomson  were  committed 
to  prison  for  tithes  at  the  suit  of  Bichard  Trotter  and  Anthony 
Fawcett,  farmers  of  the  tithes  of  the  rectory  of  Sedbergh. 
James  Thompson  died  in  prison.  These  are  honoured  names 
of  men  who  valued  religious  freedom  more  than  earthly  good 
or  even  life  itself.  Though  in  some  things  we  from  them  may 
differ,  still  they  were  noble  men  for  their  times,  and  honoured 
indeed  are  they  who  have  sprung  from  such  a  godly  race. 

L.G. 

Yobk  Cattle  Faib. — The  24th  part  of  Patents  in  the  thirty- 
second  year  of  the  Beign  of  Queen  Elizabeth. 
The  Queen,  to  all  to  whom  Ac,  greeting. 

Whereas  our  well  beloved  the  Mayor  and  Aldermen  of  our 
city  of  York  have  represented  unto  us  that  by  reason  of  the  dis- 
tance of  the  Fairs  and  Markets  appointed  for  the  buying  and 
selling  Cattle  from  the  City  of  York  the  Citizens  of  the  said 
City  are  compelled  to  make  inconvenient  journeys  to  procure 
such  things  as  are  necessary  for  their  food  And  also  the  Farm- 
ers there  in  driving  their  beasts  to  such  distant  Fairs  are  very 
much  fatigued— 

We  willing  to  Lighten  such  inconveniences  and  to  provide 
them  with  more  convenient  marketting  of  our  especial  grace 
and  of  our  certain  knowledge  and  mere  motion  for  us  our  heirs 
and  Successors  Do  grant  by  these  presents  to  the  aforesaid 
Mayor  and  Commonalty  of  the  city  of  York  aforesaid  and  their 


YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES,         S3 

successors  that  they  from  henceforth  for  ever  may  have,  hold, 
and  keep  in  the  City  aforesaid,  or  the  Suburbs  of  the  same, 
yearly  for  ever  on  every  Thursday  next  before  the  Sixth  Sunday 
in  Lent,  commonly  called  Palm  Sunday,  one  fair  and  Market 
for  selling  and  buying  sheep  horses  and;  other  cattle  and  beasts, 
and  that  moreover  on  every  second  Thursday  yearly  between 
the  aforesaid  Sunday  commonly  called  Palm  Sunday  and  the 
feast  of  the  birth  of  our  Lord  then  next  following,  the  same 
Mayor  and  Commonalty  of  the  City  of  York  aforesaid,  and  their 
successors,  may  have  hold  and  keep  and  may  and  shall  be  able 
to  have  hold  and  keep  from  henceforth  for  ever  a  like  Fair  and 
Market  for  selling  and  buying  Sheep,  Horses  and  other  Cattle 
and  beasts  within  the  City  aforesaid  or  the  Suburbs  thereof, 
together  with  a  Court  of  Piepowder  there  to  be  holden  at  the 
time  of  the  same  fairs  and  markets.  And  together  with  all 
Liberties  and  Free  Customs  to  such  Court  appertaining  so 
nevertheless  that  the  Fairs  or  Markets  aforesaid,  be  not  to  the 
injury  of  other  neighbouring  Fairs  and  Markets.  And  that  the 
said  Mayor  and  Commonalty  of  the  City  aforesaid  and  their 
successors  from  henceforth  for  ever  may  have  and  receive  and 
may  and  shall  be  able  to  have  and  receive  within  the  Fairs  and 
Markets  aforesaid  from  every  Buyer  of  Beasts  and  Cattle  within 
the  said  Markets  or  Fairs  the  tolls  following  and  no  other, 
(that  is  to  say)  for  every  Horse  or  Gelding  to  be  hereafter 
bought  in  the  said  Fairs  or  Markets  one  penny — For  every 
Mare  with  a  foal  one  penny,  for  a  Mare  alone  one  penny,  for 
an  ox  or  cow  with  a  Calf  or  without  a  Calf  one  halfpenny  for 
two  heifers  of  the  age  of  two  years  or  less  one  halfpenny,  for 
every  ten  sheep  one  halfpenny,  for  five  ewes  with  their  lambs 
one  halfpenny,  for  every  ten  lambs  one  farthing,  together  with 
the  stallage  piccages  fines  Amerciaments  and  all  other  profits 
Commodities  and  Emoluments  whatsoever  in  the  said  fairs  and 
Markets  and  Court  of  Pie  Powder  coming  happening  arising  or 
growing  And  with  all  liberties  and  free  customs  to  such  Fairs 
and  Markets  appertaining  or  belonging.  And  that  at  the  time 
of  the  fairs  and  Markets  aforesaid  and  every  of  them  the  Mayor 
and  Aldermen  of  the  City  afsd.  for  the  time  being  shall  receive 
and  collect  by  themselves  or  by  their  deputy  or  deputies  the 
Tolls  afsd.  to  the  use  of  the  City  afsd.  for  all  and  other  manner 
of  Beast  and  Cattle  hereafter  to  be  sold  within  the  Fairs  and 
Markets  aforesaid  from  the  Buyers  of  the  same  Beasts  or 
Cattle  without  impeachment  of  us  our  heirs  and  successors  or 
others  whomsoever. 

Whereas  also  by  the  faithful  Report  of  the  said  Mayor  and 
Aldermen  we  have  been  informed  that  our  said  city  is  very 
much  endangered  by  occasion  of  too  many  Maltkilns  kept 
within  the  same  City  everywhere  dispersed  in  the  best  places 

Y.N.Q.  D 


84         YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

thereof,  also  the  same  city  is  rendered  subject  to  Fires  and 
Conflagrations,  and  also  on  account  of  the  immense  quantity  of 
wood  and  Fuel  in  such  Business  consumed  a  great  want  and 
scarcity  of  wood  &  Fuel  has  arisen  and  daily  seems  very  likely 
to  increase  more  and  more,  We  being  willing  to  obviate  which 
said  inconveniences  and  dangers,  of  our  Especial  grace  and  of 
our  certain  knowledge  &  mere  motion,  will  ordain  and  for  us 
our  heirs  and  successors  by  these  presents  Do  grant  to  the 
aforesaid  Mayor  and  Commonalty  of  the  City  of  York  aforesaid 
and  their  Successors  that  hereafter  there  may  and  shall  be 
within  the  City  aforesaid  and  the  suburbs  thereof  so  many 
Maltkilns  as  to  the  Mayor  Aldermen  &  Sheriffe  of  our  said  City 
of  York  for  the  time  being  and  to  such  persons  who  heretofore 
have  been  or  hereafter  shall  be  sheriffs  of  the  same  City  after 
they  may  or  shall  have  quitted  the  office  of  Sheriff  of  that  City, 
as  to  the  greater  number  of  them  according  to  their  prudence 
and  sound  discretions,  shall  seem  convenient  necessary  and  re- 
quisite, to  be  disposed  in  places  fit  and  least  dangerous  and  that 
the  same  Mayor  Aldermen  and  Sheriffs  of  the  City  aforesaid 
and  all  those  who  have  been  or  hereafter  shall  be  sheriffs  of  the 
same  City  after  they  may  or  shall  have  quitted  the  office  of 
Sheriff  or  the  greater  part  of  them  may  or  shall  have  from 
henceforth  for  ever  full  power  and  authority  from  time  to  time 
to  suppress  put  down  for  ever  all  and  singular  other  Maltkilns 
except  those  which  shall  be  approved  of  and  appointed  by  them 
And  if  it  shall  happen  hereafter  that  any  possessors  and  owners 
of  the  said  Maltkilns  by  them  so  as  aforesaid  to  be  approved  of 
and  appointed  shall  desert  and  neglect  the  exercise  and  use 
thereof  or  transfer  and  convert  the  buildings  applied  to  such 
business  to  any  other  use  Then  We  will  and  grant  by  these 
presents  that  the  sd  Mayor  Aldermen  &  Sheriffs  of  the  City 
afsd.  for  the  time  being  and  all  those  who  have  been  or  here- 
after shall  be  sheriffs  of  the  said  City  after  they  may  or  shall 
have  quitted  the  office  of  sheriff  or  the  greater  part  of  them 
shall  and  may  be  able  from  time  to  time  for  ever  to  appoint 
assign  and  constitute  other  buildings  fit  for  such  business  and 
other  Exercisers  of  the  work  afsd.  within  the  City  aforesaid 
the  suburbs  and  precincts  of  the  same  to  fill  up  such  number  of 
the  said  Kilns  as  to  them  shall  seem  necessary  and  requisite. 
And  Further  of  our  more  abundant  grace  We  Will  and  for  u» 
our  heirs  and  successors  Do  grant  to  the  aforesaid  Mayor  and 
Commonalty  of  the  City  of  York  aforesaid  and  their  successors 
that  the  Mayor  Aldermen  and  Sheriffs  of  the  City  afsd.  for  the 
time  being  and  all  those  who  have  been  or  hereafter  shall  be 
Sheriffs  of  the  said  City  after  they  may  or  shall  have  quitted 
the  office  of  Sheriff  or  the  Major  part  of  them  met  together  and 
assembled  may  and  from  henceforth  for  ever  shall  have  full 
authority  power  and  faculty  of  framing  constituting  ordaining 


YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES.         86 

and  establishing  such  reasonable  Laws  ordinances  and  consti- 
tutions as  to  them  or  the  Major  part  of  them  shall  according  to 
their  sound  discretions  seem  good  wholesome  useful  honest  and 
necessary  for  the  good  Rule  and  government  as  well  of  the 
aforesaid  Maltkilns  and  the  owners  thereof  as  for  the  Rule  and 
Government  of  all  and  singular  the  Citizens  inhabitants  and 
Besiants  of  the  City  aforesaid  or  the  Suburbs  and  Precincts 
thereof  And  that  the  Mayor  aldermen  and  sheriffs  of  the  City 
aforesaid  for  the  time  being  and  all  those  who  have  been  or 
hereafter  shall  be  sheriffs  of  the  said  City  after  they  shall  or 
may  have  quitted  the  office  of  Sheriff  or  the  Major  part  of  them 
as  often  as  they  shall  frame  make  ordain  or  establish  such  laws 
institutions  ordinances  and  constitutions  in  form  aforesaid  shall 
and  may  be  able  from  henceforth  for  ever  to  assess  impose  and 
inflict  such  and  the  like  pains  penalties  imprisonments  of  the 
body  fines  and  amerciaments  or  any  of  them  towards  and  upon 
all  delinquents  against  such  Laws  ordinances  and  Constitutions 
or  any  or  either  of  them  as  and  which  to  the  same  Mayor 
Aldermen  and  Sheriffs  of  the  City  aforesaid  for  the  time  being 
and  all  those  who  have  been  or  hereafter  shall  be  sheriffs  of  the 
said  City  after  they  shall  or  may  have  quitted  the  office  of 
Sheriff  or  to  the  major  part  of  them  shall  seem  necessary  and 
requisite  for  the  observance  of  the  aforesaid  Laws  ordinances 
and  Constitutions  And  that  the  said  Mayor  and  Commonalty 
and  their  Successors  shall  and  may  be  able  to  levy  retain  and 
have  those  Penalties  fines  and  amerciaments  from  time  to  time 
by  themselves  or  by  their  officers  by  distress  or  by  any  other 
lawful  means  to  them  and  their  successors  for  ever  to  the  use 
of  the  City  aforesaid  without  the  impeachment  of  us  our  heirs 
and  successors  or  of  either  or  any  of  the  officers  or  ministers  of 
us  our  heirs  and  successors  whatsoever,  all  and  singular  which 
Laws  ordinances  and  constitutions  so  as  aforesaid  to  be  here- 
after made  We  will  and  by  these  Present  firmly  enjoining  do 
command  to  be  observed  under  the  pains  to  be  contained  in  the 
same  so  that  such  Laws  ordinances  Institutions  and  Constitutions 
be  not  repugnant  nor  contrary  to  the  Laws  &  Statutes  of  our 
Kingdom  of  England.  Altho  Express  mention  &c.  In  Witness 
whereof  &c 

Witness  the  Queen  at  Westminster  the  29th  day  of  June. 
By  writ  of  Privy  Seal  &c.    82  Eliz. 


7Chas.  L     19  July,  1682. 

11  We  have  willed  and  ordained  constituted  declared 'granted 
and  confirmed  and  by  these  presents  for  us  our  heirs  and  suc- 
cessors we  will  &  ordain  constitute  declare  grant  and  confirm 
to  the  aforesaid  Mayor  &  Commonalty  of  the  City  of  York  afsd. 
and  their  successors  for  ever  all  and  all  manner  of  such  like 


86         YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

Franchise  liberties  faculties  powers  authorities  annuities  exemp- 
tions privileges  fines  issues  forfeitures  Amerciaments  before  our 
justices  of  the  peace  within  the  Liberty  of  the  City  aforesaid 
and  the  suburbs  and  County  of  the  said  City.  Emerging  hap- 
pening  or  proceeding  to  be  levied  and  received  by  their  own 
proper  officers  as  in  prior  charters  is  contained.  And  also  the 
profits  commodities  advantages  exemptions  cognizance  of  Pleas 
Jurisdiction  Manors  Messuages  Lands  tenements  wastes  vacan- 
cies Farms  Common  feasts  fairs  &  markets  Courts  of  pie  powder 
with  all  the  liberties  and  free  customs  to  the  same  Court 
belonging  or  appertaining  as  also  the  Tolls  Stallage  pickages 
and  Emoluments  and  Hereds.  whatsoe'r  or  of  what  kind  or  sort 
so  ever  heretofore  given  or  granted  or  mentioned  to  be  given  or 
granted  to  the  Mayor  Aldermen  or  Commonalty  of  the  City  of 
York  aforesaid  or  to  the  Citizens  and  Inhabitants  of  the  said 
city  by  whatever  name  or  names  by  means  any  Charter  or 
letters  patent  of  the  aforesaid  King  James  late  King  of  England 
our  father  or  any  other  of  our  progenitors  or  predecessors  late 
Kings  or  Queens  of  England  or  any  of  them  in  whatsoever 
manner  granted  &c. 

84  Charles  2nd 

5  July  1688. 
Inspeximus  Charter  of  5  July  19.  R.  II. 

But  we  are  led  to  exemplify  by  these  present  the  tenor  of  the 
premises  aforesaid  at  the  request  of  the  present  Mayor  and 
Commonalty  of  our  said  City  of  York    In  Witness  &c. 

84  Charles  2. 
5  July  1688. 

Inspeximus  &  Exemplification  of  Charter  11  Feb.  of  27th 
Hen  6. 

16  Charles  II,  8  June  1666.    York. 

"  Sicut  in  prioribus  cartes  continetin,  neo  non  proficua 
commoditales  advantagia  quietantias  cognitiones  placitorum 
jurisdictiones  maneria  messuagia  unas  tenementa  vasta  vacua 
funda  comminas  ferias  nundinas  mercata  curiam  pedum  pulver- 
izator :  cum  omnibus  libertatibus  ac  liberis  consuetudinibus  ad 
hujusmodi  curiam  pertinentibus  sura  spectant:  nee  non  [tolls] 
stallagia  piccagia  ac  emolumenta  et  hereditamenta  quecumque 
cujus  &c.     .     . 

6  Eliz.  York. 
Whereas  besides  the  same  Citizens  have,  and  they  &  their  heirs 
and  predecessors  aforesaid  hitherto  have  had,  in  the  absence  of 
us  and  our  progenitors  afsd.,  the  Assize  of  Bread  &  Beer  the 
Keeping  and  Assay  of  measures  and  weights  and  all  other  things 
belonging  to  the  office  of  the  Market  in  the  City  and  Suburbs 
aforesaid  We  grant  to  them  and  by  this  Charter  of  ours  we 
have  confirmed  for  us  and  our  heirs  that  they  and  their  heirs 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES.  87 

and  successors  afsd.  hereafter  in  the  presence  of  us  and  our 
heirs  do  and  Exercise  for  ever  the  Assize  of  Bread  &  Beer  the 
Keeping  and  Assay  of  Measures  and  Weights  and  all  other 
tilings  whatsoever  belonging  to  the  office  of  the  Market  in  the 
City  of  York  and  Suburbs  of  the  same,  and  the  transgressors  of 
the  said  Assize  of  Bread  &  Beer  in  due  manner  punish,  and  the 
defects  of  measures  weights  and  other  things  belonging  to  the 
said  office  of  the  Market  correct  and  amend  so  that  the  Clerk 
of  the  Market  or  any  minister  of  us  or'  our  heirs  shall  not 
enter  the  said  City  of  York  or  Suburbs  of  the  same  to  do  and 
perform  in  the  same  any  of  those  things  which  belong  to  the 
said  office  of  Clerk  of  the  Market  and  also  that  all  profits  thence 
arising  be  always  the  said  Citizens  their  heirs  and  successors 
afsd.  in  aid  of  the  farm  of  their  city  above  mentioned.  Save  &c. 

Quod  ipsi  etc.  imppm.  treant  teneant  &  custodiant  ac  here. 
tenere.  et  custodere  possint  et  Valeant  in  Civitate  pr  dca.  aut 
surburbiis  ejusdem  annuatim  imppm.  qualibet  die  jo  vis  p'x  ante 
sextum  diem  dnicam  in  Quadragesima  vulgarites  Vocat  Palme 
Sondaye  unam  Feriam  et  Nundin  p.  ovibus  eqius  aliisque  Cattallis 
et  Pecudibus  vendend.  et  emend.     Qdque  in  sup  quit  sexto  die  Jovis. 

[We  have  given  our  readers  a  specimen  or  two  here  of  old, 
unpunctuated,  tautological  law  records  from  the  MSS.  of  the 
late  Fairless  Barber,  Esq.] 

o 

Batley  Grammas  School. — Novel  way  of  Electing  a  Master. 
After  the  death  in  1831  of  Mr.  Sedgwick,  the  late  Master  of  the 
Batley  Grammar  School,  the  Trustees  advertised  for  another 
Master,  and  arranged  with  the  Bev.  Martin  Joseph  Naylor, 
D.D.,  Master  of  the  Wakefield  Grammar  School,  and  Robert 
Hall,  Esq.,  A.M.,  of  Leeds,  Barrister,  to  be  present  on  the  day 
of  appointment  to  examine  the  candidates  as  to  their  fitness  for 
the  mastership.  A  meeting  was  fixed  for  the  18th  of  January, 
1882,  when  the  following  report  was  delivered  by  the  Examiners 
to  the  Trustees  and  Churchwardens. 

44  To  the  Trustees  of  Batley  Grammar  School. 
Gentlemen, 

In  execution  of  the  duty  undertaken  by  us,  at  your  request, 
we  have  this  day  subjected  the  candidates  for  the  Head  Master- 
ship of  Batley  Grammar  School  to  a  General  Examination  in 
the  Latin  and  Greek  Languages.  It  appears  to  us  on  the  result 
of  our  examination,  Mr.  Senior  and  Mr.  Bichardson  are 
decidedly  superior  to  the  other  candidates,  and  though  not  so 
perfect  as  might  be  desirable,  yet,  with  the  requisite  attention 
to  their  own  improvement  they  will  be  competent  to  fulfil  the 
purposes  of  the  Foundation.  Next  to  them,  but  at  a  very  con- 
siderable interval,  we  place  Mr.  Elgood  and  Mr.  Briggs. 

M.  J.  Naylor,  D.D. 
Batley,  January  18th,  1882.  Kobebt  Hall,  M.A. 


88  YORKSHIRE?    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 

The  following  is  from  the  Trustees*  Minute  Book : 

"  Batley,  February  18th,  1882,  Monday. 

The  Trustees  of  the  School  in  pursuance  of  the  Investigation 
and  decision  laid  before  them  by  the  Examiners  of  the  Candi- 
dates, having  resolved  at' the  conclusion  of  their  last  meeting  to 
take  time  for  enquiring  also  into  the  personal  character  of  the 
two  gentlemen  whose  superiority  in  literary  qualifications  were 
attested  and  pointed  out  to  them,  and  enquiries  having  been 
made,  and  Testimonials  received  in  consequence,  respecting 
their  moral  estimation,  and  also  respecting  their  fitness  in  point 
of  patient  and  suitable  aptness  for  teaching  Scholars  and  for 
their  ability  and  capaoity  as  to  being  able  to  impart  and  com- 
municate to  Pupils  that  learning  and  knowledge  which  they 
themselves  were  deemed  by  the  Examiners  to  possess,  came 
this  day  at  a  meeting  at  Charles  Ward's  to  the  determination 
that  the  two  Candidates,  Mr.  Joseph  Senior  and  Mr.  George 
Bichardson,  were  so  equally  poized  in  reputed  desert,  and  merit, 
that  they  could  not  decide  or  distinguish  to  whom  the  preference 
was  justly  and  fairly  due.  They  therefore  resolved  to  leave 
that  decision  to  the  drawing  of  Lots,  and  to  choose  by  Ballot, 
which  of  the  Candidates  should  be  conditionally  elected  to  the 
Mastership  of  the  School,  and  into  possession  of  the  House  and 
Premises  connected  therewith.  The  names  of  these  two  Candi- 
dates were  accordingly  each  written  on  six  different  small 
pieces  of  paper,  making  together  twelve  lots,  six  for  each,  and 
all  being  put  into  a  Hat,  six  Lots  were  drawn  out  by  the  four 
Trustees,  and  the  two  Churchwardens  present,  four  of  which 
Lots  contained  the  name  of  Mr.  Senior,  and  two  the  name  of 
Mr.  Richardson,  upon  which  result  Mr.  Senior  was  declared 
fairly,  and  duly  elected  on  conditions  that  will  appear  in  future 
proceedings.  Present, 


Luke  Blakeley, 
Morris, 


Churchwardens. 
Batley.  Lucy  F.  Dyson. 


The  Rev.  W.  M.  Heald, 
Norrison  Scatcherd,  Esq., 
Mr.  John  Nussey, 
Mr.  Ab :  Greenwood, 

Trustees." 


YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES.         89 

Jin  ©l&  Unrksbtmnan's  lournaL 

Mr.  George  Roberts,  Lofthouse,  contributes  extracts  from  the 
MS.  journal  of  John  Berry,  who  was,  early  in  the  century, 
magistrates'  clerk  at  Wakefield.  Reprinted  with  additions,  from 
the  Merctay  Suffllement,  by  Mr.  Roberts'  leave. 

Act  for  paving  Wakefield  streets  passed,  1771. 

Act  for  lighting  and  paving  in  Wakefield,  1796. 

Wakefield  Enclosure  Act  passed,  1798. 

Thatched  public-house,  at  Kirkthorpe,  near  Wakefield,  occu- 
pied by  Mr.  Billinton,  burnt  down  by  a  flash  of  lightning,  July 
25th,  1800. 

On  May  29th,  1799,  I  went  to  be  clerk  with  Mr.  Scholefield, 
of  Horbury,  and  remained  there  till  23rd  of  October,  1808, 
when  I  left ;  and  on  ye  81st  of  that  month  I  went  to  Mr.  Daw- 
son's, of  Wakefield. 

An  evening  lecture  established  at  the  parish  church  of 
Wakefield,  and  the  first  lecture  given  by  the  Rev.  Thos.  Rogers 
(then  master  of  the  Free  Grammar  School),  on  the  26th  of 
July,  1801. 

First  newspaper  at  Wakefield,  called  Wakefield  Star,  was 
published  4th  November,  1808,  by  Stuart  Arnold. 

March  18th,  1800. — Richard  Linnecar,  a  coroner  at  Wakefield 
died.  He  was  succeeded  by  Edward  Brook,  an  attorney,  who 
died  18th  of  September,  1825,  and  he  was  succeeded  by  Thomas 
Lee,  a  young  attorney  at  Wakefield. 

August  1st,  1800. — Granville  Wm.  Wheeler  Medhurst,  Esq., 
of  Kippax  Hall,  tried  at  York,  before  Baron  Graham,  for  the 
murder  of  his  wife,  and  acquitted,  being  declared  insane. 

September  20th,  1802. — Hops  rose  from  £4  to  J616  per  cwt.> 
all  at  a  stroke. 

March  14th,  1808. — John  Terry  and  Joseph  Heald,  two  young 
men  from  Alverthorpe,  near  Wakefield,  were  hanged  &t  York 
for  the  brutal  murder  of  widow  Smith,  at  Flanshaw.  She  was 
buried  at  the  west  end  of  the  Unitarian  Chapel  in  Wakefield, 
and  a  stone  placed  over  her,  on  which  were  carved  the  imple- 
ments used  in  the  murder. 

January  17th,  1806. — A  lunar  rainbow  appeared  at  Wakefield 
from  half-past  nine  till  half-past  ten. 

July  7th  1806.— Otley  fortnight  fair  first  held. 

1810.— At  the  Exeter  Lent  Assizes,  Wm.  Gourd  and  Wm. 
Rose  (two  children  11  years  old  each)  were  sentenced  to  death 
for  stealing  a  few  hanks  of  thread. 

May  28rd,  1811. — I  was  admitted  a  member  of  the  Hon. 
Society  of  Gray's  Inn. 

At  the  York  Summer  Assizes,  1811,  James  Thackrah,  a 
6oldier,  was  convicted  of  perjury  respecting  the  enlistment  of  a 
recruit  at  Bewsbury,  and  transported  for  seven  years. 


40         YORKSHIKE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

William  Burrell,  of  Wakefield,  was  drowned  at  Kirktborp  dam 
while  hunting,  Feb.  6th,  1810. 

Rev.  Eichard  Monkbouse,  Vicar  of  Wakefield,  D.D.,  died 
January  20th,  1810,  aged  58.  He  was  succeeded  by  the  Rev. 
Samuel  Sharp,  bis  curate. 

March,  1810.— The  White  Hart  Inn  offered  for  sale.  During 
this  year  Dewsbury  was  made  a  regular  market  town. 

May  17th,  1810. — Francis  Maude,  of  Moor  House,  died,  aged 
78. 

January  10th,  1810. — West  Riding  Sessions  first  held  in  the 
new  court-house  at  Wakefield. 

October,  1810. — One  Ryan,  a  soldier,  killed  in  an  affray  at 
the  Cock  and  Swan  Inn,  at  Wakefield,  for  which  Tom  Shaw, 
deputy-constable,  was  indicted  at  the  following  assizes,  when 
the  grand  jury  ignored  the  bill.  For  particulars  of  the  inquest 
see  Wakefielil  Star  of  Oct.  26th,  1810. 

November  12th,  1810. — A  Mr.  Harper  fitted  and  used  the 
White  Barn,  at  the  top  of  Northgate,  as  a  theatre ;  closed  Dec. 
28th. 

November  28th,  1810.— Wm.  Heald  elected  Clerk  to  the 
Commissioners  of  Wakefield  Streets;  John  Robson  having 
resigned. 

March  1st,  1811. — The  Wakefield  Star  appeared  under  a  new 
title,  the  Wakefield  and  Halifax  Journal. 

Wm.  Shackle  ton,  grocer,  poisoned  himself  at  the  bailiff's 
house,  whilst  under  arrest,  lltb  of  July,  1811. 

Wm.  Hodgson,  a  Leeds  woolsorter,  tried  at  York,  Aug.  3rd, 
1811,  for  a  rape  upon  Hannah  Halliday,  at  Leeds,  for  which  he 
was  hanged. 

September  2nd,  1811. — First  stone  of  Leeds  Court  House 
laid  by  Alexander  Turner,  the  Mayor. 

April,  1812. — The  Wakefield  Harriers  were  advertised  for 
sale,  and  the  Wakefield  Hunt  given  up. 

October  26th,  1812. — The  Leeds  mail  to  London  was  robbed 
near  Kettering,  for  which  Jeffrey  White  and  Richard  Kendall 
were  tried  at  the  Northampton  Summer  Assizes  (1818),  and 
both  hanged. 

Leeds  new  Court  House  opened  for  public  business,  5th 
October,  1818. 

James  Bowling,  formerly  proprietor  and  editor  of  the  Leeds 
Mercury,  which  he  revived  in  1767,  died  April  80th,  1818. 

August  8th,  1818.— Died  Thomas  Fenton,  Esq.,  of  Rothwell 
Haigh,  aged  85. 

In  October  this  year,  1814,  the  Asylum  at  Wakefield  was 
ordered  to  be  built;  and  in  November  the  Wakefield  Bible 
Society  was  established. 

On  the  24th  of  December,  1814,  Joseph  Blackburn  and 
Thomas  Wainwright,  two  attorneys  at  Leeds,  were  committed 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES.  41 

to  York  Castle  for  forging  deed  stamps ;  they  were  tried  at  the 
following  March  Assizes,  and  Blackburn  was  hanged. 

Daring  this  year  local  silver  tokens  were  called  in,  and  there 
was  a  great  noise  about  Johanna  Southcote. 

February  27th,  1815.— William  Hepworth,  a  shoemaker,  did 
penance  in  the  parish  church  for  defaming  the  character  of  an 
old  woman  named  Elizabeth  Blacketer.  They  both  lived  in  the 
Cock-and-Swan  yard,  Wakefield,  and  the  suit  was  carried  on  by 
George  Robinson,  an  attorney,  out  of  spite  to  the  cobbler. 

[In  the  Wakefield  churchwardens'  accounts  between  1780  and 
1760,  **  sheets  "  for  penance  in  church  are  constantly  mentioned. 
In  1850  a  shoemaker  at  Gloucester  was  ordered  to  do  penance 
in  church  for  defaming  the  character  of  a  young  woman,  the 
daughter  of  an  innkeeper.  In  addition  to  the  penance,  he  was 
also  mulcted  in  £12  costs.  Can  any  one  give  later  instances  of 
punishment  by  penance,  and  also  state  how  the  ceremony  was 
performed?  In  Scotland  the  delinquent  had  to  sit  on  a  low 
stool  in  front  of  the  pulpit,  and  after  service,  had  to  stand  on 
the  stool  and  receive  the  minister's  rebuke.] 

A  new  organ  opened  at  Rothwell  Church,  September  15th,  1816 

A  new  peal  of  ten  bells  brought  from  the  Old  Navigation 
Wharf  to  Wakefield  Parish  Church,  November  80th,  1816. 

In  December,  1816,  Captain  Magill  was  elected  Governor  of 
Wakefield  Prison,  in  the  room  of  Strawbenzee.  Magill  was 
carried  by  a  majority  of  one  vote. 

September,  1818. — Mr.  Oddie,  of  Woodlesford,  drowned  at 
Filey. 

July  16th,  1819.— Kean  played  Richard  III.,  in  Wakefield 
Theatre. 

August  18th,  1819.— Matthews  played  at  Wakefield. 

September  7th,  1819,  appeared  the  first  number  of  the  West 
Yorkshire  Gazette,  published  by  Greaves  and  Kemp,  of  Hudders- 
field  and  Barnsley. 

Trial  of  Henry  Hunt  commenced  at  York,  before  Mr.  Justice 
Bayley,  March  16th,  1820,  and  lasted  nine  days. 

March  24,  1820,  appeared  the  first  number  of  the  Wakefield 
Chronicle,  published  by  Rich.  Nichols.  It  only  lived  a  few  weeks. 

First  stone  of  a  new  church  at  Stanley  laid  by  Francis  Maude, 
Esq.,  who  died  the  19th  of  April,  1842. 

November  18th,  1821.— This  morning  (being  Sunday),  Wm. 
Webber,  the  clown  at  a  circus  in  Wood  Street,  was  found  dead 
in  the  area  of  the  south  end  of  the  new  Music  Hall  (then  in 
course  of  construction),  in  Wood  street,  Wakefield. 

May  1st,  1822. — I  took  the  old  Library,  Crown-court,  for 
offices. 

June  20th,  1822.— Godfrey  Wentworth,  of  Woolley  Park, 
married  his  cousin,  Miss  Fawkes,  of  Farnley  Hall,  who  died 
9th  July,  1842. 


42  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 

April  3rd,  1822. — Wakefield  Gas  Company's  Act  passed,  and 
the  town  first  lighted  with  gas  81st  January,  1828. 

April  12th,  1823. — James  Ramsden  and  Robert  Gill  hanged 
at  York,  for  breaking  into  the  shop  of  Mr.  Bright,  silversmith, 
at  Doncaster. 

June  28th,  1828.— The  weather-cook  of  Wakefield  Parish 
Church  taken  down  and  carried  through  the  street,  accompanied 
by  a  band  of  music. 

June  15th,  1828.— James  Bigmore,  the  American  pedestrian, 
ran  ten  miles  in  fifty-seven  minutes,  upon  Westgate  Common. 

March  28th,  1824.— John  Carr,  of  Horbury,  formerly  an 
attorney  at  Wakefield,  died,  aged  61. 

June  1st,  1824. — John  Berry  (writer  hereof)  admitted  a  soli- 
citor of  the  High  Court  of  Chancery. 

February  19th,  1825. — John  Travis  Thompson  fell  out  of  one 
of  the  attic  windows  at  the  Wool  Packs  Inn,  Wakefield,  in  his 
sleep,  and  was  killed. 

Leeds  (Haigh  Park)  races  were  run,  the  first  time  in  June, 
1825,  and  the  last  time  in  1829. 

July  23rd,  1825. — Appeared  the  first  number  of  the  Bradford 
and  Wakefield  Chronicle,— Stansfeld  and  Son. 

No  drought  equal  to  that  of  the  present  year  (182G)  in  this 
country  since  1762,  in  which  year  there  was  no  rain  from  the 
3rd  of  May  to  the  19th  of  July. 

November,  1827. — A  day  coach,  called  The  Tradesmen,  driven 
by  a  drunken  fellow  named  Dick  Bather,  was  returning  from 
Wakefield  to  Leeds,  and  upset  going  down  Bell-hill,  at  Roth  well 
Haigh,  owing  to  the  fault  of  the  driver,  and  several  passengers 
were  severely  injured.  Mr.  Cope,  an  artist,  of  Leeds,  was  killed. 

February  8rd,  1829.— Celebration  of  Bishop  Blaize  at  Wake- 
field. 

November  14th,  1829.— Madam  Yestris  played  at  Wakefield. 

Lord  Wharncliffe  burnt  in  effigy  at  Wakefield  for  voting 
against  the  Reform  Bill  in  ye  Lords,  Ootober  6th,  1881. 

March  10th,  1882.— Petty  Sessions  first  held  at  Dewsbury. 

June  24th,  1882.— A  poor  man  in  New  street  died  of  ye 
cholera,  and  another  in  ye  House  of  Correction. 

July  4th  and  5th,  1882.— Wakefield  Fair  held  at  the  bottom 
of  Westgate,  and  Bradford  Sessions  held  at  Wakefield,  owing 
to  the  Cholera  in  the  House  of  Correction. 

July  9th,  1882.— John  Wood,  of  Blacker  Hall,  married  Sarah 
Coldwell,      ....      a  very  clever  woman. 

October  26th,  1882.— Owing  to  a  dense  fog  this  night  the 
London  mail  from  Leeds  was  an  hour  and  a  half  behind  its 
time  into  Wakefield,  and  Jaok  Upperdale  was  engaged  to  walk 
before  it  with  a  lantern  all  the  way  to  Barnsley. 

[When  opposition  coaches  were  running  between  Leeds  and 
Wakefield,  it  was  a  custom  for  young  men  to  run  in  .front  on 


YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES.         48 

dark  nights,  and  carry  aloft  a  blazing  piece  of  tarred  rope.  Two 
or  three  usually  accompanied  the  coach,  and  relieved  each  other 
by  alternately  riding  and  running.  On  one  occasion  the  man 
with  the  flambeaux  led  the  coach  into  a  ditch ;  but  no  serious 
accident  occurred.] 

June  2nd,  1888. — This  day  three  men  were  dip't  into  the 
river  Calder  near  Dirtcar,  the  Bev.  Mr.  Hattersley  officiating — 
curious  adult  baptism. 

April  25th,  1885. — Wm.  Atkinson,  a  clerk  in  the  Eegister 
office,  was  struck  blind  by  lightning  whilst  looking  out  of  a 
window. 

September,  1885. — The  Duchess  of  Kent  and  her  daughter, 
the  Princess  Victoria,  afterwards  Queen,  visited  York  Festival, 
and  on  tbe  14th  passed  through  Wakefield  on  their  way  from 
Harewood  House  to  Wentworth  House.  They  called  at  Mrs. 
Hargraves*  house  at  Sandal. 

July  81st,  1887.— -Election  riots  at  Wakefield.  Mr.  Carter, 
of  Ossett,  killed,  and  many  people  injured. 

November  8th,  1887. — George  Dyson,  an  attorney  at  Halifax, 
elected  a  Coroner  for  the  West  Biding,  in  place  of  Michael 
Stocks,  resigned. 

November  18th,  1887.— The  first  number  of  the  Xortlieni  Star 
(published  by  Feargus  O'Conner,)  appeared. 

May  24th  1848.— Martha  Kaye,  of  Nether  Thong,  my  aunt, 
died. 

June  24th,  1848. — Thomas  Bish  worth,  formerly  a  banker  at 
Wakefield,  died  at  Hemsworth,  upon  a  small  farm,  in  his  72nd 
year. 

June  25th,  1848.— The  Bev.  G.  C.  Davies,  minister  of  Holy 
Trinity  Church,  preached  his  farewell  sermon.  He  was  the 
first  minister  at  that  church,  esteemed  by  his  congregation,  but 
ill-treated  by  his  brother  clergymen,  and  especially  by  the  Vicar. 

July  1st,  1848. — Zion  Chapel,  Wakefield,  which  was  built  in 
1782,  having  been  pulled  down  in  order  to  be  enlarged,  the 
first  stone  of  the  new  building  was  this  day  laid  by  the  Bev.  J. 
D.  Lorraine. 

September  18th,  1848. — Bichard  Everingham  died,  aged  98. 

May  18th,  1844.— Died,  Sir  John  Lowther,  Bart.,  of  Swil- 
lington  House,  aged  85.  His  widow  died  on  the  19th  (six  days 
after),  aged  77,  and  they  were  both  buried  together  at  Swilling- 
ton  Church. 

On  June  1st,  1844,  two  women  were  attacked  and  worried  by 
a  bear,  kept  in  the  Zoological  Gardens,  in  Back  lane,  Wakefield. 
One  of  them  died  on  the  9th. 

July  9th,  1844.— The  Church  Sunday  Scholars  had  a  cheap 
ride  by  railway  to  York  to  see  the  lions  there.  [Can  any  reader 
of  Notes  and  Queries  give  earlier  instances  than  this  of  "  cheap 
trips  M  from  this  neighbourhood  ?  See  Addenda.] 


44         YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

July  20th,  1844. — First  marriage  celebrated  in  the  Wealeyan 
Chapel,  West-parade,  Wakefield,  the  Rev.  J.  Pitts  officiating. 

July  27th,  1844.— James  Cook  opened  an  extensive  Circus  in 
Wood  street ;  closed  on  September  14th  following. 

August  19th,  1844. — Died  in  the  Wakefield  Poorhouse,  aged 
40,  Henry  Rishworth,  formerly  an  attorney,  and  son  of  Thomas 
Rish worth,  the  banker. 

August  20th,  1844. — Married,  Thomas  Nicholls,  jun.,  book* 
seller,  to  Ann  Gregory,  both  of  Wakefield,  at  the  Unitarian 
Chapel,  this  being  the  first  marriage  solemnised  in  that  building. 

March  21st,  1845.—  Died,  George  Westerman,  aged  84,  the 
oldest  woolstapler  in  Wakefield,  if  not  in  the  West  Riding.  He 
was  buried  inside  Wakefield  Church  on  the  26th. 

July  12th,  1845. — The  Leeds  Mercury  began  to  give  a  supple- 
ment, and  increased  the  price  from  4£d.  to  6d. 

July  12th,  1845. — Bradshaw's  Railway  Gazette  first  published. 

October  3rd,  4th,  and  5th.— The  Wakefield  Troop  of  Cavalry 
on  permanent  duty  at  Wakefield.  On  the  5th  their  captain 
(T.  Taylor)  treated  them  with  a  dinner  at  the  Strafford  Arms. 

October  18th,  1845. — Ben  Dunnill,  late  postman  at  Horbury, 
opened  his  public  house  in  York  street.  There  were  donkey 
races,  and  a  leg  of  mutton  on  a  pole. 

1845. — A  Trial  day  for  the  Manor  of  Wakefield,  there  not 
having  been  one  for  a  long  time — 11  causes  before  George 
Wailes,  Esq. 

Easter  Sunday,  April  22nd,  1848.— The  Chapel  of  Wakefield 
Bridge,  having  been  repaired,  was  this  day  opened  for  divine 
service  as  a  Chapel  of  Ease  for  the  recently  appointed  district 
of  St.  Mary's. 

Feb.  1852. — The  vicarage  of  Wakefield  sequestered  by  the 
West  Riding  Bank,  and  the  Rev.  Samuel  Sharp's  furniture  sold 
by  auction  by  John  Becket. 

July  28rd,  1852.— Wakefield  New  Boro'  Market  opened. 

Addenda  Copied. 
1729,  April  15th.— Mr.  Scott,  Vicar  of  Wakefield,  died. 
1781.— A  great  thunderstorm  that   broke   the  windows  in 
Wakefield  Market  and  tore  one  corner  of  the  Cross  to  pieces. 
1787. — Wakefield  Workhouse  erected. 


A  Cheap  Teip  Fifty  Years  Ago. — With  my  father,  I  went 
from  Leeds  to  Hull  by  a  cheap  trip  on  Good  Friday,  1885. 
The  journey  was  made  from  Leeds  to  Selby  by  railway,  thence 
by  steamer  (the  Adelaide)  to  Hull,  where  we  arrived,  I  think, 
about  two  o'clock.  At  six  we  started  on  the  return  journey, 
getting  to  Leeds  about  midnight.  The  prices  I  do  not  remem- 
ber.—J.  W. 


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Bullhouse,  a  name  familiar  to  the  student  of  Nonconform- 
ist history,  has  recently  acquired  a  publicity  of  a  sad  character 
in  connection  with  the  awful  railway  accident,  which  happened 
on  July  16th,  1884.  The  line  passes  within  a  few  feet  of  the 
Chapel  built  by  Sir  Elkanah  Rich,  and  near  to  Bullhouse  Hall, 
the  residence  for  many  generations  of  the  Eich  family,  of  which 
the  late  Lord  Houghton  was  a  descendant.  Situate  on  the 
easterly  termination  of  an  elevated  ridge  which  stretches  away 
to  the  moors,  the  view  along  the  valley  of  the  Don,  from  its 
source  near  Dunford  Bridge  to  where  the  tower  of  Penistone 
church  stands  conspicuous,  is  varied  and  highly  picturesque. 

In  the  deep  clough  below,  the  village  of  Thurlstone,  birthplace 
of  that  wonderful  genius,  Dr.  Nicholas  Sanderson,  the  blind 
professor  of  mathematics,  occupies  the  sunny  slope ;  further 
along  the  same  hillside  is  Netherfield  Chapel,  where  the  Bev.  W. 
Thorp,  previously  of  Burton -lane-head  Chapel,  and  subsequently 
of  Chester  and  Bristol,  ministered.  In  the  valley,  encircled  by 
a  bend  of  the  river,  stands  Water  Hall,  one  of  the  seats  of  the 
Wordsworth  family,  whose  names  appear  in  transactions  connec- 
ted with  the  parish  as  far  back  as  1585.  On  the  brow  of  the  hill 
opposite  stands  the  fine  old  Parish  church  of  Penistone,  wherein  a 
tablet  records  the  gift  of  £500  by  Samuel  Wordsworth,  merchant 
of  London,  and  one  of  £200  by  Josias  Wordsworth  of  the  same 
place.  The  poet  Wordsworth  and  the  late  Bishop  of  Lincoln 
were  descendants  of  a  collateral  branch  of  the  Wordsworths  of 
Water  Hall. 

Behind  and  above  Penistone  the  moorlands  rise  in  un- 
dulating masses  from  the  Little  Don  to  Derwent  Edge,  an 
elevation  of  nearly  1,800  feet;  to  the  south  of  Bullhouse, 
Hartcliff  with  its  tower,  from  whence  on  a  clear  day  York 
Minster  may  be  seen,  reaches  an  almost  perpendicular  height 
of  1,176  feet.  The  old  coach  road  to  Manchester,  passing 
within  a  stone's-throw  of  the  Chapel,  goes  by  Koad  End,  where 
lived  and  died  "  Billy  Wilson, "  the  celebrated  violinist,  and  so 
on  across  the  moors,  by  Gallows  Moss  to  Saltersbrook,  one  of 
the  highest  inhabited  places  in  the  kingdom. 

Returning  to  Bullhouse  by  the  valley  of  the  Don,  we  pass 
Hazlehead,  the  residence  of  Captain  Adam  Eyre,  who  served 
in  the  Parliamentary  Army  under  Sir  Thomas  Fairfax.  Mr. 
Hinchliffe,  Lord  Houghton's  tenant  at  Bullhouse,  is  owner  of 
the  adjoining  colliery  and  gannister  works.  The  Hall  has 
recently  been  renovated,  and  some  fine  oak  panelling  in  some 
of  the  rooms  has  been  brought  to  light.  The  Chapel  is  a  plain 
and  substantial  stone  edifice,  built,  like  the  tower  of  Penistone 
Church,  of  the  rough  grey  stones,  called  "  earth  fasts,"  gathered 
from  the  surface  of  the  moors. 

JOHN   WOOD. 


46         YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


Bullhouse  Chapel  was  built  soon  after  the  Revolution.  It  is 
about  two  miles  from  Penistone.  Mr.  Sylvanus  Rich,  of 
Bullhouse,  was  buried  December  26th,  1683,  aged  60.  His 
uncle,  Daniel  Rich,  was  buried  October  1,  1679,  aged  76. 
They  were  friends  of  the  Rev.  Oliver  Heywood.  In  1689,  July 
81st,  the  house  of  Mr.  Elkanah  Rich,  called  Benthom,  in 
Pennistone,  was  recorded  at  the  Sessions  as  a  place  of  worship 
for  protestant  dissenters,  at  the  request  of  Francis  Haigh  and 
Isaack  Wordsworth.  Several  other  houses  were  recorded  in 
that  neighbourhood,  as  given  in  Heywood's  Xonconfonnfot 
Register.  The  Chapel  was  registered  at  Pontefract  Sessions, 
April,  1692,  in  the  following  words — "A  new  house  at  Bull- 
house  in  Penistone.' '  The  above  Register,  in  addition  to  notices 
of  the  Rich  family,  states  that  "  Mr.  Daniel  Denton,  Chaplain, 
to  Mr.  Rich,  of  Bullouse,  died  ffebr.  18,  [1720],"  and  "  Mr. 
Wm.  Haliday,  minister  at  Bullous,  died  in  Halifax,  December 
11,  1741,  of  a  few  hours'  illness."  Mr.  Heywood  records  that 
"  Mr.  Henry  Swift,  Vicar  of  Peniston,  died  suddenly,  Oct.  81r 
1689,  aged  68,"  and  in  his  Diary,  he  adds — "  of  twenty-four 
houres  sickness."  August  29th,  1678,  Heywood  records  in  his 
Diary — "  Mr.  Hancock  and  I  preacht  at  Mr.  Rich's  house  at 
Bulloughs,  had  a  full  assembly,  some  [Divine]  assistance, 
lodged  there."  "  Mr.  Rycroft,  minister  at  Peniston,  born  near 
Ulingworth,  (Nicolas  Rycroft,  his  father,  yet  living),  buryed 
Oct.  1688."  Mr.  Heywood  frequently  visited  other  families 
about  Penistone,  as  recorded  in  his  Diaries.  The  Rev.  Henry 
Swift  was  ejected  from  Peniston  or  Penistone  Church  in  1662,. 
and  suffered  three  months'  imprisonment  in  York.  He  returned 
to  his  charge,  and  held  the  living  until  his  death,  without 


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further  molestation ;  the  powerful  families  of  the  district  being 
his  supporters.  Daniel  Denton  was  the  minister  at  Bullhouse 
some  years  between  1700  and  1720,  the  date  of  his  death.  In 
1715  he  had  a  congregation  of  200  persons.  William  Halliday's 
name  is  the  next  that  appears  on  the  list,  though  it  is  possible 
some  names  are  omitted  about  1692  and  1722.  The  names  of 
Messrs.  Rayner  and  Lewis  occur  incidentally.  The  Rev. 
Benjamin  Shaw  was  minister  in  1748,  and  died  there  in  1771. 
He  was  succeeded  by  Thomas  Halliday,  who  had  previously 
been  at  Eeighley,  and  also  a  pupil  and  tutor  at  Daventry.  He 
removed  in  1798,  and  engaged  in  business  in  some  iron-works, 
but  failed  in  1810.  (Monthly  Repository,  1825.)  We  last 
hear  of  him  as  an  Arian  preacher  at  Diss,  in  Norfolk.  The 
Rev.  Reyner,  from  Northowram  Academy,  succeeded 

for  a  short  time,  and  a  Mr.  John  Hewitt  also  preached  some 
time.  Whether  the  place  is  Unitarian  or  Wesleyan  now,  or 
both,  seems  doubtful  from  Miall's  account  in  Conyretjationalism 
in  Yorkshire.  We  arc  indebted  to  Mr.  Wood  for  the  picture  of 
this  old  sanctuary.  Ed. 


ANCIENT   SESSIONS   NOTES   EXTRACTED   FROM 

THE   ORIGINALS. 

Old  Soldiers.— A  Treasurer  was  regularly  appointed  for  the 
Lame  Soldiers'  Fund.  The  applicants,  of  course,  are  such  as 
fought  on  the  side  of  "  Charles  I.  of  Blessed  Memory." 

Babwick-in-Elmet. — Petition  of  Martin  Hague  of  this  place, 
soldier  under  the  Rt.  Wpfull.  Sr.  Richard  Hutton,  and  was  with 
him  at  Atherton,  Bradford,  Burlington  Key,  Rotherham,  and 
Tadcaster,  in  his  owne  company,  1675. 

Thomas  Cowpland  of  Barwick-in-Elmet,  souldier  under  Sir 
Ric.  Hutton'8  owne  company  of  foott,  and  with  him  at  Wake- 
field, Atherton,  and  Bradford  feights,  and  also  under  Sir  Walter 
Vavasor's  Regiment  of  Horse  in  Capt.  Adam  Bland  troop  of 
Horse  and  was  at  seige  of  Kingston  upon  Hull,  Selby  fight, 
Bowton,  Berrey,  Leapoul  in  Lancastershire  and  also  at  Halsome 
moore  feight,  1675,  petitioned  for  pay. 

John  Haigue  of  Barwick  in  Elmet,  souldier  under  Sir  Phillip 
Monckton  at  Willoughby  fight  and  Pontefract  Castle  and  under 
Col.  Morris  at  Pontefract  Castle,  1675. 

Wetherby. — Robert  Wright  of  this  place,  soldier  under  Capt. 
Croft  in  Ld.  Langdale's  Regimt.,  served  several  years  and  never 
deserted,  was  at  several  battles  and  received  many  great 
wounds,  begs  to  succeed  the  late  Thomas  Hardacres  as  a  pen- 
sioner. Mr.  J.  Beilby  adds :  "He  served  under  my  brother 
for  some  time."    1677. 


48         YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES* 

Fenton. — George  Buck  of  ffenton  humble  petition  to  the 
honoble  and  right  Wpfull  his  Majesties  Justices  of  Peace  at  the 
general  Sessions  holden  at  Pontefract,  1676,  Humbly  sheweth 
unto  yo.  hono.  That  your  poor  Peticonr  is  growen  very  infirme 
and  lame  and  hath  lost  his  eyesight,  and  were  disabled  in  his 
Maties  service  in  the  late  unhappy  W aires,  and  served  under 
Captaine  Edward  Stanhope,  Esq.,  in  his  company  of  ffoote  for 
several  yeares,  in  the  Ecgiment  of  Sr  John  Ramsden ;  and 
under  Capt.  Morritts  company,  after  the  said  Captaine  Stanhope 
was  chosen  a  C  omit  tee  man,  being  alwayes  faithfull  to  his 
Maty,  and  never  disserted  his  service,  though  he  received 
several  maimes  and  wounds  in  the  same ;  being  growne  very 
poore,  and  in  much  want  as  will  appeare  by  severall  sub- 
stantiall  men's  hands  hereunto  written.  May  it  therefore 
please  yor.  hono.  to  admit  him  as  a  Penconer  in  the  first 
vacancy.  And  he  as  in  duty  bound  shall  ever  pray.  Certified 
by  George  Stanhope,  &c. 

Skipton. — Major  Wharton  of  Skipton,  foot  soldier  for  Charles 
I.,  served  under  Henry  Lord  Clifford,  late  Earl  of  Cumberland, 
1671. 

Samuel  Constantino,  Gent.,  (residence  not  given,)  petitions 
for  a  pension.  He  joined  Capt.  Cuth.  Wade's  Dragoons,  and 
afterwards  fought  under  the  Duke  of  Albemarle  and  spent  his 
estate,  1675. 

John  Kay,  soldier,  as  Trooper  in  Lord  Savil's  troop,  under 
Capt.  Thomas  Shildon,  Mr.  John  Coppley,  of  Batley,  being  his 
Leivetenant.  Joined  his  Maj.  Standard,  att  Nottingham,  '42; 
afterwards  in  Prince  Rupert's  Regiment  at  the  battle  of  Edghill, 
wounded  and  imprisoned.      Pont.  April,  1680. 

Almondbury.— William  Kay,  of  this  parish,  having  received 
wounds  in  tbe  services  of  Charles  I.  and  Charles  II.,  and  de- 
siring to  travel  to  St.  Thomas'  Hospitall,  in  Southward,  where 
he  hopes  to  bee  cured  of  his  lamenesse,  received  an  order  at 
Leeds  Sessions,  July,  1677,  requiring  all  Constables  and  officers 
to  suffer  him  to  pass  from  Almondbury  to  London,  the  direct 
way,,  peaceablye  and  quietlye  he  demeaning  himself  truely  and 
honestly  in  his  said  journey  as  beehoves  him. 

Wee  desire  yt  proclemation  may  forthwith  be  made  yt  noe 
new  pension  can  be  admitted,  nor  gratuities  granted  by  reason 
wee  find  yt  ye  Act  of  Plmt.  is  expired  soe  yt  they  need  not  at- 
tend. And  yt  likewise  the  Cheife  Constables  for  the  whole 
West  Ryd.  doe  forthwith  attend  at  ye  Starr.    Pontefract,  1680. 

Captain  Wm.  Stringer  with  the  Lieutenant,  three  Sergeants 
and  46  under  officers  of  this  company  of  Sir  Rich.  Atkins  regi- 
ment, owned  before  me  their  consent  to  serve  their  Majs.  Wm. 
and  Mary,  May  29,  1694,  Jasp.  Blythman.  Halifax  and  Brad- 
ford men  who  listed  under  Thomas  Lord  Fairfax  and  Sir 
Richard  Atkins,  sworn,  Leeds,  Aug.  1694. 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES.  49 

Local  Notes: 

Huddbbsfxzld. — It  is  ordered  that  Bradley  Wood,  in  this 
parish,  be  assessed  to  the  poor  according  to  law,  and  the  pro- 
portion of  the  assessments  are  referred  to  the  two  next  justices, 
and  Sr.  Lyon  Pilkington  or  his  agents  to  have  notice. — 
Pontefract,  April,  1692. 

Gekktland. — John  Clay,  of  Clayhouse,  to  have  his  goods 
distreyned  restored  to  him,  and  Jeffrey  Bambsden  and  John 
Greenwood  to  be  rated  in  his  stead. — Wakefield,  January,  1682. 
Stanley. — Will  Armitage  has  begun  to  sink  a  colliery.  The 
coale  lies  very  deep ;  at  great  charge  drawing  water  night  and 
day,  and  it  hath  been  drowned  by  six  weeks  together,  and  by 
reason  of  the  wettnesse  of  the  worke  the  workes  fall,  and  part 
of  the  coale  is  gotten  where  he  diggeth,  whereby  he  is  out  of 
purse  £40,  and  hath  received  noe  profites  answerable  to  the 
charge  expended.  He  is  over-assessed  at  £20  per  ann.  for  the 
said  colliery.  He  hath  been  distreyned  the  worke- tools. — 1688. 
E aland. — James  Cawbord  states :— "  Your  petitioner  is  as- 
sessed for  a  coalmine,  and  there  is  not  any  assessed  in  the 
whole  vicaridge  of  hallifax  but  one  in  the  same  towne,  and  your 
petitioner  has  had  a  great  deal  of  damage  by  the  work  falling 
in  this  last  yeare.  Prays  that  he  may  nott  for  the  future  be 
assessed,  whioh  will  be  very  hard  upon  him/'  Ordered  to  be 
assessed  at  xx  nobles  p.  ann. — Wakefield,  Jan.,  1682. 

Samuel  Jowett,  of  Ealland,  is  assessed  to  the  full  vallue  of 
his  rent  for  a  mill  in  Elland,  and  there  are  severall  hand  mills 
lately  erected  and  sett  up  in  the  constablary  of  Elland  aforesaid 
which  takes  away  the  soake  from  his  mill.  Ordered  to  be  as- 
sessed according  to  the  rent  v  li  per  ann.  land  and  mill. — 
Wakefield,  Jan.,  1682. 

Long  Pbeston. — The  minister  and  churchwardens  testify 
that  all  galds,  sesses,  and  taxes  divided  to  our  severall  con- 
stablrys  in  manner  and  forme  followinge :  Long  Preston  8d., 
Hellifield  8d.,  Wiglesworth  2,  Westhalton  1.  Ordered  that  the 
book  of  rates  be  made  accordingly. — Skipton,  July,  1691. 

Half  Towns. — The  constables  of  the  Half  Towns  of  Wike, 
Shipley,  Eccleshill,  Marsden,  and  Heckmondwike  petition  to 
have  the  book  of  rates  revised  so  as  to  ease  themselves. — Wake- 
field, Oct.,  1691. 

Cloth  Manufactube — Joseph  Jackson,  Leeds,  with  engines 
did  stretch  and  strain  cloth.    Wakefield,  Oct.,  1678. 

Rowland  Dodsworth,  Leeds,  stretching  and  streyning  cloth. 
Leeds,  1679. 

Thomas  Gibson,  of  Burgwallis,  did  mix  with  his  wool,  pitch, 
tar,  Under,  shanks,  and  other  deceivable  things.     1677. 

Numerous  records  of  burial  in  woollen,  as  required  by  late 
Act  of  Parliament. 

Y.N.Q.  e 


SO  YORKSHIBE  NOTES  AND  QUERIEB. 

Counterfeiting  several  of  his  Mats.  Cloth  Seals.    1675. 

We  read  of  woollen  cloth  called  Halfthick.     1692. 

James  Lambert  is  mentioned  as  master  of  the  Company  of 
Clothiers ;  and  one  of  the  searchers  of  'oloath'  within  the  town 
of  Holbeck  also  referred  to.     1677. 

The  humble  petition  of  sevrall  of  the  Inhabitants,  clothdressrs 
within  the  sevrall  Townes  of  Halifax,  Eland,  Norland,  Sowerby, 
Warley,  Skiroote,  Northowrome,  Southowrome,  and  Hipper- 
holme.  Humbly  sheweth,  That  his  maties  officers  appointed 
for  the  Collecoon  of  his  Maties  duty  of  Hearth  money  within 
the  said  sevrall  Townes  have  for  the  two  last  halfe  years  de- 
manded duty  of  sevrall  of  the  aforesaid  Inhabitante  for  their 
Charcole  fires  for  their  hott  presses  for  the  pressing  of  Cloth 
and  hav  distreyned  vpon  such  as  have  refused  and  forced  them 
to  pay  ffoure  shillings  for  every  such  prtended  ffire,  and  also 
other  ffoure  shillings  for  every  distresse.  And  yor  petitioners 
further  shew  that  there  were  never  before  any  duty  paid  to  his 
Matie  or  demanded  for  such  Aires  either  within  the  said  Townes 
or  at  London,  or  in  any  other  pts  of  this  Kingdoms.  Yor  peti- 
coners  beg  therefore  to  be  relieved.    Wakefield,  Oct.,  1687. 

To  the  Bight  Honble.  and  Bi —  Majties  Justices  of  ye  Peace 
.  .  .  West  Biding  of  York.  The  humble  petition  of  the 
Clot— subsisting  by  the  Woollen  Manufacture.  Sheweth  that 
whereas  a  petition  was  the  last  sessions  of  .  .  .  the  Honoble 
the  Howse  of  Commons  therein  Assembl— the  Merchants, 
Clothiers,  and  others  subsisting  by  the  C —  in  the  County  of 
Yorke  wherein  were  sett  forth  some  .  .  .  the  decay  of  Trade 
and  remedy  intimated  therein  by  •  .  .  Company  of  Merchants 
for  the  better  regulacon  thereof  .  .  .  petition  annexed  may 
appear.  And  that  Honoble  Howse  was  then  satisfie — yt  peti- 
tion ought  not  be  answered,  notwithstanding  .  .  .  informed 
ye  same  persons  intend  to  make  another  ...  a  recomenda- 
con  of  such  a  position  from  this  honob  ...  of  that  Howse 
for  this  County  would  give  it  hopes  for  a  better  .  .  .  address 
themselves  to  this  Honoble  Bench  for  that  purpose.  And 
whereas  yor  Petitioners  whose  subsistence  and  Livi  •  . 
Manufacture  are  able  and  ready  to  sattisfye  vr  Hons  th  .  .  . 
said  trade  ye  underrating  the  commodity  the  lown  .  •  .  home 
ye  disparagent  of  ye  manufacture  abroad  and  yt  the  painefull 
workemen  have  been  occationed  by  th  .  .  .the  power  for 
which  they  seem  to  petition  should  be  gra — Merchants  it  would 
endanger  an  Ingrossing  and  Monop —  Manufacture  into  a  few 
men's  hands  of  what  dest —  yt  will  be  yor  petitioners  humbly 
refer  to  your  wisdomes.  .  .  Humbly  pray  that  this  Honorble 
Bench  would  .  .  .  petition  of  ye  Merchants  or  others 
tending  .  .  .  have  heard  yor  petitioners  reason  against : — 
John  Sigston,  Edward  Parker,  Tho  .  .  .  John  Cowell, 
ffrancis  Jagger,  John    .     .    .    ffranois  Baylie,  John  Snawden, 


YORKBHUftE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES.  51 

Joseph  Sigston,  Sam  .  .  .  ffrancis  Swinbanke,  Abraham 
Smith,  Robert  .  .  .  Thomas  Turner,  Will  .  .  .  William 
Cowell,  John  Thoresby,  James  .  .  .  William  Bollon,  James 
Moxon,  .  .  •  William  Dodgson,  Micha  .  .  .  John 
Tindall,  Christopher  Conder,  Bicliar  .  .  .  Richard  Smur- 
fite,  Richard  Wilson,  .  .  .  Simon  Jagger,  Wm.  Milner, 
John  .  .  .  Thomas  Hodgson,  John  Hunter.  Endorsed: 
The  Court  agrees  that  they  will  not  signe  any  petition  for  the 
Merchants  till  the  cloathyrs  have  notice  of  the  same.   [Circa  167-] 

To  ye  Honrble  the  Knights,  Cittizens  and  Burgesses  of  the 
House  of  Commons  in  Parliament  assembled.  The  humble 
peticon  of  the  Merchts,  ye  Clothiers  and  others  subsisting  by 
the  Woollen  Manufacture  in  ye  County  of  York,  Sheweth, — 
That  the  said  woolen  manufacture  had  its  birth  and  growth  and 
did  for  divers  Ages  flourish  under  a  regulaoon  and  govermnt  of 
the  Company  of  Merchants  Adventurers  of  England  where  all 
care  and  prudence  was  used  to  keep  up  the  reputation  and 
prices  of  the  English  Manufacture  in  the  hands  of  the  English 
to  the  extraordinary  benefitt  of  the  whole  Kingdom  in  generll, 
and  the  perticuler  inoouragemt  of  yor  Petitioners  whereby  the 
occation  alsoe  of  exporting  wools  and  Fullers  Earth  was  taken 
away  but  by  reason  of  severall  late  temporary  suspentions  of 
the  Charter  of  ye  said  Company,  and  alsoe  as  they  humbly  con- 
ceive of  the  late  libertye  given  Aliens  to  exports  Woolen 
Manufacturers  on  equall  Tearme  of  Cuetome  which  the  English 
Merchts  since  that  almost  every  Tucker  and  Cloth  Dresser  is 
become  a  Factor  for  Aliens  taking  them  into  their  houses  and 
instructing  them  in  the  mistery  of  the  said  woolen  manmfacture. 
The  English  Merchant  is  not  only  bereaved  of  his  Trade  which 
is  devolved  into  Forreners  hands,  but  even  those  very  Foreig- 
ners study  all  contrivances  to  imitate  the  severall  Draperies  of 
this  Kingdom  in  their  owne  Countries,  and  have  soe  farr 
advanced  therein  that  the  Trade  of  this  Kingdom  is  extraordin- 
arily decayed  to  ye  great  impoverishmt  of  yor  petiooners,  and 
the  prices  of  woole,  the  principal  staple  commodity  of  this 
Nation,  has  fallen  to  halfe  the  vallew,  to  ye  generall  damage  of 
the  whole  kingdom.  Yor  petitionrs  therefore  humbly  pray  that 
such  regulation  and  government  of  Trade  may  be  established 
for  the  encrease  of  ye  woolen  manufacture  and  incouragement 
of  the  English  Merchant  as  by  the  wisdom  of  this  Honorble 
House  shall  seem  meet.     [Dated  about  167-.] 

Trades. — Samuell  Brooke  de  Clifton,  cardmaker,  xx1*-*  Mat- 
theus  Longley  de  Clifton,  xu»  and  Joseph  Green  de  Tong,  xu» 
as  bondsmen.  The  said  Samuell  Brooke  bound  to  appear  at 
Quarter  Sessions  for  buying  severall  quantities  of  fforaigne  yron 
wyre  for  making  of  wooll  bands  ymported  from  pts  beyond  ye 
seas,  contrary  to  ye  statute.  Wm.  Farrer,  J.P.,  Wakefield, 
January,  1681. 


52        YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

Deborah  Utley,  of  Stansfeld,  for  following  the  grocer's  trade, 
bound  to  appear.   .  1678. 

Crusade  against  persons  following  the  butchers'  trade,  contra 
statute,  not  having  been  apprenticed  to  it.  Thirty  so  indicted 
at  Skipton,  1675,  others  frequently  at  sessions  afterwards. 

Order  requiring  the  laws  suppressing  the  planting  of  tobacco 
in  England  to  be  more  rigidly  enforced.     1675. 

The  inhabitants  of  Silver  street,  in  Wakefield,  petition,  reciting 
that,  time  out  of  mind  there  has  been  kept  a  market  for  leather 
in  Silver  Street,  and  they  have  erected  stalls  and  shops,  but 
are  now  hindered  by  Mr.  ffayle,  Officer  of  Excise  of  Leather, 
who  threatened  to  prosecute  the  tanners  if  they  sold  any  leather 
there.  Wm.  Lawson,  James  Woollin,  Rowland  Burrow,  Robert 
Wilson.  The  markett  hath  alwayes  been  kept  there.  Thos. 
Wilson,  Joseph  B arras,  James  Sill.  Endorsed — The  court  is 
of  the  opinion  the  market  may  be  kept  there. 

ffranci8  Stubbs  of  Bawtry  indicted  for  using  the  trade  of  a 
cutler  contrary  to  ye  Statute.    Doncaster,  Oct.  1697. 

Licenses  as  common  badger,  lader,  kidder,  carrier  or  trans- 
porter  of  all  manner  of  corne  and  grain  in  any  market  of  the 
realm.     1671. 

R.  H.  of  Ackworth,  being  a  married  man  and  above  thirty 
years  of  age,  licensed  to  be  a  common  drover  and  buyer  of 
cattel  within  the  kingdom  of  England  at  the  usual  places.  1671. 

The  constables  ordered  to  make  search  for  guns,  nets,  bows, 
greyhounds,  &c,  and  report  who  had  any ;  and  also  inquire  if 
any  servant  had  more  wages  than  the  Statute  directed,  and 
also  if  harvest  men  or  artificers  received  more :  and  masters 
and  servants  forbidden  attending  any  statutes,  or  meetings. 
1671. 

11  Midwifes  to  be  licensed."     1695. 

In  1695  labourers  received  as  wages  7d.  a  day ;  artificers  Is. 
2d.  or  Is.  8d.  a  day.  In  1678  we  find—  Ghristr.  Lee  5  dayes, 
his  man  4  dayes— 10s.  06d. ;  9  labourers  4  days,  18s.  OOd.  Chr. 
Tyreman  6  days  work  07s.  OOd.  These  assisted  at  rebuilding 
a  bridge.  J.  H.  T. 
o 

The  Old  Potters  and  Potteries  op  Yorkshire. — At  the 
present  time,  when  the  ceramic  works  of  the  past  are  so  muoh 
sought  after,  the  information  contained  in  the  following  articles 
respecting  the  old  potters  and  potteries  of  Yorkshire  will  doubt- 
less prove  acceptable,  and  may  tend  to  elicit  further  particulars : 

A  Mr.  Francis  Place  is  said  to  have  been  the  first  to  make 
pottery  and  porcelain  in  Yorkshire,  his  operations  being  carried 
on  at  the  Manor  House,  York,  from  1665  to  1728.  With  the 
exception  of  the  brief  allusion  to  this  manufactory  by  Horace 
Walpole  and  Ralph  Thoresby  few  particulars  are  on  record. 
Walpole,  in  his   "Anecdotes  of  Painting,"  says  that  "Mr. 


YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES.         68 

Francis  Place,  a  gentleman  of  Yorkshire,  had  a  turn  to  most  of 

the  beautiful  arts."  He  painted,  designed,  and  etched.  He  was 

the  younger  son  of  Mr.  Rowland  Place,  of  Dinsdale,  in  the 

county  of  Durham,  and  was  placed  as  olerk  to  an  attorney  in 

London,  where  he  continued  till  1665 ;  in  which  year,  going 

into  a  shop,  the  officers  came  to  shut  up  the  house,  on  its 

having  the  plague  in  it.    This  occasioned  his  leaving  London ; 

and  gave  him  an  opportunity  of  quitting  a  profession  that  was 

contrary  to  his  inclination,  and  of  following  the  roving  life  he 

loved,  and  the  arts  for  which  he  had  talents.    Ralph  Thoresby, 

in  his   'Ducatus  Leodiensis,'  often  mentions  Mr.  Place  with 

great  encomiums,   and    specifies    various    presents    that    he 

made  to  his  museum.  He  tells  us,  too,  that  Mr.  Place  discovered 

an  earth  for,  and  a  method  of  making  porcelain,  which  he  put 

in  practice  at  the  Manor  House  of  York,  of  which  manufacture 

he  gave  Thoresby  a  fine  mug.    From  the  same  account  we 

learn  that  Mr.  Place  discovered  porphyry  at  Mount  Sorril  in 

Leicestershire,  of  which  he  had  a  piece  to  grind  colours  on. 

This  author  specifies  views  of  Tinmouth  Castle  and  lighthouse : 

the  cathedral  of  York ;  churches  and  prospects  of  Leeds,  drawn 

and   etched ;   and  a  mezzo  tinto  of  Henry  Gyles,  the  glass 

painter,  executed  by  Mr.  Place.    He  also  scraped  three  plates 

of  John  Moyser,  Esq.,  of  Beverley,  his  particular  friend ;  of 

Thomas  Comber,  Dean  o£  Durham,  and  of  Bishop  Crew ;  the 

last  is  finely  executed.    Many  sketches  of  castles  and  views 

which  he  took  in   Wales,    and  of   various  other  places  in 

England,  Scotland,  and  Ireland,  several  of  them  well  finished, 

are  extant,  and  have  been  engraved.    A  view  of  Scarborough 

Castle  was  drawn  as  late  as  the  year  1715.     His  prints  are 

very  scarce.    He  seldom  resided  in  London,  and  drew  only  for 

his  amusement,  seldom  completing  what  he  undertook,  and  in 

his  rambles  painting,  drawing,  and  engraving,  occasionally.     In 

the  reign  of  Charles  H.  he  was  offered  a  pension  of  £500  a 

year  to  draw  the  Royal  Navy ;  but  declined  accepting  it,  as  he 

could  not  endure  confinement  or  dependence.    InThoresby's 

'Topography  of  Leeds'  aire  some  churches  by  Place.    Ames 

mentions  a  print  by  him,  which  I  have,  of  Richard  Thomson, 

from  a  painting  of  Zoust ;  it  is  boldly  done.    Another  is  of 

Sterne,  Archbishop  of  York.    He  also  did  some  plates  of  birds, 

and  the  figures  for  Godartins's  Book  of  Insects.    Mr.  Place 

died  in  1728 ;  and  his  widow,  by  whom  he  had  a  daughter, 

married  to  Wadham  Wyndham,  Esq.,  quitting  the  Manor  House 

in  York,  disposed  of  his  paintings,  among  which  were  an 

admired  piece  of  fowls,  others  of  flowers  and  fish,  unfinished. 

There  are  two  heads  of  Mr.  Place  extant,  one  by  himself,  the 

face  only  finished,  and  another  by  Murray."    Thoresby,  in  his 

"Ducatus  Leodiensis,"  says: — "Wortley  Parish.    Here  is  a 

good  vein  of  fine  clay  that  will  retain  its  whiteness  after  it  is 


64         YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

burnt  (when  others  turn  red),  and  therefore  used  for  the 
making  of  tobacco  pipes,  a  manufacture  but  lately  begun  at 
Leeds.  ...  As  to  this  manner  of  making  of  pipes  I  can 
add  nothing  to  what  Mr.  Houghton  has  writ  in  his  very  useful 
collections  for  the  '  Improvement  of  Husbandry  and  Trade '  (4 
vols.,  No.  154),  where  he  tells  us  also  that  the  pint  mugs  and 
even  chinaware  were  made  of  this  sort  of  earth,  of  which,  saith 
he,  we  may  make  as  good  in  England  as  any  in  the  world. 
And  this  I  am  fully  convinced  of,  having  a  specimen  in  this 
museum,  made  of  English  materials,  in  the  Manor  House,  at 
York,  by  the  very  ingenious  Mr.  Francis  Place,  who  presented 
it  to  me  with  one  of  the  outer  covers  (seggars)  purposely  made 
to  preserve  it  from  the  violence  of  the  fire  in  baking."  In  the 
catalogue  of  his  museum,  annexed  to  the  same  work,  is  de- 
scribed "  one  of  Mr.  Place's  delicate  fine  mugs,  made  in  the 
Manor  House,  at  York ;  it  equals  the  true  chinaware ; "  and 
Walpole,  in  the  notes  to  his  account  of  Mr.  Place,  after 
remarking  that  "his  pottery  cost  him  much  money,  he  at- 
tempted it  solely  from  a  turn  to  experiments ;  but  one  Clifton, 
of  Pontefract,  took  the  hint  from  him  and  made  a  fortune  by 
it,"  says  "  I  have  a  coffee  cup  of  his  ware ;  it  is  a  grey  earth, 
with  streaks  of  black,  and  not  superior  to  common  earthenware." 
This  cup  was  sold  at  Strawberry  Hill,  and  is  now  in  the 
Museum  of  Practical  Geology,  with  an  old  pasteboard  label 
attached  to  the  handle  and  inscribed,  probably  in  Walpole's 
hand-writing,  "  Mr.  Francis  Place's  china."  It  is  of  very  fine 
stoneware,  of  light  fabric,  but  perfectly  opaque. 

A  manufactory  was  in  existence  at  Leeds  as  early  as 
1760,  two  brothers,  named  Green,  being  the  proprietors. 
Black  Egyptian  ware  seems  to  have  been  the  chief  article  pro- 
duced. About  1775,  Messrs.  Humble,  Green  &  Co.  began  the 
fabrication  of  the  noted  cream,  or  Queen's  ware,  invented  by 
the  great  Josiah  Wedgwood,  and  made  it  an  especial  branch  of 
their  business ;  but  it  was  reserved  for  their  successors,  Messrs. 
Hartley,  Greens  &  Co.,  to  bring  it  to  the  high  state  of  perfection 
that  it  afterwards  attained.  The  latter  firm  published  illustra- 
ted pattern-books  entitled — "Designs  of  sundry  articles  of 
Queen's,  or  cream-coloured  earthenware,  manufactured  by 
Hartley,  Greens  &  Co.,  at  Leeds  Pottery,  with  a  great  variety 
of  other  articles.  The  same  enamelled,  printed,  or  ornamented 
with  gold  to  any  pattern ;  also  with  coats  of  arms,  ciphers, 
landscapes,  &c,  Leeds,  1786."  An  edition  in  German  bears 
the  early  date  of  1788,  and  a  French  copy  1785.  The  partners 
in  1788-4,  composing  the  firm,  were,  William  Hartley,  Joshua 
Green,  John  Green,  Henry  Ackroyd,  John  Barwic,  Samuel 
Wainwright,  Thomas  Wainwright,  George  Hanson,  and  Saville 
Green.  In  1800  two  fresh  partners  joined  the  concern,  Ebene- 
zer  Green  and  E.  Parsons.    A  very  extensive  business  was 


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carried  on,  but  in  consequence  of  disagreements  among  the 
numerous  persons  interested,  the  concern  was  thrown  into 
Chancery,  and  in  1825  it  was  purchased  by  Mr.  Samuel  Wain- 
wright,  and  for  a  short  time  was  styled  "  S.  Wainwright  and 
Co."  At  his  death  in  1882  the  trustees  carried  on  the  business 
under  the  style  of  the  "Leeds  Pottery  Company,"  managed  by 
Stephen  Chappel,  and  shortly  after  the  whole  concern  was 
transferred  to  Stephen  and  James  Chappell,  and  continued  by 
them  until  1847,  when  they  became  bankrupt.  The  assignees 
carried  it  on  for  a  few  years,  managed  by  Mr.  Richard  Britton, 
and  in  1850  Mr.  Samuel  War  burton  bought  the  works  in 
partnership  with  Britton,  under  the  style  of  "Warburton, 
Britton,  &  Co."  Of  the  many  kinds  of  goods  manufactured  at 
the  Leeds  works,  those  sent  out  by  Messrs.  Hartley,  Greens  & 
Co.,  command  especial  attention.  Nothing  can  exceed  the 
Quality  of  material  and  the  beauty  of  the  workmanship  displayed 
in  the  many  really  exquisite  examples  that  are  preserved  in 
public  and  private  collections,  particularly  in  regard  to  the 
Queen's  ware.  This  ware  bears  considerable  resemblance  in 
the  paste  to  Staffordshire  Queen's  ware;  but  differs  in  the 
colour  of  the  glaze,  which  is  of  a  mellower  kind.  The  perforated 
or  pierced  work  is  characteristic ;  although  apparently  of  infinite 
variety,  it  is  confined  to  a  few  patterns  repeated  over  and  over 
again.  The  embossed  festoons,  masks,  flower  and  figure  knobs, 
the  pressed  rims,  the  twisted  handles,  terminating  in  floriated 
work,  are  all  finely  modelled,  and  frequently  tinted  or  lined  in 
different  colours.  Specimens  in  wicker  work  and  plain  ware, 
painted  or  enamelled  with  flowers  and  insects,  partly  gilt  and 
ornamented  in  transfer  printing,  as  well  as  figures  and  groups 
are  met  with.  Ciphers,  mottoes,  and  rhymes  are  of  frequent 
occurrence  on  the  Leeds  wares.  A  jug  in  my  collection  is 
inscribed : — 

"  In  God  will 

I  trust." 

Another  in  the  possession  of  Miss  Hainsworth,  of  Bingley,  who 

informs  me  that  it  was  made  for  her  grandmother,  bears  the 

following  lines : — 

"  A  present  for  Sarah  Hainsworth 
Steal  not  this  Jug  my  honest  friend 
For  fear  the  gallows  be  your  end 
And  when  you  die  the  Lord  will  say 
"Where  is  the  Jug  you  stoal  away." 
It  is  to  be  regretted  that  a  complete  list  of  the  figures,  busts, 
and  groups,  has  not  hitherto  been  made,  as  the  subjects  were 
various,  and  generally  of  a  superior  order;   specimens,  well 
authenticated  as  of  Leeds  manufacture,  fetch  high  prices  when 
offered  for  sale;    China,  or  porcelain,  was  also  made  at  Leeds, 
but  at  what  period  it  was  introduced  I  have  not  been  able  to 


56        Y0RK8HIKE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

ascertain.  A  friend  of  mine,  however,  who  was  employed  at 
the  works,  when  nnder  the  management  of  Stephen  and  James 
Chappell,  and  who  left  in  1846,  the  year  before  those  gentlemen 
were  declared  bankrupt,  testifies  to  its  production  at  that  time. 
Marked  specimens  of  Leeds  ware  are  seldom  met  with,  the  mark 
generally  found  is  the  name  of  the  pottery,  impressed  in  full, 
"  Leeds  Pottery."  Sometimes  it  is  repeated  and  arranged  in 
the  form  of  the  letter  X.  Other  examples  are  "  L.  P."  (Leeds 
Pottery)  and  "  L.  P.  C."  (Leeds  Pottery  Company).  A  rarer 
type  is  "Hartley,  Greens  &  Co.,  Leeds  Pottery.'*  The 
letters  "  G.  and  G.,M  surmounted  by  a  crown,  "  C.  G."  (Charles 
Green)  and  "  C.  G."  with  "  W."  underneath,  and  an  arrow-head 
are  now  considered  as  early  marks.  The  horse-shoe  is  another 
mark  found  impressed  on  the  Leeds  ware.  I  have  a  jug  in  my 
collection  ornamented  with  raised  thistles  and  roses,  on  the 
bottom  of  which  is  the  letter  "  G."  enclosed  by  the  Masonic 
symbols,  the  compass  and  square  embossed ;  a  mark  that  may, 
with  great  probability,  be  attributed  to  Leeds. 

J.   £•   Preston. 

Village  Feasts. —  Information  is  desired  relating  to  the 
origin  of  any  of  the  Yorkshire  village  feasts,  tides,  wakes, 
thumps,  rants,  and  rushbearings.  Inquirer. 


/ 


^  fehs  tHEorba  tm  lift  Jglfot.*    . 

By  Llewellynn  Jewitt,  F.S.A.,  &c. 

THE  occurrence  of  a  Fylfot  of  remarkable,  if  not  unique, 
character,  on  one  of  the  fine  old  sculptured  crosses  in 
which  the  Isle  of  Mann  is  so  peculiarly  rich,  affords  oppor- 
tunity which  I  gladly  seize,  of  giving  in  the  first  number  of 
"  The  Manx  Note  Book,"  a  few  words  upon  that  figure  and  on 
its  meaning  and  symbolism.  The  stone  to  which  I  allude  is  at 
Onchan,  and  is,  so  far  as  I  am  at  present  aware,  the  only 
instance  of  the  occurrence  of  a  Fylfot  on  any  of  the  ancient 
sculptured  stones  on  the  Island.  On  some  others,  as  I  may 
possibly  take  occasion  to  point  out,  the  ornamentation  partakes 
of  the  Fylfot  form  and  feeling,  but  no  other  distinct  and  clear 
example  I  believe  occurs. 

The  slab,  of  which  an  engraving  appears  on  Plate  VI.  of 
"The  Runic  and  other  Monumental  Remains  of  the  Isle  of 
Mann,"  by  my  friend  the  late  Rev.  J.  G.  Cumming,  bears,  in 
relief,  a  cross,  with  surrounding  circle  and  shaft,  whose  entire 
surfaces  are  covered  with  an  elaborate  guilloche  pattern,  the 
intricate  interlacing  of  which  is  well  defined.  This  shafted 
cross  occupies  about  two-thirds  of  the  length  of  the  slab,  and 

•The  occurrence  of  the  Swastika  on  the  rooks  at  Hkley  suggested  the 
reproduction  of  this  valuable  article  in  our  pages. — Ed. 


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is  surrounded  by  an  outline  terminating  in  a  scroll  on  each 
side  at  the  foot.  On  either  side  the  shaft  is  a  grotesque 
animal,  and  at  the  foot  a  line  of  scroll-ornament,  from  which 
rises,  on  each  side,  a  simple  band  terminating  in  scrolls  behind 
and  above  their  heads.  On  the  lower  part  of  the  slab  below 
the  scroll-ornament  base  of  the  cross,  and  entirely  clear  and 
distinct  from  it,  and  independent  of  all  other  ornament  or 
device  is  the  Fylfot  to  which  I  am  about  to  direct  attention  ;  it 
is  placed  somewhat  diagonally  upon  the  plain  portion  of  the 
slab,  and  measures  about  a  foot  from  limb  to  limb.  This 
Fylfot  which,  as  I  have  said,  is  remarkable  if  not  unique  in  its 
development,  I  have  had  engraved  on  Fig.  17.  It  is,  as  will  be 
then  seen,  formed  of  four  crozier-like  limbs  whose  shafts 
intersect  each  other  in  the  centre ;  the  scrolls  being  three-fold. 

The  "Fylfot,"  "Fytfot,"  " Gammadion, "  or  "Thorr's 
Hammer,"  as  it  is  variously  called — "the  dissembled  cross 
under  the  discipline  of  the  secret " — is  one  of  the  most  curious 
and  ancient  forms  of  cross,  and  its  mysticism  and  symbolism 
are  very  marked.  By  some  writers  it  is  said  to  be  formed  of 
four  gammas  conjoined  in  the  centre  "which,  as  numerals, 
expressed  the  Holy  Trinity,  and,  by  its  rectangular  form, 
symbolized  the  chief  corner-stone  of  the  church  ";  by  others,  to 
be  formed  of  the  two  words  su  and  asti,  meaning  "  it  is  well," 
or  "  so  be  it,"  and  implying  complete  resignation.  From  this 
the  Swastika*,  the  opponents  of  the  Brahmins,  received  their 
name ;  "  their  monogrammatic  emblem,  or  symbol,  being  the 
mystic  cross  p^J  formed  by  the  combination  of  two  syllables  su 
x  U  =  suti,  or  swasti."  With  all  this,  however,  I  have  nothing 
to  do  on  the  present  occasion.  Heraldically,  the  Fylfot  may  be 
described  as  a  cross  cramponnee,  or  rebated.  In  its  proper 
proportion,  as  I  have  on  other  occasions  shewn,  it  is  a  square 
area  divided  into  twenty-five  square  parts  (i.  e.,  five  each  way) 
thus  (Fig.  1)  of  which  seventeen  form  the  figure. 


_i 

i 


Fig.  1. 


Rg.  2. 


Fig.  3. 


It  is,  therefore,  simply  a  plain  Greek  cross,  or  cross  of  St. 
George,  composed  of  nine  of  these  squares  (as  in  Fig.  2.)  with 
the  terminations  of  the  limbs  rebated  and  continued  to  the 
outer  edges  of  the  general  square,  as  shewn  on  Fig.  8.  Or,  in 
other  words,  it  is  a  plain  cross  of  five  squares  within  a  border 
of  similar  squares  from  which  the  fourth  (or  second)  on  each 
side  has  been  omitted.    In  this,  its  simple  form,  it  occurs  as  I 


58         YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

shall  presently  show,  from  the  very  earliest  times  from  which 
art-relics  have  come  down  to  us  and  among  nations  and  peoples 
far  removed  from  each  other  in  their  geographical  distribution, 
in  sentiments,  and  in  religion. 

In  northern  mythology  the  Fylfot  is  known  as  the  Hammer 
of  Thorr,  tbe  Scandinavian  God,  or  Thunderer,  and  is  called 
"  Thorr's  Hammer  "  or  the  "  Thunderbolt."  The  same  is  said 
of  the  Tau  which,  though  somewhat  hammer-shaped  according 
to  our  form  of  hammer,  bears  no  possible  resemblance  to  the 
ancient  emblem  of  the  thunderbolt.  The  Scandinavian  god 
Thorr,  whose  day  Thornday  or  Thursday  stands  between  those 
of  his  father  (Wodin  or  Odin,  Wodensd&y,  Wednesday,)  and 
mother  (Fria  or  Friga,  Friday,  Friday)  was  "  the  bravest  of 
the  sons  of  Odin"  and  "believed  to  bee  of  the  moste  marvellous 
power  and  might ;  yea,  and  that  there  were  no  people  through- 
out the  whole  world  that  were  not  subjected  unto  him,  and  did 
not  owe  him  divine  honour  and  service;  that  there  was  no 
puissance  comparable  unto  his.  His  dominion  of  all  others 
most  farthest  extending  itself,  both  in  heaven  and  earth.  That 
in  the  air  he  governed  the  winds  and  the  cloudes ;  and  being 
displeased,  did  cause  lightning,  thunder,  and  tempest,  with  ex- 
cessive raine,  haile,  and  all  ille  weather.  But,  being  well 
pleased  by  the  adoration,  sacrifice,  and  service  of  his  suppliants 
he  then  bestowed  upon  them  most  faire  and  seasonable  weather ; 
and  caused  corne  abundantly  to  growe ;  a?  all  sorts  of  fruites, 
&c;  and  kept  away  the  plague  and  all  other  evill  and  infectious 
diseases."  The  emblem  of  this  god,  Thorr  or  tbe  Thunderer, 
was,  as  I  have  said,  a  thunderbolt  or  hammer  of  gold,  which 
hammer  was  frequently  represented  as  a  Fylfot.  His  hammer, 
it  is  said,  had  the  peculiar  property  that  whenever  thrown  it 
never  failed  to  strike  the  object  at  which  it  was  aimed  and 
always  returned  or  flew  back  to  his  hand.*  This  property  will 
be  recognised  as  similar  to  that  of  the  boomerang ;  and  here, 
surely,  as  I  have  already  on  another  occasion  advanced,  we 
have  a  curious  and  interesting  insight  into  the  origin  of  the 
form  of  the  emblem  itself.  As  I  have  just  said,  the  fylfot  is 
described  by  some  writers  as  being  formed  of  four  gammas 
conjoined  in  the  centre.  The  form  of  the  boomerang,  some- 
thing like  a  letter  V  with  a  rounded,  instead  of  pointed 
bottom,  bears  a  marked  resemblance  to  the  ancient  gamma, 
and  it  is  a  missile  instrument,  which  on  being  skilfully  thrown, 
slowly  ascends  into  the  air,  whirling  round  and  round  till  it 
reaches  a  considerable  height  and  then  returns,  until  it  Anally 
sweeps  over  the  head  of  the  thrower  and  strikes  the  ground  or 


*  His  weapon  being  a  thunderbolt  it  was  of  course  bat  natural  that  a 
belief  should  spring  up  that  it  returned  to  him  after  striking  where  aimed, 
else,  how  could  he  again  throw  it  ? 


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other  object  behind  him.  When  this  power,  and  the  form  of 
the  boomerang,  are  remembered  in  connection  with  the  tra- 
ditional returning  power  of  the  hammer,  the  Fylfot  may  surely 
be  not  inappropriately  described  as  a  figure  composed  of  four 


boomerangs  conjoined  in  the  centre  OO  an<*  thus  emblema- 
tise the  "  Thunderer's  "  power.  This  form  of  Fylfot  is  not  at 
all  uncommon  on  early  examples  from  Troy  and  other  places 
and  countries.    It  is  indeed  simply  the  ordinary  Fylfot  with 

the  angles  rounded  almost  as  though  formed  of  two 
S's  crosswise. 


The  Fylfot  is  found  on  early  Scandinavian,  Danish,  Indian, 
and  Gaulish  coins,  as  well  as  those  of  Syracuse, 
Corinth,  and  Ghalcedon.  It  is  also  occasionally 
found  on  Anglo-Saxon  coins;  on  one  of  these,  of 
the  sixth  or  seventh  century,  the  rebate  of  each 
of  the  limbs  does  not  start  from  quite  the  top, 
and  is  pointed.  Some  of  the  ancient  Danish 
*%• 7-  coins  on  which  the  emblem  appears,  bear  also 

the  name  of  Thorr  in  runes. 

One  of  the  most  remarkable  assemblages  of  objects  of  high 
antiquity  upon  which  the  Fylfot  appears  is  that  of  the  terra- 
cotta whorls,  pottery,  and  the  like,  brought  to  light  by  Dr. 
Schliemann,  and  figured  in  his  work  upon  Troy  and  its  Remains. 
With  regard  to  these  the  doctor  remarks  that  he  had  frequently 
found  both  the  f£|  and  the  Ijjg  on  remains  during  the  course 
of  his  excavations  without  at  first  being  able  to  understand 
their  meaning.  After  researches  in  different  works,  however, 
he  came  to  the  conclusion  "that  both  the  ^  and  the  flJ 
which  he  found  in  Emile  Burnouf  s  Sanscrit  Lexicon  under  the 

name  of  Suastika,  and  as  to  the  meaning  of = — ,  or,  as  the 

sign  of  good-wishes,  were  already  regarded,  thousands  of  years 
before  Christ,  as  religious  symbols  of  the  very  greatest  import- 
ance among  the  early  progenitors  of  the  Aryan  races  in  Bactria, 
and  in  the  villages  of  the  Oxus,  at  a  time  when  the  Germans, 
Indians,  Pelasgians,  Celts,  Persians,  Sclavonians,  and  Iranians, 
still  formed  one  nation  and  spoke  one  language ;  "  and  he  pro- 
ceeds to  cite  a  vast  number  of  instances  in  which  he,  in  the 
course  of  his  investigations,  has  found  it  occurring.  Without, 
however,  following  him,  or  Emile  Burnouf,  or  Max  Miiller,  or 
other  works,  to  which  those  who  wish  to  pursue  the  subject 
further  may  be  glad  to  refer,  but  from  which  space  would  not 
allow  me  to  quote,  I  will  proceed  to  give  a  few  examples  that 
will  be  useful  for  reference  and  comparison. 


YORKSHIBE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


occur  in  the  Catacombs 
of  Rome.  The  Colchester 
vase,  so  called  because  it 
was  found  in  the  Roman 
Cemetery,  which  formed 
the  site  of  West  Lodge, 
near  that  city,  where  it 
had  been  used  as  a  sepul- 
chral urn,  bears  as  one  of 
the  three  groups  with 
which  it  is  decorated,  a 
representation  of  a  combat 
between  two  gladiators — 
a  SectUor  and  a  Eetiarius. 
The  former,  wearing  a 
close  helmet  and  armed 
with  sword  and  shield,  is 
advancing  upon  his  con- 

„  quered  adversary  prepared 

Fig.  20.    The  Colchester  Vase.  ^  gtrike  the  ffttftl  Mo^ 

while  the  latter,  who  has  been  vanquished,  has  dropped  his 
trident  and  is  elevating  his  right  hand  to  implore  mercy  from 
the  spectators.  It  is  on  the  shield  of  the  Secutor  that  the 
Fylfot  occurs  and  is  probably  there  placed  as  an  emblem  of 
asserted  power  and  victory.  Over  the  head  of  the  Secutor  are 
the  letters  memn  -  n  -  sag  -  vi  in,  which  (taking  it  for  granted 
that  the  a  in  sac  should  be  e)  has  been  read  as  Memrdvus  [or 
Memnon]  numeii  secutorum  victor  ter, 
or,  "Memnius  [or  Memnon]  of  the 
number  [or  band]  of  secutors, 
conqueror  thrice " ;  over  that  of 
the  Retiariusj  valentinv  leoionis 
xxx,  meaning,  clearly,  "  Valentinus 
of  the  thirtieth  legion,"  who  was, 
doubtless,  the  vanquished  one 
whose  figure  appears.  On  another 
vase,  which  I  give  as  a  companion 
to  this  (Fig.  21),  a  nude  figure  is 
represented  holding  the  thunder- 
bolt. 

From  the  time  of  the  Romans, 
or,  earlier  still,  from  that  of  the 
Norsemen,  the  Fylfot  has,  in  one 
way  or  other,  been  used  down  to 
the  present  day  in  our  own  country. 
Besides  the  earlier  examples  to 
which  I  have  referred,  and  many 
others  that  could  be  cited,  it  is, 
later  on,  found  on  a  shield  on  the 


Fig.  21. 


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Bayeux  tapestry  (Fig.  22),  and,  later  still,  is  not  unfrequently 
met  with  on  monumental  brasses  and  sculptured  effigies  of 
ecclesiastics,  military  and  laymen.  Thus,  on  the  examples 
here  engraved  (Figs.  28  to  27),  it  forms,  on  the  brass  of 
Thomas  de  Hop  (circa  1800)  a  priest,  in  Kemsing 
Church,  alternately  with  quatrefoils,  a  border  on 
the  collar  of  the  chasuble;  on  that  of  Richard 
Hakebourae,  in  Merton  College,  on  the  border  of 
the  collar  and  sleeves;  on  the  collar  of  the  chasuble 
of  the  brass  of  Walter  Frilend's,  at  Oakham, 
Surrey,  and  John  Alderburne  at  Lewknor  and 
others ;  and  on  those  of  Bishop  Branscomb,  Sir 
John  D'Abernoun,  and  many  others.  It  may, 
probably,  have  been  adopted  by  Christians  through 
its  consisting  of  four  gammas,  which,  as  numerals, 
expressed  the  Holy  Trinity,  and,  by  its  rectangular 
form,  symbolized  the  chief  corner-stone  of  the 
Church. 


Fig.  22. 


Ifflfflffl 


Pig.  23. 


Pig.  26.  Fig.  27. 

The  Fylfot  either  in  its  simple  f^J  form,  or  of  more  or  less 
complicated  development  pU  or  combined  with  other  Figures, 
was  also  a  favourite  device  upon  mediaeval  bells,  and  enters, 
not  nnfrequently,  into  the  marks  adopted  by  their  founders, 
more  especially  those  of  the  midland  counties  of  England.  Of 
these,  I  give  engravings  of  one  or  two  examples  on  Figs.  80  to 


Fig.  30. 


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YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


82.    As  the  ringing  of  the  Church  bells  in  times  of  tempest 
was  superstitiously  believed  to  drive  away  thunder,  probably 


Fig.  31. 
the  old  Thunderer  superstition  that  had  not  died  out  of  the 
popular  mind  might  have  had  something  to  do  with  the  putting 
thereon  the  sign  of  Thorr,   who  was 
i^-^x    ^|       y(     believed  to  have  power  over  storms 

Ifj)     1 1 1  /     and  tempests,  and  of  himself  throwing 

U-^     I  t=^4 1     the  thunderbolts. 

I  have  said,  perhaps,  enough  on  the 
u  subject  to  show  that  more  than  a  pass- 

u"" 1      (1  ing  interest  attaches  itself  to  even  so 

r      ■  j; — '1  apparently  trivial  a  matter  as  the  oc- 

currence of  an  out-of-the-way  ornament 
on  a  slab  in  a  village  church-yard,  and, 
I  trust,  by  so  doing  I  may  lead  others 
to  examine  more  closely  the  remains  of 
Fig.  82.  past  ages  that  are  spread  so  lavishly 

over  the  length  and  breadth  of  the  Island,  and  to  note  their 
peculiarities,  trace  out  their  symbolism  and  hidden  meaning* 
and  give  to  the  world  the-result  of  their  researches. 

The  Hollies, 
Driffield,  Derby. 


Baildon. — I  am  collecting  materials  for  a  History  of  Baildon 
and  the  Baildon  Family.  I  shall  be  very  grateful  for  any 
information.  Palet  Baildon. 

19,  Old  Buildings,  Lincoln's  Inn, 
London,  W.  C. 

Darton  Parish  Begistebs. — Have  the  Registers  of  Darton,. 
near  Barnsley,  been  published  ?  E.  H. — S. 


65 


VlS^MMtfitii'j 


Y.N.Q. 


96  YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

&b*  #t0ratrian  £tUkmtnir  |faln*rk,  fjorksljir*. 

A  chapter  of  Yorkshire  history  that  is  now  very  much  needed, 
and  that  ought  soon  to  be  written,  is  that  of  the  Work  of  the 
Moravian  Brethren  in  this  County,  which  began  as  far  back  as 
the  year  1788.  It  is  not  for  me  to  say  who  shall  write  this 
Chapter,  but  I  have  not  the  least  hesitation  in  saying  that  the 
Rev.  A.  C.  Hasse,  a  Moravian  Minister  and  Bishop  of  the 
Church,  is  the  gentleman  most  competent  for  such  a  task.  Not 
only  does  he  possess  the  necessary  materials  for  it,  but  he  has 
also  the  enthusiasm  of  a  genuine  antiquary,  and  a  reverence 
for  the  marvellous  labours  of  the  early  Brethren,  that  would 
enable  him  to  infuse  the  true  spirit  of  the  historian  into  his 
writings. 

Having  said  so  much  I  dare  not  venture  further,  on  this  head, 
unless  I  may  be  allowed  to  give  expression  to  the  hope  that 
this  useful  and  necessary  work  may  not  be  delayed  too  long. 
Mr.  Hasse  has  laboured  long  and  industriously  in  gathering  up 
the  fragments  that  go  to  make  a  complete  whole,  and  if  the 
compilation  and  completion  of  the  work  be  not  carried  out  by 
him  who  else  can  be  found  able  and  willing  to  do  it  ? 

In  the  absence  of  a  complete  narrative  of  Yorkshire  Moravian 
history,  one  has,  of  course,  to  be  thankful  for  any  small  con- 
tributions that  may  come  in  one's  way.  Perhaps  one  of  the 
best  of  these  is  the  pamphlet  that  was  issued  at  the  time  of  the 
celebration  of  the  Centenary  Jubilee  of  the  Brethren's  Yorkshire 
Congregations  in  1855. 

From  this  source  we  learn  that  in  1788,  John  Toeltschig,  one 
of  the  Brethren,  and  son  of  a  magistrate  in  Moravia,  was  sent 
to  Yorkshire,  at  the  Bev.  Benjamin  Ingham's  special  request, 
to  aid  him  in  the  work  of  evangelisation  which  he  was  carrying 
on  here.  He  was  followed  in  1741,  by  Peter  Boehler,  a  learned 
and  pious  man  among  the  Brethren,  and  at  the  head  of  the 
Fetter  Lane  Society  in  London,  connected  with  which  were 
John  and  Charles  Wesley,  and  many  Moravians  from  Germany. 
This  body  of  Christian  labourers  included  about  fifteen  preachers. 
In  1742,  a  number  of  them  accompanied  Toeltschig  into  York- 
shire, taking  up  their  abode  first  at  Smith  House,  Lightcliffe, 
the  residence  of  a  Mrs.  Holmes,  whose  husband  had  visited  the 
Brethren  in  London.  By  the  next  year  1748,  they  had  no  less 
than  47  meeting  houses  or  preaching  stations ;  several  of  which, 
in  later  times,  developed  into  "settled"  congregations,  such  as 
those  now  existing  at  Wyke,  Wellhouse,  Gomersal,  Baildon,  &c. 
The  land  for  the  Fulneck  settlement  was  purchased  by  the  Bev. 
Benjamin  Ingham,  for  the  Moravians,  in  January,  1744,  and 
at  Candlemas,  (Feby.  2)  one  month  after  the  purchase,  the 
Brethren  moved  into  the  houses  upon  the  top  of  the  hill,  one  of 
which  was  adapted  for  a  dwelling  for  the  "labourers/1  and 


YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES.         67 

another  fop  a  meeting  room.  The  whole  tract  of  land,  which 
now  forma  the  gardens,  meadows,  and  plantations  of  the  Ful- 
neck settlement,  was  then  one  wild,  uncultivated  common, 
covered  with  briars  and  brambles.  Applicable,  truly*  were  the 
words  of  the  prophet  to  this  chosen  spot;  "Instead  of  the  thorn 
shall  eome  up  the  fir  tree,  and  instead  of  the  briar  shall  come 
up  the  myrtle  tree." 

The  name  given  to  the  new  settlement  was  first  Lamb's  Hill ; 
afterwards  it  received  the  name  of  Grace  Hall,  and  about  1763, 
the  name  of  Fulneck.  It  was  in  May,  1746S  that  the  site  was 
consecrated,  and  the  foundation  stone  laid  by  the  brethren 
Toeltschig,  Oekershausen,  and  Hauptman.  In  March,  1748, 
the  portion  set  out  for  the  labourers  was  finished  and  im- 
mediately occupied.  The  whole  was  completed  in  June,  and 
was  solemnly  consecrated  by  Johannes  de  Watteville,  assisted 
by  Peter  Boahler.  The  Organ  was  erected  the  same  year  by 
Snetzler,  the  most  eminent  Organ  builder  in  England,  at  that 
period.  The  pulpit  was  not  erected  till  1750,  and  the  first 
preacher  who  occupied  it  was  the  gifted  Benjamin  La  Trobe. 
The  foundation  stones  were  laid  of  the  two  houses  (called  the 
Choir  houses)  for  the  brethren  and  sisters  by  Count  Zinzendorf, 
and  his  Bon  Benatus,  in  1749,  though  they  were  not  completed 
until  1752.  In  1767,  the  Sisters'  house  being  fall,  a  large  house 
at  Little-moor  was  rented  for  their  accommodation.  The  burial- 
ground  was  consecrated  1749.  From  1750  to  1758,  the  terrace 
and  gardens  were  laid  out.  The  boys'  school  was  built  in  1785, 
and  enlarged  in  1818 ;  and  in  the  year  1800,  Sunday  Schools 
were  established  by  the  Bev.  John  Hartley. 

In  order  to  carry  out  the  original  plan  of  a  settlement  and  to 
find  employment  for  the  brethren  and  sisters  living  at  Fulneck, 
diaconiea  or  establishments  for  carrying  on  different  trades 
were  commenced.  The  brethren's  house  began  the  clothing 
business  in  1756,  and  subsequently  a  worsted  and  glove  manu- 
factory, a  farm,  a  public  bakehouse,  a  tailor's,  and  a  shoemaker's 
business ;  while  in  the  sisters'  house  were  carried  on  different 
branches  of  needlework  and  hosiery  trades. 

Truly  marvellous  must  have  been  the  faith  of  the  Moravian 
brethren,  who  in  the  face  of  peculiar  trials  and  discouragements, 
could  set  about  the  erection  of  Chapels,  Ministers'  houses, 
Choir  houses,  and  Schools,  at  a  cost  of  not  less  than  £15,000, 
and  this  at  a  time  when  there  was  no  wealthy  religious  public 
to  appreciate  and  sympathise  with  their  efforts. 

Dear  and  venerated  spot,  what  memories  of  eminent  and 
worthy  men  are  written  in  its  very  walls!  Well  might  the 
Brethren  of  to  day  delight  to  honour  the  names  of  men  like 
Zinzendorf,  Spangenberg,  and  Boehler.  Fulneck  has,  indeed, 
a  history  of  which  it  may  well  feel  proud.  A  long  list  of  great 
and.  good  men,,  who  received  their  education  within  its  seminary, 


68  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 

might  easily  be  made,  but  it  will  suffice  to  enumerate — Richard 
Oastler,  the  "Factory  King";  James  Montgomery,  the  poet ; 
Edward  Atherstone,  author  of  "  The  Fall  of  Nineveh/'  &c; 
John  Edwards,  the  poet ;  and  members  of  the  distinguished 
La  Trobe  family.  W.8. 

We  are  indebted  to  Mr.  J.  J.  England,  of  Upper  Wortley, 
for  a  copy  of  the  rare  German  print  of  Fulneck.  Mr.  England 
has  done  most  valuable  service  for  the  future  History  *of  Mora- 
vianism  in  Yorkshire,  by  his  superb,  artistic  sketches,  of  which 
he  has  published  the  following: — Yorkshire  Moravian  Preaching 
Houses,  Fulneck,  (various  views),  Little  Horton,  Baildon,  Well 
House,  Heckmondwike,  Wyke,  Gomersall  ;  with  Fairfield, 
several  views,  and  Ockbrook.  Kirkstall  Abbey  is  the  subject 
of  two  other  of  Mr.  England's  sketches.  We  can  thoroughly 
endorse  from  personal  acquaintance,  our  correspondent's  re- 
marks as  to  the  pre-eminent  fitnesa  of  Bishop  Hasse  as  the 
Historian  of  the  Brethren,  and  hope  the  Yorkshire  Section  is 
far  advanced  in  his  hands. 


Common-land  Tbrms. — Could  you  kindly  refer  me  to  any 
book  or  pamphlet,  where  I  can  see  a  good  account  of  what  are 
called  "  Reins,"  boundaries  or  divisions  of  land.    W.B. — A.V. 

(Seebohm's  Villaqe  Gommnnitin.    Any  other  book  ?) 


High  Sunderland  is  an  ancient  mansion,  about  a  mile  from 
Halifax,  on  the  old  Bradford  Road,  and  seems  to  be  so  named 
from  its  high  situation,  and  on  account  of  the  land  being 
sundered,  or  separated,  for  some  purpose  or  other.  The  reason 
for  this  name  is  now  lost,  and  it  must  have  originated  in  Saxon 
times,  judging  not  only  by  the  etymology,  but  from  the  fact  of 
High  Sunderland  being  mentioned  in  the  Manorial  Bolls, 
yearly,  from  1800.  It  is  just  without  the  jurisdiction  of  the 
gibbet-law,  yet  we  scarcely  think  this  fact  can  have  any  relation 
to  its  sundered  position. 

Watson  thought  that  the  present  edifice  was  reared  about 
1597,  being  the  work  of  Richard  Sunderland,  who  married 
Susan  Saltonstall,  or  of  his  son  Abraham,  who  married  Eliza- 
beth Langdale,  but  more  probably  the  latter,  because  the  arms 
of  Saltonstall  and  Langdale,  impaled  with  those  of  Sunderland, 
are  found  in  the  windows.  A  pedigree  of  this  family,  with  the 
descent  to  the  present  time,  and  a  portrait  of  the  local  worthy, 
Captain  Langdale  Sunderland,  will  be  given  in  an  early  part. 
The  house  has  been  highly  decorated,  and  some  statues  and 
busts  still  remain.    Under  the  arms  of  Saltonstall,  Langdale, 


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69 


and  Thornhill,  (of  Fixby,  whence  Langdale  Sunderland  fetched 
his  wife,)  in  a  cnamber  window,  is  the  couplet, — 

Felix  quern  virtus  generosa  exornat  avorum, 


Et  qxii  vtrtute  suis  adjicit  ipse  decua.  L>S. 
(Happy  is  he  whom  the  illustrious  virtue  of  his  ancestors 
adorns,  and  who,  by  his  own  virtue,  adds  lustre  to  theirs.) 


70         YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

Thus  we  see  that  Langdale  did  something  towards  beautifying 
the  ancestral  home.  He  resided  afterwards  at  Coley  Hall,  as 
recorded  more  folly  in  Captain  John  Hodgson's  Memoirs.  Over 
the  North  door  at  High  Sunderland,  is  the  inscription, 

Ne  subeat  glis  serdus  (surdus) ; 
and  over  another  door  on  the  north  side, 

Ne  intret  amicus  hirudo. 
At  the  back  part  of  the  house  are  four  English  lines  too 
coarse  for  publication.    In  the  hall,  over  the  fire-place, 
Maxima  Domus  utilitas ;  et  pernicies,  Ignis  et  Lingua. 
(Houses  when  large  yield  comfort ;  fires  and  tongues  carry 
destruction  with  them.) 
Over  the  south  door : 
Hie  Locus  i  *'       ftmftt>     punit,   conservat,  honorat 

(Nequitiem,  pacem,  crimina,     jura,       probos. 
Confide  Deo,  Diffide  Tibi. 
This  Place  I     hates      loves  punishes  preserves    honours 
(profligacy  peace    crimes     justice     the  good. 
This  inscription  is  on  the  Town  House  at  Delft,  in  Holland, 
and  Glasgow  Town  Hall,  where  bonos  appears  for  probos.    A 
pillar  on  the  left  hand  of  the  south  door  bears  the  words — Patria 
Domus,  and  on  the  right  side— Optima  Caelum.    On  the  south 
front: 

Omnipotens  faxet,  stirps  Sunderlandia  sedes 
Incolet  has  placide,  et  tueatur  jura  parentum, 
Lite  vacans,  donee  fluctus  formica  marinos 
Ebibat,  et  totum  testudo  perambulet  orbem ! 
(The  Almighty  grant  that  the  family  of  Sunderland  may 
peaceably  possess  the  mansion  and  preserve  the  rights  of  its 
ancestors,  till  the  ant  drink  up  the  waters  of  the  sea,  and  the 
tortoise  traverse  the  whole  world.)    The  disasters  of  the  civil 
war  thwarted  this  comprehensive  wish,  for  Langdale  Sunder- 
land was  reduced  to  the  necessity  of  selling  his  ancestral  home, 
and  also  Coley  Hall,  to  the  Hortons.    Over  the  principal  gate- 
way is : 

Nunquam  hanc  pulset  portam  qui  violat  aquum. 
(Never  may  he  who  violates  justice  seek  to  enter  this  gate.) 
On  the  same  is  a  cherub  sounding  a  trumpet,  and  on  a  scroll : 
Fama  virtu  turn,  tuba  perennis. 
(The  fame  of  virtuous  deeds  is  a  perpetual  trumpet.) 
We  are  indebted  to  J.  Whiteley  Ward,  Esq.,  of  Halifax,  for 
the  following  abstract,  tracing  the  property  to  the  present  day. 
18  May,  1796.    At  a  Court  Baron  held  at  Wakefield,  for  the 
Manor  of  Wakefield,  on  this  date,  Thomas  Horton,  of  Hound- 
hill,  in  the  County  of  York,  Clerk,  came  before  the  Steward, 
with  the  consent  and  approbation  of  Sir  Watts  Horton,  of 
Chaderton  (or  Chadc/erton),  in  the  County  of  Lancaster,  Bart., 
(the  eldest  son  and  heir-at-law  of  Sir  Willm.  Horton,  Bart., 


YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES.         71 

deceased,  and  Grandson  and  heir-at-law  of  Thos.  Horton,  Esq.) 
and  took  of  the  Lord  of  the  feaid  Manor — 

All  the  copyhold  portion  of  the  houses,  farms,  lands,  and 
premises,  situate  at  High  Sunderland,  in  Northowram,  in 
the  Graveship  of  Hipperholme,  in  the  parish  of  Halifax. 

All  which  said  premises  had  been  then  lately  seized  into  the 
hands  of  the  Lord  of  the  said  Manor,  for  that  he,  the  said  Sir 
Watts  Horton,*  had  leased  the  same  by  an  Indenture,  dated 
the  2nd  March  then  last  past,  to  his  youngest  brother,  William 
Horton,  of  Chadderton,  Esquire,  for  a  term  of  twenty-one  years, 
"  without  fine  thereof  made  with  the  Lord  of  the  Manor  afore- 
"  said,  in  contempt  of  the  Lord,  and  contrary  to  the  custom  of 
"the  said  Manor,  as  at  Court  Baron  called  at  Wakefield 
"  aforesaid,  in  and  for  the  said  Manor,  of  the  2nd  day  of  March 
"  then  last  past,  by  a  certain  Inquest  then  sworn  for  the  Lord 
"  of  the  Manor  aforesaid,  it  was  found  and  presented ;  where 
"  upon  proclamation  was  openly  made  and  published  in  three 
"  usual  Courts  holden  at  Wakefield  aforesaid,  that  if  any  persons 
"  would  claim  to  hold  of  the  Lord  of  the  Manor  aforesaid,  all 
"  the  said  premises,  with  the  appurtenances,  and  for  the  same 
"pay  and  perform  to  the  Lord  of  the  Manor  aforesaid,  the 
"rents,  fines,  and  services  therefor  due  and  accustomed,  they 
"  shall  come  in  and  be  received,  and  nobody  did  claim  the  said 
"premises  except  the  said  Thomas  Horton  .  .  (one  of  the 
"brothers  of  the  said  Sir  Watts  Horton,)"  who  was  thereupon 
admitted  tenant  of  the  said  premises,  in  trust  for  the  said  Sir 
Watts  Horton. 

8th  May,  1798.  By  a  deed  of  this  date,  made  between  Sir 
Watts  Horton  of  the  first  part,  the  Bev.  Thomas  Horton  of  the 
2nd  part,  and  the  Bight  Hon.  Edward,  Earl  of  Derby,  the  Bev. 
Geoffrey  Hornby,  Bector  of  Wittwick,  Lancashire,  and  George 
Lloyd,  of  Manchester,  Esquire,  on  the  3rd  part,  the  property 
was  mortgaged  by  Sir  Watts  Horton  to  the  Earl  of  Derby,  Bev. 
G.  Hornby,  and  G.  Lloyd,  as  Executors  of  the  Will  of  the 
Honourable  Elizabeth  Horton,  the  late  wife  of  the  said  Thomas 
Horton.    [This  Mrs.  Horton  was  the  sister  of  the  Earl  of  Derby.] 

29th  March,  1808.  Sir  Watts  Horton  having  sold  the  pro- 
perty to  William  Walker,  of  Crow  NeBt,  near  Halifax,  Esquire, 
it  was  conveyed  to  the  latter  by  a  deed  of  this  date,  to  which 
the  mortgagees  (Mrs.  Horton's  Executors  as  above)  were  parties* 

19th  August,  1809.  Mr.  William  Walker,  by  his  will  of  this 
date,  gave  the  property  to  his  Nephew,  William  Priestley* 

27th  May,  1811.  William  Priestley  was  admitted  tenant  of 
the  property,  under  the  will  of  Mr.  Walker,  at  a  Court  held  at 
Halifax,  on  this  date,  for  the  Lord  of  the  Manor  of  Wakefield. 

•  Sir  Watts  Horton  appe&ro,  from  a  deed  dated  27  May,  1778,  to  bare 
dcmed  his  title  at  a  mnoh  earlier  datei 


72         YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

9th  Dec,  1858.  William  Priestley  (described  as  "  of  Boston 
Spa,  better  known  by  the  name  of  Thorp  Arch,  in  the  County 
of  York,  Esquire,")  by  his  will  of  this  date,  gave  all  his  real 
estate  to  his  Nephew,  John  Bawson,  of  Brockwell,  in  Sowerby, 
in  the  parish  of  Halifax,  who  was  admitted  as  tenant  at  a 
Court  held  at  Wakefield,  on  the  18th  January,  1861.  [Wm. 
Priestley  died  1  April,  I860.] 

3rd  June,  1861.  By  Indenture  of  this  date,  John  Rawson 
conveyed  the  property  to  Evan  Charles  Sutherland- Walker, 
then  of  Crow  Nest,  near  Halifax,  Esquire,  who  sold  it  to  the 
present  owners,  Messrs.  Ward,  in  1866. 

In  the  conveyance  to  Wm.  Walker,  (29  Mch.,  1808,)  there  is 
a  covenant  by  Sir  Watts  Horton,  to  produce  the  following  title 
deeds,  which  were  retained  in  his  possession,  viz., 

1709,  Aug.  24th  &  25th.  Indentures  of  Lease  and  Release 
made  between  Thomas  Horton,  of  Chadderton,  Esq.,  of  the  1st 
part,  Bichard  Mostyn,  of  London,  Merchant,  and  Ann  his 
daughter,  of  the  2nd  part,  Sir  Bichard  Grosvenor,  of  Eaton,  in 
the  County  of  Chester,  Bart.,  and  Sir  Boger  Mostyn,  of  Mostyn, 
in  the  County  of  Flint,  Bart.,  of  the  8rd  part,  Bichard  Mostyn, 
of  Pimbedow,  in  the  County  of  Denbigh,  Esq.,  Oswald  Moseley, 
of  Ancoates,  in  the  County  of  Lancaster,  Esq.,  of  the  4th  part, 
and  Bichard  Marriott,  of  Alcot,  in  the  County  of  Gloucester, 
Esq.,  and  Edward  Hopwood,  of  Hopwood,  in  the  County  of 
Lancaster,  Esq.,  of  the  5th  part. 

1751,  Aug.  1st  &  2nd.  Indentures  of  Lease  and  Release  made 
between  the  said  Thos.  Horton,  and  William  Horton,  his  eldest 
son  and  heir  apparent,  of  the  1st  part,  Alexander  Casson  and 
Bichard  Casson,  Gentlemen,  of  the  2nd  part,  and  William  Shaw 
and  William  Furnival,  Gentlemen,  of  the  8rd  part. 

Michaelmas  Term,  25  Geo.  3rd.*  Exemplification  of  a  Re- 
covery suffered  in  the  Common  Pleas  at  Westminster,  wherein 
the  said  William  Shaw  and  William  Furnival,  are  demandants, 
the  said  Alex.  Casson  and  Bichard  Casson,  tenants,  and  the 
said  Wm.  Horton,  vouchee. 

1758,  May  2nd  &  8rd.  Indentures  of  Lease  and  Release 
made  between  the  said  Thos.  Horton  of  the  1st  part,  Sir  Thomas 
Mostyn,  of  Mostyn,  aforesaid,  Bart.,  son  and  heir  of  the  said 
Sir  Boger  Mostyn,  then  deceased,  who  survived  the  said  Sir 
Bichd.  Grosvenor,  of  the  2nd  part,  the  said  Willm.  Horton  (by 
the  description  of  Wm.  Horton,  Esq.,  eldest  son  and  heir  ap- 
parent of  the  said  Thos.  Horton)  and  Susannah  his  wife,  late 
Susannah  Watts,  the  niece  and  heir  of  John  Watts,  Esquire, 
deceased,  of  the  3rd  part,  the  said  Edward  Hopwood  (who  had 
survived  the  said  Bichard  Marriott)  of  the  4th  part,  Joshua 
Horton,  George  Lloyd,  and  Susannah  his  wife,  Mary  Horton, 
Ann  Horton,  Jane  Horton,  and  Sarah   Horton,    Spinsters, 

*(?Geo.2nd.) 


Y0KK8HIRE    K0TE8    AND    QUERIES.  73 

(which  said  Joshua  Horton  is  described  to  be  the  younger  son, 
and  the  said  Susannah  Lloyd,  Mary,  Ann,  Jane,  and  Sarah 
Horton,  were  the  daughters  of  the  said  Thomas  Horton,  by  Ann 
his  wife,  deceased,)  of  the  5th  part,  Edward  Gregg,  of  Chamber, 
in  the  County  of  Lancaster,  and  Anthony  Cook,  of  Hunslet,  in 
the  County  of  York,  Esquires,  of  the  6th  part,  and  George 
Legh,  Doctor  in  Divinity,  Yicar  of  Halifax,  of  the  7th  part. 

1778,  May  26th  &  27th.  Indentures  of  Lease  and  Release 
made  between  the  said  Sir  Watts  Horton  of  the  1st  part, 
Thomas  Winckley  and  Walter  Eerfoot,  Gentlemen,  of  the  2nd 
part,  and  the  said  Edward,  Earl  of  Derby,  and  George  Lloyd 
of  the  3rd  part. 

Trinity  Term,  18  Geo.  8rd.  Exemplification  of  Recovery, 
wherein  the  said  Edward,  Earl  of  Derby,  and  George  Lloyd, 
are  Demandants,  the  said  Thos.  Winckley  and  Walter  Kerfoot, 
tenants,  and  the  said  Sir  Watts  Horton,  vouchee. 

1791,  Nov.  22nd.  Deed  Poll  from  said  Thomas  Horton,  of 
Whittington,  in  the  County  of  Lancaster,  Bachelor  of  Laws,  to 
the  said  Sir  Watts  Horton. 

Same  date.  Deed  Poll  from  William  Horton,  Esq.,  to  the 
said  Sir  Watts  Horton. 

1791,  Sept.  24th.  Indentures  made  between  the  said  Susannah 
Lloyd,  the  widow  and  relict  of  the  said  George  Lloyd,  mentioned 
in  the  Indenture  of  3rd  May,  1758,  Gamaliel  Lloyd,  Esq.,  the 
said  George  Lloyd  mentioned  in  the  Indenture  of  27th  May, 
1778,  and  Thos.  Lloyd,  Esquires,  the  Executrix  and  Executors 
of  the  before  mentioned  George  Lloyd,  who  survived  the  said 
George  Legh,  of  the  1st  part,  the  said  Thomas  Horton  and 
William  Horton  of  the  2nd  part,  and  the  said  Sir  Watts  Horton 
of  the  3rd  part. 

— — o 

ANCIENT  SESSIONS  NOTES  EXTRACTED  FROM 
THE   ORIGINALS. 

Burials  in  Woollen. — Account  of  moneys  received  by  the 
Overseers  of  Nun  Monkton  of  my  Lady  Caney  for  burying 
George  Payler,  Esq.,  her  husband,  in  linning  contrary  to  the 
late  Act  of  Parlmt.  To  John  Bowser  the  informer  21.  10s.  OOd. 
total  £5. 

Ecclesfield,  Oct.  14, 1678.  A  register  of  all  burials  there  since 
1  August;  nine  persons,  Mr.  Leonard  Reresby  being  one. 
Affidavits  received  by  S.  Slack,  curate.  Sworn  before  H.  Ed- 
munds, Esq.,  J.  P. 

South  Kirkby,  1678.  Burials  in  woollen.  Testified  by  J. 
Gibson,  minister,  before  the  Hon.  Thomas  Yarburgh,  Esq.,  J.P. 

Kippax  and  Meltham  bills  of  burials  in  woollen  as  by  Act  of 
Parliament.    1689. 

Bbkad. — Robert  Wells  of  Thome,  1670,  charged  under  the 
Assize  of  Bread. 


74         YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

Coining. — The  neighbourhood  of  Halifax  was  formerly  noto- 
rious for  coiners.  In  1685  a  number  of  Ovenden  men  were 
indicted  at  Wakefield  for  clipping  money.  Justices  Horton  and 
Townely  took  evidence  at  Brighouse,  July  2nd,  1691,  respecting 
Halifax  coiners.  A  petition  was  presented  at  Wakefield,  Octo- 
ber, 1688,  asking  that  6ome  remedy  might  be  provided  to  enforce 
persons  to  receive  money  in  trading  which  may  be  cracked,  if 
it  be  ourrent  coin.  The  noble  was  a  common  coin  at  that  time, 
and  we  find  articles  mentioned  as  "  worth  a  noble  of  gould." 

Quakrels. — Great  quarrel  between  Mr.  ffranois  Leigh  of 
Midleton  and  Robert  Baynes  of  Naustrope ;  both  bound  to  good 
behaviour  for  twelve  months.     Wakefield,  October,  1687. 

Mr.  John  Dodsworth  de  Haddockstones  in  Markinton,  gent., 
bound  to  answer  charges  brought  against  him  by  his  son  Mr. 
Thomas  Dodsworth  of  Morkar  who  is  afraid  that  his  father  will 
burn  his  barns,  Ac,  and  complains  that  his  father  breaks  his 
windows  and  doores,  and  causes  his  servants  to  depart  out  of 
his  service.     Enaresborough,  October,  1677. 

Rt.  Hon.  Arthur  Lord  Viscount  Erwin  bound  in  £600,  and 
obtained  for  bondsmen  Arthur  Ingram  of  Thorpe,  gent.,  and 
William  Nevill  of  Holbeck,  gent.,  in  £250  each ;  Lord  Erwin  to 
appear  for  striking  Sir  William  Lowther,  J.P.,  in  open  court 
without  any  provocation.    Leeds,  July,  1693. 

Berzilla  Habergham  of  Clay  House,  for  setting  a  pair  of  tup 
horns  vpon  Jos  Smithson's  House  at  Ealand,  indicted.  Wake- 
field, Oct.,  1690. 

Mrs.  Catherine  Palmes,  a  Roman  Catholiok,  now  living  at  the 
house  of  Mr.  Thomas  Waterton  of  Walton  in  ye  westrideing, 
hath  by  undue  means  and  practices  got  into  her  custody  Ann 
ffranees  Stringer  (an  infant),  daughter  of  William  and  Christa* 
bella  Stringer,  gentleman  and  gentlewoman,  protestants,  and 
detains  her  from  her  mother ;  ordered  that  she  be  given  up. 
Sr  John  Powell,  Justice  of  Assize.     Wakefield,  Oct.,  1690. 

Allan  Cockin  of  Barnby  upon  Dunn,  beinge  clarke  to  Roger 
Portington,  Esq.,  J.P.,  came  to  Pontefract  Seas,  with  some 
recognizances  and  about  other  business,  and  lodged  at  the 
house  of  John  Bracebridge  in  Pontefract,  and  beinge  gone  to 
bed  a  minister  of  great  Stature  unknown  to  this  informant 
came  into  this  informants  lodginge  roome  and  finding  him  in 
bed  fell  upon  him  violently  and  caught  him  by  the  throat  and 
offered  to  throttle  him,  whereupon  this  informant  struglinge 
got  out  of  bed  from  the  said  minister,  who  pursued  this  infor- 
mant, threw  him  upon  another  bed,  and  was  lifting  up  his  hands 
to  strike  when  one  Mr.  Gaythorne  of  Pollington  in  the  other 
bed  got  hold  of  the  said  minister's  hands  and  persuaded  him  to 
forbeare  this  informant,  before  which  time  the  said  minister  had 
alsoe  seized  this  informants  breeches  and  about  ten  shillings  in 
money  therein,  besides  other  things  in  his  pockets,  and  refuses 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES.  75 

to  deliver  them,  but  took  up  this  informants  bedd,  and  still  this 
informant  alsoe  wants  his  hatt,  stockings,  boots  and  other 
things  in  the  said  roome.  This  is  endorsed  "  Against  -Henry 
Crabtree  of  Stansfeld  Hall."    (169-)    ?  Author  of  "Almanack." 

Robbkbibs. — Highway  robbery  between  Laughton  in  le  Morth- 
ing  and  Firbeck  by  two  men  on  horseback  armed  with  swords, 
pistols  and  carbines  like  soldiers,  each  of  them  having  on  a 
breast  belt  and  white  coats,  having  their  faces  disguised,  who 
took  from  Thomas  Bate  of  Aughton  six  pounds.  Petitions  for 
the  loss  to  be  repaired.  The  Earl  of  Holderness  and  others 
testify  to  the  good  character  of  Bate.  Pontefract,  April,  1690. 
Sometimes  these  petitions  were  rejected  on  the  ground  that  it 
was  only  a  pretence  of  being  robbed  on  purpose  to  obtain  an 
estreat  on  the  wapontake,  each  being  responsible  for  robberies 
within  its  boundaries  if  the  person  robbed  raised  hue  and  cry. 

£21  estreated  on  Agbrigg  and  Morley  for  Edward  Kenyon, 
who  had  been  robbed.     Wakefield,  Oct.,  1694. 

Bobbery  committed  upon  Yallerius  German  icus  Hailes,  ser- 
vant to  Mr.  Burrows,  being  moneys  of  Sir  Richard  Lloyd,  1675. 
The  amount,  £327,  estreated  on  Strafforth  and  Tickhill. 

James  Maylins,  Apothecary,  Botherham,  robbed  at  Maltby 
Wood.     £280  estreated  on  Strafford  and  Tickhill,  1676. 

Henry  Sykes  and  Joseph  Millner  apprehended  at  Earlsheaton, 
and  afterwards  suffered  death  for  horse  stealing  and  as  high- 
waymen.    Leeds,  July,  1687. 

Constables. — Petition  from  Carus  Philipson,  vicar,  and  eight 
others  of  Almondbury  for  a  Constable,  as  the  late  one  died  a 
week  before  this  application,  and  the  Lady  of  the  Manor  refuses 
to  call  a  court  as  her  steward  resides  at  a  great  distance  and 
the  weather  is  unreasonable.  Jan.  1689.  George  Sykes,  senr., 
appointed  by  the  Justices. 

Mr.  Jarvis  Cornewell,  Cheefe  Constable,  and  six  others  from 
Swinfleet  and  district,  summoned  for  jurors,  excused  the  fine  for 
lateness  by  reason  of  ye  great  watr.    Doncaster,  Jan.  1681. 

Thomas  Pease  of  Ossett,  Constable,  indicted  (1)  for  refuseing 
to  sett  much  and  trrw/,  (2)  not  keeping  a  cucking  stool,  (8)  not 
repairing  the  butts.     Wakefield,  Oct.,  1690. 

Constables  were  sometimes  indicted  for  neglect  of  duty.  They 
had  frequently  disagreeable  tasks  to  perform.  1671 — Each 
Constable  received  orders  from  the  respective  Chief  Constables 
as  required  at  the  Sessions,  to  search  for  guns,  bows,  nets, 
greyhounds,  &c. ;  to  enquire  if  any  artificer,  harvestmen,  or 
servant  had  more  wages  than  the  statute  allowed.  In  1688  they 
had  to  search  for  conventicles  and  take  two  persons  with  them 
as  witnesses.  "  The  Constable  of  Hipp'holme  cm  Brighouse 
answer  to  the  Want  from  the  Cheefe  Constable  to  the  said 
Constable  directed,  April  16th,  1688— 

Noe  Papist  recusant  found  upon  last  search. 


76         YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

Noe  popish  priest  within  our  Constably. 

Nor  Jesuits. 

Noe  absenters  from  divine  service  nor  any  vnlawfull  assem- 
ble. John  Kershawe,  Const.*'  1688 — Constables  to  search 
for  all  rogues,  beggars,  petty  chapmen  especially  those  of  the 
kingdom  of  Scotland. 

Petition  of  Ester  Bramhall  reciting  That  Nicholas  Bramhall 
yor  peticoners  husband  was  made  Constable  of  Huddersfield 
for  this  psent  yeare  and  yor  poore  petitioner  being  a  poore 
widdow  hath  noe  sonne  to  suply  the  office  her  sonnes  being 
little  boyes,  and  the  townesmen  doe  charge  yor  poore  petitioner 
to  provide  a  man  to  pforme  the  office  for  the  residue  of  this 
yeare  begs  that  another  may  be  elected.  Pontefract,  April,  1681. 

Privileged  Places— Otley. — The  freeholders,  &c,  of  Otley 
are  not  to  be  summoned  to  be  jurymen  &c,  at  Sessions,  being 
under  his  Grace  the  Archbp  of  Yorks  liberty.     1679. 

Howley. — Abraham  Harrison  of  Howley  Hall  (one  of  the 
servts  of  James  Lord  Viscount  Savile,  Earl  of  Sussex)  being 
appointed  Collector  of  the  psent  three  months  Assessmts  of  the 
Boyall  Ayde  for  Morley,  Howley  Hall,  however,  being  a  privi- 
ledged  place  and  that  noe  psons  liveing  at  Howley  Hall  ought 
to  serve  any  office  within  the  constableiy  of  Morley,  the  warrant 
was  suppressed  and  Robert  Morley  of  Morley  appointed  under 
the  hands  and  seals  of  Sr  John  Armytage,  Sir  John  Kaye  and 
ffrancis  Whyte,  Esq.,  1665.  Ordered  also  that  he  be  freed  from 
keeping  any  town  apprentice. 

Kirk  Burton. — Petition  reciting  that  temps  Elizabeth  there 
was  a  ffivepenny  rate  in  the  Book  of  Rates  for  £.  Burton  towards 
Agbrigg  and  Morley,  and  at  Quarter  Sessions  held  at  Leeds, 
Oct.  5,  24  Chas.  I.,  to  remain  soe  according  to  a  survey  called 
Barnards  Survey,  since  which  time  by  some  mistake  or  other 
(ffor  there  was  noe  order  for  an  alteration)  the  rate  is  7jd.  to 
the  great  grievance  and  overcharge  of  the  poor. — Leeds,  July, 
1691. 

Bothwell. — Petition  stating  that  about  100  years  since  it 
was  decided  to  divide  that  large  Constablery  into  three  parts — 
Bothwell  and  Boodes,  Owlton  and  Wodleford,  Lofthouse  and 
Carleton ;  now  improperly  rated. — 1675. 

Heptonstall. — Petition  for  a  proper  assessment.  Pontefract, 
1680. 

Cawthobne.— Petition  of  Mr.  Christopher  Walbank,  curate 
for  seventeen  years  past,  to  be  freed  from  poor  rate  and  an 
apprentice.    Pontefract,  April,  1680. 

New  Mellkb  Dam. — Francis  Nevyle,  Esq.,  having  two  water 
corn  milne8  att  New  Miller  Dam  in  Sandall  rated  at  £100  a 
year,  states  that  they  do  not  make  more  than  £40  a  year.   1678. 


YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES.         77 

Laweton. — This  Constablery  being  very  large  and  vast,  they 
petition  for  three  constables,  or  the  Constablery  to  be  divided 
into  three.     1676.  J.H.T. 

Woolcombkrb  Fifty  Years  A oo.  —  Perhaps  some  remi- 
niscences from  the  life  of  a  woolcomber  fifty  years  ago  might 
not  be  ont  of  place  at  the  present  time,  for  the  reason  that  the 
people  of  to-day  have  scarcely  any  impressions  brought  before 
them  of  the  habits  of  life  and  the  thought  of  that  time.  The 
woolcomber  stands  out  in  bold  relief,  a  kind  of  rough  sculptured 
work,  when  compared  with  the  machine-hand  of  the  present 
day,  and  therefore  he  ought  not  to  be  lost  sight  of  when  looking 
over  the  varied  phases  of  manufacturing  life.  The  combers 
were  mostly  drawn  from  the  agricultural  districts,  attracted  by 
the  promise  of  high  wages,  and  the  chance  of  being  put  into  an 
independent  position.  These  promises  were  sounded  far  and 
wide,  so  that  in  a  brief  space  of  time  men  were  brought  to 
Bradford  from  great  distances.  They  came  from  Kendal,  North 
Yorkshire,  Leicester,  Devonshire,  and  even  from  the  Emerald 
Isle,  so  that  to  spend  an  hour  in  a  public-house  (soon  after  the 
passing  of  the  Act  to  be  drunk  on  the  premises,)  you  might,  when 
they  had  footings  in,  havo  heard  all  sorts  of  dialects  and 
jargon,  and  when  disputes  arose  as  to  who  was  the  best  work- 
man, there  would  be  volleyed  forth  regular  hurricanes  of  oral 
disputations.  There  might  have  been  seen  in  front  of  any 
public-house  constantly  piled  up  large  numbers  of  combers 
"fadges,"  as  the  employers  of  that  time  were  not  afraid  to  trust 
the  strangers  with  combs  and  charcoal,  oil,  soap,  and  various 
other  sorts  of  material,  to  take  home  at  their  own  risk,  and 
scarcely  any  of  them  but  what  returned  the  "dozen "  of  wool. 
Now,  the  woolcomber,  as  a  rule,  brought  his  country  habits 
with  him.  His  attachment  to  rural  affairs  may  be  borne  out  by 
the  fact,  that  in  hay-time  and  harvest  he  used  to  lay  aside  his 
woolcombs,  and  take  up  the  scythe  and  sickle,  and  go  down  into 
the  low  country  a-harvesting.  He  was  also  very  fond  of  trying 
his  strength  at  all  kinds  of  athletic  sports.  He  was,  as  a  rule, 
a  bird  fancier,  and  made  his  comb-shop  into  a  regular  aviary. 
Two  combers  having  a  short  "  confab"  about  birds,  one  said  to 
the  other,  "Jem,  I  naw  wat  ad  happen  if  awther  on  us  belonged 
to  EsholtHall."  "Wha,  wat?"  rejoined  Jack.  "Wha,  we 
sud  spend  t'  main  of  our  time  e'  catching  larlcs! "  Some  of  the 
combers  had  a  great  talent  for  elocution,  and  could  recite  with 
wonderful  power,  and  with  such  models  before  them  as  the 
elder  Eean,  Young  and  Holloway  (?)  they  had  opportunities  of 
witnessing  histrionic  displays  such  as  people  of  the  present 
time  have  no  conception  of.  There  was  also  great  taste  dis- 
played by  some  of  the  combers  in  the  walks  of  art ;  and,  if  not 
original  in  their  work,  some  of  them  were  marvellous  in  their 
efforts  at  copying  pictures  in  oil  colours,  and,  as  they  were 


78        YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

under  no  surveillance,  therefore,  when  under  inspiration,  down 
went  the  combs  and  up  went  the  palette,  although  at  the  risk 
of  being  "pent"  at  " carrying-day.' '  He  made  up  his  lost 
time  by  "  waking  "  or  lighting  up,  so  as  to  "  'liver  in  "  on  a 
certain  day.  In  politics  the  comber  was  somewhat  of  a  Demo- 
crat, and  if  he  had  been  in  the  ascendant  in  these  days  of 
strikes  and  combination,  he  would  have  been  a  formidable  foe 
to  the  lock-out  system.  He  has  left  his  work  in  that  line  on 
record.  It  eame  in  with  Tester  and  culminated  with  George 
White,  who  sold  their  cause,  like  Esau's  birthright,  for  a  mere 
"  mess  of  pottage."  Bradford    Operative. 

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Letter  to  Sib  Wm,  Calverley. — The  following  letter  from 
Sir  Harry  Wentworth,  of  Nettlested,  county  Suffolk,  (ancestor 
of  the  Barons  Wentworth),  addressed  in  1497  to  Sir  William 
Galverley,  of  Galverley,  in  Yorkshire,  from  whom  descended  the 
extinct  baronets  of  that  name,  is  perhaps  of  sufficient  local 
interest  to  merit  a  corner  in  your  "  Notes  and  Queries"  column. 
The  original  letter,  whioh  is  in  the  British  Museum,  is  written 
on  a  slip  of  paper  measuring  eleven  inches  by  four  inches,  and 
is  signed  by  Sir  Harry  Wentworth  : 

44  Right  wourshipfulle  cousin,  I  recommend  me  unto  you. 
And  where*  it  fortuned  me  in  my  retourne  home  from  West- 
chestre,  to  meit  my  lord  Darby,  my  lord  Strange,  and  other  at 
Whalley  abbey,  by  whome  I  had  the  sight  of  such  letters  as 
were  directed  unto  theme  from  the  kinges  grace;  apper- 
ceyuing  by  the  same  that  Perkin  Warbeke  is  londed  in  the  west 
parties,  of  Cornwelle,  wherfore  I  wolle  pray  you,  and  allso  in 
the  kinges  name  aduertise  you,  to  be  in  aredynesf  in  your  owin 
persone,  with  suche  company  as  you  make  to  serue  his  high- 
ness, vpon  an  our{  warnyng,  when  his  grace  shalle  calle  vpone 
you.  For  the  which  I  doubte  not  but  his  highnes  shalle  geve 
you  thankes  aocordinge.  As  our  lord  knoith,  who  preserne 
you !  Written  in  the  kinges  castelle  of  Rnaresburght,  the  xvij 
dey  of  Septembre. 

"  your  [frend]  and  cosyne,  syr 

"Harry  Wentworth. 

"  Addressed 

44  To  his  wourshipfulle  cosin  syr  William 
Galuerley,  knight,  in  haste." 

*  Whereas.     +  readiness.     ;  hour's. 

8.  Batneb. 


References  to  Abdsley,  near  Wakefield. — In  Domesday 
Book,  (1086)  as  4(  Erdeslau."  In  Nomina  Villarum,  (1284)  as 
"  Herdeslai."  In  Kirkby's  Inquest,  (1284)  as  4<  Ardeslawe."  In 
Burton's  u  Monasticon"  Woodkirk  alias  Woodohuroh,  or  West 


YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES.         79 

Ardsley.  In  Whitakers  "  Loidi*  and  Efmete"  as  regards  its  Mo- 
nastic origin  and  genealogical  particulars  of  the  Clergy  and 
lay-patrons.  In  Scatchtrd't  "  History  of  A.orky"  under  the  head 
of  "  Wood-church,"  and  "Ardsley."  The  account  of  East 
Ardsley  is  in  several  points  incorrect  and  unsatisfactory.  For 
instance  he  states  that  the  "  old  Hall  at  one  extremity  of  the 
Tillage,"  known  as  the  residence  of  the  Shaw  family  in  the  17th 
and  18th  centuries,  "was  the  Manor  House."  This  is  not  correct, 
the  "  Manor  House  "  is  an  old  thatched  cottage  about  the  mid- 
dle of  the  village,  just  off  the  Wakefield  and  Bradford  Road 
and  belongs  to  W.  G.  J.  Dealtry,  Esq.,  of  Thorpe-on-the-Hffl. 
Again,  the  rudely  carved  figure  over  the  doorway  of  the  "  Shaw" 
Hall  is  a  talbot  (hunting-dog)  not  "  a  griffin  or  dragon,"  the 
former  being  the  crest  of  the  Shaws.  He  is  wrong,  too,  in  as- 
serting that  a  CopUy  built  the  Hall  in  1622,  which  date  appears 
on  a  gable  pinnacle.  It  is  far  more  likely  that  a  "  Robert " 
Shaw  erected  the  mansion,  whose  Christian  name  "Robart," 
remains  cut  on  the  porch  jamb,  but  the  surname  has  been  worn 
away.  The  motto  "In  Domine  confido,  1632"  not  1652,  is 
•till  visible.  There  are  other  points  which  exhibit  the  careless- 
ness of  Scatcherd  in  gathering  information.  The  estate  came 
to  the  Copleys  of  Nether  Hall,  Doncaster,  by  the  intermarriage 
of  a  Robert  Copley,  in  1707,  with  Ellinor  Shaw,  the  daughter 
and  last  heiress  of  Robert  Shaw,  merchant,  and  therefore  not 
through  the  Saviles,  as  presumed  by  Scatcherd. 

It  is  not  quite  true  that  "  the  Register  goes  no  further  back 
than  1662, "  marriages  and  burials  of  East  Ardsley  commence 
in  1654,  and  the  baptisms  in  1662;  West  Ardsley  in  1652. 

"Banks'  Walks  about  Wakefield,"  (1871)  contains  an  account 
of  East  and  West  Ardsley,  which  though  somewhat  brief,  is  far 
truer,  and  more  reliable,  because  for  genealogical  and  ecclesi- 
astical matters,  free  use  has  been  made  of  the  Registers,  and 
Heraldic  Visitations,  and  Legal  documents,  <&c,  which  are  the 
true  foundations  of  biographical  history. 

"  Parson's  History  of  Leeds,"  Vol.  2,  page  11 ,  chiefly  dilates  on 
the  connection  with  Ardsley,  of  John  Field,  the  "  early  astrono- 
mer," and  James  Naylor,  the  "religious  imposter." 

"Taylor's  Churches  of  Leeds,"  contains  a  compiled  account 
of  the  church  affairs,  parochial  charities,  and  the  more  modern 
perpetual  curates. 

"Ardsley  in  the  Olden  Times,"  a  series  of  articles  which  ap- 
peared in  the  East  Ardsley  Parish  Magazine,  from  April,  1880, 
to  1864,  by  John  Batty,  containing  archaeological  matters ; 
a  sketch  of  the  Incumbents  from  the  "Restoration,"  and 
references  to  Parish  Officials,  culled  from  the  Church  Registers, 
and  from  17th  and  18th  century  Gravestones,  &c. 
•  "The  Study  of  East  Ardsley  Town's  Book,  1652  to  1696." 
Two  papers  read  in  April,  1882,  by  Mr.  John  Batty,  before  the 


80        YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

Bradford  Historical  and  Antiquarian  Society,  pretty  folly  re- 
ported in  the  "  Bradford  Chronicle  and  Mail."  These  papers 
chiefly  dealt  with  the  carious  items  referring  to  social  manners, 
customs,  and  punishments. 

"  Lawton's  Collections,"  (1842),  for  account  of  East  and  West 
Ardsley  Churches. 

"  The  Lay  Subsidy  Boll,  (Bic.  II.)  1879.  Names  of  the  Laity. 

"  The  Subsidy  Boll  of  Hen.  VIH.,  1522.  Names  of  the 
people  of  substance. 

44  The  Manor  Court  Bolls  of  Wakefield,  take  in  "  West  Ardis- 
lawe,"  but  not  East.  The  whereabouts  of  those  including  the 
latter,  are  not  at  present  known;  probably  with  those  of 
Bradford,  as  the  freeholders  of  East  Ardsley  had  to  attend 
44  Sheriff's  Turn,"  and  "  Court  Leet,"  at  one  time  held  at  Ad-  I 
walton,  and  latterly  at  Bradford.  I  understand  that  the  ancient  ' 
Manor  Court  Bolls  of  Bradford  are  deposited  in  the  Becord 
Office,  London.  • 

44  The  Hearth  Tax  Bolls  "  in  the  Public  Becord  Office,  those 
for  1666  and  1671-2,  were  published  in  the  4<  Wakefield  Herald." 

44  The  Poll  Books,"  1741  and  1807,  for  names  of  Freeholders, 
their  residences,  and  possessions. 

I  must  not  omit  to  say  that  the  "Rectory  Manor  Court  Bolls 
of  Wakefield,"  contain  allusions  to  the  living  of  East  Ardsley, 
for  the  reason  that  in  1660,  it  was  endowed  with  certain  copy 
hold  lands  in  Wakefield,  and  elsewhere,  and  at  the  decease  of 
an  incumbent,  the  succeeding  incumbent  had  to  appear  at 
Court  Baron  to  make  surrender,  to  do  fealty,  and  pay  relief  to 
the  Lord  of  Manor,  in  order  to  be  admitted  tenant. 

44  Lewis's  Topographical  Dictionary,  1845."  Church  Statis- 
tics, &c,  population,  charities,  &c. 

The  44  Liber  Begis,"  Henry  VIH.  Trades,  charities,  early 
valuation  of  benefice,  Patrons,  Dedication,  name. 

"Dugdale's  Visitations,"  1666;  Glover's  do.,  1584-5;  and 
1612,  St.  George,  give  genealogical  particulars  of  some  leading 
families.  There  is  an  allusion  to  "  West  Ardislawe,"  in  the 
Calendar  of  Charters  and  Bolls,  in  the  Bodleian  Library,  Ox- 
ford, 1878. 

44  The  West  Ardsley  Town's  Book,"  contains  a  close  list  of 
Churchwardens,  Overseers,  and  Constables'  names,  from  1653 
to  1802,  and  different  Parish  receipts,,  and  disbursements,  from 
1752  to  1800. 

44 The  East  Ardsley  Town's  Book"  also  contains  lists  of 
officials ;  members  of  the  "  Trained  Bands!";  those  who  received 
44  Parish  Apprentices,"  1727  to  1818.  44  Workhouse"  Accounts, 
and  Church  Memoranda  to  1848.  4(  Valuation  of  the  land  and 
housing  in  East  Ardsley,"  1774. 

In  the  "  Calendar  of  State  Papers,"  1656,  is  a  reference  to    . 
Woodkirh  Fair  in  1656,  (Domestic  Series),  containing  a  petition 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES.  81 

of  the  inhabitants  wishing  for  its  abolition,  because  of  the  rab- 
ble and  tumults  caused  by  it. 

In  the  "  Church  Begisters  "  are  instances  of  Commonwealth 
marriages  before  Justices.  Those  of  tVoodkirk,  from  1652,  con- 
tain the  family  names  of  Pickering,  Marshall,  Coppindale, 
Thomlinson,  Ac;  those  of  East  Ardsley,  Graunt,  Sunderland, 
Greenwood,  Elmsall  a  branch  of  the  "ThornhilT'  Elmsalls, 
Smith  or  Smyth,  of  Heath,  Shaw,  Deighton,  Hodgson,  Nettle- 
ton,  Casson,  Bay,  of  Howley.  The  marriage  of  Clifton 
Wintringham,  eminent  Physician,  with  Elizabeth  Nettleton, 
also  of  Ann  Oglethorpe,  with  a  John  Plantagnett,  (alluded  to 
in  the  Wentworth  Papers,  and  in  Heywood's  Diaries). 

"  West  and  East  Ardsley  Inclosure,  1829,"  (Leeds  Mercury.) 
The  compiler  of  this  account  has  a  copy  of  the  "  Terriers  "  of 
Glebe  lands,  for  East  and  West  Ardsley,  for  1684,  and  abstracts 
from  those  of  1781,  1809-17-25 ;  also  "  copy  of  a  petition  of 
Freeholders,  of  East  Ardsley,  1721,"  for  an  augmentation  of 
the  living,  by  an  enclosure  from  the  common  of  about  80  acres. 

"Hunter's  notes  on  John  Field,"  the  '*  proto-copernioian  of 
England,"  who  was  buried  at  East  Ardsley,  1586.  The  Editor 
of  the  Yorkshire  Notes  and  Queries  has  several  notes  on  the 
same  family. 

The  field-names  of  East  Ardsley,  are  noticed  in  Robert's 
"Lofthouse,"  Vol.  I,  (1882),  pages  6-11. 

" Ardsley  as  a  place  name/'  by  John  Batty,  "Yorkshire 
Weekly  Post,"  July  8th,  1884.  The  different  modes  of  spelling 
the  name  from  1086  to  1664. 

"The  Old  Hall,  at  East  Ardsley,"  by  John  Batty,  "Yorkshire 
Post,"  Feb.  3rd,  1888,  giving  an  archaeological  description  of  it, 
and  some  particulars  of  its  former  possessors. 

The  "  Building  News,"  of  March  80th,  1888,  published  an 
architectural  sketch  with  details  of  ornamentations  of  East 
Ardsley  Old  Hall,  the  drawings  being  executed  bjf  Mr.  W.  A. 
Richardson,  architect,  of  Bothwell. 

Photos  of  the  old  and  curious  Church,  pulled  down  in  1880, 
may  be  commonly  seen  in  the  houses  of  the  parishioners.  Also 
a  photo  of  the  Norman  Doorway,  restored  and  nicely  inserted 
in  the  present  Church  porch,  is  in  the  possession  of  the  com- 
piler of  this  account. 

The  "  Wakefield  Free  Press/'  Feby.  20th,  1886,  contains  an 
article  entitled  "  The  Curiosities  of  a  School  Board  Census," 
which  furnishes  useful  social  statistics  of  East  Ardsley. — The 
favourite  and  peculiar  Christian  child-names,  prevailing  sur- 
names, and  general  remarks  about  the  present  condition  and 
future  development  of  the  place.  In  the  same  paper,  July  24th, 
1886.—"  Annals  of  the  Poor,"  founded  on  a  large  number  of 
certificates  relating  to  the  poor  of  East  Ardsley  from  1705  to 
1826,  in  which  are  given  a  brief  sketch  of  some  of  the  Justices 

T.K.Q.  P 


82        Y0BK8HIBE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

of  the  Peace,  a  list  of  local  Colliery  Owners,  Farmers,  Crafts- 
men, &c.    Both  articles  were  written  by  Mr.  John  Batty. 

Ebkata  : — "  Ardsley,  near  Wakefield,"  "  Notes  and  Queries  " 
section ; 
On  page  78,  instead  of  "  Nomitta,"  read  "  Nomina.*' 

„       79, 11th  line,  omit  "  W,"  and  read  "  C.  J.Dealtry,Esq." 
„        „    19th     „    instead  of  "  Domini,"  read  "  Domino/' 
„        „    48rd    „     fill  up  hiatus  with  "  June." 
„       80,  11th    ,,    omit  "  those  including/1  and  read  "  the 
whereabouts  of  the  latter." 

East  Ardsley.  John  Batty,  f.b.hist.s. 


%ivklttx  ilnnturg. 

By  S.  J.  Chadwick. 

They  toke  togyder  theyr  counsell 

Bobyn  Hode  for  to  sle, 
And  how  they  myght  best  do  that  dede, 

His  banis  for  to  be. 

Than  bespake  good  Bobyn, 

In  place  where  as  he  stode, 
To  morow  I  muste  to  Eyrkesley 

Crafteley  to  be  leten  blode. 

Syr  Boger  of  Donkestere, 
[And  the  pryoresse  of  Kyrkesley,] 

There  they  betrayed  good  Bobyn  Hode, 
Through  theyr  false  playe. 

A  Lytell  Geste  of  Bobyn  Hode. 

Very  few  of  the  many  persons  who  call  at  the  ancient  hostelry 
of  the  "  Three  Nuns  "  at  Nunbrook,  ever  stop  to  consider  what 
was  the  origin  of  the  sign  which  looks  down  upon  them  from 
the  front  of  the  Inn,  nor  do  they  trouble  to  think  about  the  old 
associations  of  the  immediate  neighbourhood.  Most  of  them  no 
doubt  believe  that  Bobin  Hood  lies  buried  in  the  adjoining  park 
of  Eirklees,  and  some  may  have  heard  that  he  was  bled  to 
death  by  a  Nun,  but  very  few  persons  indeed  know  that  for 
three  centuries  and  a  half  there  flourished  in  the  immediate 
neighbourhood  a  Nunnery  or  Priory  of  Cistercian  Nuns  or 
"  White  Ladies  "  who  were  large  landed  proprietors  and  em* 
ployers  of  labour  in  Mirfield,  Hartshead,  and  other  parts  of  the 
country,  and  above  all  were  proprietors  of  the  living  or  rectory 
of  Mirfield,  received  the  great  tithes  and  the  best  part  of  the 
income,  and  forced  the  parishioners  to  be  content  with  a  Vicar 
whose  poor  stipend  oonsisted  of  small  tithes,  Easter  dues,  and 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES.  88 

sundry  small  pickings  and  formed  at  best  but  a  starvation  and 
not  a  living.  The  Church  of  Mirfield  was  appropriated  in  the 
year  1403  to  the  Priory  of  Kirklees,  and  constituted  the  best 
part  of  its  endowment  until  its  dissolution  in  the  year  1589. 
As  therefore  there  was  such  a  close  and  intimate  connection 
between  the  Priory  of  Kirklees  and  the  parish  of  Mirfield  for  so 
many  years,  a  connection  which  has  unfortunately  left  its  mark 
to  the  present  time  inasmuch  as  the  great  tithes  and  other: 
possessions  of  the  rectory  are  still  in  lay-hands  and  were  not 
restored  to  the  church  at  the  dissolution  of  the  Priory,  it  is 
thought  that  some  account  of  the  Priory  and  its  possessions 
may  be  found  interesting  by  the  readers  of  this  Magazine.* 

Kirklees  Nunnery  was  founded  (so  Dr.  Whitaker  says)  in  the 
reign  of  Henry  II,  by  Beyner  le  Fleming,  who  was  a  landed 
proprietor  in  South  Yorkshire,  and  siso  in  Hartshead  and 
Clifton,  of  which  latter  place  he  was  Lord  of  the  Manor.  The 
foundation  Charter  is  pretty  well  known.  It  is  given  in  Dug- 
dale's  Monasticon,  vol.  5,  page  739,  and  extracts  from  it  have 
often  been  published.  By  this  Charter  the  founder  grants  to 
God  and  St.  Mary,  and  the  holy  women  of  Kuthales  the  place 
in  which  they  dwell,  i.e.  Kuthelagam  and  Hednesleya  as  the 
water  of  the  Kelder  goes  to  the  old  mill  and  so  by  the  road 

which  leads  to  the  old  mill  to  the  rivulet  of  the  rocky  + 

and  so  to  Blackelana,  and  from  Blackelana  to  Wages  tan,  and 
from  Wagestan  by  the  boundary  of  Liversege,  Herteshevet,  and 
Mirfield,  the  whole  within  the  boundaries  named  in  lands, 
waters,  pastures,  meadows,  woods,  and  plains.  J  And  besides 
these,  12  acres  of  land  to  be  held  of  the  grantor  and  ljis  heirs 
for  the  souls  of  his  father  and  his  ancestors  for  his  safety  and 
that  of  his  friends. 

This  Charter  is  without  date  and  is  confirmed  by  a  Charter 
of  William  Earl  Warren,  which  is  also  without  date  ;  there  is 
therefore  some  doubt  as  to  the  period  of  the  foundation  of  the 
Nunnery.  Dr.  Whitaker  fixes  it  in  the  reign  of  Henry  II,  (1154 
to  1189)  but  how  he  arrives  at  this  conclusion,  does  not  appear.  § 
There  were  no  less  than  five  Earls  of  Surrey  and  Warren  bearing 

*  Mirfield  Parish  Magazine. 

t  Word  here  illegible,  but  in  Dodsworth's  Yorkshire  Notes  this  stream  is 
called  the  river  Petros&lanus.  Query,  is  it  the  stream  now  called  Nunbrook, 
or  perhaps  the  river  Colne. 

\  Note. — If  we  assume  that  Blackelana  is  Bleak  Low  Lane  (a  name  still 
appearing  in  the  Ordnance  Map  of  the  district),  and  that  Wagestan  (the  stone 
by  the  way)  is  the  old  Saxon  Cross  known  as  Walton  Cross,  the  stump  of 
which  is  still  to  be  seen  by  the  road  side  not  far  from  Hartshead  Church,  it 
is  very  easy  to  identify  at  the  present  time  the  boundaries  here  given.  The 
arernnference  ot  the  property  appears  on  the  Ordnance  Map  at  a  rough  guess 
to  be  seven  or  eight  miles,  but  a  great  portion  of  the  land  was  waste. 

%  It  is  quite  certain  however  that  other  Abbeys  and  Convents  of  this  Order 
were  founded  at  this  early  date  and  even  so  early  as  the  reign  of  King  Stephen . 


84         YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

the  Christian  name  of  William,  and  therefore  the  above  con- 
firmation gives  very  little  clue  to  the  date,  as  the  first  William 
came  over  with  the  Conqueror,  and  the  last  died  in  1240. 
Another  authority  fixes  the  foundation  of  the  Nunnery  in  the 
year  1155,  and  Mr.  Ismay,  a  former  Vicar  of  Mirfield  and  a 
zealous  Antiquarian  gives  the  date  as  1286,  but  does  not  give 
his  authority.  He  was  probably  thinking  of  the  date  of  the 
Confirmation  Charter  of  Henry  III.  which  is  1286.  Some  per- 
sons say  that  the  Nunnery  was  a  Benedictine  one,  but 'there 
seems  to  be  no  doubt  that  it  was  Cistertian,  *  which  was  a 
reformed  order  of  the  Benedictines  and  so  called  from  Citeaux 
or  Cisteaux  in  the  Bishopric  of  Chalons  in  Burgundy,  where 
this  reform  was  first  begun,  about  the  year  1098. 

John  Stevens  in  his  History  of  Ancient  Abbeys,  &c,  gives  in 
vol.  2,  pages  80-1,  an  account  of  the  origin  of  Cistertian  Nuns 
with  a  full  page  illustration  of  a  Nun  in  the  garb  of  the  Order. 
He  says,  "  The  habit  of  the  Cistertian  Nuns  is  a  white  tunick 
"or  robe,  a  black  scapular  and  girdle.  In  the  choir  most  of 
"them  wear  coules,  others  only  mantles  and  the  lay  sisters 
"have  their  habits  of  a  dark  colour.  The  novices  are  clad  in 
"  white.  Their  observances  were  very  austere.  The  first  Nuns 
"wore  neither  linen  nor  linings,  they  were  employed  not  only 
"in  sewing  and  spinning,  but  they  went  into  the  woods  to  grub 
"  up  the  briers  and  thorns,  they  worked  continually,  they  ob- 
served much  silence.  There  has  been  a  great  number  of 
"  Saints  and  Holy  Women  of  this  Order,  which  number  would 
"be  still  much  greater  if  we  would  allow  of  all  those  to  whom 
"their  historians  assign  it  but  they  must  retrench  some  of 
"them." 

These  Holy  Women  may  well  be  said  to  have  lived  "In  the 
odour  of  Sanctity  "  which  expression  possibly  originated  from 
the  above  mentioned  practices  of  the  first  Saints  of  this  Order. 
The  Cistertian  Order  was  founded  by  St.  Robert  who  at  15  years 
of  age  was  a  member  of  the  Benedictine  Abbey  of  Montier  la 
Celle,  afterwards  prior  thereof,  and  subsequently  Abbot  of  St. 
Miohael  de  Tonnerre,  where  he  endeavoured  to  establish  good 
discipline  but  without  success,  the  Monks  thwarting  him  in  his 
good  intentions.  There  is  a  curious  account  of  Robert  leaving 
the  Abbey  and  living  with  certain  monks  in  the  forest  of 
Molesme  on  roots,  herbs,  &c,  and  almost  naked.  Afterwards 
with  others  altogether  21  in  number,  he  settled  at  Cisteaux,  on 
the  21st  March,  1098,  being  St.  Benedict's  day. 

In  the  26th  year  of  the  reign  of  Henry  VIII  an  act  of  Parlia- 
ment was  passed  granting  to  the  Crown  the  first  fruits  of  all 
Bishopries,  Monasteries,  &c,  and  directing  the  Chancellor  to 

•  It  is  styled  Cistertian  in  the  Pope's  Boll  for  the  appropriation  of  Mirfield 
Rectory  to  Kirklees.    See  Whitaker's  History  of  Leeds,  page  864. 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES.  85 

appoint  Commissioners  in  each  diocese  to  enquire  into  their 
yearly  value,  Ac.  From  the  returns  of  these  Commissioners  we 
obtain  the  following  particulars  of  Cistertian  Monks  and  Nuns 
in  "Yorkshire. 

Cistertian  Monks. 

Byland 

Fountains 

Joreval  (Jervaulx) 

Eirkstall 

Melsa  (Meaux  near  Hull) 

River  (Bivaulx) 

Roche 

Sallay 

Cistertian  Nuns. 

Nun  Appleton  (Parish  of  Bolton  Percy)  78 

Basedale  (near  Stokesley) 

Elreton  (in  Swaledale)     ... 

Esseholt  (near  Apperley  Bridge) 

Hampole  (near  Doncaster) 

Eeldon  (Eirby  Moorside)... 

Eirklegbes 

Sinningthwait  (Bilton  near  Wetherby)  60 

Swinhey  (Swine  near  Meaux) 

Wyckham  (near  Scarbro') 

It  may  be  mentioned  that  the  richest  Abbey  in  Yorkshire  was 
that  of  St.  Mary  in  York,  for  Benedictine  Monks,  the  annual 
value  of  which  is  given  as  £1650  7s.  Of  d. 

The  Priory  of  Eirklees  is  stated  to  have  been  dedicated  to  the 
honour  of  the  Virgin  Mary  and  St.  James.  The  first  Prioress 
was  Elizabeth  de  Staynton.  Her  tomb  and  the  tombs  of  two 
nuns  said  to  be  her  sisters  who  entered  with  her  at  the  founda- 
tion, were  discovered  in  the  year  1706.  The  inscription  on  the 
tomb  of  the  Prioress  was  in  Norman  French  but  is  now  quite 
illegible,  the  English  of  it  being — "  Sweet  Jesus  of  Nazareth, 
Son  of  God,  have  mercy  on  Elizabeth  Stain  ton,  Prioress  of  this 
house !  "  The  list  of  Prioresses  is  very  imperfect.  The  follow- 
ing names  are  principally  taken  from  Dugdale's  Monasticon, 
vol.  5,  pages  788-9,  Elizabeth  de  Staynton,  18th  century ;  Mar- 
garet de  Clay  worth,  confirmed  4th  Eal  Oct.,  1806 ;  Alicia  de 
Screvyn,  4th  Id :  Jany.,  1807 ;  *  Cecilia  Hill,  (Mr.  Ismay  gives 
the  name  Hiks,)  upon  whose  death  Joanna  Stansfeld  was  elected 
in  1491.    On  her  death  was  elected  Margaret  Tarlton  who  was 

*  Mr.  Ismay  here  gives  the  name  of  Margaret  Seyvill,  daughter  of  Sir  John 
Seyrifl. 


Annual  Value. 

£ 

8. 

d. 

•• 

288 

9 

4 

.. 

998 

6 

8* 

284 

18 

5 

,. 

829 

2 

11 

.. 

299 

6 

4* 

.. 

278  10 

2 

,. 

224 

2 

5 

.. 

147 

8 

10 

Annual  Value. 

£ 

8. 

d. 

rcj 

0  78 

9 

10 

... 

20 

1 

4 

••• 

16 

10 

6 

••• 

18 

5 

4 

... 

68 

5 

8 

••• 

29 

6 

1 

... 

19 

8 

2 

rbj 

0  60 

9 

2 

••• 

82 

8 

9± 

... 

25 

17 

6 

86        YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

confirmed  as  Prioress,  24th  April,  1499 ;  Margaret  Fletcher, 
confirmed  10th  March,  1605;  Cecilia  Topcliffe,  who  is  said  bj 
Dugdale  to  have  been  the  last  Prioress,  was  confirmed  9th  July, 
1527.  Dame  Joan  Keps  or  Kepax  or  Eepast  (for  her  name  has 
been  spelt  in  these  three  forms)  appears  however  to  have  been 
the  last  Prioress,  and  to  have  surrendered  the  house  24th  Nov., 
1589,  (81.  Hen.  VIII.)  a  year  earlier  than  is  stated  by  Mr.  J. 
B.  Greenwood  in  his  History  of  Dewsbury.  This  lady  is  said 
to  have  retired  after  the  surrender  of  the  house  in  company 
with  four  nuns  to  a  house  which  is  still  standing  (divided  into 
cottages,  and  by  some  called  Paper  or  Papist  Hall)  at  a  place 
called  Chapel  Well,  at  the  top  of  Shilbank  Lane  in  Mirfield. . 

Torr  mentions  an  old  MS.  which  is  said  to  have  been  written 
by  a  *  Monk,  (probably  of  Kirklees)  and  which  is  to  be  seen  in 
the  Library  of  the  Dean  and  Chapter  at  York,  which  says  that 
this  old  Saxon  Church  (of  Mirfield)  stood  in  a  field  called 
Chapel  Hill  which  gave  rise  to  the  old  saying — "  When  Chapel 
stood  at  Chapel  Wells."  A  portion  of  the  building  called 
Paper  Hall,  was  rebuilt  more  than  a  century  back  judging 
from  the  style  of  Architecture.  The  other  part  appears  much 
older,  and  this  building  was  evidently  intended  for  some 
religious  purpose.  The  floor  is  flagged  and  laid  in  diamond 
shape  ;  the  broad  oaken  stairs  with  heavy  moulded  pillars,  re- 
semble the  rails  round  the  Communion  Tables  in  some  of  our 
old  Churches.  The  ceiling  in  the  room  above  is  curiously 
moulded  with  figures  of  Angels,  and  around  it  was  formerly  an 
inscription  in  Lombardic  characters  ;  all  which  together  gave  it 
an  ecclesiastical  appearance.  Whether  this  is  a  remnant  of  the 
old  Chapel,  or  the  place  where  the  last  Prioress  and  the  four 
Nuns  took  up  their  residence  upon  the  suppression  of  the  Con- 
vent at  Kirklees  in  1540,  or  whether  it  was  used  for  both 
purposes  cannot  well  be  known  at  present. 

Dame  Joan  Kepast  was  buried  at  Mirfield  Church,  5th  Feb., 
1561-2,  and  her  burial  is  entered  in  the  parish  Register.  The 
following  inscription  may  still  be  seen  in  the  old  tower  of 
Mirfield  Church,  cut  in  stone  and  built  into  a  window: — "Dame 
Joan  Eepast,  late  Nun  at  Kirklees,  was  buried  February  5th, 
D.A.  1562."  This  inscription,  which  appears  to  be  compara- 
tively modern,  was  formerly  in  the  chancel,  behind  or  under 
the  altar  in  the  old  church,  and  was  placed  in  its  present 
position  for  safety.  Mr.  Ismay  says  that  it  was  formerly  under 
the  north  gallery. 

After  the  suppression  of  the  Nunnery,  the  Prioress  had  an 
annual  pension  of  £2,  and  each  of  the  Nuns  had  £1  18s.  4d. 
per  annum,  as  appears  from  the  following  extract  from  Browne 
Willis's  History  of  Mitred       rliamentary  Abbies,  vol.  ii,  page 

*  Perhaps  Chantry  Priest. 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES.  87 

878:— "Xirkley,  Johanna  Kepax,  late  Prioress,  surrendered 
4Mb  Convent,  4th  November,  1540,  (?  1589,)  and  had  a  pension 
of  £2  per  annum  assigned  her,  which  she  enjoyed  anno  1558, 
in  which  year  there  remained  in  charge  £2  18s.  Od.  in  annuities 
(?  to  the  chantry  priest)  and  these  following  pensions,  viz : — to 
Isabella  Hoptone,  Agnes  Brooke,  Isabella  Rooles,  and  Isabell 
SattershaU(?Tattershall)  £1  18s.  4d.  each." 

No  seal  of  the  Priory  has  been  met  with,  and  there  is  no 
register  or  cartulary  so  far  as  is  known.  The  following  however 
are  extracts  from  charters  which  have  been  obtained  from  the 
Becord  Office,  and  elsewhere :— 20  Henry  III.  (October,  1285, 
to  October,  1286.)  Confirmation*  by  the  King  to  the  Prioress 
and  Convent  of  Kirklees  of  the  place  where  they  remain,  that 
is  Kerkley  and  Hedensley,  (then  follows  a  portion  which  is 
illegible).  From  the  gift  of  Alan,  son  of  Peter,  three  *oxgangs 
of  land  in  Cullingworth  with  the  appurtenances  and  common 
in  Hereden  for  repairing  their  buildings,  and  for  their  fire  and 
pasture,  for  their  beasts  of  burden  in  Cullingworth,  and  for 
their  pigs  fed  in  that  town  food  without  tpannage.  Of  the  gift 
of  Robert,  son  of  Gilbert  de  Bar k6 8 ton,  a  { toft  in  Barkeston 
which  Henry  Smith  formerly  held,  and  80  acres  of  arable  land, 
and  one  acre  of  meadow  in  the  same  town.  From  Henry  Tyas 
one  mark  of  annual  rent  in  the  mill  of  Hathweyte.  From  the 
son  of  John  the  son  of  Amandus,  certain  pieces  of  land  in 
Shelfe,  viz : — Wetecroft,  Hallcroft,  and  Northcroft,  and  common 
of  pasture  belonging  to  the  same  town,  for  400  sheep  by  the 
great  hundred  (i.e.  120)  with  as  many  lambs,  and  for  10  cows 
with  as  many  calves,  and  for  eight  oxen  and  one  horse.  From 
Agnes  de  Flamevill  a  rent  of  8s.  from  three-fourths  of  an  ox- 
gang  of  land  in  Marton  in  Burgoshire.  From  Beimund  de 
Medelay  4/8  rent  from  one  oxgang  of  land  which  William  de 
Barneburn  held  of  the  same  Beimund.  From  Robert,  son  of 
Gilbert  dinddiam  eskeppam  fmmenti.  N.B. — We  give  these  three 
words  in  the  original  Latin  because  we  have  been  unable  to  find 
the  word  "eskeppam"  in  any  dictionary  or  glossary.  It 
appears  to  mean  a  "  skep  "  or  basket,  and  the  words  may  then 
be  translated  half  a  basket  of  corn,  but  our  readers  will  accept 
this  translation  or  not,  as  they  please. 

The  next  Charter  is  a  very  interesting  one,  being  a  grant  by 
Sir  John  le  Fleming  (who  died  about  the  year  1849)  of  a 
"native  "  or  female  serf  to  the  Prioress  and  Convent  of  Kirklees. 
The  Charter  is  printed  in  the  Journal  oi  the  Yorkshire  Arch»o- 
logical  Society,  vol.  IV.,  page  164,  and  is  without  date.  The 
following  is  an  abstract  of  it.  Enow,  present  and  future  persons, 

•  An  oxgang  or  borate  of  land,  was  as  much  aa  one  ox  (or  a  pair)  could 
plough  in  a  season, 
t  Pannage— The  privilege  of  feeding  swine  in  a  wood, 
t  Toft— The  site  of  a  house  burnt  down  or  destroyed. 


88         YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

that  I,  Sir  John  le  Fleming,  have  granted  and  quit-claimed  for 
ever,  to  the  Prioress  of  Kirkeleys  and  the  Holy  Nuns  serving 
God  there  for  the  Soul  of  my  father,  and  for  the  Souls  of  my 
Ancestors,  and  in  consideration  of  three  shillings  and  sixpence 
in  silver,  paid  by  them  to  me,  Alice,  the  daughter  of  William 
Mounger  of  Clifton,  and  her  heirs  with  all  her  following,  and 
her  chattels  moveable  or  immoveable,  present  and  future, 
without  holding  back  so  that  neither  I  nor  any  of  my  heirs  can 
require  or  sell  any  claim  against  the  aforesaid  Alice  or  her 
heirs,  following,  or  chattels.  The  deed  is  witnessed  by  Henry, 
Son  of  Godwin  de  Clifton,  Thomas  de  Grenegate,  Adam  his 
brother,  John  de  Haveweldun,  Thomas  del  Clif,  William  and 
Adam  and  others.  Attached  is  an  oval  seal  in  white  wax  with 
a  fleur  de  lys  and  the  legend  in  old  English  type,  Sir  Johannes 
le  Fiandrensis.  The  deed  is  endorsed  Manumissio  Natives,  but 
this  Appears  to  be  a  mistake,  as  the  document  is  not  a  Manu- 
mission or  grant  of  freedom,  but  a  simple  transfer  of  the  native 
or  serf  to  the  Prioress  and  Nuns.  The  writer  has  now  before 
him  a  copy  of  a  Manumission  whereby  Robert  de  Lepton  grants 
to  Adam,  son  of  Richard  de  Lepton  that  he  may  be  free  from 
all  kind  of  servile  condition  with  all  his  following  (or  progeny) 
begotten  and  to  be  begotten  with  all  their  possessions.  Tins 
deed  is  witnessed  by  William  de  Bemond  (Beaumont),  John  le 
Fleming  de  Dalton,  Thomas,  the  Son  of  the  Parson  of  Heton, 
Wm.  de  Roeley,  Henry  de  Lepton  and  others,  probably  John  le 
Fleming  who  witnessed  this  deed  is  the  same  person  who  gives 
the  "  native  "  to  Eirklees.  It  should  be  borne  in  mind  that  at 
the  time  when  these  deeds  are  supposed  to  have  been  made  (i.e. 
the  beginning  of  the  14th  Century)  most  of  the  labouring  class 
of  England  were  serfs  or  slaves  who  were  sold  and  transferred 
from  one  Lord  to  another  at  will.  Another  class  of  persons 
who  were  not  free  were  the  villeins  who  were  tied  to  the  land 
and  could  not  remove  from  one  Manor  to  another  without  the 
Lord's  consent.  They  held  land  under  the  Lord  for  which  they 
performed  certain  services,  and  so  long  as  these  were  performed 
they  were  safe  in  their  holdings.  For  the  condition  of  non  free 
persons  after  the  Conquest  see  Stubbs*  Constitutional  History 
of  England,  vol.  I,  page  485  et  seq.  The  irritation  caused  by 
serfdom  was  one  of  the  causes  of  the  rebellion  headed  ly  Wat 
Tyler,  which,  says  Bishop  Stubbs,  struck  a  vital  blow  at 
Yillenage.  See  Constitutional  History,  vol.  2,  page  503,  also 
chapter  16  throughout. 

The  next  Charter  relating  to  Eirklees  is  one  dated  28rd 
January,  47  Edward  III.,  (1874)  being  a  Licence  in  Mortmain 
whereby  after  reciting  that  by  Letters  Patent  Licence  has  been 
granted  to  the  Prioress  and  Convent  of  Kirkeleghes  to  acquire 
lands,  tenements,  and  rents  to  the  value  of  £20  per  annum 
except  lands  Ac,  held  of  the  Crown  in  Chief,  Licence  was 


YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES.        89 

granted  to  Thomas  de  Malhum,  Chaplain,  Richard  Brand, 
Chaplain,  and  Richard  de  Galthorn,  Chaplain,  to  grant  to  the 
said  Prioress  and  Convent  one  messuage  and  18  acres  of  land 
and  the  third  part  of  a  messuage  in  Hertesheued,  and  to  the 
same  Thomas  and  Thomas  de  Popelay,  Chaplain,  to  grant  to 
the  said  Prioress  and  Convent  one  messuage,  2  tofts,  88  acres 
of  land,  2  acres  of  meadow,  8  acres  of  wood,  and  0/1  of  rent  in 
Wykcrislay,  and  which  messuages  Ac.  were  worth  88/4  as 
appeared  by  the  Inquisition  of  William  de  Ergum  late  *Esch©tor 
for  the  County  of  York.  And  the  said  Prioress  and  Convent 
were  to  hold  the  premises  so  granted,  being  in  value  f80  shillings 
per  annum,  in  part  satisfaction  of  the  aforesaid  £20. 

The  laws  relating  to  mortmain  date  back  to  the  Magna  Charta 
which  enacts  that  "  it  shall  not  be  lawful  from  henceforth  to 
any  to  give  his  land  to  any  religious  house,"  and  this  prohibi- 
tion is  now  extended  so  as  to  prevent  any  alienation  of  lands  to 
a  "  dead  hand "  with  certain  exceptions.  Formerly  a  licence 
from  the  Crown  was  required  before  grants  of  land  could  be 
made  into  mortmain  to  a  religious  body  or  other  corporation. 
For  farther  information  on  this  subject  and  on  the  early  history 
of  the  alienation  of  land,  see  Digby's  History  of  the  Law  of 
Real  Property,  a  work  published  at  the  Clarendon  Press,  Oxford. 

By  a  Licence  in  Mortmain  dated  15th  July,  49,  Edward  III., 
(1875),  licence  was  granted  to  William  de  Mirfeld,  Clerk,  and 
Roger  de  Barneburgh,  Clerk,  to  grant  to  the  Prioress  and  Con- 
vent of  Kirklees,  the  Manor  of  Westhagh  (?  in  Kirkburton)  one 
messuage,  one  oxgang,  and  ten  acres  of  land,  and  half  of  five 
acres  of  meadow,  and  17$d.  of  rent  in  Eesseburgh,  Bergh, 
Heghome,  Westbretton,  Clayton,  Derton,  Wollay,  and  Birch- 
waye;  and  to  Thomas  de  Malhom,  Chaplain,  and  Richard 
Brand,  Chaplain,  to  grant  to  the  said  Prioress  and  Convent  four 
messuages,  one  oxgang,  72|  acres  of  land  (unam  bovatam 
aexaginta  et  duodecim  acras  tre  dimid :)  and  6ix  shillings  and 
eightpence  of  rent  in  J  Magna  Lyuersegge,  Robert  Lyuersegge, 
and  Parva  Lyuersegge,  and  to  Thomas  de  Metham,  Knight, 
(Chinaler)  to  grant  100  shillings  of  rent  in  Halgton.  And  the 
premises  comprised  in  this  licence  being  in  value  £10  per 
annum  were  to  be  in  part  satisfaction  of  the  £20  previously 
mentioned  and  in  aid  of  the  support  of  the  Prioress  and  Convent 
for  ever.  John  Sayvill  is  mentioned  here  as  Esch&tor.  The 
"William  de  Mirfield  named  in  this  Licence  was  a  member  of 
the  family  of  that  name,  which  springing  from  the  parish  of 
Mirfield  afterwards  settled  in  Batley  and  had  considerable 
property  there.     Many  of  the  family  were  buried  at  Batley 

#  The  Escluetor  was  the  officer  whose  business  it  was  to  look  after  property 
forfeited  to  the  Crown,  hold  inquisitions,  do. 

t  GO  in  the  license. 

♦  Hightown,  Boberttown,  and  Littletown. 


90         YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

Church  where  may  still  be  seen  a  fine  tomb  with  coats  of  arms 
of  the  Mirfield8  and  other  families,  and  the  effigies  of  a  knight 
in  armour  and  his  lady. 

An  Inquisition  was  taken  at  York  on  Friday  next  before  the 
Feast  of  the  Conversion  of  St.  Paul,  18th  Richard  n.  (25th 
January,  1895),  before  Hugh  de  Arderne,  Esohsator,  and  a  jury 
who  say  that  it  is  not  to  the  prejudice  of  the  King  or  others  if 
he  grant  to  John  Mounteney,  Knight,  John  Woderoue,  John  de 
Amyas,  and  William  de  Sandal,  Chaplain,  that  they  may  grant 
to  the  Prioress  and  Convent  of  Kirklees,  fifty  acres  of  land  in 
Mirfield  and  the  advowson  of  the  Church  there  for  the  purpose 
of  finding  a  *  Chaplain  to  celebrate  divine  service  every  day  in 
the  Conventual  Church  of  Kyrkelees  for  the  soul  of  Sir  John  de 
Burgh  and  for  the  souls  of  Ins  ancestors,  and  of  all  the  faithful 
departed ;  and  to  the  said  Prioress  and  Convent  to  receive  and 
hold  the  same  premises.  Item,  the  jury  say  that  the  aforesaid 
land  and  advowson  are  held  of  John,  Duke  of  Aquitaine  and 
Lancaster,  as  of  his  +  honour  of  Pontefract  by  knight  service, 
and  the  aforesaid  Duke  John  holds  the  said  honour  of  the  King 
in  chief  (that  is  direct  from  the  King  without  an  intervening 
Lord)  by  knight  service.  That  the  aforesaid  fifty  acres  are 
worth  12/6  per  annum,  and  that  the  aforesaid  church  is  worth 
18  I  marks  per  annum.  The  jury  then  state  that  Sir  John 
Mounteney,  John  Woderoue  and  John  de  Amyas  hold  divers 
lands  and  tenements  in  Shitelyngton,  Wollay,  and  Shirclif  in 
the  county  of  York,  of  the  aforesaid  Duke  by  knight  service, 
which  are  worth  £40  per  annum  and  are  sufficient  to  answer 
all  customs,  services,  and  burdens,  as  well  for  themselves  as  for 
the  said  fifty  acres.  The  jury  further  state  that  William  de 
Sandal  has  no  other  lands  or  tenements  in  the  county  of  York* 
The  object  of  this  Inquisition  was,  to  ascertain  whether  the 
grant  of  land  above  mentioned  would  cause  any  detriment  to 
the  King  by  loss  of  rents,  services,  or  otherwise.  At  the  date 
of  this  inquiry  it  was  almost  impossible  to  alienate  land  without 
a  licence  from  the  Crown,  whose  object  was  to  keep  the  land  in 
large  holdings  liable  to  knight  service.  A  knight's  fee  was 
estimated  at  about  640  acres  in  area,  or  about  £20  per  annum 
in  value,  and  the  obligation  on  the  owner  was  to  furnish  at  his 
own  expense  a  full-armed  horseman  for  military  service  for  40 
days  in  the  year.  Military  tenures  were  abolished  by  the 
statute  12,  Charles  II,  chapter  24. 

*  The  Chaplain  was  pensioned  off  at  the  dissolution  of  the  Convent,  but  his 
name  does  not  appear  in  the  list  of  persons  receiving  pensions  in  1568,  given 
by  Browne  Willis  in  his  history  of  Mitred  Parliamentary  Abbies,  vol.  ii. 

f  An  honour  was  a  large  district  comprising  several  manors  and  was  the 
qualifying  holding  of  a  baron  or  earl.  Sometimes  however  suoh  a  holding 
was  called  a  manor  (e.g.  the  manor  of  Wakefield)  and  comprised  several  sub- 
manors  held  of  the  chief  lord. 

J  A  mark  of  silver  was  13/4  ;  of  gold  £6 ;  but  marks  of  silver  are  here  meant. 


YOBKSHIKF,  NOTES  AND  QUERIES.        91 

Following  on  the  above  Inquisition  comes  a  Licence  in  Mort- 
main, dated  20th  April,  19  Richard  II.  (1896),  for  granting  the 
above  mentioned  50  acres  of  land  in  Mirfield,  and  the  advowson 
of  the  church  to  the  said  Prioress  and  Convent.  Then  comes 
the  grant  dated  at  Mirfield  on  Sunday  next  after  the  Feast  of 
St.  Michael  the  Archangel,  1390,  and  this  Grant  is  confirmed 
by  a  Licence  dated  at  Pontefract  Castle,  27th  June,  1st  Henry 
IV.  (1400).  A  mutilated  extract  from  the  Bull  of  Pope  Boniface 
appropriating  the  church  of  Mirfield  to  the  Prioress  and  Convent 
of  Kirklees,  may  be  seen  in  Whitaker's  History  of  Leeds,  page 
864. 

On  the  4th  August,  1408,  (4  Henry  IV.)  Richard  Scroope, 
Archbishop  of  York,  ordained  a  perpetual  Vicarage  in  the  said 
church,  presentable  by  the  said  Prioress  and  Convent,  who 
were  to  have  all  the  tithes  of  *  garbs  and  hay,  and  the  entire 
tithe  of  fallen  wood  together  with  the  whole  mansion  of  the 
rectory.  And  the  Vicar  should  have  his  Vicarage  consist  in 
oblations,  profits,  minute-tithes,  in  the  f  altarage  and  {personal 
tithes  whatsoever,  and  in  all  singular  other  the  obventions  and 
profits  belonging  to  the  church  excepting  the  tithes  of  garbs, 
hay,  and  fallen  wood.  Moreover  the  said  Prioress  and  Convent 
should  provide  at  their  own  cost6  for  the  first  time,  a  mansion 
with  competent  buildings  for  the  Vicar  and  his  successors. 
And  the  said  Prioress  and  Convent  should  bear  all  burdens, 
ordinary  and  extraordinary  (**  Synodals  excepted),  incumbent 
on  the  said  Church.  The  Vicar  only  paying  6/8  to  the  §Dismes 
when  granted  to  the  King  out  of  the  spiritual  goods  of  ecclesi- 
astical persons. 

The  writer  is  not  aware  of  any  other  documents  relating  to 
Kirklees  until  we  come  to  those  relating  to  the  dissolution  of 
the  Priory,  the  first  being  a  survey  of  the  demesne  lands  and  of 
the  rectory  of  Mirfield,  of  which  the  following  is  a  translation : 

Kirkleis  late  Priory  of  Nuns  in  the  County  of  York. 

In  the  renewed  rental  of  the  lands  and  tenements  belonging 
to  the  said  late  Priory,  surrendered  and  dissolved  on  the  24th 
day  of  November,  in  the  81st  year  of  the  reign  of  the  very  much 
to  be  dreaded  Lord  King  Henry  VIII.,  amongst  other  things  it 
is  contained  thus,  as  follows : — 

*  Sheaves  of  corn. 

t  Offerings  made  on  the  altar,  and  also  small  tithes,  such  as  tithes  of  wool, 
lamb,  colt,  calf,  pigs,  chickens,  butter,  cheese,  &o. 

{  Personal  tithes  are  paid  of  such  things  as  come  of  the  labour  and  industsy 
of  man. 

••  Synodals  are  tributes  in  money  paid  by  the  clergy  to  the  Bishop  or 
Archdeacon  at  the  Easter  Visitation. 

t  Dismes  or  deeimoe  are  tithes,  bat  generally  signify  the  tenths  of  spiritual 
brings,  which  were  formerly  paid  to  the  Pope,  and  afterwards  to  the  Crown. 


92        YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

Demesne  lands: 
Site  of  the  said  late  Priory  with  the  dovecote, 
gardens,  orchard,  and  other  conveniences  with- 
in the  precincts  of  the  same  is  worth  per  annum 
Item  one  windmill  there  is  worth  per  annum 

Item  Ralph  Blackburn  holds  a  house  with  a  kitchen 

within  the  aforesaid  site  and  pays  per  annum... 
Item  one  close  of  Pasture  called  Gastilfelde  contain- 
ing by  estimation  80  acres  is  worth  per  annum 
Item  a  close  called  the  West  Oxe  Pasture  containing 

by  estimation  8  acres  of  Pasture  is  worth  per  an. 
Item  a  close  called  the  East  Oxe  Pasture  containing 

by  estimation  12  acres  of  Pasture,  per  annum 
Item  a  close  called  the  High  Stubbinge  containing  by 

estimation  10  acres  of  Pasture  is  worth  per  arm. 
Item  a  close  called  Marebrigge  Flatt  containing  by 

estimation  6  acres  of  Pasture  is  worth  per  ann. 
Item  a  close  called  fforbrigge  Flatt  containing  by 

estimatio  n  4  acres  of  arable  land  is  worth  per  ann. 
Item  a  close  called  Lyon  Roode  containing  12  acres 

of  arable  land  is  worth  per  annum      

Item  a  close  called  Cowe  fforde  containing  6  acres 

of  arable  land  is  worth  per  annum       

Item  a  close  called  EUeytre  fflatt  containing  8  acres 

of  Pasture  is  worth  per  annum ' 

Item  a  close  called  Marledoore  containing  2  acres 

of  Pasture  is  worth  per  annum 

Item  a  close  called  Stakford  containing  14  acres  of 

meadow  is  worth  per  annum 

Item   a  close  called  Stubbynge   ynge    containing 

7  acres  of  meadow  is  worth  per  annum 
Item  a  close  called  Swyne  Pasture  and  another  close 

called  the  Calfe  Grofte  containing  8  acres  of 

meadow  worth  per  annum        

Item  a  close  called  Brode  Ynge  containing  8  acres  of 

meadow  is  worth  per  annum 

Item  a  close  called  Clifton  fflatt  containing  10  acres 

of  Pasture  is  worth  per  annum 

Item  a  close  called  Cote  fflatt  containing  10  acres  of 

arable  land  is  worth  per  annum  

Item  a  close  called  Hukrode  containing  27  acres  of 

Pasture  is  worth  per  annum     

Item  a  close  called  Newe  close  containing  10  acres 

of  arable  land  is  worth  per  annum      

Item  a  close  called  Ffrewell  containing  18  acres  of 

arable  land  is  worth  per  annum 


8. 

a. 

iij. 

iiij. 

nil. 

8. 

yj- 

8. 

X. 

8. 

▼iij. 

8. 

iiij. 

s. 

a. 

iij. 

iiij. 

8. 

iij. 

8. 

iiij. 

8. 

iiij. 

8. 

ij- 

s. 

'  viij. 

8. 

ij- 

8. 

d. 

xviij. 

viij. 

8. 

d. 

yj- 

yj- 

8. 

V. 

8. 

iiij. 

8. 

a. 

iy. 

iiij. 

8. 

V. 

8. 

d. 

xiij. 

VI. 

8. 

d. 

yj- 

VUJ- 

8. 

yj- 

YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES.        98 

Item  the  herbage  of  a  close  there  called  Nunbanke 
containing  4  acres  of  pasture   and  has  the 
underwood  of  Crofton  three  (?  acres)  worth  per      8. 
annum     ...        ...        ...        ...         ...        ...      ij. 

Item  the  herbage  of  a  close  of  wood  called  Newe 
Wood  containing  20  acres  and  the  pasture  of 
the  same  is  worth  per  annum  and  has  400  oaks      8. 

of  100  years  growth       v. 

li.      s.      d. 

Total  rents  of  the  demesne  lands    yj.    xiij.    iiij. 

Beotoiy  of  Mirfield. 

Richard  Lee  and  others  hold  all  the  glebe 
lands  belonging  to  the  aforesaid  rectory  paying      s.      d. 
therefor  per  annum        xxvj.  viij. 

Item  there  were  in  the  hands  of  the  said  late  prioress 
and  convent  the  tithe  of  grain  and  hay  there 
with  the  tithe  barn  and  a  close  adjoining  to  the      s. 
same  barn  which  are  worth  per  annum  ...      c. 

li.      s.      d. 

Total vj.     yj.    viij. 

JACOBO   BIKY8BEBE, 
BYCHARD  BYCHE, 

per  me,  HUGONEM  FFULLEB, 

Audit: 

From  Dugdale's  Monasticon,  vol.  v.,  page  739,  the  writer  has 
extracted  the  following,  which  gives  the  situation  of  the  several 
properties  of  the  Priory : — 

Account  of  the  Ministers  of  the  Lord  King  in  the  time  of 
Henry  VIII. 

(Abstract  of  Boll  84,  Henry  VIII,  Augmentation  Office,) 
County  of  York. 


£   a. 

d. 

Kirkleys,  Site  with  demesne  lands... 

... 

6  18 

4 

West  Haye  by  West  Burton,  *Beditus  et  firm©  4.    6 

8 

Hudderfelde 

f 

99 

1     4 

0 

Wekeleye                                  , 

9 

»9 

2    6 

2 

Gullynworth 

9 

19 

0  17 

7 

Shelfe 

9 

99 

0  18 

4 

Leveyage  [Liversedge.]            , 

9 

99 

2    2 

2 

Hartishede                                , 

9 

99 

2    6 

6 

8cooles                                     , 

9 

»» 

0    5 

0 

Danbye  Orange 

9 

99 

0    6 

8 

Darton 

>9 

99 

0    4. 

0 

Hokynwyk  [Heckmondwike.] 

n 

99 

0    8 

4 

Kexburgh                                  , 

9 

99 

0    7 

6 

*  Bent*  and  farms.    Beditos  means  the  rent  payable  by  a  tenant  to  his 
landlord.    Firma  is  a  fixed  rent  payable  out  of  land. 


tt  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIEa 

Emley  Reditus  et  firm®  0    8    0 

Saddle  worth*  „  ,,068 

Salkthwaite  [Slakthwaite.]        „  „      0  18    4 

Lyttle  Towne  alias  Leversage  ,,  ,,060 

Hokynwk  0    0    6 

He  ton  (Rent  of  land  of  the  Abbott  of  Fonn  tains)  0    2    4 
Mirfelde,  Firma  Rector :  6     6    8 


18    9 


The  next  document  is  the  account  of  William  Chamber, 
Collector  of  Bents,  &c,  belonging  to  the  Priory.  The  account 
is  for  the  year  commencing  Michaelmas  34,  Henry  Yin.,  and 
ending  Michaalmas  85,  Henry  YIH.  The  demesne  lands  and 
site  of  the  Priory  are  put  down  at  £6  18s.  4d.  for  the  year. 
(To  he  continued.) 


Saiitom  jaoks.— (l.) 

An  Account  of  ye  Number  of  ye  Pews  and  Seats  in  the 
Chappell  of  Bayldon  and  to  whom  they  belong,  1728. 

ffrom  ye  Quire  Door  upon  the  South  Side. 

1. — Edward  Thompson,  Esq.'s  pew.  2. — Ditto.  8. — Ditto. 
4. — Thomas  Brooks,  two  seats  upper  end,  Jonathan  Hudson, 
one  seat,  and  Thomas  Cockshot,  one  seat.  5. — Henry  Slater, 
two  seats.  6. — No  name.  7. — Jonathan  Hudson,  a  pew. 
8. — Samuel  Walker,  the  whole.  9. — William  Hudson,  one  seat. 
10. — John  Butler,  junior,  ye  whole.  11. — Edward  Thompson, 
Esq.  12.— Ditto.  18. — No  name.  14. — John  Butler,  junior, 
ye  whole. 

ffrom  ye  west  end  on  tlie  south  side  adjoyrriny  to  Hie  pillars : 

15. — Samuel  Walker,  one,  Thomas  Newby,  one  seat  in  ye 
same.  16. — Bo.  Holden,  six  seats  in  ye  said  pew.  17. — Henry 
Slater,  two  seats.  18. — John  Lobley,  a  pew.  19. — John  Butler, 
junior,  three  seats.     20. — John  Butler,  for  Bushford  Farm,  two 

seats,  and  John one  seat.    21. — Joshua  Wray,  two  seats 

for  Mr.  and  two  seats  for  William  Boiling.    22. — Mr. 

Robert  Holden,  one  pew.     28. — Sr.  Wr.  Hawksworth,  one  pew 
with  a  petition  t  in  it. 

*  The  following  is  extracted  from  Whitaker's  History  of  Whalley,  4th 
edition,  vol.  II.,  page  437,  note  8: — There  is  in  the  possession  of  R.  H. 
Beaumont,  Esq.,  of  Whitley,  a  charter  by  which  Robert  de  Stapleton  grants 
to  God,  the  Blessed  Virgin  Mary,  and  St.  James  of  Eirkeleys,  8  acres  Ac,  in 
Sadelworthe,  housebote,  haybote,  Ac.  Reserving  to  the  grantor  and  his  heirs 
41  feris  forestoQ  meco  et  omnibus  aliis  dignitatibus  forestoe." 

t  Partition. 


96  Y0RK8HIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 

From  the  east  end  window  adjoyning  to  ye  pillars  on  the  north  side. 

24. — John  Langwith.  26. — No  name.  26. — James  Brook, 
8,  Francis  Goldsbrough.  27.— Mrs.  Mary  Swaine,  the  whole. 
28. — Thomas  Brook  and  Mr.  Holden.  29. — James  Brook  and 
Francis  Goldsbrough.  80. — No  name.  31. — Edward  Thompson, 
Esq*  82. — John  Smith,  one  seat.  88. — Joshnah  Butler,  the 
whole.  84. — John  Binns,  the  whole.  85. — John  Butler  (Lon- 
don), whole.      86. — John  Butler.  ■     87. — Mrs.   Mary 

Swahie.  88. — Mr.  Bobert  Holden,  ye  whole.  

89. — William  .     Name  torn  off.     40. — Name  torn  off. 

41. — Name  torn  off.  42. — Thomas  Cockshot,  the  whole.  48. — 
No  name.  44. — Memorandum — That  this  seat  was  repaired  by 
Jonathan  Hudson  in  Westgate;  Israel  Coltass;  William  Newby, 
and  Thomas  Genniugs,  yet  had  no  title  but  the  consent  of  ye 
town  untill  the  right  owner  made  the  claime.  45. — No  name. 
46. — Valentine  Priestman.     47.  48. — William  Butler  of 

London,  whole.    49.  50. — Bichard  Hudson  (Marscoate). 

51. — Timothy  Collyer  and  Francis  ffieldhouse.     52.  58. — 

Thomas  Brook,  a  pew.  64. — William  Long,  ye  pew,  and  Thos. 
Walker.  55. — Lent  without  rent,  for  the  which  is  in  possession 
of  Jer.  Clarkson.     56.  57.  58.  59.— Thomas 

Walker.  60. — Edward  Thompson,  Esq.,  belonging  Moss  Farm. 
61.— No  name.    62.— Thomas  Walker. 

1728. — We,  whose  names  are  underwritten,  doe  own,  to  the 
best  of  our  knowledge,  as  arranged  above  doth  belong  these 
persons  as  the  figures 

As  witness  our  hands — 

Bo.  Holden, 
Thomas  Bbooke, 
John  Butleb, 
Timothy  Gollteb. 

Transcribed  from  the  original  in  the  possession  of  Mr. 
William  Scruton. 

Stows  mentions  Baildon  having  a  church  in  the  year  1412, 
but  this  erection  is  supposed  to  have  been  partly  burnt,  and 
then  rebuilt.  The  demolition  of  the  old  "  Chappell  of  Bayldon," 
was  begun  on  May  10th,  1847 ;  and  the  present  edifice  was 
opened  by  the  Bishop  of  Bipon,  on  the  29th  of  February,  1848. 
The  living  is  in  the  gift  of  trustees.  In  the  year  1868  a  new 
trust-deed  was  drawn  up,  and  the  following  gentlemen  were 
inscribed  as  trustees : — James  Bent,  Esq.,  Dr.  Lockley,  Abraham 
Maud,  Esq.,  Captain  Maude,  Edward  Salt,  Esq.,  and  Messrs. 
Baily,  Blackburn,  Charles  F.  Walker,  W.  W.  Holmes,  and 
Bichard  Goldsborough.  The  value  of  the  living  is  said  to  be 
about  £800  per  annum. 


YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES.        97 

HirUtts  fimmtxq,  ((totdimxtb  front  p.  94.) 

By  8.  J.  Chadwick. 

Sundry  rents  are  put  down  at  £17  2s.  Id.  It  is  then  stated 
thai  the  rent  of  the  rectory  of  Myrefelde  with  the  tithe  barn 
and  adjacent  close  of  land  (£6  6s.  8d.)  is  not  returned  because 
the  King  by  his  letters  patent  has  granted  all  the  said  rectory 
with  its  rights  and  appurtenances  to  Thomas  Savell  of  Clyfton, 
in  the  County  of  York,  gentleman.  But  the  Collector  returns 
12s.  8d.  owing  by  the  said  Thomas  Savell  for  rent  reserved  to 
the  lord  King  out  of  the  rectory  of  Merefelde.  The  total  of  the 
year's  account  including  7s.  arrears  from  the  previous  account 
is  £24  15s.  Id.,  which  does  not  agree  with  Dugdale's  statement, 
who  says  that  at  the  time  of  the  suppression,  the  Nunnery  was 
valued  at  £20  7s.  8d.  gross,  and  £10  8s.  Id.  clear.  Perhaps  in 
Dugdale's  estimate  the  value  of  the  buildings  and  land  in  hand 
is  not  included.  From  the  above  mentioned  account  we  learn 
that  the  Collector's  fee  or  commission  was  £1  6s.  8d.  per  an- 
num. The  clerk  for  writing  out  the  account  had  2s.  Paid  for 
care  of  Nunwood  18s.  4d.  Paid  to  Leonard  Beckwith,  Esq., 
the  King's  receiver  for  the  County  of  York  for  the  outgoings  of 
the  year  £13  7s.  Id.,  making  a  total  payment  of  £15  9s.  Id., 
and  leaving  a  balance  due  of  £9  6s.  0d.,  which  is  all  disposed 
of  as  follows : — 

£    s.   d. 
To  *Bobert  Pylkyngton  for  rent  of  land  in  the  parish 
of  Heton  (Kirkheaton)  belonging  to  the  Abbey 
of  Fountains,  at  2s.  4d.  per  annum  for  4  years 

including  arrears 0    9    4 

To  Thomas  Savell,  of  Exeleye,  in  the  County  of 
York,  gentleman,  for  rent  of  the  grange  there 
called  Westhaye  by  Westburton  (which  he 
claimed,  by  colour  of  the  King's  letters,   i.e. 

letters  patent)      2    8    4 

To  Thomas  Savell,  of  Clifton,  gentleman,  for  rent  of 
the  site  of  the  Priory  and  the  demesne  lands 
(which  he  claimed  by  colour  of  the  King's  letters)    6  18    4 
The  next  document  is  the  particulars  for  a  grant  to  Richard 
Andrews  and  f  William  Bamsden  of  part  of  the  possessions  of 

'  Probably  the  same  who  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Thomas  Savell, 
of  Clifton,  the  purchaser  of  the  rectory  of  Mirfield. 

t  Win.  Bamsden  of  Longley  Hall,  obtained  divers  grants  of  Church  lands 
inrfmting  the  advowson  of  Hnddersfield,  and  other  possessions  of  the  Priory 
it  Hostell,  also  the  site  and  demesne  lands  of  Boche  Abbey  in  South  York- 
shire, &c,  &o.  He  died  in  London  7th  Nov.,  1580.  He  appears  to  have 
married  the  Sister-in-law  of  the  above-named  Thomas  Savell,  of  Exeley. 
The  SavQeB,  Bamsdens,  and  Pilkingtons  obtained  a  fair  share  of  the  Abbey 
lands  in  this  part  of  Yorkshire  on  the  dissolution  of  the  Monasteries. 

T.H.Q.  a 


98        YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

the  Priory  of  Kirklees.  As  these  particulars  will  no  doubt  be 
found  interesting,  we  give  a  full  abstract  of  them.  They  are 
partly  in  English  and  partly  in  Latin,  and  the  quaint  spelling 
of  the  former  is  here  given : — 

Md.  that  wee  Richard  Andros  and  William  Bomsden  require 
to  purchase  of  the  King's  Highness  by  virtue  of  the  King's 
Commission  of  Sale  the  premisses  beyng  of  the  cleare  yearly 
value  of  lxviiift.  ix*.  jd.  the  tenth  not  beyng  deducted.  In 
witnesse  wherof  we  have  subscribed  this  bill  with  our  hands  and 
putte  our  sealls  the  day  and  yere  in  the  seid  rate  specified. 

p  me  Riom  Androys. 

O  ##Ti,  to.. 

xxvii  die  Maie  Anno  rr.  Henr :  viii  xxxv  concerning  the 
Sale  to  Richard  Andrewes. 

Item  of  the  possessions  of  Kyrkeleys  viulu  vs.  viiid. 

Parcel  of  the  possessions  of  the  late  Priory  of  Kirkelies  freely 


County  of  York.  Denby  in  the  parish  Heaton.  There  are  no 
lands,  tenements,  or  rents  there  belonging  to  the  Priory  other 
than 

William  Clayton  is  tenant  at  will  of  certain  lands  there 
paying  yearly  at  Martinmas  and  Whitsuntide  vj«.  viijd. 
Memord.  that  the  same  lands  lye  by  estymacon  xj  or  xij 
myles  distunte  from  Pountefract  Castle,  and  vij  or  viij  myles 
from  Wakefelde. 

Exr.  P.  Hugon  ffuller, 

Audit. 
Parcel  of  the  lands  Ac,  of  the  above  Priory  in  the  accounts 
of  Wm.  Chamber,  Collector  of  the  King's  rents,  84,  Henry  VIII. 
Westhey  by  Westburton  in  the  parish  of  Darton. 
Thomas  Sparke  and  John  Sparke  are  tenants  at 
will  of  two  tenements  there  and  pay  per  annum 
at  Martinmas  and  Whitsuntide  with  vjs.  viijd.  li.    s.     d. 
paid  to  the  heir  of  Sir  Jas.  Strangways,  Knt...iiy.  vj.  viij. 
Shelf  in  the  parish  of  Halifax. 
The  late  wife  (?  widow)  of  John  Priestley  holds  by 
deed  under  the  common  seal  of  the  Priory  for 
a  term  of  years  as  is  said  one  tenement  with 
lands,  meadows,  &c,  &c,  and  pays  per  annum      s.      d. 

at  the  aforesaid  feasts ...     xiij.    iiij. 

Leusage  (Liversedge)  in  the  parish  of  BristalKBirstall). 
Wm.  Brooke  holds  by  deed  under  the  common  seal 
of  the  Priory  for  a  term  of  years  one  tenement 
with  its  appurtenances  and  pays  per  annum  at 
the  aforesaid  feasts  with  iiijd.  for  a  portion  of  s.  d. 
two  Autumn  tasks  called  *  "  Side  boones."  ...  xxiiij.  x. 

*  "  Side  booties "  means  service  or  work  with  the  sickle  in  harvest.  In 
Halliwell's  Dictionary  of  Archaic  and  Obsolete  Word*  "  boon  dayB  "  are  said 


B. 

d. 

X11J. 
8. 

iiij. 

8. 

1UJ. 

V. 

d. 

VI. 

8. 

d. 

Uj. 

1UJ 

Y0RK8HIBE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES.  98T 

Thoe.  Sawood  otherwise  Solithwood  son  and  heir 
of  Richard  Southwood  holds  by  deed  as  above 

a  cottage  rent  per  annum         

Thomas  Poplewell  holds  by  deed  as  above  a  cot- 
tage called  Stonehouses,  annual  rent 

Scoles  in  the  parish  of  BirstalT. 

John  Brooke  occupies  a  toft,  annual  rent 

The  heirs  of  Edward  Stones  hold  certain  lands 

there,  annual  rent         

Hekynwik  (Heckmondwike)  in  the  parish  of  BirstalL 

The  late  wife  (?  widow)  of  John  Kighley  holds  by 

deed  as  above  iij.  closes  of  land,  annual  rent... 

Emeley — John   Clayton  holds   by   deed  as  above 

certain  parcell  of  meadow  lying  in  Shepeleycarre      s. 

within  Emley  parke,  annual  rent        viij. 

Sadil worth — Richard  Wrigley  holds  by  deed  as  above 

one  tenement      li.    s.    d. 

Total viij.   v.  viij. 

Gerteyne  landes  and  tenements  in  Denbye  in  the  seyd  Gountie 
parcell  of  the  possessions  of  the  late  Monasterye  of  Kyrklees. 

Trees  growing  about  the  scytuacon  of  the  said  tenements  and 
in  hedges  inclosing  landes  parteynyng  to  the  same  will  bare 
snfiyce  to  repayre  the  forseyd  tenements  and  to  meynteyn  the 
hedgis  and  fencys  aboute  the  same  therefore  not  valued 

by  me  Willm.  Cowper. 
One  tenement  in  Shell?  ^    t>       n    «  <i  •  * 

X!e  tenement  in  Scoles  -    Par.cf  ^2°^^  * 

Three  tenements  in  Leversaee  J  the  Be7d  late  ^T*- 

Ther  be  growinge  aboute  the  scytuacons  of  the  said  tenements 
and  in  hedgis  inclosing  lands  parteyning  to  the  same  lx  polling 
okes,  aishes,  and  elmys  of  lx  and  lxxx  yeres'  growthe  whereof 
xxx  reservaid  to  the  fermer  and  tenants  there  for  tymber  for 
houseboote  to  repayre  their  forseyd  tenements  and  to  meynteyne 
the  forseyd  hedgis  therefore  not  valuid  and  xxx  trees  resydue 
valuid  at  ijd.  the  tree  which  is  in  the  holle  vs. 

by  me  Willm.  Cowper. 
Two  tenements  in  Westheye  in  the  tenure  of  Thos.  Sparke  and 
John  Sparke  parcell  of  the  late*  Priory e  of  Eyrkleys. 
The  Hayke  groue  conteyneth  yj  acres, 
West  Strodes  copp  conteyneth  iiij  acres, 
Scrathayks  groue  conteyneth  iij  acres, 
Dowkers  groue  conteyneth  one  acre. 
Total  acres  xiiij. 

to  be  those  on  which  a  tenant  is  bound  to  work  for  his  lord  gratis ;  and  in 
Basther's  Dialect  of  Almondbury  and  Huddernjield  it  is  said  that  "  to  give  a 
booin "  is  to  assist  a  farmer  gratis  to  get  in  his  crops.  In  the  present  case 
William  Brooke  appears  to  have  paid  to  the  Convent  4d.  per  annum  in  lien  of 
two  days'  work  with  the  sickle  whioh  would  be  one  of  the  terms  of  his  tenancy. 
On  this  subject  see  also  Seebohm's  English  Village  Community. 


100  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 

whereof  vij  acres  (xs.  vjrf.)  of  iij  yeres  growthe  and  vij 
acres  (xiiij*.)  of  iiij  yeres  growthe  the  wood  of  every  acre 
aforseyd  valuid  as  appeareth  whyoh  is  in  the  holle  (xxiiijs. 

The  Spryngs  of  the  wood  p  grounde  of  xiiij  acres  afor- 
seyd rated  yerly  at  vj<J.  the  acre  woh  ys  yerly  in  the  hollo 
vij*.  and  amounteth  after  xx  yeres  purchase  to  vijft. 
Item  there  be  growing  in  the '  seyd  copp  woodes  the  short 
shrubbyd  and  pollinge  okes  of  xl  and  lx  yeres  growth  valuid  at 
iiijd.  the  tree  whych  is  in  the  holle  xx*. 

by  me  Willm.  Cowper. 
At  the  dissolution  of  the  Priory  the  rectory  of  Mirfield  and  the 
glebe  lands,  tithes,  tithe  barn,  &c,  and  the  right  of  presentation 
to  the  Vicarage  were  granted  24th  April,  82  Hen.  VIII  to  Thos. 
Savile  of  Clifton  gentleman,  to  hold  by  the  service  of  the  10th 
part  of  one  knight's  fee  and  at  the  annual  rent  of  12s.  8d.  The 
price  paid  to  Grown  by  Mr.  Savile  being  £114. 

On  the  81st  May,  86  Henry  VHI,  the  site  and  precincts  of 
the  Priory  then  in  the  occupation  of  the  above-named  Thos. 
Savile,  the  buildings  (except  the  lead  of  the  roofs  and  windows), 
demesne  lands,  and  other  lands  containing  an  area  of  about  26(X 
acres  were  granted  to  John  Tasburgh  and  Nicholas  Savile  to  be 
held  of  the  King  in  chief  by  the  service  of  one  fortieth  part  of  a 
knight's  fee,  the  price  paid,  including  other  property,  being  £987 
15s.  7d.,  a  small  annual  rent  of  18s.  4d.  being  also  reserved  to 
the  King.  Other  property  of  the  Priory  in  Huddersfield,  Harts- 
head,  and  other  places,  was  granted  14th  Septr.,  86  Henry 
VIII,  to  the  above  mentioned  William  Bamsden  of  Longley,  an 
ancestor  of  the  present  owner  of  Huddersfield.  On  the  8th. 
July,  1  Edward  VI,  License  was  granted  by  the  Grown  to 
Outhbert  Savell  of  Clifton,  son  of  the  above-named  Thos.  Savile, 
to  dispose  of  the  rectory  of  Mirfield  with  the  tithes,  glebe,  Ac, 
to  the  above-named  Wm,  Bamsden,  who  on  the  14th  Octr.,  in 
the  same  year  obtained  a  License  from  the  Crown  to  dispose  or 
the  rectory,  and  the  glebe  lands,  tithes,  tithe  barn,  &c,  to  John 
Dyghton  of  Batley,  gentleman.  These  transactions  were  proba- 
bly only  family  arrangements,  for  in  May,  4  Edw.  VI,  a  License 
was  granted  to  John  Dyghton  to  dispose  of  the  same  premises 
to  Elizabeth  Savell  and  Cuthbert  Savell,  doubtless  the  widow 
and  son  of  Thomas  Savell,  the  original  grantee  from  the  Crown. 
On  the  29th  March,  1  Edw.  VI,  License  was  granted  to  the 
said  Wm.  Bamsden  of  Longley,  and  James  More,  clerk  (proba- 
bly a  trustee  for  Bamsden),  to  alienate  the  site  and  demesne 
lands  of  Kirklees  to  Thos.  Gargrave,  Esq.  Eventually  in  tho 
latter  part  of  the  reign  of  Elizabeth,  most  of  the  Kirklees  estates 
in  Clifton  and  Hartshead,  the  rectory  and  advowson  of  Mirfield, 
the  glebe  lands,  tithes,  &c,  came  by  purchase  into  the  hands  of 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES.  101 

John  *Armitage,  the  ancestor  of  the  present  owner,  and  the 
property  has  continued  in  his  family  to  the  present  time,  except 
the  advowson  of  Mirfield  which  was  sold  rather  more  than  80 
years  ago  to  Joshua  Ingham,  Esq.,  of  Blake  Hall,  Mirfield. 

The  writer  has  been  unable  to  find  any  mention  of  the  deed 
by  which  the  Prioress  and  Nuns  surrendered  the  Nunnery  and 
its  possessions  to  the  Crown,  nor  has  he  found  the  report  of  the 
King's  Commissioners  who  were  sent  to  enquire  into  the  state 
of  the  Monasteries  prior  to  their  dissolution.  It  is  possible 
however  that  a  careful  search  among  the  Harleian  MSS.  in 
the  British  Museum,  the  Dodsworth  MSS.  in  the  Bodleian 
Library  at  Oxford,  and  other  collections,  would  bring  to  light 
other  information  relating  to  Kirklees.  The  Nunnery  was 
however  of  such  little  note,  and  had  such  comparatively  small 
possessions,  that  probably  not  much  care  was  taken  of  the 
reports  concerning  it.  The  writer  however  has  recently  been 
fortunate  enough  to  obtain  a  copy  of  the  survey  of  the  buildings 
of  the  Priory  taken  by  the  King's  Commissioners,  and  from  a 
note  on  this  survey  it  would  appear  that  at  the  time  of  the 
dissolution  there  were  a  Prioress  and  seven  Nuns  in  the  Con- 
vent, which  is  probably  not  more  than  half  the  usual  number. 
It  will  be  seen  by  the  survey  that  in  the  choir  of  the  church 
were  twenty-two  stalls  for  the  Nuns,  and  there  is  little  doubt 
but  that  there  was  a  falling  off  in  number  for  some  time  previous 
to  the  dissolution.  The  following  is  a  copy  of  the  survey : — 
Kirkleys,  Scitus  domorum. 

XX 

The  churohe  conteynyth  in  length  iiij     ffoote  and  in  bredith 

xxj  foote,  wt.  a  high  roofe  coueryd  wt.  slates,  hauynge 

glasse  wyndowes  conteynynge  L  ffoote  of  glasse,  wt.  the 
high  alter,  ij  alters  in  the  quere,  and  ij  benethe,  and  xxij 
stalles  in  the  quere  for  the  nones. 
Item  the  cloyster  at  the  souths  parte  of  the  churche  conteynyth 
in  length  xl  ffoote  square  and  in  bredith  vij  foote,  and  iij 
partes  coueryd  wt.  slates,  and  chambres  over  th.  other  one 
parte,  wtoute  any  glasse. 
Item  the  chapiter  house  at  th'este  parte  of  the  cloyster,  xyj 
foote  square,  vndir  the  jdorter,  wt.  iij  litle  glasse  wyn- 
dowes conteynynge  yj  foote  of  glasse. 
Item  the  dorter  over  the  chapiter  house,  xl  foote  longe  and 

xviij  foote  brode,  coueryd  wt.  slates. 
Item  a  parler  vndir  the  dorter  xviij  foote  square  wt.  a  ohym- 
ney,  ij  baye  wyndowes  glasid  conteynynge  xxx  foote  of 
glasse. 


2 

! 


°  In  the  original  purchase  deed  Mr.  Armitage  is  described  as  of  Farnley 
Tyas,  Yeoman,  and  his  name  is  spelt  with  an  "i"  in  place  of  a  "y."  This 
in  some  degree  confirms  the  claim  of  the  Armitages  of  Hnddersneld  and  the 
neighbourhood  to  he  descended  from  the  same  stock. 

f  Dormitory. 


102  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 

Item  the  *gyle  house  at  the  southe  parte  of  the  cloyster,  xx 

foote  square,  vndir  the  fraytour. 
Item  a  larder  house  vndir  the  fraytour,  xviij  foote  longe  and 

xiiij  foote  brode. 
Item  the  tfraytour,  xxxiiij  foote  longe  and  xviij  foote  brode, 

•  stone  walles,  vnglasid,  coueryd  wt.  slates. 
Item  a  litle  house  at  the  west  parte  to  lay  brede  yn,  xvj 

foote  longe  and  x  foote  brode. 
Item  a  J  bultynge  house  at  the  weste  parte  of  the  cloyster, 

xvj  foote  square. 
Item  v  litle  ehambres  over  the  same  at  the  said  west  parte 
for  the  ladies  and  others  to  work  yn,  coueryd  wt.  slates. 
Item  the  halle  at  the  west  ende  of  the  ehurehe,  xxx  foote  longe 

and  xxj  foote  brode,  wt.oute  glasse  coueryd  wt.  slates. 
Item  a  parler  or  chamber  at  th'  upper  ende  of  the  halle  xxiiij 
foote  longe  and  xvi  foote  brode,  coueryd  wt.  slates,  no 
glasse. 
Item  a  litle  chamber  by  the  same,  x  foote  square  coueryd  wt. 

slates,  tymber  walles. 
Item  the  buttrye  at  the  vpper  ende  of  the  halle  vndir  the 

chamber,  xxj  foote  longe  and  x  foote  brode. 
Item  a  little  inner  buttrye  by  the  same. 

Item  the  new  chamber  at  the  northe  parte  of  the  inner 
g  oourte,   xvj   foote  square  wt.   a   chymney    and 

J  j§»  ooureyd  wt.  slates,  tymbre  walles. 

~  Item  ane  other  chamber  by  the  same,  xvj  foote  longe 
and  xij  foote  brode,  tymber  walles  coueryd  wt. 
slates. 
Item  ane  other  chamber  by  the  same  of  lyke  bignesse. 
Item  ane  chambre  therby  of  like  bignesse. 
Item  such  ane  other  olde  chamber  coueryd  wt.  slates. 
Item  a  low  house  or  old  parler  vndir  the  seid  ehambres,  xviij 
foote  square,  wt.  stone  walles  and  one  glasse  wyndow  con- 
teyning  x  foote  of  glasse. 
Item  the  Prioresse  chamber  at  the  northe  syde  of  the  nether 
ende  of  the  church,  xxiiij  foote  longe  and  xvj  foote  brode, 
tymbre  walles  coueryd  wt.  slates,  no  glasse. 
Item  j  litle  closett  and  a  litle  cole  house  therby. 
Item  a  low  chamber  called  the  §fermery  at  the  nether  end  of 
the  fraytour,  xviij  foote  square,  old  stone  walles,  a  chymney 
and  no  glasse. 
Item  the  kychyn,  xx  foote  longe  and  xviij  foote  brode,  no  chyxn- 
ny,  stone  walles  and  coueryd  wt.  slates. 

*  The  Gyle  house  was  the  wort  house  or  place  in  which  ale  was  worked. 
Sometimes  called  Gylyng  house,  and  sometimes  Gail  house.  See  HalHweU's 
Dictionary  of  Archaic  and  Obsolete  Words. 

t  The  refectory  or  dining  hall. 

I  For  boolting  or  Bifting  meal. 

f  Infirmary. 


i 


i 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES.  109 

Hem  the  brewhouse  and  bakehouse  at  the  southe  parte  of  the 

inner  conrte,  xxxyj  foote  longe  and  xx  fbote  brode,  stone 

walles  and  ooueryd  wt.  slates. 
Item  a  stable  and  ane  old  cole  house  at  the  southe  parte  of  the 

seid  oourte,  vndir  the  chambres. 
Md.  that  alle  the  seid  houses  are  abonte  the  cloyster  and  the 

inner  court. 
Item  ane  old  almes  house  whereyn  a  poore  man  dwellith  wt.oute 

the  gate. 
Item  ane  other  old  almes  house,  xl  foote  longe  and  ziiij  foote 

brode,  by  the  bek  syde. 
Item  a  cowhouse  xxxviij  foote  longe  and  xx  foote  brode,  brokyn 

walles,  coueryd  wt.  slates,  decayed. 
Item  ane  old  rounde  dove  cote  in  the  vtter  yarde,  of  stone 

walles  partely  brokyn,  decayed. 
Item  a  come  barne  of  ij  storyes,  whereof  th'one  lxxij  foote 

longe  and  xxx  foote  brode,  and  the  other  xl  foote  longe 

and  xxiiij  foote  brode,  stone  walles,  a  goode  stronge  roofe 

ooueryd  wt.  slates,  v  quarter  rye. 
Item  a  carte  house,  xxx  foote  longe  and  xyj  foote  brode,  no 

walles,  coueryd  wt  slates  welle. 
Item  the  oxehouse,  lx  foote  longe  and  xviij  foote  brode,  stone 

and  tymbre  walles,  coueryd  wt.  slates. 
Bern  the  kylne  house,  xlivij  foote  longe  and  xviij  foote  brode, 

whereof  th'  one  half  old  and  th'  other  halfe  late  burnyd 

and  new  bilded,  whereof  lakkith  xx  foote  to  oouer  and 

the  rest  coueryd  wt.  slates. 
Item  the  garner,  xx  foote  longe  and  xyj  foote  brode,  tymbre 

walles,  coueryd  wt.  slates. 
Item  ij  litle  houses  vndir  the  same  and  th'one  of  theym  for 

seruauntes  to  lye  yn. 
Item  a  swyne  cote,  xxiiij  foote  longe  and  xvi  foote  brode,  coueryd 

wt.  slates. 
Md.  that  the  inoste  parte  are  olde  houses. 
Item  ane  orchard  enclosed  wt.  ane  olde  stone  walle  wt.  few  fruit 

trees,  conteyneth  by  estymacon  iij  roodes  of  grounde. 
If  the  above  survey  is  cpmpared  with  an  article  an  the  Cister- 
cian plan  by  Mr.  J.  T.  Micklethwaite  in  vol.  VII  of  the  Yorkshire 
Archaeological  Journal,  a  very  good  idea  will  be  formed  of  the 
arrangement  of  Monasteries  of  the  Cistercian  Order.  We 
gather  from  the  survey  that  all  the  buildings  at  Sirklees  were 
small  and  poorly  built,  and  many  windows  were  unglazed,  even 
those  in  the  Infirmary  and  in  the  Prioress's  chamber.  There 
were  also  very  few  ohimnies,  even  the  kitchen  being  without 
one  and  probably  the  smoke  would  escape  through  the  door  and 
windows.  In  some  of  the  rooms  charcoal  fires  would  be  used 
in  braziers.  The  chaplain  appears  to  have  had  a  chimney  in 
his  room,  and  there  was  also  one  in  one  of  the  parlours  where 


104       YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

guests  were  received.  The  Prioress's  chamber  does  not  appear 
to  have  been  very  comfortable.  She  would  probably  take  her 
meals  in  the  refectory  and  sleep  in  the  dormitory  with  the  nuns 
as  it  was  not  usual  for  the  heads  of  Cistercian  Monasteries  to 
have  private  households.  This  rule  however  is  not  without 
exceptions,  as  at  Fountains  for  instance  the  Abbot's  house  must 
have  been  a  splendid  building.  At  Eirklees  the  nuns  do  not 
appear  to  have  had  luxurious  quarters,  and  it  is  to  be  hoped 
that  their  discomforts  arose  from  a  desire  to  strictly  follow 
the  example  of  the  founder  of  their  order. 

Very  few  of  the  buildings  mentioned  in  the  survey  can  now 
be  traced.    Dr.  Whitaker  says  "a  square  depression  in  the 
ground  distinctly  marks  the  cloister  court,  nearly  80  yards 
square,  north  of  this  was  the  body  of  the  church,  and  18  yards 
or  thereabouts  to  the  east  are  the  tombs  of  Elizabeth  de  Stayn- 
ton  and  another,  immediately  to  the  eastward  from  which  the 
choir  has  evidently  terminated.    The  nave,  transept,  and  choir 
must  have  been  at  least  150  ft.  long."    These  measurements  do 
not  agree  with  those  of  the  survey,  and  the  latter  document 
appears  to  dispose  of  tho  tradition  which  says  that  a  large  8 
storey  building  on  the  west  side  of  the  cloister  was  the  house  of 
the  Prioress.    The  chamber  of  the  Prioress  was  in  quite  a 
different  direction  at  the  north  side  of  the  "  nether  "  (which  I 
take  to  be  the  east  or  lower)  end  of  the  church.    It  is  possible 
that  the  building  in  question  may  have  been  the  hall,  parlour, 
Ac,  which  are  said  to  have  been  at  the  west  end  of  the  church. 
A  large  ♦gateway  with  corner  turrets  is  said  to  have  been 
standing  in  the  year  1670,  and  an  engraving  thereof  is  given  in 
Stukeley's  IUnerarium  Curioaum,  vol.  II.    A  small  copy  of  this 
engraving  is  to  be  seen  in  Outch's  Robin  Hood,  vol  I,  page  47, 
a  book  which  contains  a  good  account  of  that  famous  outlaw. 
The  most  perfect  relic  now  remaining  of  the  Priory  is  the  gate- 
house adjoining  the  stream,  which  has  very  thick  walls  and 
narrow  windows.    A  small  closet  in  this  building  is  said  to  be 
the  scene  of  Robin  Hood's  death  which  is  so  graphically  des- 
cribed in  the  fine  old  ballad  of  Robin  Hood's  Death  and  Burial 
which  we  would  fain  believe  to  be  .true.    Many  doubts  have 
been  thrown  on  the  existence  of  this  famous  outlaw  who  robbed 
the  rich  to  help  the  poor,t  and  it  is  impossible  to  condense  into 
a  few  words  all  that  has  been  written  about  him.    Those  who 
wish  for  further  information  should  refer  to  Qntch's  and  Ritson's 

•  I  think  the  bo  called  gateway  was  simply  a  farm  building  with  pigeon 
cotes  on  the  top.    From  its  situation  relatively  to  the  other  buSdingB  it  oouM 
not  be  a  gateway.    The  engraving  is  a  very  rode  one. 
t  Cryst  have  mercy  on  his  sonle, 
That  dyed  on  the  roode, 
For  he  was  a  good  ontlawe, 
And  4yd  pore  men  moeh  good, 

A  LyteU  Oeste,  Ac 


YO&KSHIBB    NOTES    AND    QUEBIE8.  106 

books  on  the  subject,  and  to  an  essay  by  the  Revd.  Josh. 
Hunter,  published  in  the  year  1852,  some  extracts  from  which 
are  given  in  Hobkirk's  History  of  Huddersfield,  pages  80-2. 
Mr.  Hunter  appears  to  be  of  opinion  that  Robin  Hood  did  not 
live  in  the  early  part  of  the  12th  century  as  one  would  conclude 
from  the  epitaph  said  to  have  been  inscribed  on  his  gravestone, 
but  in  the  first  part  of  the  14th  century,  in  the  reigns  of  Edward 
IE  and  Edward  III,  about  the  time  of  John  le  Fleming  who 

Suited  the  "native"  to  Kirklees.  The  supposed  grave  of 
bin  Hood  lies  on  rising  ground,  a  good  half  mile  from  the 
gate  house,  from  the  window  of  which  the  dying  outlaw  is  said 
to  have  shot  his  last  arrow.  There  is  only  a  small  fragment 
of  the  stone  now  to  be  seen  enclosed  in  an  iron  cage  to  prevent 
further  depredations.  The  navvies  who  made  the  neighbouring 
railway  are  said  to  have  reduced  the  stone  to  its  present  size. 
In  Gough's  Sepulchral  Monuments,  page  108,  is  the  supposed 
figure  of  the  stone  with  a  sort  of  cross  fleuree  thereon,  but  it  is 
thought  that  this  is  really  a  copy  of  Elizabeth  de  Staynton's 
tombstone.  It  is  said  that  Sir  Samuel  Armytage  an  ancestor 
of  the  present  owner  of  Kirklees,  caused  the  ground  under  the 
supposed  tombstone  to  be  dug  a  yard  deep  and  found  it  had 
never  been  disturbed.  We  will  however  take  leave  to  disbelieve 
this  story,  and  to  hope  that  Robin  Hood  still  lies  undisturbed 
in  his  last  resting  place  in  the  pleasant  park  of  Kirklees. 

Lay  me  a  green  sod  under  my  head, 

And  another  at  my  feet ; 
And  lay  my  bent  bow  by  my  side, 

Which  was  my  music  sweet : 
And  make  my  grave  of  gravel  and  green, 

Which  is  most  right  and  meet. 

Let  me  have  length  and  breadth  enough, 
With  a  green  sod  under  my  head ; 

That  they  may  say  when  I  am  dead, 
Here  lies  bold  Robin  Hood. 

All  this  they  readily  promised  him, 

Which  did  bold  Robin  please : 
And  there  they  buried  bold  Robin  Hood, 

Near  to  the  fair  Kirkleys. 


The  Sou>izb8'  Tbbnch  at  Shipley  Glen. — The  following 
letter,  calling  attention  to  a  case  of  vandalism  in  Shipley  Glen, 
appeared  recently  in  the  Bradford  Observer: — 

8ir, — I  have  just  been  informed  by  a  brother  antiquary  of  the 
wilful  demolition  of  the  ancient  stone  circle,  or  soldiers'  trench, 
at  Shipley  Glen,  described  in  Horsfall  Turner's  "Hkley." 
8ome  iconoclast,  or  iconoclasts,  for  there  must  have  been 


106        YORK8HIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

several,  have  accomplished  the  work,  which  I  am  told  they  have 
to  such  purpose  that  the  circle,  which  was  one  of  the  most 

Serfect  of  its  kind  in  this  part  of  the  oountry,  is  completely 
estroyed,  and  some  of  the  large  stones  removed  to  a  distance. 
All  this  has  been  done  for  no  earthly  purpose,  unless  it  was 
with  the  hope  of  finding  some  treasure-trove  beneath  the  surface. 
This  is  a  most  unpardonable  piece  of  folly,  evidently  done  by 
unskilful  hands.  The  least  they  could  have  done  would  have 
been  to  leave  the  erections  as  they  found  them.  Thus  a  work 
which  has  stood  in  all  probability  for  a  couple  of  thousand  of 
years,  and  was  visited  annually  by  people  from  all  parts  of 
England  and  America,  as  pointing  to  a  prehistoric  period,  is 
sacrificed  to  meet  the  cupidity  of  some  person  or  persons  whose 
names  should  be  handed  down  to  posterity  along  with  those  of 
Jonathan  Martin  and  others  of  that  ilk.  Surely  some  one  bears 
the  responsibility  of  protecting  these  national  monuments,  and 
it  is  for  this  purpose  I  beg  to  call  the  attention  of  the  Lord  of 
the  Manor,  or  other  persons  interested,  otherwise  the  few  me- 
morials of  a  similar  character  which  remain  to  us  will  soon 
disappear. — I  am,  Ac,  W.  T. 

December  26th,  1885. 

The  matter  was  at  once  brought  under  the  notice  of  Captain 
Maude,  lord  of  the  manor,  and  it  is  hoped  that  effective  steps 
will  be  taken  to  repair  the  wanton  damage  done  to  one  of  the 
most  interesting  local  "  British  circles."  The  Bradford  Histori- 
cal and  Antiquarian  Society,  at  a  council  meeting  a  few  days 
ago,  unanimously  passed  a  resolution  deploring  the  wilful 
destruction  of  this  memorial  of  the  past,  and  hoping  that  the 
lord  of  the  manor  of  Bracken  Hall  Glen — more  commonly 
known  as  Shipley  Glen,  will  endeavour  to  secure  such  restora- 
tion as  possible,  so  as  to  maintain  in  its  primitive  condition 
one  of  the  largest  and  most  perfect  "  circles  "  of  its  kind  in  this 
part  of  the  country.  Those  who  are  acquainted  with  the  glen 
will  remember  the  large  segment  of  an  ancient  intrenchment 
locally  known  as  "The  Soldiers'  Trench."  It  consists  of  a 
double  row  of  upright  stones  arranged  in  a  circular  form,  and 
filled  in  with  rubble  between  the  two  rows,  so  as  to  form  a 
raised  mound  or  wall  backed  by  the  upright  stones  on  both 
sides.  The  vandal  of  the  glen  has  simply  carted  away  a  large 
proportion  of  the  rubble  between  the  two  rows,  and  has  practi- 
cally destroyed  the  mound  for  a  considerable  distance. — Leed$ 
Mercury. 

rhe  diggings  more  fully  reveal  the  remains  of  intense  fires, 
confirm  the  theory  of  those  who  regard  this  particular 
circle  as  a  relic  of  fire-worship.  It  is  desirable  that  a  list  of 
circles,  sculptured  rocks,  pits,  mounds  and  other  earthworks  of 
ancient  date  throughout  Yorkshire,  should  be  compiled,  and 
systematically  studied.  Our  wide  moors  and  extensive  wood* 
are  comparatively  unexplored.] 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES.  107 

Uorksfjxr*  |}aris!j  fUjjisfers, 

By  the  Bkv.  J.  L.  Satwkll,  F.B.H.S. 
The  Parish  Registers  of  the  Established  Church  form  at  once 
an  authentic  library  of  parochial  history,  and  a  mine  of  anti- 
quarian wealth,  which  every  beneficed  Clergyman  ought  to 
carefully  conserve  and  protect  for  the  benefit  of  the  nation. 
The  Incumbent  of  a  parish  for  the  time  being  is  the  responsible 
guardian  of  parish  records,  although  according  to  law,  the 
Churchwardens  have  the  custody  of  the  Church  property  be* 
longing  to  each  parish,  but  such  custody  is  subordinate  to  the 
custody  of  the  Incumbent.  Too  often  the  contents  of  the 
parish  chest  are  allowed  to  moulder  away,  grimly  guarded  from 
intruders  by  the  three  large  padlocks  ordered  by  the  70th 
Canon  of  1608,  the  writing  becomes  unintelligible,  the  sub- 
stance upon  which  the  entries  are  made  worm-eaten  and  dis- 
coloured, and  the  work  of  deciphering  the  characters  a  real 
difficulty,  even  by  experts,  without  the  questionable  aid  of 
reviving  liquids.  It  is  not  to  be  supposed  that  every  Clergy- 
man takes  a  delight  in  sniffing  the  odour  of  musty  parchments, 
but  he  would  be  doing  an  undoubted  service  in  making  the 
parish  chest  easy  of  access  to  those  who  take  an  interest  in 
Historical  and  antiquarian  research;  in  preserving  valuable 
records  from  the  ravaging  tooth  of  time,  by  occasionally  expos- 
ing them  to  a  dry  atmosphere ;  and  in  protecting  the  venerable 
parish  coffer  and  its  contents  from  the  ruthless  and  oftentimes 
sacrilegious  hands  of  thieves  and  pedigree  hunters.*  Very 
recently,  the  village  church  of  Hampton,  near  Evesham,  was 
broken  into  by  thieves,  the  tin  box  which  contained  the  parish 
registers,  secured  only  by  a  small  brass  padlock  (1)  forced 
open,  and  the  contents  of  the  box  carried  away  wholesale. 
Fortunately  the  Vicar  had  made  copies  of  the  ancient  registers, 
and  for  this  he  is  to  be  commended,  but  for  the  lamentable 
Joss  of  the  originals,  which  the  thieves  would  most  probably 
burn  he  is  culpable.  A  tin  box  with  a  small  brass  padlock 
was  quite  inadequate  for  its  purpose,  and  if  the  old  parish 
chest  was  dilapidated,  one  of  Milner's  fire  proof  iron  safes 
ought  to  have  been  provided  by  the  parish  and  set  up  in 
the  parsonage.  Unless  great  care  is  taken  to  keep  out  the 
damp,  the  relentless  grip  of  decay  fastens  upon  the  leaves,  as 
«t  NoBTHAiiLBBTON,  where  the  pages  of  some  very  early  docu- 
ments are  nothing  more  than  a  parcel  of  fragments.  When 
this  is  the  case  the  pieces  ought  to  be  carefully  pasted  between 

*  There  aire  persona  who  make  a  practice  of  searching  registers  for  births, 
marriages,  and  deaths,  rewards  for  which  have  been  offered  by  advertisement, 
and  who  take  the  advantage  of  making  copious  extracts,  under  the  pretence 
of  tracing  pedigrees.  This  i$  a  refined  species  of  thievish  trickery,  against 
which  every  incumbent  ought  to  be  on  his  guard.— -J.L.8. 


106       YORKSHIBE  NOTES  AND  QUEBIB8. 

two  sheets  of  tracing  paper,  so  that  both  sides  can  be  seen. 
The  registers  at  Ackwobth  date  from  1568,  and  are  in  good 
preservation.  The  first  Registration  Act  was  passed  in  the 
thirtieth  year  of  Henry  VIII.  (1589),  so  that  it  was  not  until 
-the  eleventh  year  of  Edward  VI.  that  a  registration  book  began 
to  be  kept  at  Ackworth,  a  somewhat  tardy  compliance  with  the 
Act  which  cannot  be  accounted  for.  Of  course  an  earlier  book 
may  have  been  kept,  but  if  so  it  has  been  lost.  The  Ackworth 
registers  and  other  parochial  documents  are  carefully  preserved 
in  a  small  iron  safe*  at  the  Rectory,  accessible  to  all  bona 
fide  enquirers.  The  registers  themselves  are  numbered  con- 
secutively. Vol.  I.  is  a  quarto,  bound  in  leather,  with  brass 
clasps,  evidently  not  the  original  binding.  The  parchment 
leaves  are  much  discoloured,  but  a  careful  Reotorf  has  made  a 
partial  transcript  of  the  entries,  and  had  it  interleaved.  The 
transcript  in  some  places  is  not  correct,  but  it  is  nevertheless  a 
valuable  aid  in  deciphering  the  peculiarly  engrossed  characters, 
which  in  some  places  are  quite  faded.  The  records  in  Vol.  I. 
cover  a  period  of  ninety  years  (1558-1648). 

Ackworth— Vol.  I.,  Part  I.,  1558-71. 
The  first  parchment  leaf  has  been  torn  out,  probably  by  some 
one  wishing  to  possess  a  relic  of  ancient  times,  but  such  van- 
dalism is  shocking.    On  the  top  of  the  right  hand  corner  of  the 
second  leaf,  is  the  following  entry — 

Thomas  Hartyndon,  Rector, 
Presented  to  this  Living  by 
Queen  Mary,  Apr.  1554. 
Then  follow  entries  of  eight  baptisms,  and  one  marriage  in 
1558.    No  burials  are  recorded  until  1561. 

Baptisms,  1558. 
John  Ranolde,  baptysed  the  10 

of  Februarie. 
John  Hall,  4  of  March. 
George  Wilcocke,  ye  18  of 

Februarie. 


Agnes  Pearson,  20  September. 
Margret  Davidson,  18  August. 
John  Austwicke,  12  September. 
Agnes  Rodwell,  8  October. 
Isabell  Hopkinson,  — J  October. 


Mabrxagbs. 
Willm  Bigleskirke  and  Elizabethe October  — • 

Baptisms,  1559. 


Jane  Rawson,  March  22. 

John  Fricklaye,  — 

Thomas  Oorbrige,  Februarie  — 


John  Brownbrigge,  Februarie  25 

Margret  Heptinstall, 

Willm  Foolde, 


•  The  old  perish  chert  been  no  date,  is  not  carved,  and  only  bean  one 
padlookt 
t  Dr.  Timothy  Lee. 

t  Where  the  writing  is  OTintelHgSMe,  it  is  left  blank. 
f  The  entries  for  1559  and  1560  an  very  indistinct. 


\ 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES.  100 

Mabbiagbs. 

Francis  Makin  and May  (?). 

John and  Dorothye 

Baptisms,  1560. 

Margret  Chatburne, |  Willm  Simson,  Januarie  6  (?). 

Edwd.  Stillinge,  Januarie  — 
Mabbiagbs. 

John  Soger  and  Elizabethe 

John  Howet  and  Ja 

Willm and  Elizabeth 

and 

Baptisms,  1661. 


Robert  Becket,  Februarie  11. 

Thomas  Horner, 26. 

Doritie  Hopkinson,  Maye  10. 

Thomas  Corbrigge, 18. 

Willm  Adam,  Julie  27. 


Margret   Hinohliffe,    baptysed 

Januarie  17. 
John  Howet,  March  6. 
Lionell  Wormall,  March  16. 
Ric.  Clyffe,  March  27. 

Mabbiagbs. 
Edwarde  Rustbie  and  Grace  AUine,  (?)  Julie  5. 
Willm  Austwicke  and  Jane  Simson,  November  7. 
Thomas  Brownebrige  and  Alice  Ghauntrye,  November  17* 
Bubials. 
Nicholas  Archer,  buryed  Januarie  8. 
Baptisms,  1662. 
Edward  Margison,  baptysed  Aprill  6. 
Agnes  Roberts,  Maye  8. 
Mabbiages. 
Barnarde  Brigge  &  Margret  Scholaye,  maryed  October  5. 
Robert  Walker  &  Margret  Clyffe,  October  12. 
John  Walker  &  Elizabethe  Margeson,  October  28. 
James  Norton  &  Jennet  Redman,  November  26  (?). 
Bieharde  Tiplinge  &  Alice  Medope,  November  28. 
Willm  Hutchinson  &  Isabell  Wilkinson,  December  22  (?)• 
Baptisms,  (no  date.)  * 


Bieharde  Arundell,  June  10. 
John  Norton,  June  2 — 
Willm  Hynchcliffe,  June  11. 
John  Mawson,  October  14. 
John  Norton,  November  8. 
Jennit  Chatburne,  November  25 


Bieharde  Stillinge,  Februarie  8. 

Kaiheryne  Pickeringe,  Marche 
28. 

John  Wormall,  March  27. 

Willm  Beverlaye,  March  28. 

Edwarde  Austwicke,  Maye  28. 

Jennet  Horner,  June  8. 

Bubials. 
Elizabethe  Stillinge,  buryed  Aprill  2. 
Jane  Pickeringe,  buried  November  29 
Ellis  Chatburne,  November  26. 

•  Probably  1563. 


11G 


YORKSHIRE.   NOTES    AMD    QUERIES. 


Ann  Becket,  Januarie  8, 
M'gret  Wetherhead,  Januarie  20 
Henrye  Wormall,  Januarie  28 
Edmund  Grenewood,  March  26 
Agnes  Walker,  Aprill  1. 
Isabell  Simson,  Aprill  2. 


Baptisms,  1564. 


Elizabeth  Newall,  Aprill  13. 
James  Brathwayte,  Aprill  28. 
George  Troos,  Julie  15. 
George  Howet,  August  20. 
Agnes  Dodgson,  December  15. 
Thomas  Padget,  December  28. 


[No  marriages  or  burials  recorded  this  year.] 
Baptisms,  1565. 


Francis  Jackson,  Aprill  20. 

Robert  Davison,  June  10. 

Willm  Hall,  Julie  80. 

Elizabethe  Stillinge,  August  19 

Margret  Barker,  August  20. 

Elizabethe  Hopkinson,  Septem- 
ber 22. 

Thomas  Broadlaye,  September 
26. 


Thomas  Roger,  September  80. 
Margret  Cloughe,  October  14. 
Rich.    Simson    and    Beteris 

Howet,  October  15. 
John  Fricklaye  and  Paul  Bew- 

lay,  Januarie  27. 
Thomas  Wright,  Januarie  27. 
Anne  Clapham,  Februarie  10. 


[No  marriages  or  burials  recorded.] 
Burials,  1566. 


James  Huntingdon,  June  25. 
Agnes  Hall,  August  10, 
Elizabethe  Barker,  September 
80. 


John  Wormall,  November  19. 
Richard  Smithe,  December  22. 
Elizabethe  Hopkinson,  Decem- 
ber 20. 


[No  baptisms  or  marriages  recorded.] 
Baptisms,  1567. 


Elizabethe  Gee,(?)  Februarie  17 
Richard  Foul d 8,  Aprill  16. 
Anthonye  Rodwell,  Maye  22, 
Alise.  Brigffes,  Maye  19. 
Henrye  Roberts,  Julie  10. 
Roger  Pickeringe,  Julie  12. 
Margret  Norton,  Julie  25. 

Burials. 


George  Twedall,  Septr.  15. 
John  Wetherhead,  November  28. 
Emmot  Simson,  November  24. 
Willm.  Norton,  November  80. 
John  Scholaye,  December  15. 
Elizabeth  Gee,  (?)  December  21. 


Elizabethe  Hopkinson,  Decem- 
ber 28. 


Richard  Whyte,  baptysed  Jan- 
uarie 28. 
EstherChatburne,Februarie  15 

James  Cloughe, 18. 

Robert  Walker,  April  80. 
Elizabethe  Stillinge,  June  10. 
Jane  Glapam,  June  80. 


[No  Marriages  recorded.] 
Baptisms,  1568. 


John  Wormall,  December  18. 
Robert  Wormall,  December  20. 


Richarde  Twedall,  Julie  5. 
James  Grenewoode,  Julie  20. 
James  Howet,  Julie  80. 
Charles  Jackson,  October  10. 
Margret  Howet,  October  15. 
Margaret*  Fricklaye,October20. 
John  Scholaye,  October  28. 


*  Margaret,  is  thus  spelt  for  the  first  time,  and  afterwards  both  ways. 


YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


lit 


Baptisms,  1568. 


Marye  Wormall,  November  20. 

John  Letter  on,  November  28. 

Elizabethe  Pkkeringe,  Novem- 
ber 15. 

Rosamunde  Dodgson,  December 
20. 

Thomas  Briggs,  December  25. 

Anne  Simson,  December  80. 


Isabell  Fawconer,  November  5. 
Agnes  Padget,  November  20. 
James  Scholaye,  November  26. 
Willm.  Reame,  November  80. 
Edwarde  Becket,  Deoember  20. 
Bryan  Beverlaye,  December  20. 
EdwardeHopkinson,October  80. 
John  Chatburne,  November  10. 

BUBIALS. 

Lionel  Howet,  Jannarie  20.      I  John  Hopkinson,  Julie  15. 
Margaret  Austwick,  Januarie  20  Eatheryne  Leteron,  Julie  20. 
Robert  Bell,  Marche  28.  James  Grenewood,  October  25. 

Willm  Adam,  Marche  25.  Betterifi  Howet,  October  20. 

Margret  Chatburne,  Aprill  25.  I  George  Hall,  October  28. 
Briget  Costable,  Julie  80.  I 

[No  Marriages  recorded.] 
Baptisms,  1569. 


Jane  Wetherheade,  Jannarie  20 
Emot  8hillito,  Januarie  15. 
Bichard  Simson,  Januarie  80, 
Elisabeth  Hall,  Februarie  15. 
Margret  Broadlaye,Februarie  24 
James  Rodwell,  Februarie  25 
Dorithie  Grenewoode,  Februarie 

27. 
Elizabeth  Clapham,  Februarie 

28. 
John  Roger,  Marche  5. 
Bichard  Shillito,  Marche  15. 
Beteris  Roger,  June  20. 
Leonardo  Stillinge,  June  25 


Margret  Scholaye,  Julie  24. 
Dorithie  Horner,  Julie  24. 
Jane  Pearson,  Februarie  20. 
Anne  Gorbrigge,  Marche  25. 
Sicylye  Broadaye,  Marche  28. 
John  Redman,  April  28. 
Willm  Wormall,  June  20. 
Francis  Dodgson,  June  28. 
Thomas  Wetherhead,  June  80. 
Willm  Wright,  Julie  20. 
Margret  Greene,  Julie  25. 
Jane  Hollinworthe,  Julie  25. 
Annis  Nelson,  September  80. 
Marye  Brigs,  October  20. 


Elizabeth  Everinghame,  Aprill 

12. 
Willm  Norton,  April  25. 
Agnes  Scholaye,  June  80. 
Margret  Broadlaye,  June  15 
John  Ro(d)ger,  Aprill  80. 
Robert  Jackson,  Julie  28. 
John  Scholaye,  August  26. 
Jennet  Bell,  August 


BlJBIALS. 


Willm  Horner,  August  22. 
Agnes  Broadlave,  August  80. 
Jennet  Linfield,  October  29. 
Jennet  Grene,  Januarie  28. 
Elizabeth  Hutchinson,  Febru- 
arie 7. 
Elizabeth  Watkin,  Februarie  12. 
James  Wetherhead,  March  18. 
John  Bell,  March  20. 


[No  Marriages  recorded.] 
Baptisms,  1570. 
John  Milnerson,  Aprill  29.        '  Willm  Wormall,  June  28. 
Elizabethe  Norton,  Maye  8.        [Christian  name  not  inserted] 
Willm  Becket,  June  4.  "  Norton,  August  20. 


112 


YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


Baptisms. 


Katheryne  Stillinge,  August  28 
Margret  Howet,  Januarie  14. 
Grace  Jackson,  Januarie  21. 
Robert  Padget,  Januarie  22. 
Agnes  Bobinson,  Januarie  28. 
Elizabeth  Letteron,  Februarie 

12. 
John  Peele,  March  28. 
Mathewe  Wilbye,  Aprill  8. 
Thomas  Heptinstall,  August  26. 


Anthonye  Royes,  August  8. 
John  Greene,  September  10. 
Willm  Steade,  October  6. 
Grace  Jackson,  Februarie  28* 
John  Bell,  March  20. 
Esabell  Fawconer,  March  28. 
Bryan  Beverlaye,  Aprill  17. 
John  Huntingdon,  Aprill  28. 
Agnes  Esh,  Maye  4. 
Thomas  Geffrason,  June  8. 


[No  Marriages  recorded.] 
Baptisms,  1671. 


Jane  Norton,  Februarie  10. 
Edwarde  Greene,  Februarie  11. 
Thomas  Peele,  March  22. 
Henrie  Huntingdon,  March  4. 
Betteris  Letteron,  March  19. 
Emmat  Ghatburne,  March  14. 


Matthewe  Milner,  June  80. 
Agnes  Pearson,  Julie  24. 
Betteris  Bobinson,  August  9. 
Isabell  Simeon,  October  6. 
Anne  Hall,  October  6. 
Thomas  Piokeringe,  October  24. 
Jennet  Howet,  October  80. 

Marriages. 

Lionell  Wormald  and  Francis  Moidye,  (Morlye)  married  Julie  1» 
Willm  Jackson  and  Jane  Wilson,  November  4. 
George  Abbott  and  Isabell  Pickeringe,  December  1. 
Robert  Jackson,  and  Jane  Wormall,  Januarie  81. 

Bubiall8. — Jenet  Austwicke,  Marche  80. 

Willm  Lambs,  Rector,  A.M. 

Richarde  Churchwarden. 

The  nomenclature  of  the  foregoing  entries  is  interesting. 
During  a  period  of  nine  years,  only  forty  Christian  names  occur, 
five  of  which  viz :  Doritie,  Jennet,  Emot,  Betteris,  and  Annis, 
are  now  rarely  met  with.  "  Sicylye"  survives  as  Cicely,  and 
" Doritie"  as  Dorothy.  Bryan  and  Ellis  are  in  reality  sur- 
names, and  are  now  seldom  used  as  Christian  names.  John  of 
course  is  found  most  frequently,  together  with  his  "marrow" — 
Jane.  Lionel  occurs  frequently,  as  also  Katherine  and  Agnes, 
but  Anthony,  Nicholas,  Rosamund,  and  Barnard  only  once.  Of 
the  surnames,  Austwicke,  Fricklaye,  Chatburne,  and  Wormald, 
are  the  most  numerous,  closely  followed  by  Scholaye,  Corbrigge, 
Howet,  Stillinge,  Broadlaye,  Norton,  Simson,  and  Fawconer. 
But  Geffrason  (Jefferson),  Letteron,  Everingham,  Costable, 
Shillito,  and  Arundell  are  scarce.  The  name  Roger  occurs  both 
as  a  Christian  and  a  Surname.  Chauntrye,  Ranolde,  Bigles- 
kirke,  Clyffe,  Troos,  Foulds,  and  Esh  are  only  found  once. 
The  surnames  Scholey,  Wormald,  Howit,  and  Norton  still 
Burvive  at  Ackworth,  whilst  a  descendant  of  the  Austwick 
family,  was  a  person  of  property  and  importance  in  the  last 


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113 


century,  and  gave  a  piece  of  ground  to  the  Society  of  Friends 
wherein  to  inter  their  dead.  No  light  is  thrown  upon  the 
manners  and  customs  of  the  time,  but  the  entries  become  more 
interesting  further  on. 

Baptisms,  1572. 


Jennet  Dodson,  October  24. 
Elizabeth  Wormall,  Decemb.  14 
Alis  Nelson,  Januarie  5. 
John  Pearson,  Februarie  22. 


Margaret  Roades,  Aprill  27. 
John  Wormall,  Aprill  29. 
Henrie  Redman,  Maye  7. 
Richarde  Jackson,  June  29. 
John  Wormall,  filius  WiU'm, 
August  28. 

Mabriages. 
James  Norton  and  Katerine  (Tapton),  Januarie  26. 
Richarde  Fricklaye  and  Isabell  Coyts  (Coates),  Maie  7. 

BUBIAI*L8. 


Agnes  Walker,  Aprill  9. 
Thomas  Peele,  Aprill  80. 
Margret  Royds,  Maie  1. 
Jennet  Norton,  Maie  26. 
George  Briggs,  June  5. 
John  Hepworth,  June  20. 
John  Westbie,  June  29. 

Baptismes, 
Richard  Letteron,  Aprill  10. 
Jane  Horner,  Aprill  17. 
Nicholas  Norton,  Aprill  26. 
Ann  (?)  Wetherhead,  Maie  10. 

Milnerson,  Maie  80. 

Lionell  Clapam,  Maie  24. 
Margret  Jackson,  Julie  10. 
John  Robinson,  August  2. 
Anne  Hirst,  September  6. 
Leonard  Padget,  September  12. 


Jane  Hawet,  July  25. 
Richard  Jackson,  August  6. 
Robert  Pickeringe,  October  28. 
John  Becket,  December  4. 
Agnes  Wormall,  Februarie  15. 
Jane  Ghatburne,  Marche  20. 

1578. 

Margerye  Huntingdon,  Septem- 
ber 12. 

Jane  Gr  en  field,  September  26. 

Thomas. Roberts,  October  12. 

Thomas  Briggs,  November  80. 

Thomas  Wright,  Decemb  20. 

Anne  Westabye,  December  27. 

Tho.  Hall  &Ric. 'Ball,  Janua- 
rie 10. 

Thomas  Austwicke,Februarie  28 


Mabriages. 
Robert  Barghe  and  Jennet  Simson,  October  28. 
Henrie  Horncastle  and  Margret  Brooke,  November  15. 

Bubialls. 


Willm  Wormall,  Marche  25. 
James  Norton,  Aprill  11. 
John  Robinson,  August  6. 
Betteris  Letteron,  December  18 


John  Wright,  Januarie  5. 
Agar  (?)  White,  Januarie  6. 
Richarde  Hall,  Februarie  10. 
Thomas  Hall,  Februarie  15. 


Edmond  Dorker,  the  Sixth  (?) 

of  November. 
Will'm  Walker,  Aprill  20. 

Y.H.Q. 


Baptisms,  1574. 


Will'm  Stillinge,  and 
Wormall,  August  18. 
James  Corker,  June  20. 
John  Simson,  August  7 


Agnes 


114 


YORKSHIRE    NOTE8    AND    QUERIES. 


Jane  Hawet,  September  19. 
Thomas  Corker,  October  2. 
John  Letteron,  October  BO. 


Edithe  (?)  Milnerson,  Februa- 

rie  8. 
Agnes  Dodson,  Februarie  24. 


Mabbiaobs. 

John  Alderslaye  and  Ellin  Fyshe,  October  81. 

[No  Burials  recorded  in  1574.] 

Baptisms,  1575. 


Jane  Jackson,  Aprill  10, 
John  Hodgson,  Aprill  16. 
John  Becket,    [and  buried], 

Aprill  24. 
Richard  Chatburne  and  Jennet 

Tomson,  Maie  21. 
Thomas  Horncastle,  June  20 

Mabbiaobs. 
Peter  (?)  Heaton  and  Isabell  Wormall,  Januarie  16. 

Burials. 


Margret  Wormall,  June  22. 
Tho.  Greene  and  Robert  Bell, 

August  21. 
Alice  Robert(s),  Februarie  24. 
Dorithyie  Corker,  Marche  22. 
Emmat  Huntingdon,  Marche  22 


Margret  Ramsden,  April  24 
Marie  HinchclifFe,  Maie  27. 
W —  Woode,  Januarie  20. 

Baptisms, 
Margret  Padget,  Aprill  6. 
Edwarde  Wright,  Aprill  8. 
Elizabeth  Wormall,  June  16, 
Lionell  Walker,  Julie  18. 
Thomas  Wormall,  Julie  25. 

Mabbiaobs. 

Will'm  Jackson  and  Rosamond  Stillinge,  Maie  20, 

[No  Burials  recorded  this  year.] 

Baptisms,  1577. 


Jennet  Pyman,  Februarie  8. 
John  Robert(s),  Februarie  4. 

1576. 
Wilfryde  Hawet,  March  6. 
Eatheryne  Pickeringe,  March  6 
Anthonye  Redman,  March  12. 
Leonard  Walker,  March  24. 


John  Horncastle,  Maye  14 
Lionell  Redman,  Maye  26. 
John  Walker,  Maye  28. 
Will'm  Norton,  June  4. 
Anne  Shillito,  December  12. 
Katheryne  Norton,  Januarie  8, 
Henrie  Nelson,  Februarie  17. 

[No  Marriages  recorded.] 
Burials. 


John   Wormall,  [and  buried,] 
Feb.  17. 

—  Scholaye,  filia  Elizabeth, 
Februarie  26. 

—  Scholaye,  filia  Johannis, 
March  5. 


Elizabeth  Horncastle,  Julie  14. 
Jennet  Parke,  October  80. 
Jane  Heaton,  October  14. 
John  Becket,  Februarie  17. 
Thomas  Corker,  Marche  8. 


John  Proctor,  Marche  5. 
Elizabeth  Burnet,  Marche  21. 
Agnes  Horner,  before  the  date 
thereof,*  September  12. 


•  Born  prematurely,  and  dying  immediately ;  but  as  the  infant's  baptism  is 
not  recorded,  there  is  no  reason  why  its  burial  by  name  should  have  been 
entered. 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 


115 


Baptisms,  1578. 


Richarde  Pickeringe,  filius 

J —  minoris  «*  Septeb :  29 
Alice  Hall,  Aprill  11. 
Richarde  Roberts,  Aprill  80. 

Barnab  Shepheard,  Hector,  presented  to  this  Living  by  ABp 
York,  Jany.,  1578.+ 

BURIALLS. 


Isabell  Huntingden,  June  8. 
Jane  Izat,  June  80. 
John  Scholaye,  filius  Richardi, 
November  10. 


Henrye  Anstwicke,  Aprill  16. 
Richarde  Roberts,  Maye  12. 


Richarde  Ellis,  Maye  28. 
John  Wormall,  December  28. 


Mabriageb. 
Will'm  Corker  and  Katherine  Hodgson,  June  2. 
John  Anstwicke  and  Alice  Brouke,  June  15. 

Baptisms,  15784 


Jennet  Jackson,  Februarie  11. 
Robert  Norton,  Februarie  12. 
Leonard  Wetherhead,  Feb.  18. 


John  Hawet,  Februarie  24. 
John  Rawson,  Marche  24. 


Baptisms,  1579. 


Robert  Farrand,  Marche  26, 
Dorythye  Whiticars,  Aprill  4. 
Lionell  Roberts,  Aprill  5. 
Antonye  Milnerson,  Aprill  12 
Will'm  Grenfield,  Aprill  28. 
Agnes  Redman,  Aprill  25. 
John  Jenkinson,  als.  Greene, 

August  8. 
Jane  Heaton,  August  14. 

BuBLALIiS 


Jennet  Anstwicke,  August  14. 

James  Huntingden,  filius 

Januarie  29. 
Richarde  Horncastle,  Feb.  26. 
Margret  Shillito,  Februarie  29. 
Anne  Thacker,  Marche  1. 
John  Roberts,  Marche  4. 
Ellin  Anne§  Corker,  March  7. 


Leonarde  Burnet,  Aprill  25. 
Katheryne  Grenfield,  Maye  1. 
Agnes  Ashton,  June  29. 
Robert  Bell,  Julie  2. 
Marye  Robinson,  Julie  7. 
Margret  Jenkinson,  August  7. 
Jennet  Rawson,  Septeb.  4. 
Johana  Wormall,  October  20. 


Margret  Burnleye,  Deceb.  17. 
Thomas  Beet,  Februarie  14. 
John  Roger,  Februarie  21. 
Anne  Walker,  Marche  11. 
John  Hawet,  Marche  18. 
Jane  Heaton,  Marche  28. 

James  Huntingden,  filius 

Marche  24. 


[No  Marriages  in  1579.] 
Baptisms,  1580. 


John  Hodgson,  Marche  26. 
Emmat  Medoppe,  Marche  28. 
James  Whalleye,  Aprill  1. 
Richard  Bell,  Aprill  8. 


Thomas  Grenfeld,  Aprill  18. 
Elizabeth  Walker,  Aprill  21. 
Margret  Rawson,  Maye  22. 
Isabell  Dorker  [Donkin],  May  28 


•  The  Father  was  a  minor. 
f  Later  entry. 

♦  Not  recorded  in  their  proper  order. 
I  First  instance  of  a  double  name. 


116 


YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


Anne  Spencer,  June  1. 
Margeret  Hall,  June  20. 
Ursulaye  Corker,  August  19. 
Edward  Izat,  September  17. 
Elizabeth  Bigleskirke,  Sept.  24 
Jane  Pickeringe,  October  8. 
Francis  Bushell,  November  9. 
Andrewe  Shillito,  November  80 
Francis  Broadlaye,  December  5 


Ellin  Corker,  December  22. 
Thomas  Jenkinson,  Januarie  8. 
Thomas  Austwicke,  Januarie  12 
Emmet  Foulds,  Januarie  19. 
Jennet  H  un  tin  gden,  Januarie  26 
Jane  Soholayc,  Februarie  18. 
Alice  Wilson,  a  bastard,  Feb- 
ruarie 20. 
Thomas  Broadlaye,  Marche  4. 


Burialls. 


Margret  Medoppe,  Aprill  6. 
Elizabeth  Walker,  Maye  1. 
Margerye  Child,  Maye  18. 
Isabell  Don  kin,  Maye  80. 
Ellin  Corker,  June  8. 
Thomas  Beverlaye,  June  9. 
John  Hodgson,  June  24. 
Margret  Bawson,  Julie  81. 
Bobert  Norton,  August  5. 
Alis  Hodgson,  September  18. 
Thomas  Peele,  October  17. 


Alis  Bawson,  November 
Elizabeth  Howet,  December  2. 

[No  Marriages  recorded.] 

Baptisms,  1581. 


Anne  Thacker,  December  2. 
Dorothie  Stagge,  December  5. 
Marye  Thacker,  December  6. 
John  Pearson,  December  26. 
WilTm  Walker,  Januarie  1. 
Grace  Broadlaye,  Februarie  1. 
Lionell  Farrand,  Februarie  7. 
Willm  Hepworthe,  Februarie  18 
Cicelye  Hawksworthe,  Feb.  20. 
Alice  Chadwicke,  Marche  81. 
Maud  Marchland,  Maye  29.  • 
John  Bratwhayt,*  Julie  10. 


Leonard  Farrand,  Aprill  28. 
Thomas  Heaton,  Maye  29. 
Jane  Banold,  Julie  4. 
George  Whiticars,  August  6. 
Anne  Huntingden,  August  27. 
Isabell  Sugden,  Septemb.  6. 
Anne  Wormall,  September  8. 
Anne  Prince,  September  21. 
WilTm  Hodgson,  October  10. 


Anne  Eshe,  November  9. 
Anne  Aspiner,  December  29. 
Thomas  Hodgson,  December  80 
Edithe  Frances,  Januarie  10. 
WilTm  Bedman,  Marche  1. 
WilTm  Walker,  Marche  8. 
Anne  Jenkinson,  Marche  11. 
WilTm  and  John  Hinchcliffe, 
Aprill  24. 


BUBULS. 


Eatheryne  Brooke,  September  1 


Elizabethe  Sugden,  Septemb.  8  Margret  Ward,  Februarie  25 
WilTm  Hodgson,  October  20.      Edward  Izat,  Februarie 
Marye  Wetherhead,  Novemb.  15 

[No  Marriages  recorded.] 
Baptisms,  1582 


Isabell  Sugden,  December  81. 


Isabell  Boberts,  June  2. 
Thomas    Corker,    films 

June  2. 
Bichard  Bawson,  June  9. 


lion. 


Jane  Grenfeld,  October  20. 
Jane  Medope,  October  28. 
WilTm  Horncastle,  October  80. 
Lionell  Grene,  November  21. 


•  Now  4lBraitllwait., 


YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


117 


Emmat  Hawksworthe,  Dec.  10. 
Judith  Pickeringe,  December  24 
Marye  Izat,  Februarie  2. 

Bubialls, 
Agnes  Hinchclrffe,  Marche  25 
Will'm  Hinchcliffe,  Aprill  1. 
Will'm  Norton,  Maye  18. 
John  Hinchcliffe,  June  8. 
Edward  Fricklaye,  June  18. 
Thomas  Corker.  October  28. 


Marye  Bushel!,  Marche  5. 
Emmat  Willson,  Marche  9. 


12 


John  Howet,  Aprill  12. 
Cotton  Broadlaye,  Aprill  29. 
John  SchMaye,  Aprill  28. 
Robert  Broadlaye,  Maye  24. 
Stephen  Peele,  June  25. 
Joana  Norton,  Julie  7. 
Edythe  Corker,  August  14. 
John  Eshe,  Octob  16. 


[No  Marriages  recorded.] 
Baptisms,  1588. 


Jane  Medope,  Novemb.  4. 
Elizabethe  Wormall,  Noveb, 
Alice  Grene,  Deceb.  80. 
Will'm  Walker,  Februa  4. 
Jennet  Huntingden,  Februa  21 
Margret  Folds,  Februa  28. 


Elizabethe  Austwicke,  Oct.  27. 
Alice  Briggs,  November  29. 
Elizabeth  Thacker,  Noveb.  29. 
Edward  Jen  kin  son,  Jan.  22. 
Emmat  Huntingden,  Jan.  25. 
William  Medope,  Februarie  28. 
Robert  Jackson,  Februarie  25. 
John  Parke,  Februarie  25. 


Elizabethe  Farrand,  October  29,  Anne  Pearson,  Marche  11. 

Burials. 


Thomas  Corker,  Februarie  27. 
Lionell  Brooke,  Aprill  2. 
Lionell  Corker,  Aprill  7. 
Jennet  Austwicke,  Aprill  14. 
Betteris  Padget,  June  11. 
Robert  Padget,  June  14. 
WilTm  Wormall,  Julie  8. 
Alia  Trough  ton,  August  5. 
John  Foores  (?),  August  7. 


Richard  Rawson,  August  20. 
George  Austwicke,  Septeb.  12. 
Anne  Dobson,  Septemb.  18. 
Margret  Fricklaye,  Septeb.  18. 
Jennet  Norton,  Septeb.  14. 
Margret  Beverlaye,  Decemb.  16 
Jennet  Colbres,  February  1. 
Robert  Hinchcliffe,  February  28 
John  Mason,  Marche  25. 


John  Shillito,  Marche  28. 
Anne  Becket,  Marche  28. 
Jane  Wright,  Aprill  2. 
Thomas  Scholaye,  Aprill  5. 

Will'm  Hawksworthe, 

George  Wormall,  June  8. 
Betteris  Whiticars,  August  14 
Will'm  Jenkinson,  Septeb.  18. 


[No  Marriages  recorded.] 
Baptisms,  1584. 


Robert  Walker,  Aprill  2 
Jane  Wright,  Aprill  8. 
Nicholas  Chatburne,  Aprill  19 
John  Hall,  Maye  6. 
Bobert  Bushell,  Februa  22. 

[No  Marriages  recorded.] 


Elizabeth  Aspiner,  Septeb.  80. 
Will'm  Eshe,  November  2. 
Elizabethe  Windebanke,  Nov. 

27. 
Alice  Izat,  November  29. 
Henrie  Prince,  December  6. 
Robert  Roberts,  December  28. 
Margret  Clapam,  Februa  14. 
Bubialls. 

Anne  Dodgson,  Februa  28. 
Jane  Shawe,  Marche  8. 
Edward  Kaye,  Marche  21. 
Richard  Paalaye,  Marche  25. 


118  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 

Baptisms,  1565. 
Simon  Back,  Hector.    ABp.  York,  Patron.    January,  1585. 
John  and  Elizabeth  Grenfeld,  Leonard  Thacker,  August  2. 

Aprill  8.  I  Grace  Walker,  August  6. 

Katheryne  Medope,  Aprill  18.  '  Allan  Corker,  August  18. 
Jennet  Horncastall,  Aprill  20.  '  Will'm  Smythe,  Septemb  8. 
Leonard  Spencer,  Maye  2.         j  Robert  Bell,  August  22. 
Jennet  Dobson,  Maye  7.  !  Alice  Hawet,  Novemb  28. 

Anne  Wilson,  Maye  9.  John  Austwicke,  Janua  22. 

Isabell  Wood,  June  28.  s  Isabell  Broadlaye,  Janua  81. 

Prudence  Halilaye,  Julie  8. 

Mabriaoes. 
Bobert  Bidgnall  and  Isabell  Heaton,  November  9. 
Will'm  Bawson  and  Isabell  Franke,  December  7. 
Will'm  Peter  and  Alice  Somerscales,  December  7. 
John  Bawling  and  Ursula  Wetherhead,  December  12. 
[No  Burials  recorded.] 

Baptisms,  1586. 


George  Grenfeld,  Marche  20. 
Marye  Grene,  Marche  25. 
Jo.  &  Will'm  Paslaye,  Aprill  5, 
Thomas  Eshe,  Aprill  16. 
Will'm  Pickeringe,  Aprill  29. 
Emmat  Grenfeld,  Maye  2. 
Anne  Hawks  worth,  Maye  22. 
Isabell  Parkinson,  Maye  29. 


Alice  Aspiner,  July  21. 
Robert  Hawet,  Octob  22. 
Thomas  Bidiall,  Septemb  24. 
Elizabeth  Padget,  Noveb.  29. 
Anne  Bawson,  Januar  18. 
Dorithye  Bawlin,  Januar  21. 
Mary  Lethall,  Marche  19. 


Reptile  Symbolism. — In  the  Church  of  Bainton,  East  York- 
shire, there  is  a  recumbent  effigy  of  a  cross-legged  knight  (said 
to  be  Peter  cle  Mauley)  of  18th  Century  date.  A  Lizard  bites 
the  point  of  his  Shield,  and  a  toad  covers  the  point  of  the 
Sword,  its  head  being  towards  the  hilt.  How  are  we  to  account 
for  these  reptiles  in  this  position  and  what  is  their  signification  ? 
They  have  no  apparent  connection  with  the  Armorial  bearings 
of  the  Knight.  Gough  (in  his  Sepulchral  Monuments)  states 
that  these  reptiles  in  such  a  position  are  not  uncommon  in  this 
country.  R.  H.  Barker. 

Hull,  18th  October,  1886. 


Muster  Bolls. — Surtees  informs  us  that  the  Earl  of  Hunt- 
ington, Augt.  12, 1588,  assembled  all  of  the  County  of  Durham, 
between  16  and  60  years  of  age  capable  of  bearing  arms,  at 
Spennymoor, — 9000.  Can  any  of  your  antiquarian  readers 
inform  us  whether  these  musters  are  preserved  by  name.  Those 
of  Yorkshire,  temp.  Hen.  8,  must  have  been,  as  they  are  drawn 
upon  by  General  Plantagenet  Harrison  for  genealogical  pur- 
poses. T.  Y. 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES.  119 

©ttr  Ijorkslpr*  foitrrs. 

While  giving  the  writer  of  the  article  on  Leeds  Pottery  every 
credit  for  its  production,  and  adding  my  own  modest  testimony 
to  the  value  of  such  researches  as  illustrate  the  origin  and 
growth  of  important  branches  of  manufacture,  more  especially 
such  a  one  as  that  of  china  and  pottery,  which  is  so  closely 
allied  to  the  fine  arts,  and  enters  so  largely  into  the  comfort 
and  beauty  of  our  domestic  lives,  still  I  am  sure  it  is  not  his 
wish  that  any  wrong  impressions  should  be  produced  on  the 
subject  by  incorrect  statements  or  questionable  inferences. 
Quoting  from  "  Thoresby,"  he  says,  "that  Mr.  Place  discovered 
an  earth  for  and  a  method  of  making  porcelain,  which  he  put 
in  practice  at  the  Manor  House  of  York."  What  may  have 
been  Mr.  Place's  discovery,  or  what  experiments  he  may  have 
carried  on  for  the  making  of  porcelain  or  china,  i.e.,  semi- 
transparent  ware,  partaking  of  the  qualities  of  both  glass  and 
pottery,  I  know  not ;  but  most  certainly  no  evidence  has  yet 
been  found  that  he  ever  did  make  any  such  ware,  either  as 
specimens  or  for  merchandise ;  that  which  he  produced  being, 
so  far  as  is  known,  "  perfectly  opaque,  and  not  superior  to  the 
common  earthenware,"  made  some  years  later. 

Mr.  Preston  seems  also  not  to  have  made  it  quite  clear  when 
quoting  Thoresby's  reference  to  the  Wortley  clays,  and  also  to 
Houghton's  testimony  as  to  the  capabilities  of  some  English 
clays  for  this  and  other  special  purposes,  that  he  (Thoresby)  is 
only  bringing  in  Houghton  for  this  end,  and  not  in  any  way  as 
a  witness  in  favour  of  Place  as  a  maker  of  chinaware.  All  that 
Houghton  says  on  the  subject  refers  to  day  found  at  Poole,  in 
Dorset,  which  was  conveyed  thence  to  London  for  manipulation 
by  the  potters  of  the  metropolis.  (See  below.)  Further, 
although  China  goods  were  imported  into  this  country  from  the 
first  half  of  the  sixteenth  century,  and  were  eagerly  sought 
after  by  those  who  could  afford  to  buy  them,  still  it  is  not 
known  that  any  of  that  fictile  ware  was  made  here  before  the 
opening  of  the  eighteenth  century ;  in  fact,  the  great  weight  of 
evidence  is  against  such  an  assumption.  For  though  D wight, 
of  Fulham,  patented  his  discovery  of  "the  mystery  of  trans- 
parent earthenware,"  in  April,  1671,  he  does  not  appear  ever 
to  have  produced  it  as  a  marketable  commodity;  the  great  risk 
and  uncertainty  of  firing,  &c,  and,  possibly,  an  imperfect 
knowledge  of  "  the  mystery,"  preventing  him  from  completing 
what  he  had  begun ;  or,  perhaps,  it  might  be  that  he  could  not 
produce  it  at  a  price  to  compete  with  the  Oriental  importations, 
as  Houghton  further  tells  us  that  the  clay  above  referred  to  as 
brought  to  London  for  the  manufacture  of  "  the  best  sort  of 
mugs,  was,  he  had  been  told  by  Dwight,  the  same  as  chinaware 
was  made  of,"  and  that,  if  it  were  worth  while  we  may  make 


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as  good  china  here  as  any  in  the  world."  Again  he  says,  so 
late  as- 1695,  "  Tis  a  curious  manufacture,  and  deserves  to  be 
encouraged  here,  which,  without  doubt,  many  would  do,  as  Mr. 
Dwight,  of  Fulham,  has  done*it,  and  can  do  it  again  on  any- 
thing that  is  flat.  ...  By  my  consent,  the  man  that  would 
bring  it  to  perfection  should  have  for  his  encouragement  One 
Thousand  Pounds  from  the  Publick,  though  I  helped  to  pay  a 
tax  towards  it." 

As  to  Chelsea,  Jewitt  says,  in  his  "  Ceramic  Art,"  vol.  1,  p. 
168,  that  "  the  history  of  the  Chelsea  china  works  is  -very 
obscure."  It  is  certain,  however,  that  previous  to  the  year 
1700  the  goods  made  at  these  works  were  principally  delft  ware, 
by  Dutchmen  brought  from  Holland  for  that  purpose.  It  is 
sometimes  said  that  the  Dutch  potters  were  at  this  time  ac- 
quainted with  the  process  of  making  porcelain,  and  if  so,  it 
might  not  be  improbable  that  they  brought  this  practical  know- 
ledge with  them  not  only  to  Chelsea,  but  also  to  Bow  and 
Bristol,  where  they  appear  likewise  to  have  been  employed. 
One  thing  is  certain  of  Chelsea,  and  probably  -also  of  the  other 
places  mentioned,  it  was  early  occupied  in  painting  china 
brought  from  the  East  for  that  purpose,  and  that  by  the  middle 
of  last  century  they  were  all  actively  engaged  in  its  manufacture, 
servilely  imitating,  in  the  first  period,  the  Oriental  paste  and 
style  of  decorations. 

At  this  time  also,  1751,  Dr.  Wall,  of  Worcester,  medical 
practitioner,  chemist,  and  artist,  brought  his  experiments  to 
perfection,  and  established  a  company  for  the  manufacture  of 
china  in  that  city.  The  works  at  Derby  were  also  started  a 
year  or  two  prior  to  the  above  date,  and  were  carried  on  in  1756 
by  the  firm  of  Dewsberry,  Planche,  and  Co.,  "  partners  together 
as  well  in  ye  art  of  making  English  china,  as  also  in  buying 
and  selling  all  sorts  of  wares  belonging  to  ye  art  of  making 
china."  A  few  years  later  the  Old  Chelsea  works  were  incor- 
porated with  those  of  Derby,  the  distinctive  marks  of  the  two 
being  compounded  into  one.  Dr.  Johnson  and  his  friend  Bozzy 
visited  Derby  in  1777,  and  the  latter  in  writing  of  the  occasion 
says — "The  china  was  beautiful;  but  Dr.  Johnson  justly  ob- 
served it  was  too  dear ;  for  that  he  could  have  vessels  of  silver 
of  the  same  size  as  cheap  as  what  were  here  made  of  porcelain." 
So  that  after  all  that  is  said  about  the  so-called  extravagant 
prices  sometimes  paid  for  specimens  of  these  early  productions, 
they  do  not  often  exceed  their  first  cost.  From  this  brief  sketch 
it  would  appear  that  Dwight  (or  Dowoit)  of  Fulham,  knew  how 
to  make  china  in  1671 ;  yet  it  is  not  likely  he  ever  did  make  it 
for  sale ;  that  it  was  made  at  Chelsea  and  Bow  at  the  opening 
of  the  last  century,  and  possibly  at  the  first  place  somewhat 
sooner,  for  exceedingly  little  is  known  about  it;  that  from  1750 
it    was    made    in    considerable  quantities  at  all  the  places 


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mentioned,  as  also  at  a  few  others.  Yorkshire,  therefore,  I 
fear,  can  lay  no  claim,  either  by  Place  of  York  or  any  one  else, 
to  the  invention,  nor  the  early  production  of  this  delicate  and 
beautiful  ware ;  nor  was  it  ever  introduced  into  the  capital  city 
until  1888,  when  it  was  advertised  that  "  Mr.  Hirstwood,  of 
Stonegate,  erected  a  kiln  and  extensive  warehouse  in  the  Groves, 
for  the  manufacture,  gilding,  and  burnishing  china,  which  has 
not  previously  been  attempted  in  this  city." 

The  " Leeds  Pottery  Works"  are  situate  in  Jack-lane,  Huns- 
let,  where  they  are  of  considerable  extent,  covering  altogether 
about  seven  acres  of  land.  During  the  century  and  a  quarter 
of  their  existence,  they  have  passed  through  many  vicissitudes 
of  changing  fortune,  rising  rapidly  to  a  state  of  eminence  and 
prosperity,  from  which  they  gradually  declined ;  got  involved 
in  the  meshes  of  Chancery  law ;  were  rescued ;  recovered  some 
measure  of  their  former  success;  declined  again,  and  were 
bankrupt;  continued  a  feeble  struggle  for  a  few  years,  and 
finally  passed  into  hands  by  whose  energy  they  recovered  a 
large  degree  of  their  original  vitality.  It  is  generally  supposed 
that  pottery  has  been  made  in  and  about  Leeds  from  a  very 
early  period,  the  Wortley  clay  having  been  used  for  that  purpose 
for  many  generations,  and  possibly  centuries  past.  The  town- 
ship of  Potternewton,  also  on  the  north  side  of  Leeds,  although 
it  may  have  a  personal  and  not  a  craft  origin,  is  yet  suggestive 
in  connection  with  this  question.  The  early  wares  were,  how- 
ever, of  a  coarse  and  primitive  character.  The  first  clue  which 
we  get  to  the  comparatively  modern  history  of  these  works  is 
furnished  by  Jewitt  (Vol.  1,  p.  467),  where  he  says,  "  Before 
this  time  (the  middle  of  the  last  century),  a  kind  of  Delft  ware 
was  made,  and  I  have  seen  some  very  creditable  copies  of 
Oriental  patterns  with  salt  glaze  also  produced  at  these  works." 
But  the  famous  Josiah  Wedgwood  in  1762  commenced  to  make 
his  celebrated  "cream  ware,"  afterwards  called,  when  patronised 
by  Queen  Charlotte,  "  Queen's  Ware,"  and  the  wonderful  favour 
with  which  it  was  received  induced  other  potters,  and  the  Leeds 
makers  especially,  to  give  their  attention  at  once  to  its  produc- 
tion. This  was  done  with  such  success  at  Leeds  as  to  rival, 
and  in  many  cases  exceed  the  works  of  the  "  great  master  "  ; 
notably  in  the  wicker  baskets,  which  are  often  exquisite  speci- 
mens of  light  and  graceful  manipulation ;  while  in  the  more 
ornamental  pieces,  such  as  centre-pieces,  candelabra,  tureens, 
bowls,  Ac,  the  perforated  work — which  was  all  done  with  a 
punch  or  a  small  knife — and  the  modelling  are  all  that  could 
be  desired  in  form  and  beauty.  The  late  lamented  Mr.  Lyndon 
Smith  owned  a  ohoice  collection  of  these  wares,  some  of  which 
he  considered  so  fine  as  to  "vie  in  artistic  feeling  with  the 
productions  of  Wedgwood."  Indeed,  the  race  at  this  time  was 
so  close  between  these  two  noted  manufactories,   that  it  is 


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scarcely  possible  to  say,  in  reference  to  many  of  the  common 
patterns,  which  originated  them,  or  which  copied  from  the 
other. 

Mr.  Preston  says — "  This  ware — i.e.,  the  cream  ware — "  bears 
considerable  resemblance  in  the  paste  to  the  Staffordshire 
Queen's  ware,  but  differs  in  the  colour  of  the  glaze,  which  is  of 
a  mellower  kind."  Now,  I  may  be  wrong,  but  I  have  always 
regarded  the  glaze  generally  used  as  being  colourless,  and  the 
"tint"  to  belong  to  the  paste  or  body  of  the  article;  still, 
however  that  may  be,  there  certainly  is  no  fixed  tone  or  tint  in 
either  the  Leeds  or  Staffordshire  "  cream "  ware,  the  shades 
varying  from  a  pale,  creamy  white  to  a  deep  cane  or  decided 
yellow  colour.  In  fact,  Wedgwood  was  obliged  to  tell  his  Lon- 
don agent,  as  Miss  Meteyard  informs  us,  that  while  he  strove 
to  keep  it  as  pale  as  possible,  yet  it  could  not  always  be  done, 
and  that  "it  is  impossible  that  any  one  colour,  even  though  it 
were  to  come  down  from  heaven,  should  please  every  taste/' 
Neither  can  I  see  how  "  the  perforated  or  pierced  work  "  can 
be  said  to  be  characteristic  of  the  Leeds  ware.  For  although  a 
very  large  quantity  of  that  ware  was  made  at  Leeds,  yet  they 
must  have  produced  a  vastly  greater  amount  of  that  which  was 
plain  in  cream,  blue,  and  other  colours  of  printed  and  painted 
goods ;  while  those  pierced  wares  were  made  to  an  equal  extent 
by  Wedgwood,  and  largely  also  by  Davenport,  Spode,  Neale, 
Gric,  and  other  makers.  I  know  it  is  common  for  dealers  who 
have  any  of  this  special  ware  without  mark  to  ascribe  it  at  once 
to  Leeds — and  this  speaks  loudly  in  favour  of  our  local  produc- 
tions ;  but  collectors  have  to  learn  to  discriminate,  and  it  is 
for  their  guidance  I  write,  as  I  but  rarely  find  that  dealers  have 
much  technical  knowledge  of  the  several  varieties  of  their 
fictile  stocks.  Neither  does  my  limited  experience  confirm  the 
statement  of  Mr.  Preston,  that  "  mottoes  and  rhymes  are  of 
frequent  occurrence  on  the  Leeds  wares,"  at  least  on  those  of 
the  early  and  middle  periods.  As  to  his  assertion  that  china 
was  made  at  these  works,  I  do  not  know  in  what  capacity  the 
friend  to  whom  he  refers  was  employed,  or  what  were  his  facili- 
ties for  getting  correct  information  on  the  subject ;  but  I  fancy 
his  idea,  at  the  time,  of  china  must  have  been  akin  to  Thoresby's 
of  the  York  porcelain,  as  it  is  certainly  a  new  idea  for  collectors, 
and,  if  correct,  Mr.  Preston  has  without  doubt  "  struck  ile," 
and  very  high  prices  would  be  given  by  some  for  specimens  for 
their  cabinets.  Jewitt,  than  whom  no  one  has  more  fully  in- 
quired into  the  history  of  these  works,  says  "  that  china  was 
never  made  there,  I  am  fully  convinced." 

I  am  astonished  Mr.  Preston  should  affirm  that  'a  marked 
specimens  of  Leeds  ware  are  seldom  met  with."  My  own 
collection  is  but  very  limited,  and  yet  I  could  show  him  a  con- 
siderable number  of  marked  pieces.    Truly,  a  great  deal  was 


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made  there  without  being  marked,  the  bulk  of  it  being  sent  to 
the  foreign  markets,  from  whence  some  of  the  finest  specimens 
in  the  hands  of  collectors  have  been  recovered ;  yet  the  marks 
are  so  far  from  being  rare/  that  there  is  but  little  difficulty  in 
constantly  finding  them.  As  to  the  marks,  that  novices  may 
not  be  at  fault  in  seeking  to  acquire  specimens,  I  regret  again 
to  have  to  demur  to  Mr.  Preston's  statements.  He  says — 
"  Other  examples  are  '  L.  P.'  (Leeds  Pottery),  and  '  L.  P.  C 
(Leeds  Pottery  Company).  The  letters  '  O.  and  G.,'  surmounted 
by  a  crown,  « C.  G.'  (Charles  Green),  and  *  C.  G.,'  with  '  W.' 
underneath,  are  now  considered  as  early  marks."  Now,  Mar- 
ryatt  states  in  his  "  Ceramic  Art "  that  Mr.  Edward  Hailstone, 
who  owns  a  fine  collection  of  this  ware,  and  notably  an  elaborate 
fountain,  made  special  enquiries  of  old  workpeople  in  reference 
to  the  marks,  with  the  result  that  he  could  not  learn  any  other 
marks  were  used  but  those  of  "  Hartley,  Green,  and  Co.,  Leeds 
Pottery,"  and  "  Leeds  Pottery  "  only.  Jewitt  also  says  he  is 
"  convinced  that  the  *  C.  G.'  and  the  '  C.  G.'  with  «  W.'  under- 
neath, do  not  belong  to  Leeds,  and  there  never  was  a  C.  Green 
connected  with  the  firm."  I  find  of  the  family  of  Greens, 
Joshua,  John,  Saville,  and  Ebenezer,  but  not  one  with  the 
initial  '  C ;  and  even  were  it  so,  how  is  the  *  W.'  accounted 
for?  Mr.  Preston  also  says,  "  The  horse-shoe  is  another  mark 
found  impressed  on  the  Leeds  ware."  This  also  is  misleading, 
as  there  is  no  such  mark.  What  be  means,  I  presume,  is  that 
on  some  pieces  the  full  name  and  address,  as  above,  is  placed 
in  a  double-tiered  arch  of  capital  letters,  the  name  of  the  firm 
forming  the  outer  and  the  address  the  inner  tier  of  the  arch. 
Generally,  it  seems  a  pity  that,  having  brought  this  ware  to 
such  perfection,  and  opened  for  it  good  markets  in  France, 
Germany,  Russia,  &c,  it  should,  for  want  of  sustained  enter- 
prise and  a  liberal  spirit,  be  allowed  to  slip  away  into  other 
districts  and  countries.  When  at  its  prime  the  turnover  was 
not  less  than  £80,000  per  year,  and  the  wages  paid  more  than 
one-fourth  of  that  sum,  besides  between  £2,000  and  £8,000  for 
coals  obtained  from  the  Middleton  pits.  One  of  the  chief  causes 
of  this  decline  appears  to  me  to  be  the  fact  that,  although  the 
paste  and  the  modelling  are  in  general  most  excellent,  yet  the 
colouring  when  the  brush  was  used,  is  almost  invariably  of  the 
crudest  character;  and  when  figure  or  flower  subjects  are 
attempted,  not  only  crude,  but  in  many  cases  positively 
ludicrous.  There  are  several  valuable  collections  of  these  pro- 
ductions of  our  town  in  the  immediate  neighbourhood,  and  it  is 
to  be  hoped  they  may  not  be  scattered  all  over  the  country,  as 
were  those  by  a  recent  great  sale  in  the  town. 

J.  T.  Beer,  Fulneok. 


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(Bxtintt  ®0ttgr*0att0ttal  Colics. 

The  Ejected  Clergy  of  1662  were  men  of  more  than  average 
culture  for  those  times,  though,  it  should  be  said,  the  range  of 
studies  was  somewhat  limited,  extending  to  little  beyond 
Theology,  Latin,  Greek,  and  a  smattering  of  Hebrew.  Their 
ability  in  dividing  and  subdividing  a  text,  so  as  to  extend  into 
a  sermon  of  several  hours1  length,  nay,  into  several  such  ser- 
mons, is  well  known ;  and  the  aptitude  with  which  the  texts 
were  selected  denotes  a  thorough  acquaintance  with  almost 
every  verse  in  the  Bible.  Nor  were  they  content,  though 
excluded  from  the  Universities,  by  imposed  oaths,  that  their 
sons  and  suocessors  should  be  in  anywise  sufferers  owing  to 
this  lack  of  opportunities.  Amongst  their  number  were  some 
who  were  eminently  qualified  to  supply  the  requirements,  and 
whilst  the  majority  still  continued,  with  great  acceptance,  their 
pulpit  labours,  others  entered  the  houses  of  the  gentry,  as 
chaplains  and  private  tutors,  and  a  few  established  themselves 
as  school-masters. 

Mr.  Heywood  sent  his  two  sons  in  1678,  to  the  Rev.  Mr. 
Hickman's  Academy  at  Dusthorpe,  near  Bromsgrove,  in  War- 
wickshire. Mr.  Bichardson,  of  Eirkheaton,  and  Mr.  Cotton,  a 
Yorkshire  layman,  also  sent  their  sons  to  Mr.  Hiokman  at  the 
same  time,  with  the  intention  of  training  them  for  the  ministry. 
Mr.  Hickman  was  a  B.D.,  and  celebrated  Oxford  preacher 
(Hunter' 8  "  Heywood/1  p.  258).  It  is  rather  remarkable  they 
were  sent  so  far  from  home,  as  the  Bev.  Richard  Frankland, 
representative  of  the  Craven  family  at  Bathmel,  had  gathered 
a  school  before  1670.  He  was  educated  at  Cambridge,  and  was 
selected  as  one  of  the  professors  for  Cromwell's  University  at 
Durham.  His  frequent  removals,  caused  by  violent  persecu- 
tions, especially  about  1678,  were  probably  the  cause  that  led 
to  sending  the  youths  to  Mr.  Hickman.  They  had  not,  however, 
a  long  term  in  Warwickshire,  for  they  were  removed  to  the  care 
of  Mr.  Frankland  in  less  than  a  year.  (Aocounts  of  Mr. 
Frankland  may  be  found  in  Calamy ;  the  various  Histories  of 
Protestant  Dissenters;  Hunter's  "Heywood,"  pp.  242,  811, 
822,  898,  896,  426:  Halley's  "Lancashire  Nonconformity,"  pp. 
418-9;  Miall's  "  Congregational  Yorkshire,"  pp.  87,  120-1;  and 
a  list  of  his  pupils,  with  biographical  notes,  in  Vols.  H.  and 
IV.  of  "  Heywood's  Diaries.")  Mr.  Heywood's  sons  had  pre- 
viously been  under  the  tuition  of  Mr.  David  Noble,  a  Noncon- 
formist preacher  at  Morley,  and  a  talented  author. 

The  Bev.  Timothy  Joilie,  one  of  Mr.  Frankland's  pupils, 
established  an  Academy  at  Attercliffe,  about  1687,  after  Mr. 
Frankland,  who  had  temporarily  resided  there,  had  returned  to 
Bathmel.  (See  Hunter,  p.  426 ;  Halley,  pp.  419-421 ;  Miall, 
pp.  121-2.)    The  Bev.  John  Wadsworth  succeeded  Mr.  Joilie, 


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who  died  in  1714.  The  Academy  dwindled,  and  became  extinct 
in  Mr.  Wadsworth's  time.     He  died  in  1744  or  5. 

On  Mr.  Frankland'8  death  in  1698,  his  Academy  was  con- 
tinned  by  Mr.  Chorlton  at  Manchester,  some  of  whose  students- 
are  recorded  by  Mr.  Hey  wood  (Diary,  Vol.  II).  Mr.  Chorlton 
was  assisted  by  Mr.  Cunningham,  who  was  also  his  successor, 
but  "incompetent  to  sustain  its  reputation,  he  brought  the 
Academy  to  an  untimely  and  not  very  honourable  end."  Mr. 
Chorlton  died  in  May,  1705.  (  Northowram  Register .  See 
Halley,  p.  421.) 

The  Rev.  James  Owen  received  theological  students  at 
Oswestry,  and  subsequently  at  Shrewsbury,  where  he  died  in 
1706,  and  was  succeeded  by  Dr.  Benyon.  A  Dr.  Dickson  had 
conducted  a  flourishing  Academy  at  Whitehaven,  which  was 
continued  by  the  Rev.  Caleb  Rotherham,  D.D.,  at  Kendal,  until 
his  death  in  1752. 

The  Warrington  Academy  was  established  in  1757,  with  Dr. 
Taylor  as  its  Principal,  and  the  institution  still  survives,  having 
been  removed  to  Manchester,  from  thence  to  York,  and  again 
to  Manchester.    (Hunter,  p.  427 ;  Halley,  pp.  490,  501.) 

In  1754  another  Academy  of  some  repute,  kept  by  Dr.  E. 
Latham  at  Findern,  near  Derby,  as  successor  to  a  Mr.  Hill, 
was  closed ;  and  Daventry  Academy  had  ceased  to  be  private 
property  under  the  Independents,  through  the  support  of  Mr. 
Coward's  trustees.  The  celebrated  Dr.  Joseph  Priestley,  who 
was  born  at  Field-head  in  Birstall  in  1788,  chose  Daventry 
Academy  under  Dr.  Ashworth,  successor  to  Dr.  Doddridge,  in 
preference  to  the  "more  orthodox"  Academy  at  Mile  End, 
London,  and  was  urged  thereto  by  the  Rev.  J.  Kirkby,  the  aged 
minister  at  Heckmondwike. 

Though  probably  Arian,  Mr.  Kirkby  joined  his  people  in 
inviting  the  Rev.  James  Scott,  .to  become  assistant-minister  at 
Heckmondwike,  to  which  invitation  he  acceded,  after  sixteen 
months'  deliberation,  in  January,  1754.  Mr.  Kirkby  died  the 
following  month.  Mr.  Scott  was  a  native  of  Berwickshire,  and 
was  born  in  1710.  He  entered  Edinburgh  University  in  1726. 
For  some  years  he  was  a  private  tutor.  He  was  minister  of 
Stain  ton  in  1789,  Horton  -in-Craven  1741,  (being  ordained  there 
in  May  of  that  year,)  Tockholes  in  1751,  removing  thence  to 
Heckmondwike.  Mr.  Scales  mentions  a  manuscript  life  of  Mr. 
Scott,  which  it  is  hoped  is  still  preserved,  but  I  am  sorry  I  do 
not  know  what  has  become  of  it.  I  have  his  portrait,  and  also 
his  funeral  sermon,  preached  by  the  Rev.  Jonathan  Toothill. 
Long  notices  of  Mr.  Scott  appear  in  it;  also  in  Cockin's 
Memoirs,  in  the  Evang.  Mag.  for  1814,  and  the  denominational 
Magazines.  The  Rev.  Edward  Hit  chin,  of  White-row,  London, 
who  had  relatives  in  Heckmondwike,  had  frequent  conversations 
with  Mr.  Scott  on  the  prevailing  declensions  from  orthodoxy,. 


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YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


which  resulted  in  the  formation  in  London,  May  24,  1756,  of 
"  The  Northern  Education  Society,"  for  the  purpose  "  of  dis- 
pelling the  cloud  of  Socinian  darkness  then  spreading  over  the 
northern  counties."  It  was  resolved  to  establish  and  maintain 
an   Academy  in  the  North  of  England,  and  Mr.  Scott 


was 


invited  to  accept  the  tutorship.  The  Church  at  Heckmondwike 
agreed  to  his  engagement,  and  he  commenced  duties  the  same 
year.  Warrington  Academy,  promoted  by  the  "  heterodox," 
was  founded  the  following  year,  as  previously  stated.  Mr. 
Scott  is  said  to  have  resided  at  Mill-bridge  at  first,  but  probably 


YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


127 


early  removed  to  Southfield,  near  Norristkorpe,  where  he  had 
a  fairly  capacious  house,  with  the  Academy  a  few  yards  in  front 
at  right  angles,  a  view  of  which  is  here  given.  In  this  building 
about  seventy  students  were  educated,  a  list  of  whom  will  be 
found  in  "Nonconformity  in  Idle,  and  History  of  Airedale  College" 

On  the  death  of  Mr.  Scott,  ten  students,  then  in  residence, 
were  transferred  to  the  Rev.  Samuel  Walker,  of  Northowram, 
who,  from  1788  to  1795,  had  twenty-four  others  under  his 
charge,  including  the  Rev.  William  Vint,  who  carried  on  the 
Academy  at  Idle,  until  the  magnificent  Airedale  College  at 
Dndercliffe  was  erected.  Rotherham  College  may  also  be 
regarded  as  a  twin  sister  to  Idle. 

We  have  pleasure  in  adding  a  portrait  of  Mr.  Scott,  by  favour 
of  the  Rev.  B.  Nightingale.  There  is  an  oil  painting  of  him  at 
Rotherham  College.  Mr.  Scott  died  at  Heckmondwike,  Jan. 
11th,  1788,  twenty  years  after  the  death  of  his  wife. 


In  drawing  this  brief  and  hurried  sketch  of  the  extinct  theo- 
logical training  Academies  to  a  close,  I  will  give  publicity  for 
the  first  time  to  a  characteristic  letter  that  cannot  fail  to  interest 
the  Congregationalists  of  Halifax,  as  it  refers  to  one  who  became 
a  more  than  Halifax  worthy — the  Rev.  Joseph  Cockin. 


128  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 

Southfield,  Feb.  6,  1777. 

To  the  Kippin  Congregation  meeting  at  Thornton. 

Dear  Friends,  As  I  have  been  acquainted  with  you  for 
several  years  &  have  always  had  a  good  opinion  of  you,  as 
serious  people  in  general,  lovers  of  Jesus  Christ  &  his  Gospell, 
&  as  you  are  now  comfortably  united  together  &  have  joyned 
together  in  giving  a  Call  to  Mr.  Cockin  to  be  your  Pastor,  I 
would  give  you  some  advice  in  order  to  his  answering  the  Call. 

There  are  many  even  serious  people  who  do  not  consider  the 
necessities  of  a  minister  with  respect  to  temporal  things.  Those 
who  have  a  farm  &  a  trade  have  necessaries  from  their  farm 
every  day,  and  not  only  wages  but  profit  from  trade  frequently, 
so  that  they  know  little  of  the  expenses  of  Housekeeping. 
Diligent  working  families  whose  hands  are  their  estate,  gain 
more  a  year  than  perhaps  they  imagine,  they  are  receiving 
wages  weekly,  neither  do  they  observe  how  much  goes  to  sup- 
port their  poor  families.  They  (viz.  people  in  general)  think 
that  a  Minister  with  his  family  may  live  very  plentifully  and 
clothe  decently  with  about  40  Pounds  a  year.  But  a  considerate 
person  will  see  this  to  be  a  mistake. 

Another  thing  I  would  suggest,  That  many  think  that  what 
is  given  to  a  minister  is  a  free  gift,  so  that  they  may  give  or 
not  give  according  to  their  pleasure.  This  is  also  a  very  great 
mistake.  Indeed  it  is  a  gift  among  Dissenters  with  respect  to 
the  laws  of  the  Nation  but  not  with  respect  to  the  laws  of  God. 
Those  who  ministered  in  holy  things  had  always  a  portion  for 
their  due.  Melchizedek  had  the  tenth  of  the  spoils  from  Abram ; 
Egyptian  Priests  had  their  portion.  The  Lord  commanded  the 
tribe  of  Levi,  tho  much  inferior  in  number  to  any  of  the  12 
Tribes,  to  have  the  tenth  of  all  the  fruits  of  the  land,  besides  a 
part  of  many  of  the  sacrifices.  Christ,  sending  his  disciples  to 
Preach,  commanded  them  to  make  no  provision  for  their  Journey, 
adding  this  reason — For  the  workman  is  worthy  of  his  meat, 
he  hath  ordained  that  they  which  preach  the  Gospel  should 
live  of  the  Gospel,  1  Cor.  9,  7  to  15.  And  let  him  that  is  taught 
in  the  word  communicate  to  him  that  teacheth  in  all  good 
things.  Gal.  6.  6.  A  comfortable  support  is  their  due.  If  any 
say,  What  is  due  to  a  Minister?  I  answer;  Such  a  part  of  your 
Substance  according  to  your  ability  as  you  incline  to  devote  to 
God's  glory  &  the  support  of  the  Gospel  among  you.  My  ad- 
vice then  is  that  you  make  a  subscription.  Let  every  one 
propose  what  he  is  able  and  willing  to  give  a  quarter,  let  the 
names  and  sums  be  written  in  a  book  &  the  Collection  be  made 
accordingly.  This  is  a  necessary  part  of  duty.  For  people 
ought  to  give  according  as  God  hath  prospered  them.  All 
young  people,  man  &  woman,  who  are  gaining  wages  should 
subscribe  something.  Who  is  it  that  does  not  spend  time  or 
money  needlessly  to  the  value  of  I2d.  in  three  months?  I  want 


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no  superfluities  for  ministers  but  a  decent  support  to  free  them 
from  fear  of  want,  &  that  they  may  give  themselves  wholly  to 
the  duties  of  their  office,  and  may  have  some  certainty  for 
supplies.  I  never  proposed  anything  of  this  nature  on  my  own 
account,  but  if  I  had  been  in  the  condition  of  many,  a  numerous 
family  &  no  other  helps,  I  would  have  found  the  necessity  of  it. 
This  with  my  love  to  you  all,  desiring  you  may  be  guided  into 
all  Truth  &  duty  from 

Your  affectionate  friend  and  servt.  in  the  Lord, 

JAMES  SCOTT. 
On  glancing  over  this  brief  sketch  I  find  I  have  omitted  all 
mention  of  Lady  Hewley  (Hunter's  Heytcood,  p.  427,  MialTs 
Congregationalism,  p.  117);  of  Mr.  Stretton  (Miall,  p.  97);  of 
Dr.  Williams  (Hunter,  p.  425)  ;  who  deserve  the  highest 
encomiums  for  their  munificence  to  the  Students  and  Academies 
of  former  and  present  times.  I  have  not  referred  to  the  odious 
Acts  intended  to  crush  out  Nonconformity  by  aiming  blows  at 
the  Academies  (see  Miall,  pp.  119,  125,  126);  nor  to  the 
establishment  and  encouragement  of  many  Village  Schools, 
Northowram  amongst  the  number,  by  the  ejected  clergy.  The 
Congregational  Year  Booh  for  1851,  and  one  of  our  West  Hiding 
Congregational  Recfisters  (about  1855,)  contain  historical  articles 
bearing  on  the  subject.  T. 

o 

Note. — See  AckwoHh  Registers  on  page  115, — 

"  No  Marriages  in  1579." 

The  reason  why  no. marriages  hare  been  recorded  for  six  consecutive  years 

cannot  be  conjectured.    There  mnst  have  been  marriages,  but  they  are  not 

found  in  any  other  Registers.     If  not,  the  number  of  baptisms  points  to 

illegitimacy,  although  one  child  only  is  branded  as  "  a  bastard."— J.L.S. 

[1  have  found  abundant  proof  that  the  Registers  were  generally  •  posted  up' 
annually  from  rough  mem-books ;  and  have  at  several  places  found  whole 
yean  missing. — Ed.] 


A   SKETCH   OF    1648.* 

By  T.  Tindall  Wildridge. 
Placid  lay  the  Humber  beneath  the  silvery  beams  of  the  July 
moon.  With  her  turreted  walls  rising  from  the  shimmering 
flood,  Hull,  like  a  sea-queen  at  rest,  surveyed  her  ancient 
domain.  In  the  embrasures  watch-fires  reddened  and  glowed 
in  vivid  contrast  to  the  pale  light  without,  and  the  tramp  of 
heavily-armed  men,  and  the  occasional  clanking  ring  of  halberd 
or  sword-scabbard  on  the  ramparts,  told  that  the  guardians  of 
the  town  slept  not  at  their  posts.  Twinkling  lights  here  and 
there,  on  both  the  northern  and  southern  coasts  of  the  river- 
sea,  spoke  too  of  watch  and  ward,  while  upon  its  tranquil 

*  From  Andrews'  Hull  Annual,  with  our  own  illustration. 
T.N.Q.  I 


180  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 

• 
bosom  floated  many  a  high-prowed  ship,  with  its  soft-stepping 
sailors  alert.    The  night  was  full  of  watchfulness ;   ears  and 
eyes  seemed  to  be  on  every  side,  waiting  but  for  the  whisper  of 
Suspicion  to  rouse  the  clarion  throat  of  Alarm. 

What  fires,  what  lights,  were  these— what  need  of  that 
vigilance,  that  waiting  for  the  morrow,  which  seemed  detained 
by  the  very  anxiety  that  expected  it  ? 

The  fires  were  the  fires  of  Patriotism,  the  lights  those  of 
Liberty,  and  the  need  was  that  of  vigilance  against  an  enemy 
who  would  destroy  both,  and  might  sweep  down  any  moment 
to  the  rescue  of  a  traitor ! 

A  dire  conspiracy  had  been  discovered,  a  treachery  unearthed. 
The  Town  of  Hull,  the  key  of  Yorkshire  and  the  Magazine  of 
the  North,  had  long  held  firm  to  the  Parliament,  and  the 
majority  of  the  townsmen  stood  to  the  neck  in  responsibility 
for  the  first  decisive  events  of  the  Civil  War.  Their  swords 
had  been  drawn  and  their  purses  upturned  to  maintain  the 
cause.  .Their  fruitful  fields  had  been  converted  into  wide 
lagoons,  their  argosies  ventured  and  often  lost,  and  no  man 
held  his  life  dear  if  he  might  at  its  risk  serve  the  Parliament 
and  the  People. 

With  what  horror  then  was  it  found  that  the  Governor  of  the 
Town,  one  of  the  "  obstinate  Northern  men,"  who,  in  the  im- 
patient Parliaments  of  Charles,  had  long  held  to  liberty, 
meditated  delivering  them  all  over  into  the  power  of  the 
adversary. 

But  the  plot  was  in  vain.  Upon  this  night,  in  the  cabin  of 
that  grim  warship,  whose  sturdy  bulk  warranted  the  name  of 
Hercules,  sits  with  bowed  head  and  uncertain  thoughts  the 
baffled  Hotham,  lately  so  imperious  and  tyrannical.  The  waters 
of  the  Humber  Sea  lap  gently  against  the  vessel's  oaken  sides, 
and  to  Sir  John,  in  the  silence  of  his  captivity,  the  waves  have 
the  hushed  waiting  sound  of  a  bated  breath.  Had  he  but 
known  it,  this  was  the  last  time  he  was  to  hear  it.  Full  of 
agitation  he  seized  a  pen  and  wrote  a  stammering  letter  to 
those  upon  whom  he  had  so  lately  trampled.  This  letter,  now 
preserved  among  the  Town's  Eeoords,  shows  how  his  heart 
refused  to  hear  the  voioe  of  fate,  and  how  his  vacillating  spirit 
for  another  time  swung  to  the  point  of  courage  and  left  him 
brave.  He  wrote  for  wife,  children,  money  and  clothes,  to  be 
sent  to  him,  commencing :  "  Sirs,— This  unfortunate  business, 
which  I  doubt  not  but  you  have  done  out  of  your  good  affections 
to  the  Parliament,  I  hope  God  in  his  mercy  will  turn  to  the 
good  of  all."  And  again  :  "  I  heare  you  have  dealt  like  gentle- 
men with  my  wife,  for  which  I  may  live  to  thank  you." 

This  subjunctive  form  of  expression,  here  a  mere  figure  of 
speech,  was  too  prophetic.  He  may  have  thanked  them,  but 
his  life  for  the  brief  span  of  its  continuance  was  poor  in  all 


YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


181 


save  barren  words,  whether  of  thanks  or  imprecation.  For 
the  Hercules  was  to  be  but  a  step  to  the  Tower,  and  the  Tower 
to  the  Scaffold.  He  entered  the  Hercules  a  prisoner  on  the  29th 
June,  1648,  and  was  beheaded  on  the  2nd  January,  1644-5. 


SIR  JOHN    HOTHAM. 


182 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 


York  Mint. — In  England  we  had  formerly  many  places 
favoured  with  the  privilege  of  having  a  mint.  So  late  as  the 
reign  of  William  III.,  it  was  found  convenient,  at  the  calling 
in  of  the  light  and  base  money  to  be  recoined,  to  erect  mints 
at  London,  York,  Bristol,  Chester,  Exeter,  and  Norwich,  the 
initial  letter  of  those  names  being  struck  on  their  respective 
products.  The  accompanying  cuts  represent  earlier  specimens 
of  York  coinage.  No.  1  is  Edward  the  Sixth's  silver  crown- 
piece.  It  has  the  King's  figure  at  length  on  horse-back,  in 
armour,  crowned,  and  holding  a  drawn  sword  to  his  breast,  as 
he  himself  expresses  it  in  his  Diary.  The  horse  is  dressed  in 
large  embroidered  trappings,  with  a  plume  of  feathers  on  its 
head,  and  the  date  1551  under  it.  The  circumscription  reads : 
Edward  VI.,  D.  G.  Agl.  Fba.  Z.  Hibr.  Bex.  On  the  reverse : 
Posvi.  Devm.  A  Divtor.  E.  Mdv.  Y. 


No.  2  is  a  shilling  of  King  Edward  Vis.,  with  the  King's 
bust  full  faced,  crowned,  and  in  his  parliamentary  robes,  with 
a  chain  of  the  Order  of  the  Garter.  On  one  side  of  the  head  is 
a  large  double  rose,  and  on  the  other  XII  (pence),  with  this 
legend.  Edward  :  VI :  D  :  G  :  Agl  :  Fra  :  Z  :  Hib  :  Rex.  Y  : 
This  is  said  to  have  been  the  first  and  only  English  coin  bear- 
ing the  Collar  of  the  Garter. 

No.  8  is  the  half-sovereign  of  the  same  King.  It  has  the 
king's  bust  in  armour,  crowned,  and  labelled  :  Edward  VI :  D  : 
G  :  Agl  :  Fra  :  Z  :  Hib  :  Rex.  Y.  The  reverse  bears  the  arms 
in  an  oval  shield,  garnished  and  crowned  :  Scvtvm  :  Fidbi  : 
Proteoit  :  Evm. 


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188 


No.  4  is  a  base  shilling  of  Edward  VTs.,  bearing  the  York 
Mint  mark  Y,  the  head  in  profile  crowned;  with  a  legend 
Edwabd  :  VI.  D  :  G  :  Agl  :  Pba  :  Z  :  Hra  :  Bex  :  Y  : 

Perhaps  some  other  of  your  numismatic  readers  will  supply 
other  Yorkshire  examples.  U.M. 

Mr.  J.  Verity,  of  Earlsheaton,  whose  extensive  collection  of 
coins  of  all  descriptions  is  well  known,  has  kindly  forwarded 
blocks  representing  the  Pontefract  Siege  Shilling. 


His  sixth  catalogue  gives  a  copy  of  Edward  VPs  Sixpence 
from  the  York  Mint.  Edwabd  :  VI  :  D  :  G  :  Agl  :  Fba  :  Z  : 
Hibeb  :  Rex  :  Y.  Bust,  front  face,  crowned,  with  Bose  and 
VI.     Posvi  Dev  :  A  DifTORE  Mev.  Y. ;  cross,  bearing  shield.;    i 

He  has  also  Charles  I's  half-crowns,  shillings,  sixpences, 
threepences  of  York  Mint,  and  a  Pontefract  shilling  of  lozenge 
shape ;  obv.  front  of  castle,  with  XII  to  the  right,  P  above,  C 
beneath,  Obs  to  the  left.  William  III  had  Half-crowns  struck 
at  York  mint. 

The  Universal  Magazine  for  April,  1756,  mentions  a  Ponte- 
fract half-crown,  lozenge  shape,  with  C.  B.,  a  crown,  XXX, 
Dux  Spibo  Spebo.  Beverse,  the  castle,  and  a  hand  out  of  one 
of  the  towers  holding  a  drawn  sword,  Obs.  P.O.,  1648.  A  copy 
of  the  shilling  is  given  but  differs  from  the  above  cut  in  having 
no  hand  with  drawn  sword,  but  P.  XII.  C.  in  the  place  thereof, 
and  no  P.  C.  above  the  tower. 


Dorksljitt  tSKaterfaiis  anb  (Kaiws. 

Scalebeb  Fobce,  as  will  be  seen  from  the  accompanying 
illustration,  (see  frontispiece,)  is  a  charming  bit  of  scenery.  It 
is  about  a  mile  and  a  half  from  Settle  on  the  Malham  road, 
which  the  Scaleber  beck  crosses.  The  Hattermire  or  Atter- 
myre  Cliffs,  great  castle-like  walls  of  limestone,  with  ledges 
running  across,  form  a  magnificent  picture.  A  cave  in  the 
bee  of  this  amphitheatre  was  known  to  the  Bomans,  some  of 
their  implements  having  been  found  in  it.  This  cave  was  dis- 
covered by  a  dog  belonging  to  Mr.  Jackson,  of  Settle,  and 
named  the  Victoria  Cave.  Explorations  have  taken  place  for 
a  great  many  years,  and  science  has  been  greatly  benefitted  by 
the  results.    (West  Yorkshire,  Davis  and  Lees.)    The  Botanist 


184 


YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


and  Entomologist  will  find  choice  specimens  here,  and  the 
Artist  will  not  fail  to  carry  away  the  remembrance  of  these 
rent  and  fissured  rocks. 

Thornton  Fokce. — For  many  years,  Mr.  Joseph  Carr,  of 
Ingleton,  has  been  writing  in  newspapers  and  pamphlet  on  the 
beauties  of  Ingleton.  His  efforts  are  just  beginning  to  succeed, 
and  few  will  visit  that  delightful  retreat  without  being  grateful 
to  him  for  his  persistency.  More  enchanting  scenery,  within  a 
day's  ramble,  can  scarcely  (I  was  writing  cannot)  be  found  in 
England.  Every  year  will  see  even  larger  numbers  flock  to 
this  unexcelled  attraction.  Ingieton  Church  has  just  been 
rebuilt,  but  the  Norman  Font  is  well  worth  seeing,  and  the 


Thornton  Force. 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES.  135 

fortified  position  of  the  Church  is  worthy  of  note.  Passing 
oyer  the  two  grains  of  the  Greta  (the  Dale  and  Doe  becks,)  the 
visitor  turns  up  the  Doe  valley,  and  meets  with  a  succession  of 
surprises.  His  first  surprise  is  that  he  has  to  pay  2d. ;  at  the 
dose  of  the  day  his  surprise  is  that  the  charge  is  so  small. 
Swilla  Bottom,  Fecca  Falls,  Thornton  Force,  Ravenwray, 
Twiselton  Scars,  Beezley  Falls  in  the  Dale  or  Greta  valley, 
Backstone  Gill  Hole,  Yew  Tree  Gorge,  Slate  Quarries,  and 
Ingleborough  mountain,  successively  demand  attention. 

Thornton  Force  is  a  waterfall  of  sixty  feet,  poured  from  a 
ledge  of  limestone  over  a  breast  of  slate.  The  surrounding 
shrubbery  of  the  dale  adds  to  the  beauty,  and  the  heavy, 
mountainous  background  gives  the  whole  a  romantic  appear- 
ance. You  may  safely  walk  on  the  ledge  behind  the  cascade, 
and  gain  the  full  power  of  the  thundering  cataract.  Below  is 
the  dark  pool,  beyond  which  is  a  little  gem  island ;  the  resound- 
ing rock  over  head  threatens  to  crush  you,  the  seething  waters 
roar  out  protests  against  your  intrusion.  You  are  quite  safe, 
but  yon  feel  safer  when  you  return. 

Four  miles  from  Ingleton,  on  the  Hawes  road,  is  Weather- 
cote,  the  finest  of  Ingleton's  waterfalls,  one  which  has  engaged 
the  pencil  of  J.  M.  W.  Turner.  On  the  road  to  it  call  at 
Easegill  Force.  Passing  God's  bridge,  over  the  Dale  beck, 
near  Chapel  le  Dale  you  reach  Weathercote  cave,  for  which 
you  require  a  guide,  and  the  marvellous  Fall,  75  feet,  unde- 
scribable  by  pen  or  pencil,  soon  makes  you  awe-stricken, 
(jingle  pot,  a  chasm  of  fifty  feet,  reckoning  from  the  precipice, 
is  a  couple  of  hundred  yards  away ;  and  Hurtle  Pot,  over  thirty 
yards  in  diameter,  is  near  the  Chapel.  The  gurgling  of  the 
water  in  this  deep  pool,  after  heavy  rain,  has  given  the  rustics 
the  idea  of  Hurtle  Pot  Boggart.  After  heavy  floods  these  pots 
boil  over  with  great  violence. 

Easegill  Fobce  is  formed  by  the  Jenkin  beck,  (a  tributary  of 
the  Lane,)  which  rises  on  the  south  side  of  Ingleborough,  and 
at  Easegill  falls  from  a  height  of  thirty  or  forty  feet  "over  a 
hollow  rock,  and  then  dashes  on  to  a  sloping  rock  beneath  a 
natural  bridge,  with  a  span  of  about  twelve  feet.  This  bridge, 
which  is  elevated  about  six  yards  above  the  bed  of  the  stream, 
is  thirteen  feet  below  the  point  where  the  water  begins  to  fall. 
The  rocks  rise  on  each  side  of  the  opening  to  a  considerable 
height,  and  are  partly  clad  with  ivy,  ferns,  and  lichens,  and 
trees  grow  here  and  there  on  the  ledges  and  out  of  the  crevices. 
There  is  an  easy  path  on  the  right,  as  you  look  at  the  fall, 
which  leads  to  the  top  of  the  bridge,  whence  you  have  a  very 
pretty  bird's  eye  view  through  the  romantic  verdant  arbour 
beneath."  This  description  of  Easegill,  and  the  picture,  are 
from  a  "Practical  Pictorial  Guide  to  Ingleton,"  by  Thomas 
Johnson,  Church  st.,  Blackburn,  price  3d. 


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187 


Yobdas  Catb,  so  named  from  Yordas,  a  giant,  whose  chamber 
and  oven  are  pointed  out,  is  nearly  five  miles  from  Ingleton. 
It  contains  a  great  number  of  stalactites  and  stalagmites.  The 
entrance  opens  into  a  large  chamber  sixty  yards  long,  twenty 
yards  high,  and  beyond  this  there  is  a  second  one  with  a  fine 
cascade  in  wet  weather.  Mr.  Whittingdale,  of  Westhouse, 
Bentham,  gives  permission  to  explore  this  cave.  The  stream 
is  the  Doe,  which  passes  on  to  Thornton  Force.  In  this  part 
it  is  known  as  Kingsdale  beck,  and  rises  on  Wheraside.  The 
Ingleton  Pale  beck  rises  on  Blea  moor,  another  side  of  the 
same  mountain.  Amongst  these  limestone  hills  are  several 
other  caves  and  waterfalls, — Bowting,  Gingling,  Gatekirk,  and 
Douk  Caves  amongst  the  principal.  The  geologist  and  botanist 
will  be  delighted  with  this  district. 


Ingleborough  Cave. 
Inolbbobough  Cave,  a  short  distance  above  the  village  of 
Clapham,  was  formerly  the  watercourse  of  the  stream  from  the 
Gaping  Gill  Hole.  The  Clapdale  beck,  a  tributary  of  the 
Wenning,  is  a  most  delightful  reach  of  scenery.  We  have  a 
deep  gorge,  with  steep  banks  overgrown  by  a  dense  wood,  and  on 
either  side  bare,  majestic,  limestone  escarpments.  As  usual  in 
the  district  there  is  a  succession  of  waterfalls,  and  the  scenery 
is  probably,  unsurpassed  in  the  country.  From  Trougill  gorge 
the  ancient  bed  of  the  stream  may  be  traced  up  Ingleborough. 
Half-a-mile  from  Trougill  is  Gaping  Gill  Hole,  down  which  the 
stream  tumbles  nearly  four  hundred  feet,  and  at  the  bottom  of 


188        YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

the  cleft  follows  a  subterranean  coarse  for  nearly  a  mile.  Mr. 
Fairer' s  Caves  are  on  the  line,  and  have  been  explored  for  half 
a  mile. 

A  long  account  will  be  found  in  Phillips'  Yorkshire.  Alum 
Pot,  near  Selside,  Hull  Pot  and  Hunt  Pot,  near  Horton,  with 
others  of  that  district,  must  be  treated  of  in  another  paper. 


Kino's  Manos  House,  York. — About  a  hundred  years  ago, 
part  of  this  house  was  a  well  known  ladies'  school,  and 
daughters  of  county  families  were  pupils.  Lady  Mexbro'  (Miss 
Stephenson)  was  a  great  beauty,  grandmother  of  the  present 
Lord  Mexbro'.  The  following  lines  are  written  on  panes  of 
glass : 

B.  Dunoombe  came  to  the  Manor,  1786. 

Ann  Robson  came  to  the  Manor,  July  81st,  1769. 

Jane  Robson  came  to  the  Manor,  September  8rd,  1769. 

Lady  Christina  Elizabeth  Keith  came  to  the  Manor,  1786. 

M.  Boyes  came  to  the  Manor  at  five  years  old. 

People  say  Tom  going  to  run  off  with  Lieutenant  HalL 

Wharton. 

Kitty  Collins  left  the  Manor,  June  21st,  /92. 

Catherine  Fisher  loves  somebody. 

I  love  Miss  Parker  and  Miss  Walker.    A.  M.  Armytage. 

I  am  glad  it  is  five  o'clock. 

Ann  Coates,  Stokesley,  1618. 

Sweet  Mr.  Orde. 

Had  I  been  Paris  &  Miss  Senhouse  there 

The  apple  had  never  fell  to  Yenus's  share 
Nanny  Wrightson. 

Had  I  been  Paris  &  Lady  Mexbro'  there 

The  apple  had  not  fallen  to  Yenus's  share. 

A.  Wharton,  Scarbro',  1798. 

Richardson  &  Duncombe  if  you  love  me  as 

I  love  you,  I  never  shall  be  forgot  by  two, — 

I  hope  Dame  means  to  let  me  go  to  another  play  this  winter. 

Nothing  is  so  disagreeable  to  me  as  Croft's  silly  humour. 
Askew. 

A  Musgrave  came  to  the  Manor,  1618. 

M.  Seaton  came  1810. 

Shun  all  men.    E.  T. 

A.  Coates,  1618. 


fUrorfts  of  the  IflUst  fUMttg. 

The  steps  recently  taken  by  the  Court  of  Quarter  Sessions 
in  connection  with  the  records  of  the  West  Biding  in  the 
custody  of  the  Clerk  of  the  Peace  have  brought  to  public  notice 
how  extensive  and  important  is  the  collection  possessed  by  the 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AMD    QUERIES.  189 

riding.  Mr.  Francis  Darwin  moved  some  time  since  for  the 
appointment  of  a  committee  to  report  as  to  these  records. 
Upon  the  request  of  the  committee  the  Historical  Manuscript 
Commission  deputed  Mr.  J.  Cordy  Jeaffreson,  who  is  well  known 
as  an  antiquarian  expert,  to  investigate  the  subject.  We  learn 
from  his  report  that  the  records  comprise  the  following  docu- 
ments, viz : — 

1.  Sessions  rolls  from  the  year  1669  to  the  present  time. 

2.  Indictment  books  from  the  year  1687  to  the  present  time, 
in  109  volumes. 

8.  Order  books  for  the  same  period,  in  65  volumes. 

4.  Registers  of  estates  pertaining  to  Catholics  in  the  18th 
century,  and  of  awards  under  Acts  of  Parliament  for  enclosures 
and  other  public  works,  with  indentures  touching  the  same. 

5.  Plans  and  reference  books  touching  turnpike  trusts,  public 
roads,  canals,  railways,  bridges,  and  other  public  works. 

Following  Mr.  Jeaffreson's  suggestions,  the  magistrates  have 
caused  a  catalogue  to  be  made  of  the  entire  series  of  sessions 
rolls  and  their  contents. 

Referring  to  the  catalogue,  we  find  that  the  sessional  rolls 
are  about  2400  in  number.  Throwing  as  they  do  a  great 
amount  of  light  upon  our  local,  and  indeed,  we  may  say,  our 
national  history  for  the  past  200  years,  we  think  some  account 
of  the  contents  of  these  rolls  will  not  be  without  interest  to  our 
readers.  Among  the  most  important  classes  of  documents  to 
be  found  in  the  rolls  may  be  mentioned  indictments  and  the 
various  papers  relating  thereto,  convictions,  orders,  with  peti- 
tions and  various  other  documents  bearing  upon  them, 
sacramental  and  other  certificates.  In  addition  to  these  there 
are  numerous  other  papers  too  varied  for  any  brief  classification. 

Referring  to  the  indictments,  it  is  remarkable  how  great  a 
variety  of  subjects  were  formerly  dealt  with.  The  ordinary 
classes  of  crime  are  common  to  all  periods,  but  we  find  that 
matters  of  what  are  now  thought  to  be  of  domestic  or  private 
concern  were  once  considered  proper  to  be  tried  by  a  court.  It 
would  appear  that  the  morals  and  manners  of  our  ancestors 
were  much  better  cared  for  than  is  the  case  now ;  thus,  there 
are  presentments  for  non-attendance  at  church,  and  records  as 
to  the  observance  of  various  religious  ordinances,  the  swearing 
of  profane  oaths,  and  the  like.  Among  similar  orders  it  is 
recounted  that  one  Sarah  (we  forbear  giving  her  full  name)  was 
some  200  years  back  found  to  be  a  "common  scold,*'  and 
ordered  to  be  set  on  the  Market  Cross  at  Wakefield,  with  a 
paper  on  her  forehead  signifying  her  offence.  Of  a  different 
class  are  the  numerous  indictments  relating  to  the  decay  of 
bridges  and  highways.  Their  importance  even  at  the  present 
day  is  very  great,  and  they  have  to  be  referred  to  not  un- 
frequently  when  questions  as  to  the  liability  to  repairs  have  to 


140        YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

be  decided.  Those  whose  business  it  becomes  to  make  a  search 
for  the  more  ancient  indictments  will  doubtless  welcome  the 
assistance  of  the  catalogue. 

Turning  to  the  orders  and  petitions  much  curious  and  in- 
teresting matter  is  met  with.  Here  are  petitions  for  relief  by 
townships  and  persons  desiring  grants  of  public  money  under 
various  circumstances.  Townships  complaining  of  the  heavy 
burden  of  maintaining  their  own  poor  and  seeking  assistance, 
or  again  asking  for  relief  by  reason  of  the  destruction  of  roads 
and  bridges  by  storm  and  tempest,  or  for  briefs  to  enable  them 
to  raise  contributions  towards  the  rebuilding  of  churches,  &c. 
Private  individuals  supplicating  for  gratuities  where  they  had 
lost  goods  or  stock  through  divers  untoward  events,  such  as 
accidents  by  fires,  flood,  or  drought,  or  on  account  of  illness  or 
poverty,  plagues  to  man  or  beast,  and  indeed  in  case  of  almost 
every  species  of  misfortune  which  might  betide.  It  is  needless 
to  point  out  that  this  species  of  what  may  almost  be  called 
paternal  jurisdiction  has  now  in  a  large  measure  passed  away, 
its  place  having  been  taken  by  other  agencies;  but  these 
accounts  are  interesting  as  illustrating  the  gradual  growth  of 
our  institutions  and  the  way  in  which  justices  have  been  found 
to  accommodate  themselves  to  progressive  advances  of  the 
times. 

The  difficulties  connected  with  Papists  are  demonstrated  by 
the  mass  of  petitions,  informations,  recognisances,  and  other 
documents  concerning  them,  and  by  the  references  to  proceed- 
ings at  conventicles  and  unlawful  assemblies.  The  numerous 
records  of  fines,  penalties,  and  other  punishments  indicate  the 
severity  of  the  Papist  persecution  as  carried  on  at  the  close  of 
the  17th  century.  Passing  on  to  a  later  period  we  meet  with 
documents  bearing  upon  the  troublous  times  prior  to  the 
Restoration,  aud  shedding  much  light  upon  the  history  of  by- 
gone days.  Coming  to  the  18th  century,  when  so  much  alarm 
was  created  by  the  Pretender,  the  justices  and  other  authorities 
appear  to  have  been  very  active,  and  we  find  various  papers 
touching  the  rebuilding  of  beacons,  the  setting  of  watches,  and 
of  grants  of  money  to  compensate  for  losses  incurred  in  assisting 
(sometimes  under  compulsion)  in  the  transmission  of  baggage 
and  troops. 

At  an  earlier  date  there  appear  to  have  been  frequent  petitions 
from  "lame  and  disabled  soldiers"  for  grants  of  pensions,  their 
claim  being  generally  that,  having  been  disabled  or  wounded 
when  serving  under  Charles  I.  against  Cromwell,  they  had  since 
fallen  into  destitution ;  the  pension  granted  was  usually  forty 
shillings  per  annum,  raised  by  special  estreat  upon  the  respec- 
tive wapentakes.  These  petitions  set  forth  interesting  particulars 
of  service,  and  of  the  actions  and  sieges  in  which  the  petitioners 
had  been  severally  engaged.     At  this  period,  too,  there  are 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES.  141 

numerous  papers  dealing  with  the  farming  of  monopolies  and 
other  imposts  for  replenishing  the  exchequers  of  embarrassed 
royalty. 

The  invention  and  introduction  of  a  new  tax  must  oftentimes 
have  been  a  source  of  grave  perplexity  to  the  financier  of  that 
day.  Some  few  years  back  our  readers  will  recollect  the  outcry 
there  was  at  a  suggestion  for  taxing  matches,  but  what  would 
now  be  thought  of  a  tax  on  hearths,  such  as  was  formerly 
exacted? 

The  justices  have  now  decided,  on  the  recommendation  of 
the  committee  before  mentioned,  that  an  alphabetical  index 
shall  be  prepared  giving  a  description  of  such  of  the  Orders  of 
Sessions  as  are  of  permanent  interest  or  importance.  Such  an 
index,  as  affording  a  ready  means  of  reference  to  the  whole 
series  of  65  voluminous  order  books,  will  be  of  great  practical 
utility;  and  although  antiquarians  may  perhaps  regret  that  the 
quarter  sessions  have  not  undertaken  the  compilation  of  a 
complete  and  comprehensive  calendar  index  to  the  whole  of  the 
indictments  and  sessions  orders  as  was  suggested  by  Mr. 
Jeaffreson,  the  justices  have  probably  exercised  a  wise  economy, 
so  far  as  the  interests  of  the  ratepayers  are  concerned,  in  limit- 
ing the  scope  of  the  index  in  accordance  with  the  advice  given 
by  their  committee. 

A  perusal  of  these  rolls  would  well  repay  the  antiquarian  or 
historian,  and  we  cannot  but  think  that  as  the  contents  of  the 
collection  become  better  known  and  more  easily  accessible  many 
will  be  glad  to  avail  themselves  of  so  valuable  and  interesting  a 
source  of  reference.  It  is  gratifying  to  learn  that  the  public 
records  of  the  West  Riding  have  been  well  preserved  by  their 
custodians,  and  that  our  magistrates  are  taking  so  active  an 
interest  in  the  matter.  Yorkshire  Post,  May,  1882. 

[The  late  Mr.  Fairless  Barber  worked  diligently  in  urging 
the  Magistrates  to  arrange,  and  publish  extracts  from  the 
sessions  rolls,  and  it  is  probably  due  in  no  small  measure  to 
his  urgency  and  Col.  Brooke's  advocacy,  that  the  before- 
mentioned  report  was  prepared.  The  Editor  has  already  given 
specimens  in  these  pages  from  the  sessions  rolls,  culled  in 
1872.    Other  excerpts  will  follow.] 

County  Record  Office. — Now  that  County  Boards  are  the 
order  of  the  day,  the  Editor  suggests  that  all  Yorkshire  His- 
torical and  Genealogical  Manuscripts  should  be  gathered  into 
a  County  muniment  room,  open  gratuitously  under  same  con- 
ditions as  the  British  Museum  and  the  Rolls  Office,  London,  at 
York.    The  following  appeared  in  the  Athenaum,  in  July,  1882 : 

Will  you  kindly  allow  me  to  suggest  through  your  columns 
the  desirability  of  establishing  County  Record  Offices ;  and  I 
may  mention  the  materials  we  have  in  Yorkshire  as  illustrative 
of  the  utility  of  such  offices :  (1)  Wills  from  1800 ;  (2)  Parish 


142 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 


Begisters  from  1588 ;  (8)  Bishops'  Transcripts,  from  1588 ;  (4) 
Sessions  Bolls  from  1640 ;  (5)  Nonconformist  Begisters  to  be 
recalled  from  Somerset  House,  where  they  have  been  buried 
for  nearly  two  generations ;  (6)  Institution,  Presentation,  and 
Act  Books,  now  carefully  preserved  at  York,  along  with  other 
valuable  ecclesiastical  documents,  dating  from  1200;  (7) 
Churchwardens1  and  Constables'  Books,  dating  often  from 
1600 ;  (8)  Manor  Bolls,  as  such  may  be  deposited  by  favour ; 
(9)  purely  Yorkshire  muniments  at  the  Becord  Office  and 
British  Museum,  e.g.,  the  Calverley  Evidences ;  (10)  bequests  of 
deeds,  &c. 

A  custodian  (who  could  employ  his  spare  hours  in  transcrib- 
ing and  indexing,)  and  sufficient  accommodation  would  not 
require  more  than  8001.  per  annum,  exclusive  of  desks  and 
bookcases.  Those  who  sought  information  for  general  his- 
torical purposes  should  be  able  to  obtain  access  freely,  by 
making  application  by  letter  previously;  others  should  be 
charged  ten  shillings  per  day ;  official  certificates  to  be  paid  for 
as  usual.    The  income  would  probably  average  200/. 

A  8  convener  of  the  meetings  in  Yorkshire  at  which  reso- 
lutions were  passed  (1)  disapproving  of  Mr.  Borlase's  Bill 
unless  due  provision  was  made  for  local  requirements,  and  (2) 
forming  a  Yorkshire  society  for  the  publication  of  parish 
registers,  I  should  like  to  suggest  that  similar  action  should  be 
taken  in  other  counties.  J.  Hobsfall  Turner. 


THE  ASSESSMENT  OF  THE  YEAB  1584. 

AgBBIG   &   MOBLEY. 

West  Ardsley 

... 

iijs. 

Cumberworth 

xiid. 

East  Ardsley 

... 

ijs. 

Drighlington 

iijs. 

Almondbury 

... 

viijs. 

Dalton 

ijs. 

Allerton 

... 

iijs. 

Dewsbury 

vis. 

Altofts 

... 

iiijs. 

Eland  cum  Gretland 

iiijs. 

Airton 

... 

iiijs. 

Erinden 

ijs. 

Beiston 

... 

vis. 

Ecclesall 

ijs. 

Barsland 

••• 

iijs. 

Emsey 

iiijs. 

Bramley  cum  Armley 

vis. 

ffarneley  juxta  Leedes 

iiijs. 

Bolton 

••• 

ijs. 

ffarneley  tyas 

ijs. 

Bollyng 

... 

iijs. 

fflockton  both 

ijs. 

Batley 

... 

ijs. 

Gomrsall 

iiijs. 

Bradford 

... 

vis. 

Kirke  Heaton 

ijs. 

Kirk  Burton 

••• 

ijs. 

Heaton  cum  Clayton 

iiijs. 

Crigleston 

••• 

VB. 

Horburye 

iiijs. 

Croston 

... 

iijs. 

Calverley  cum  farsley 

vs. 

Clifton 

••• 

ijs. 

Hartesheade 

ijs. 

IJS. 

South  Croeland 

••• 

iijs. 

Hunes  worth         ... 

Clackheaton 

... 

iijs. 

Haworth 

ijs. 

YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 


148 


Holmefirth  ...  viijs. 

fluddersfeld  ...  vis. 

Hnnselet  ...  iiijs. 

Howley  half  ...  ijs. 

Horton  ...  ijs. 
Hipperholme  cum  \ 

Brighouse  j  TO' 

Heekmondwicke   ...  ijs. 

Heptonstall  ...  vs. 

Hauifax  ...  vs. 

Idle  ...  iijs. 

Liyersedge  ...  iiijs. 

Lepton  ...  ijs. 

Langefeld  ...  ijs. 

Mirfeld  ...  vis. 

Medley  ...  ixs. 

Middleton  ...  ijs. 

Marsheden  ...  ijs. 

Maningham  ...  ijs. 

Morley  ...  iiijs. 

Heltham  half  ...  ijs. 

Migeley  ...  iiijs. 

North  birley  ...  iijs. 

Normanton  ...  iijs. 

Northowram  ...  vs. 

Ovenden  ...  iiijs. 

Ossett  ...  viis. 

Pudsey  ...  iijs. 

Quick  ...  iijs. 

Raistrick  cam  ffixbie  iijs. 
Bishforth  cum  Norlande  iijs. 


Rothwell  ...        ixs. 

Bhitlington  als     ) 

Netherton  f  UJS* 

Sharleston  ...        ills. 

Slackwathe  (Slaithwaite)  ijs. 


Shipley 

Stainland 

Sandall        • 

Skircote  cum  Shelf 

Sower  bie 

Stanley 

Stansfeld 

SutteU 

Southowram 

Shepley 

Shelley 

Sindall 

Thornell 

Thurstonland 

Thorndton 

Thorpsup'monte    ... 

Tonge 

Warley 

Wharnbie  (Quarmby) 

Wads  worth 

Warmefeld  cum  Heath 

Wike 

Walton  cum 

Wortley 

Whitwood 

Wakefeld 


rjs. 

ijs. 
iijs. 

ijs. 

vijs. 

viijs. 

iijs. 

iijs. 

vs. 

ijs. 
xiid. 

ijs. 
iiijs. 

ijs. 
xijd. 
xijd. 
iijd. 

vs. 

vs. 
iiijs. 
iiijs. 
iijs. 
iiijs. 
iiijs. 

ijs. 
xvs. 


THE  SESSEMENT  FOR  YE  SURVEYOUR, 
West  Riding  co.  Ebor. 

Setback  cuv  libty.  of  Otley  &  Leedes. 


1584, 


Otley 

X8. 

Eepaxe 

,  ...          xs, 

Hawksworth 

ijs. 

Menston 

iiis. 

Carleton 

ijs. 

Secroft 

vs. 

Preston 

xs. 

Thornnour 

vis.  viiid, 

Rigton 

xs. 

Estkeswyke 

iiis.  iiiid. 

Bayldon 

iiis. 

Allaneley 

iis.  iiiid 

Gyseley 
Wodesom 

iis. 

Awsthorpe 

iiiis 

iis. 

NewBame 

xvis. 

8willingtone 

xvis. 

Yedone 

iiis 

Ledyston 

vis.  viiid. 

Wodersley 

xvis 

Horsford 

...        iiis. 

Wyke 

iiis. 

Aflerton  Gledhow...          vs. 

Potternewton 

...           V18 

Powell  (Pool) 

iiis. 

Barwyke 

xs 

144 


YOBKSHIBE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


Hedingley  ...  iiis. 

Collingham  ...  iiiis. 

Pollington  iiis.  iiiid. 

AUerton  in  Aqua  ...  iiiis. 

Abberfurth  ...  iiis. 

Ylkley  ...  iiis. 

Wigton  ...  iiis. 

Byngley  •  ...  xs. 

Morton  ...  iis. 

Bawden  ...  iis. 


Harwode 

Arthington 

Haddyl 

Shadwell 

leedeB 

Burley 

Thorp  Stapleton 

Scarcroft 


xs. 

iiis. 

iiis.  iiiid. 

vs. 

XXS. 

iis. 
xvid. 
xiid. 

Garfurthe  cum  li-\  .      .., 
bertate  beate  marie  jvl8" vua* 


Wep.'  de  barkeston  cum  babon  de  Sherburne. 


east  hadlesaye  ...  ts. 

burne  ...  vis. 

gatefurth  ...  vis. 

Breton  ...  vs. 

Hamelton  ...  vs. 

Carleton  ...  xvs. 

Ryther  ...  xs. 

Towton  ...  xs. 

Clifford  ...  viis. 

Wistow  ...  xxs. 

Saxton  ...  xs. 

Button                     vis.  viiid. 

Statton                   vis.  viiid. 

Barley  ...  vijs. 

ffenton  ...  xs. 

South  mylefurth   ...  vijs. 

butterington  ...  vs. 

Hayslewode  ...  iijs. 

Bramham  cum  Ogyl-)  .... 

thorpe                     J  uus- 

Sherburne  in  Elmet  xxs. 

Gollyston  ...  iiijs. 

Cawode  ...  xxs. 

Byrkyn                    vis.  viijd. 

meklefeld    •  ...  vs. 

Mrkbye  ...  iijs. 

newton  kyme  . . .  iiijs. 

ffryston  ...  vs. 

Barkyston  ...  iiijs. 

AOBRIG  &  MORLEY  GUM  LIBU. 


myrfeld 

Shipley 

wyke 

Calverley 

north  byerley 

lofthouse 


IJS, 


111JS. 

xyjs. 
xyjs. 
iiijd. 
ijs. 
xyjd. 


Thorpwillingbye    ...  ijs. 

Hudleston  cum  lumby  iiiijs. 
Grimston  ...  ijs. 

ledshame  ...         ijs. 

Tadcaster  ...  xs. 

Burton  ...         vis. 

west  hadlesey  vis.  viijd. 
ffareburne  vis.  viijd. 

drax  ...  xs. 

Hurste  ...  xs. 

newton  wallys  iijs.  iiijd. 
Hillome  yjs.  viijd. 

Byrome  iijs.  iiijd. 

ps  Arch  in  Brotherton  xijd. 
Selbye  ...      xxxs. 

hessye  monkton  Knap-  ] 

ton  Apylton  &  acaster  J      s# 
Popelton  suprior  ...  xs. 

Libe'tas  de  bramham  yjs. 
Atsham  cum  holdgate  xvs. 
Popylton  inferior  ...  xs. 

lib'tas  de  hewyke  of  t        .. 

Uskill  ...       vijs. 

Gatehill  ...         ijs. 

newthorpe  cum  ledsham  iijs. 
merton  cum  grafton  iiijs. 
lib'tas  de  Brotherton        ijs. 

de  Halifax  et  Wakefield. 
Bcyrcotte  ...      xvjd. 

hetenolake  (Gleckh.)  iijs.  iiijd. 
haworth  ...      xyjd. 

Shelfe  ijs.  iiijd. 

Batley  ...      xyjd. 

EUand  ...         ijs. 


YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


146 


mannyngham 

xxd. 

Ovenden 

iijs. 

Bolton 

xyjd. 

Glaton 

ijs. 

Barsland 

ijs. 

hekmondwyke 

xxd. 

Gomersall 

iiijs. 

Staynland 

iijs.  iiijd. 

Bollinge 

xyjd. 

lererse'gge 

ijs. 

horton 

xxd. 

mydleton 

iijs. 

Tonge 

xyjd. 

Scuthowrame 

xvjd. 

Byshworth 

xxd. 

warlye 

iijs.  iiijd. 

Ecleshill 

iijs. 

wadsworth 

iiijs. 

myghley 

iijs. 

fiekesby 

xxd. 

hallyefaxe 

xxvis.  viijd. 

Btaynfeld 

iijs. 

langhfeld 

ijs. 

Rastryke 

ijs.  iiijd. 

weyke 

iijs. 

Bradforth 

X8. 

fernbye  (fernlye] 

iijs. 

Bramley 

iiijs. 

wykerley 

xxd. 

ffarseley 

xxd. 

Bereton 

iijs. 

Pudsay 

iiijs. 

drighlington 

ijs.  vid. 

heyton 

ijs.  yiijd. 

4  Soytyll 

ijs. 

northowrome 

ijs.  viijd. 

herp'me  (Hipperh.)  iijs.  iiijd. 

Allerton 

ijs.  vijd. 

8ourby 

iiijs. 

Thornton 

iijs.  iiijd. 

hunnesworth 

ijs. 

huneslett 

YS. 

Clyfton 

ijs. 

Bothwell  cum  Carletone  xs. 

dewsbnrye 

iijs.  iiijd. 

Idyll 

ijs.  iiijd 

Morley 

vs 

Ardyslowe 

iiijs. 

hartyshed 

ijs. 

Wakefeild 

xxs. 

heyton 

iiijs. 

dalton 

ijs. 

ffarnlye  Tyas 

ijs. 

holmfurth 

iijs. 

Slaythwett 

ijs. 

Cumberworth 

...        xxd. 

huddersfeld 

iijs.  iiijd. 

lepton 

iiijs. 

whermby  (Quarmby)       mjs. 

north  crossland  ...      xyjd. 

Grossland  halfe  ...       xijd. 

flockton  ...        iiijs. 

Aykton  ...         iijs. 

whytwodd  iijs.  iiijd. 

Shytlington  iijs.  iiijd. 

warmfeld  ...        iijs. 

whytby[ly]  iijs.  iiijd. 
normanton  cum  hospite  iijs. 

Snydall  ...       xxd. 

Almnburye  iijs.  iiijd. 

Shelley  ...        iijs. 

Shepley  ...        iijs. 

meltham  ...  ijs.  yjd. 

Thornhill  ...          vs. 

Ossett  ...          vs. 

Btaynley  ...        vjs. 

Altofts  ...       iiijs. 

Walton  ...       iiijs. 

Thonrstonland  ...         ijs. 

Sandall  ...       iiijs. 
dimid  (half)  Bretton       xxd. 

Burton  ...          ijs. 

medley  ...      viijs. 

horbnry  iijs.  iiijd. 

Gregylston  iijs.  iiijd. 

Emley  ...         ijs. 

Croston  ...         iijs. 

Sharleston  ...        iijs. 

howley  ...        iijs. 
16.8.6. 


T.N.Q. 


146 


YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


WAP'  DB  OSGODOBOSSE  &  DIMID  HONORIS  DK  PoNTEFBAIT. 


Nostell 

ijs.  yjd. 

wheldall 

ijs. 

Gastlefurtli 

iiijs. 

Stapylton 

iiijs. 

Broughton 

iiijs. 

Sineaton  p'va 

iiijs. 

Badsworth 

iiijs. 

Credlinge 

iiijs. 

knottyngley 

viijs. 

South  Elmesall 

vs. 

Skelbrooke 

vs. 

Boall 

iijs.  iiijd. 

Thorpawdleybye 

iiijs. 

Ackworth 

vjs. 

fryston  by  the  water       iiijs. 

Wrangbrooke 

...  ijs.  yjd. 

pomfrette 

xiijs.  iiijd. 

Stubbes  walden 

iijs. 

Skellowe 

vijs. 

Upton 

iijs. 

darington 

viijs. 

norton  neare  Campsall     xs. 

kyrkefaenton 

vs. 

north  elmsall 

vs. 

prestoii 

VJS. 

wom'sley 

xs. 

Garleton 

iiijs. 

South  kyrkby 

vs. 

fetherston 

iiijs. 

7.9.8. 

OSGODCBOSSE   AN 

d  Mabsheland. 

hawdonbye 

vijs. 

hensall 

iiijs. 

fokerbye 

viijs. 

pollington 

xs. 

Adlingflete 

xs. 

hecke 

vijs. 

Whitgyfte 

vijs. 

whetlye 

iiijs. 

vskett 

viijs. 

Egburgh 

vs. 

Rednesse  wthout 
tyes 

^  }  xiijs. 

kellyngton 
Beall 

iiijs. 
vis. 

Rednesse  w^in  '. 

yb'tye     vjs. 

Bramwyth 

vs. 

howke 

viijs. 

Campsall 

xxyjs.  viijd. 

Armyne 

vs. 

Burwallys  a's    | 
Burghwallys      } 

.. 

Roclyffe 

xs. 

V1J8. 

Snayth 

XX8. 

Anston 

XS. 

GoldhaU 

VS. 

9.15.8. 

Weapont  de 

Staincbosse. 

hundyehelfe 

iijs. 

Boyston 

iijs. 

Guntwhette 

xxd. 

hygheholland 

iijs. 

Sylkston 

iiijs. 

Tankersley 

iijs. 

langsett 

iijs. 

Edworth 

iiijs. 

wortley 

vs. 

Shafton 

ijs. 

byaohworth 

xijd. 

Barnesley 

X8. 

dodworth 

iijs.  iiijd. 

Ardesley 

xyjd. 

Oxspringe 

iijs. 

Ghette 

yjd. 

Beyll 

iijs. 

Brearley 

iijs.  iiijd. 

Thurgurland 

iijs. 

penyston 

iiijs. 

Claton 

iijs. 

hymsworth 

iiijs. 

holland  swayne 

iijs. 

Skemlthorpe 

xxd. 

denby 

iijs.  iiijd. 

Wolley 

...  ^     xxd. 

notton 

iijs. 

kexburghe 

...  ijs.  yjd. 

west  bretton 

xijd. 

Steynburghe 

xxd. 

YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIE8. 


147 


wyntersett 

xvjd. 

Cawthorne 

vijs. 

denton 

iiijs. 

wospurne 

viijs. 

barghe 

iijs.  iiijd. 

hyndeley 

...  ijs.  vid. 

Thurlyston 

...    .        VJS. 

6.8.8. 

hanercrofte 

...  ijs.  vjd. 

Wapent' 

DE    CLABO. 

newall 

iiijs. 

Rygton 

xxd; 

weston 

xvjd. 

pva  Tymkyll 

xijd. 

oesfeld 

xxd. 

Atherlawe 

vjs. 

fferneley 

iiijs. 

Greneham'ton 

...  ijs.  vjd. 

denton 

iiijs. 

kyrkham'ton 

iijs. 

Colthorpe 

xxd. 

whyxley 

...  ijs.  vid. 

medleton 

ijs. 

South  dighton 

iiijs. 

Bypley 

ijs. 

Aldfeld 

iiijs. 

nonmonkton 

iiijs. 

bnnsingborne 

iijs. 

plompton 

iiijs. 

Goldsburghe 

vs. 

Askwyth 

iiijs. 

Gowldthorpe 

...vjs.  viijd. 

Spofforth 

iijs. 

Reinseley     ) 
Rem'ley       J 

...  ijs.  vjd. 

lynton 

...  ijs.  vjd. 

leythley 

ijs. 

wynkersley 

iijs.  iiijd. 

wetherbye 

vjs.  viijd. 

fflapley 

...  ijs.  vjd. 

Synclynghall 

iiijs. 

lynleye  al'Lyndley         xvjd. 

pva  uskurne 

ijs.  viijd. 

AUerton  mallevey             ijs. 

pva  Rykston 
dnntfurd 

iijs. 

dun  keswyke 

xxd. 

ijs. 

kyrbye 
kyrkbie 

...  ijs.  vjd. 

magna  Rykston) 
cu  hospit'            J 

ma 

...  ijs.  vjd. 

...               JJo. 

ffolyfayte 

...  ijs.  vid. 

Castley 

ijs. 

magna  Cattail 

iiijs. 

wyghton 

xxd. 

Topgraue 

...  ijs.  vid. 

Staynburne 

...  ijs.  vid. 

northdighton 

iijs.  iiijd. 

kirkby  malsard 

>xs. 

7.6. 

Libebtat' 

DE   RlPPON. 

westwike 

xvjd. 

Skelton 

iiijs. 

non  wyke 

iiijs. 

Thorpe 

...iijs.  vid. 

noth  Stanley 

iijs. 

newbye 

...  ijs.  vid. 

Kyndall 

vijs. 

hewyke 

iijs. 

Osmonderbye 

iiijs. 

Thornton 

vs. 

Sally 

iiijs. 

Sharbure 

iijs. 

Ingraththorpe 

iijs. 

Glothorme  cu'  | 
bishopton          J 

.. 

merkynton 

iijs.  iiijd. 

...             IJS. 

Stndley 

iijs.  iiijd. 

monkton 

iiijs. 

nydd 

iiijs. 

Ryppon 

xxxs. 

Grantley  cu'  \ 
Enyston         J 

iiijs. 

4.17.10. 

Libetat'  de  ] 

£nabesbubghe. 

Tymkyll 

iiijs. 

1      Clyent 

iiijs. 

Thurscrosse 

iiijs. 

1      Kyllinghall 

iiijs. 

148 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 


Brearton 

Burton 

Erkendale 

ffernnam 

South  Stanley 

Staneley 

Screvyn 

Sutton 

Enaesburgh 


...ij6.  yj. 
iijs.  iiijd. 

iijs. 
iijs.  iiijd. 

iijs. 

iiijs. 

iiijs. 

...  ijs.  vjd. 

xijs.  iiijd. 


Burgbrigge  yjs.  viiijd. 

Aldeburgh  ...        vijs. 

mynskyppe  ...           vs. 

magna  usburne  ...          ijs. 

Bawcliffe  ...        iiijs. 

liunburton  iijs.  iiijd. 

kyrbye  Cattail  ...  ijs.  vjd. 
4.5.6. 


Wapont'  de  tickell  &  Stratford  cum  libetatibus. 


Bosington 

Brawell 

wombewell 

halton  magna 

Thrybergh 

Conysburgh 

Bawtrye 

harthill 

byllome 


iijs. 

iijs. 

viijs. 

iijs. 

ijs. 

iijs.  iiijd. 

viijs. 

vijs. 

ijs. 


balbye  et  Oxthorpe  iijs.  iiijd. 

Krymsfurth  ...  ijs.  vjd. 
Brampton  }  -. 

juxta  wath )  *"  J 

wath  ...  ijs.  vjd. 

warmsworth  ...         ijs. 

Bramley  ...         ijs. 

Ousterfeld  ...  ijs.  iijd. 

Bramcroft  ...  ijs.  vjd. 

alton  ...         ijs. 

vlley  ...         ijs. 

Eclesfeild  ...        vijs. 

amthorpe  ...         ijs. 

darfeld  ...       iiijs. 

Pygburne  p't  ...  ijs.  vjd. 

loversall  ...    ij.  vjd. 
Blakston  et  alkley  iiijs. 

Rawmarshe  ...  vs. 

edlington  ...  vs. 

Sandall  et  wheat  hey        vs. 

Bradfeld  ...        xxs. 

hatefeld  ...  vs. 

Toddwyke  ...  ijs.  vjd. 
kyrk  sandall  iijs.  iiijd. 

Clayton  ...         ijs. 
Barmby  sup  dunne  vjs.  viijd. 

ffyehelake  ...  vs.  iiijd. 

Thorne  ...iijs.  iiijd. 


11J8. 

.  ijs 
.iijs 

"jijs 


Cadebie 

Stubbes  ham'poll 

hoyton  pannell 

whyston 

Cantley 

langtwhate 

Treton 

Thrownstore 

Staynfurth 

hykylton 

Brampton  cu  math- 

ing 
ffrickley 
Banfeld 
doncaster 
hamesworth 
Aston  in  ye  morninge 
Anston 
heton  leveet 
Botheram 
Shelf  eld 
Warmsworth  et  \ 

Carhouse         { '"' 
Barnbrogh 
Bentley 
kymberworth 
Thorpealvyn  al.    )  ...     .... , 

dymydi  Bramton  ...        iijs. 


mjs. 

ijs. 

vjs. 
iiijs. 
iiijs. 
iiijs. 
iiijd. 

vjd. 
.  vjd. 
iiijs. 

.vjd. 

xxd. 

xxd. 

xxxs. 

vs. 

iiijs. 

iijs. 

xvjd. 

XX8. 
XX8. 

iijs. 

V8. 

XVJ8. 

VS. 


dimyd  wath 

Holland 

walles 

wentworth 

wykersley 

Sprodburgh 

Ryllyingley 

mexburghe 


...  ijs.  vjd. 

ijs. 

...    ij.  vjd. 

iijs.  iiijd. 

ijs. 

vjs.  viijd. 

xxd. 

vs. 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 


149 


Staynsall 

iijs.  iiijd. 

hoton  Roberto 

iijs. 

wadworth 

iiijs. 

maltby 

iijs. 

Swynton 

iiijs. 

Langhton  in  morn-] 

Bradsworth 

...iijs.  yjd. 

inge 

r              yd. 

marre 

iiijs. 

Scawsbye 

iijs. 

Bolton 

iijs.  iiijd. 

Tynslawe 

yijs. 

Adwykeupon 

dearneiijs.iiijd. 

hyghemelton 

iiijs. 

Athwyke  of  streets           vjs. 

Gresbrooke 

iijs.  iiijd. 

Staynton 

vs. 

Tykhill 

xxs. 

denybye 

...  ijs.  yjd. 

Langhton  pva 

...  ijs.  yjd. 

Stoynfeld 

xijd. 

21.6.4. 

Weapon'  db  Stainolif  cu  libetatibus. 

Brasvrell 

vs. 

preston 

iijs.  iiijd. 

hebden 

...    ij.  yjd. 

Scothorpe 

ijs. 

Thornton 

iiijs. 

kettylwell 

iiijs. 

newsom 

xijd. 

hawnlythe 

xijd. 

Bemyngton 

ijs. 

lynton 

ijs.  viijd. 

medhope 

ijs. 

Broughton 

iiijs. 

Gysbnrne 

iijs. 

Scladburne 

iijs.  viijd. 

Otterborne 

xijd. 

Esyngton 

ijs. 

Styrton 

ijs. 

ham'ton 

ijs. 

heirthlington 

i         ...          ijs. 

Conyston  in     ) 
kettlewell     j 

...  ijs.  yjd. 

ffernhill 

ijs. 

8kypton 

xs. 

helleffeld 

iijs. 

halton  west 

xxd. 

G-argrave 

iiijs. 

burnsall 

iijs. 

kyrkby 

xxd. 

Selesden 

iijs. 

Galton 

ijs. 

Adingham 

iijs. 

Ayrton 

...ijs.  iiijd. 

Glystrarne 

ijs. 

hetton 

ijs.  viijd. 

Conyston  in 

Graven         ijs. 

newton 

...       xxd. 

Pathorn 

ijs. 

horton 

xxd. 

hwkeswyke 

...    ij.  yjd. 

Carleton 

iijs.  iiijd. 

Esthton 

xvjd. 

Wygylsworth 

...  ijs.  vjd. 

Reykton 

...  ijs.  yjd. 

Staynfirth 

iijs. 

lamlyffe 

ijs. 

Bradley 

ijs. 

Kytton 

iijs.  iiijd. 

Gyrsington 

ijs.  viijd. 

Swendon 

...  ijs.  iiijs. 

Tresfeld 

...     ij.  xd. 

mallame 

iiijs. 

Apyltreweke 

iijs. 

Gygylswyke 

iiijs. 

Skybden 

yjd. 

Arncliffe 

ijs. 

halton  of  hill 

xxd. 

Crakeowe 

ijs. 

kyldwyke 

ijs. 

Bolton 

iiijs. 

Gollinge 

ijs. 

Rothemell 

ijs. 

Emsay 

ijs. 

8etteU 

iijs. 

Sutton 

ij. 

fflaxbye 

ijs. 

Steton 

ijs.  viijd. 

marton 

ijs.  viijd. 

kyghley 

ijs. 

pathnall 

...  ijs.  yjd. 

droughton 

...      xvjd. 

160 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 


Bidden  ...         ijs.  waddyngton 

newton  in  bollande         iiijs.  mytton 

Crynglington         ...        iiijs.  Bashame 

bradfurth  ...        iiijs.  9.18.4. 

Weapon'  de  Yoworosse. 

liorton  inBibylsdale  ijs.  vjd.  Glaphame 

Burton  in  londysO     ..       .A  Ingleton 

dale  f    1J8*^d*  dente 

Awstwyke  ijs.  viijd.  Sedgbrge 

Benthame  ijs.  viijd.  27. 

Thornton  ...  ijs.  Sum'  tot 


iijs.  viijd. 

ijs. 

xxd. 


ijs.  viijd. 
iiijs. 
iiijs. 
iiijs. 


cxxli  xvs.  ijd. 


Dorksbu*  €xn%%t%. 


Stainland  Cross,  of  which  we  give  a  woodcut  by  permission 
of  Mr.  Birtwhistle,  is  thus  described  in  Crabtree's  Halifax:— 
"It  represents  a  saltier  or  St.  Andrew's  cross,  carved  on  a 
block  of  stone ;  the  block  is  scooped  out  in  the  form  of  a  cap, 
but  the  cover  that  was  formerly  attached  to  it  has  been  re- 
moved. The  shaft  is  circular  and  plain,  without  any  of  that 
rich,  uncouth  sculpture,  or  scroll  ornament,  which  antiquarians 
generally  attribute  to  Saxon  or  Danish  structures.  Its  height 
from  the  base  to  the  top  of  the  column  is  about  ten  feet,  the 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES.  161 

shaft  does  not  exceed  five  feet.  Neither  tradition  nor  history 
have  preserved  the  date  or  purpose  of  its  erection,  and  the 
oldest  inhabitant  only  knows  that  his  paternal  sire  spoke  of  it 
as  a  very  old  affair.  Since  therefore  we  are  left  in  the  dark 
on  the  subject,  we  may  indulge  in  a  harmless  antiquarian 
speculation ;  in  the  hope  that  it  may  induce  a  more  extended 
enquiry  among  those  who  are  qualified  to  form  an  opinion  on 
its  merits.  It  will  be  observed  that  one  of  the  peculiar  features 
of  this  structure  is  its  simplicity,  and  although  that  very 
circumstance  may  be  adduced  as  an  argument  in  favour  of  its 
antiquity,  the  fact  that  the  shaft  has  none  of  that  interlaced 
and  curious  tracery  work  before  referred  to  is  against  the  pro- 
bability of  a  Saxon  origin.  Old  Hearne,  the  antiquary,  tells 
us  that  '  among  us  in  Britain  crosses  became  most  frequent, 
when,  after  William  the  Conqueror's  time,  great  crusades  were 
made  into  the  Holy  Land.  Then  crossings  or  creasings  were 
used  on  all  occasions.  'Twas  not  looked  upon  as  enough  to 
have  the  figure  of  the  cross  both  on  and  in  churches,  chapels, 
and  oratories,  but  it  was  put  also  in  churchyards,  and  in  every 
house,  nay,  many  towns  and  villages  were  built  in  shape  of  it, 
and  it  was  very  common  to  fix  it  in  the  very  streets  and  high- 
ways." Crosses  were  not  uncommon  in  the  parish.  Watson 
mentions  one  in  Fixby,  which  he  seems  to  think  was  placed  by 
the  wayside,  '  according  to  the  superstition  of  the  times ; '  also 
'the  cross  of  Mankynholes,'  this  was  in  existence  prior  to  the 
Reformation,  and  the  presumption  is  that  all  of  them  were,  for 
it  was  the  custom  of  the  Romish  church  to  erect  crosses  in 
public  situations,  to  remind  the  traveller  of  his  religious  duties; 
so  far  Mr.  Watson's  conjecture  may  be  correct,  but  it  is  open 
to  doubt  whether  if  this  cross  had  been  used  as  a  symbol 
of  faith,  it  would  have  escaped  the  mistaken  zeal  of  the  Reform- 
ists; or  the  fanatical  fury  of  the  Puritans,  when. they  attacked 
Bradley  Hall,  had  there  been  a  tradition  that  it  was  originally 
placed  for  a  superstitious  use.  It  is  not  improvable  that  it  was 
originally  placed  for  a  superstitious  use.  It  is  not  improbable 
that  it  was  placed  there  to  mark  the  boundary  of  some  land. 
Crosses  were  made  use  of  in  former  times  for  this  purpose, 
particularly  where  lands  belonged  to  monasteries  or  religious 
houses,  and  it  is  certain  that  the  Knights  of  St.  John  of 
Jerusalem  had  lands  in  this  part  of  the  country,  as  also  the 
nuns  of  Kirklees.  There  is  a  statute  in  existence  to  prevent 
the  removal  of  these  species  of  landmarks.  Other  descriptions 
of  crosses,  called  memorial  crosses,  are  to  be  found  in  many 
parts  of  the  country,  but  being  in  general  erected  to  perpetuate 
a  particular  event,  tradition  has  preserved  the  history  of  their 
erection." 

At  present,  the  Stainland  cross  is  in  a  dilapidated  condition, 
and  ought  to  be  carefully  repaired  and  preserved  by  the  Local 


152  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 

Board.  There  are  indications  of  other  crosses  in  Halifax 
parish,  and  the  Yorkshire  Calder  rises  near  a  place  in  Whalley 
parish,  named  Cross  i'  th'  Dean.  Gross-stone,  King's  Gross 
and  Stump  Gross  are  still  well  known.  Cross-leigh,  which 
gave  name  to  the  Crossley  family,  is  a  very  ancient  name.  In 
Huddersfield  parish  there  are  Crosslands,  and  along  the  Roman 
road  from  Manchester,  via  Cambodunum  (Slack,)  to  Walton 
cross  at  Hartshead,  there  are  several  hamlets  named  after  a 
cross  that  existed  in  the  vicinity.  The  stumps  of  the  fine 
crosses  at  Bastrick  and  Walton  are  still  in  existence.  The 
little  triangular  space  of  waste  land  on  which  the  latter  stands 
has  been  enclosed  by  Sir  George  Armytage,  Bart.,  as  a  pro- 
tection for  the  venerable  relic.  As  to  building  villages  in  the 
form  of  a  cross,  this  is  merely  imagination.  Villages  often 
rise  at  cross  roads  on  account  of  the  passing  traffic,  and 
necessarily  take  the  form  of  a  cross.  The  crosses  of  the 
Knights  of  St.  John,  so  far  as  I  have  observed,  and  there  are  ■ 
many  still  remaining,  are  sculptured  on  houses,  in  the  formn 
as  at  Coley,  Fairweather  green  (Bradford),  Harden,  &c. ™| 
Old  deeds,  especially  those  that  trace  parish  and  township 
boundaries  refer  to  numerous  crosses,  few  of  which  remain 
either  as  stumps,  or  in  name.  Where  these  still  exist,  of 
course,  we  know  the  design  was  to  mark  the  local  boundaries ; 
where  crosses  exist  in  market  places,  as  at  Bingley,  Hudders- 
field, and  nearly  all  old  market  towns,  it  is  manifest  that  they 
were  erected  to  secure  honesty  in  business  transactions ;  where 


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158 


they  are  in  the  vicinity  of  old  monasteries,  their  intention  was, 
probably  to  indicate  sanctuary  rights,  as  were  also  the  Dumb 
(or  doomed)  Steeples,  and  frith  stools,  one  of  which  we  recently 
saw  between  Whitby  and  Sandsend,  exactly  similar  to  the  one 
at  Beverley  as  shewn  in  the  woodcut. 


Where  the  crosses  are  in  the 
centre  of  a  village,  without  any 
church  or  market,  it  is  difficult 
to  give  a  general  reason  for 
their  erection.  There  is  a  fine 
specimen  of  such  an  one  at 
Okenshaw.  The  accompanying 
woodcut  represents  the  pedi- 
ment of  the  old  market  cross 
at  Bradford. 


The  East  Riding  is  even  richer  than  the  West  Biding  in 
remains  of  village  crosses. 

Near  Hedon  is  the  ancient  village  of  Eeyinoham,  which  has 
three  crosses,  one  in  the  village  street,  being  a  mere  stump 

upon  three 
steps.  A 
blank  shield 
is  on  each 
side  of  the 
base;  the 
shaft  disap- 
peared long 
ago.  The 
second    is 

known  as  St.  Philip's  cross,  being  in  a  field  west  of  the  town, 
near  St.  Philip's  well.  The  third  one  is  in  private  grounds, 
and  is  said  to  have  been  brought  hither  from  Lincolnshire.  It 
is  about  fourteen  feet  high,  and  in  good  .preservation,  as  will  be 
seen  from  our  woodcut.  [155.]  Around  the  capital  is  sculptured, 
though  now  considerably  worn,  the  inscription  "  Sit  Gfia  Jhu 
tibi "  (  Gloria  sit  tibi  Jesu).  The  most  interesting,  perhaps,  is 
the  historic  Bavenspurn  Cross,  which  formerly  stood  on  the 
now  submerged  Bavensburgh,  or  Bavenspurne,  (hence  the 
name  Spurn  Point),  or  Bavencross  bourne,  where  King  Henry 
IV.,  when  Duke  of  Lancaster  landed  in  1899.     This  cross 


164 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 


probably  was  erected  iu  commemoration  of  the  event,  and 
supplanted  an  older  Haven  cross.  It  bears  several  figures  or 
effigies  at  the  bead.  As  the  sea  encroached  upon  Ravenspurn, 
the  cross  was  removed  to  Kilnsea,  where  it  remained  until 
1818,  when  it  was  removed  to  Burton  Constable,  owing  to  the 
threatened  destruction  of  Kilnsea  by  the  same  insatiable  de- 
voured. Kilnsea  Church  lost  one  half  of  its  structure  in  1826, 
the  remaining  portion  of  the  edifice  fell  into  the  sea  in  1881. 
From  Burton  Constable  the  ancient  cross  was  removed  to 
Hedon,  where  we  saw  it  a  year  ago,  in  the  garden  of  Mr. 
Watson,  Solicitor,  who  carefully  preserves  it  in  front  of  his 
mansion. 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 


155 


Keyinqham 


The  cross  at  Bwike  is  sup- 
posed to  be  coeval  with  the  an- 
cient convent  founded  in  early 
Norman  times.  It  is  now  in  a 
garden  near  the  church.  The 
base  measures  two  feet  square, 
and  the  shaft  is  two  feet  high. 


Hornsea, 


Swine. 

Around  Hornsea  are  several  in- 
teresting crosses.  That  of  Hobn- 
sea  (as  below)  is  in  Southgate,  and 
has  been  badly  used.  It  is  about 
eight  feet  in  height.  There  is  a 
more  modern  cross  in  Hornsea 
market  place.  North  Frodingham 
has  a  cross  erected  in  1811,  near 


156 


Y0RK8HIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 


which  formerly  stood  the  pillory.  This  cross  is  a  substitute 
for  one  that  existed  here,  much  similar  to  the  Bradsbubton 
Gboss.  The  latter  stands  in  the  large,  open,  market  place, 
and  is  a  prominent  object  from  all  points.  Including  the  four 
plinth  steps,  the  height  is  about  fifteen  feet,  the  octagonal 
shaft  being  about  ten  feet.  It  bears  very  imperfect  traces  of 
ancient  sculptured  figures,  as  of  two  persons,  back  to  back, 
kneeling.  The  stocks  shewn  in  the  engraving  have  been 
removed. 

In  Skeffling  church-yard  is  the  shaft  of  an  ancient  cross. 

About  a  mile  from  Leven  church,  on  the  Beverley  roadi  is 
Whtteoboss,  an  exceeding  plain  structure,  near  which  is  a 
private  dwelling  with  gothic  windows,  looking  very  ecclesias- 
tical. In  the  old  church-yard  at  Leven,  was  found  a  beautifully 
sculptured  head  of  a  cross  about  five  centuries  old,  representing 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 


167 


NUNKEELINO. 


Atwick. 


158 


YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


on  one  side  the  Crucifixion,  with  St.  John  and  the  Virgin ;  on 
the  other,  the  Virgin  and  Child,  St.  Catherine  and  another 
saint.  The  statement  that  this  is  the  head  of  the  Whitecross 
is  totally  false,  for  there  is  the  greatest  dissimilarity  in  design. 
The  sculptured  part  is  now  mounted  on  a  projection  within  the 
new  church  at  Leven,  over  the  south  door.     (Easter,  1886.) 

At  Rise  was  a  boundary  cross  in  1615,  known  as  Huddle 
cross. 

At  Nunkeelino,  about  a  quarter  of  a  mile  from  the  old 
priory  church  (founded  about  1150),  are  the  remains  of  a  plain 
cross  about  four  feet  high,  as  shewn  in  the  engraving. 

The  cross  of  Atwick  is  near  the  old  church,  and  seems  to 
have  borne  an  inscription  on  its  base,  but  we  could  not  dis- 
tinguish a  letter.  Including  the  three  massive  steps,  it  is 
about  fifteen  feet  in  height.  For  a  century,  the  constantly 
diminishing  distances  between  the  sea  cliffs  and  this  cross 
have  been  noted. 

Of  the  fine  cross  near  Whitby  Abbey,  and  other  North  Riding 
crosses,  we  must  write  in  a  future  article.  T. 


Holy  wells. — The  subject  of  Holy  wells  has  frequently 
cropped  up  in  the  pages  of  the  Folk-lore  section  of  the  York- 
shire  Notes  and  Queries,  and  as  a  contribution  to  the  full  history 
of  this  subject  I  send  you  the  following  notice,  with  accompa- 
nying woodcut,  of  the  Holy  well  at  Stainland.    The  part  of  the 


village  in  which  the  well  is  situated  has  always  been  known  as 
Helliwell,  and  from  this,  or  one  of  the  several  helliwells  of 
Halifax  parish,  an  old  family  takes  its  name.  The  Stainland 
well  is  known  as  St.  Helen's,  (a  common  dedication  for  wells,) 
and  near  it,  now  formed  into  cottages,  was  a  building  formerly 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 


159 


used,  according  to  the  tradition,  as  a  popish  chapel.  A  large 
stone  on  one  of  the  walls  is  called  the  Gross,  and  Watson 
states  that  strangers,  supposed  to  be  papists,  sometimes  make 
pilgrimages  to  this  cross  and  well.  B. 

Roman  Altabs  at  Slack  and  Greetland.  Mr.  Watson,  more 
than  a  century  ago,  was  shewn  at  Slack,  the  site  of  the  Roman 
station  >Cambodunum  (Scamonden),  a  fine  altar  of  Fortune, 

which  had 
been  dis- 
covered in 
1786,  and 
which  he 
gave  to  Mr. 
Whitaker, 
the  Man- 
chester his- 
torian. The 
site  has 
been  exca- 
vated    in 

modern 
years,    by 
the  York- 
shire Arch- 

sological  Association,  with  most  satisfactory  results.  The 
reading  is  given  as  follows.  Fortunae  Sacrum.  Caius  Antoni- 
us  Modestus  Centurio  legionis  sextae  victricis  posuit  et  votum 
solvit  lubens  merito;  from  which  it  appears  to  have  been 
erected  by  C.  A.  Modestus,  centurion  of  the  sixth  or  conquer- 
ing legion, 
in  discharge 
of   a    vow. 

At  Greet- 
land, a  vo- 
tive altar 
was  found 
three  cent- 
uries ago, 
which  was 
seen  by  Mr. 

Camden 
when  on  a 
visit  of 
exploration 
in  these 
parts.      Sir 

Henry 


160  YORKBHIBE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 

Savile,  of  Bradley  Hall,  and  John  Hanson,   of  Woodhouse, 
near  Brighouse,  rendered  valuable  antiquarian  assistance  to 
the  old  topographer.    The  altar  bears  the  inscription 
DVI    CI    BRIG 
ET    NVMM    GG 
T    AVR    AVRELIAN 
VS    DD    PRO    BE 
ET    8VI8    SMNGS 

On  the  reverse :—  ANTON 

III   ET    GETA 
COSS 

This  fixes  A.D.  208  as  the  date  of  erection.  The  inscription 
records  that  Titus  Aurelius  Aurelianus  dedicates  this  altar  to 
the  Gods  (Dui)  of  the  Brigantian  State,  and  to  the  Deities  of 
the  Emperor,  in  behalf  of  himself  and  his  family.  The  altar 
passed  from  the  Saviles  to  Sir  Robert  Cotton,  of  Conington,  in 
Cambridgeshire.  Horsley  saw  it  in  the  church  there,  but  it  is 
now  in  Trinity  College,  Cambridge.  An  interesting  notice  of  it 
appears  in  Hunter's  Notices  of  Clay  House,  (Yorks.  Archaeol. 
Journal,  Vol.  2.)  We  have  to  thank  Mr.  Birtwhistle  for  the 
two  woodcuts.  Ed. 


Halifax   Gibbet   Law. —  Mr.    Lister    kindly    forwards    the 
following,  which  he  has  recently  copied.     We  regret  we  did 
not  know  of  it  before  reprinting  the  Gibbet  Book.     It  will  be 
seen  that  the  woodcuts  fairly  represent  the  machine  here 
described. 
Harl.  M.S.,  785,  20.  10.  (written  in  a  16th  century  hand.) 
"  There  is  and  hathe  byne  of  anciente  tyme  a  lawe  or  rather 
a  Custome  at  Halifax,  that  whosoen  doth  Comitte  any  felonye 
and  is  taken  wth  the  same  or  confesse  the  facte  upon  examin- 
acon  yf  it  by  (sic)  valued  by  fower  counstables  to  amounts  to 
the  somme  of  thirtene  pence  halfe  penny,  he  is  forthwith  be- 
headed upon  the  nexte  market  daye  (wch  fall  usually  uppon 
the  tuesdaies  thursdays  &  saterdaies,)  or  ells  uppon  the  same 
daye  that  he  is  so  conuicted  yf  markete  be  then  holden.    The 
engine  wherewth  the  execution  is  done,  is  a  square  blocke  of 
woode  of  the  length  of  fower  foote  &  an  halfe,  wch  doth  ride 
npe  &  downe  in  a  slot,  rabet,  or  regalt  betwene  twoo  peeces  of 
tymber  that  ar  framed  &  set  upright  of  fyue  yards  in  height. 
In  the  nether  ende  of  the  slydinge  blocke  is  an  Axe  keyed  or 
fastened  wth  iron  into  the  wood,  wch  beinge  drawen  up  to  the 
top  of  the  frame  is  there  fastened  wth  a  woodden  pynne,  (the 
one  ende  set  one  a  peece  of  woode  wch  goethe  crosse  on  the 
twoo  rabets,  and  the  other  ende  beinge  lett  into  the  blooke, 
holdinge  the  axe,  wth  a  notche  made  into  the  same  after  ye 
mann  of  a  Sampson's  post,)  unto  the  middeste  of  wch  pynne 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES.  161 

there  is  a  long  rope  fastenede  that  oomeihe  downe  amonge  the 
people,  so  that  when  the  offendore  hathe  made  his  Confession, 
and  hathe  layde  his  neoke  ouer  the  nethermoste  blooke,  every 
man  there  present  dothe  eyther  take  holde  of  the  rope,  (or 
puttethe  foorthe  his  arme,  so  neere  to  the  same  as  he  can  get, 
in  token  yt  he  is  willinge  to  see  true  iustioe  executed,  and 
pnllinge  oote  the  pynne  in  this  manner,  the  head  blocke  wherin 
the  axe  is  fastenede  dothe  fall  downe  wh  suche  a  violence,  that  » 
if  the  necke  of  ye  transgressoure  were  so  bigge  as  that  of  a  bull 
yt  shoulde  be  cute  in  sunder  at  a  stroke,  and  roll  from  the 
bodye,  by  an  huge  distaunce.  If  it  be  so  yt  the  offendoure  be 
apprehended  for  an  oxe  or  oxen,  sheepe,  kyne  or  horse,  or  eny 
suche  cattell :  the  selfe  beaste  or  other  of  the  same  kinde,  haue 
the  end  of  the  rope  tyed  somwhere  unto  them  so  that  they 
drawe  oute  ye  pinne  wherby  the  offendore  is  executed.  /And 
thus  muche  of  Halifax  lawe,  wch  I  set  downe  onlie  to  shewe 
the  custome  of  yt  Country  in  this  behalfe." 

In  the  same  handwriting,  which  is  of  a  legal  character,  follow 
some  observations  on  the  Laws  of  England,  and  a  description 
of  titles  of  honour. 

Mbbibaux. — What  is  the  meaning  of  this  word,  as  given  in 
Heywood's  Diaries,  vol.  iii.,  p.  86. — "Its  verily  beleeved  by 
some  that  she  dyed  drunk,  for  she  had  drunk  six  meribauk 
pots  full  of  ale  that  day,  June  18,  1664."  J.  8. 

[Merry  Banks,  a  cold  Posset.    Bailey's  Dictionary.] 


Utortahnrrifr  of  WLzbtoaxtij  anb  Ronton. 

EXTRACTED   FROM   "  AlDRED's  MANUSCRIPTS." 

Will  of  Josias  Wordsworth,  of  Wadworth,  Yorks.,  Esq.,  dated 
15  Feb.,  1776,  (being  of  sound  disposing  mind  and  memory) 
directed  payment  of  all  his  just  debts  and  funeral  expenses, 
Mentions — Dear  daughter  Mary,  wife  of  Charles  Kent,  Esq., 
dear  daughter  Anne,  wife  of  Harry  Verelst,  Esq.,  sister  •  .  . 
Chauncy,  wife  of  William  Henry  Chauncy,  Esq.,  wife's  brother, 
the  Rev.  Arthur  Robinson  and  his  wife,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Algetor, 
wife's  sister  Mary  Robinson,  servant  Margaret  Hopkins,  Alice 
Rose;  appoints  wife  Executrix  thereof.  Witnesses  —  Simy 
Batty,  clerk  to  Mr.*  Wordsworth,  John  Lambert,  clerk  to 
Messrs.  Newton  and  Venables,  William  Hammond,  servant  to 
Mr.  Wordsworth.  Codicil  thereto  dated  10  Sept.,  1779,  devised 
his  farms,  lands,  and  hereditaments,  which  he  lately  purchased, 
situate  in  Aston  in  the  County  of  York,  from  the  Earl  of 
Holderness,  with  the  appurtenances,  unto  Harry  the  eldest  son 
of  his  daughter  Ann  Verelst,  in  fee  simple,  subject  to  an  estate 
to  the  said  Ann  Verelst  during  the  minority  of  her  said  son, 

Y.K.Q.  X 


162  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 

and  to  a  charge  thereon  of  £2000  in  favour  of  the  brothers  and 
sisters  of  his  grandson  Harry  Verelst.  The  Testator  devised 
the  closes,  lands  and  hereditaments  which  he  lately  purchased 
of  Mrs.  Algetor  called  Hanging  Banks  and  Baysfield  in 
Sheffield,  with  the  appurtenances,  to  his  dear  wife  in  fee  simple. 
Witnesses — Jane  Sykes,  William  Hammond,  George  Broadrick. 
Further  Codicil  dated  28  Nov.,  1779,  devise  of  Testator's  farm, 
closes,  lands,  and  hereditaments  at  Hardwick  in  the  County  of 
York,  then  in  the  occupation  of  Joseph  Broadbent,  unto  his 
dear  wife  Ann  Wordsworth,  in  fee  simple.  Devises  his  estate 
in  the  Isle  of  Thanet  as  therein  mentioned  and  gives  £500  to 
each  of  his  said  two  daughters  Mary  Kent  and  Ann  Verelst. 
Witnesses— Geo.  Broadrick,  William  Hammond,  John  Holmes. 
Wills  and  Codicils  proved  P.  C.  C,  28  Sept.,  1780,  by  Mrs. 
Wordsworth. 

14  and  15  April,  1785.  Indentures  of  Lease  and  Release,  the 
Lease  made  between  Harry  Verelst  of  Aston  in  the  County  of 
York,  Esq.,  of  the  one  part  and  Robert  Gosling,  of  London, 
Esquire,  William  Henry  Chauncy,  of  Edgcott,  Northampton, 
Esquire,  and  Rev.  William  Mason,  of  Aston  aforesaid,  Clerk, 
of  the  other  part,  And  the  Release  made  between  the  same 
persons  as  are  parties  to  the  said  Lease,  affecting  all  that  the 
Manor  or  Lordship  or  reputed  Manor  or  Lordship  of  Aston 
aforesaid,  and  all  that  the  capital  and  other  messuages,  lands, 
tenements  and  hereditaments  of  him  the  said  Harry  Verelst, 
in  Aston  aforesaid,  or  in  Aughton  alias  Aigton,  Hardwick  or 
Hodwick,  Co.  York,  or  any  of  them  and  lately  purchased  of 
Robert,  late  Earl  of  Holderness,  and  also  all  that  moiety  or 
half  part  of  the  whole  into  two  equal  parts  to  be  divided,  of  all 
those  the  Manors,  messuages,  lands,  woods,  tenements,  and 
hereditaments,  lying  and  being  at  Wadworth,  Penistone,  and 
elsewhere  in  the  County  of  York,  with  the  appurtenances,  and 
late  the  estate  of  Josias  Wordsworth,  Esq.,  deceased.  Me- 
morial executed  by  the  said  Harry  Verelst  in  the  presence  of 
Christopher  Alderson,  of  Tickhill,  County  York,  clerk,  and 
William  Ball,  of  Rotherham,  gentleman,  and  registered  14 
May,  1785,  at  Wakefield. 

Yorkshire  to  wit.  John  Turner  against  Josias  Wordsworth 
for  £97  2s.,  debt.  Judgment  signed  the  11  Nov.,  1765.  Allowed 
for  costs  63s.  Witness  the  hand  of  Edwd.  Benton,  Junr.,  for 
Thomas  Owens,  Esq.,  Secondary  of  His  Majesty's  Court  of 
King's  Bench.    Registered  81  Jan.,  1766,  at  Wakefield. 

A  Memorial  of  a  Judgment  in  His  Majesty's  Court  of  King's 
Bench  at  Westminster,  of  Trinity  Term  in  the  84th  year  of  the 
reign  of  King  George  the  3rd,  between  Philip  Perkins  and 
Jane  his  wife,  Executors  of  the  last  Will  and  Testament  of 
Mary  Griffith  deceased,  plaintiffs,  and  Sir  Charles  Kent,  Bart., 
Executor  of  the  last  Will  and  Testament  of  Harry  Verelst, 


YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES.        163 

Esq.,  defendant  in  a  plea  of  debt  for '£6600.  Judgment  was 
signed  in  the  above  cause  the  8th  August,  1794.  John  Clarke, 
assistant  to  the  Clerk  of  the  Judgments,  in  the  absence  of 
Robert  Forster,  Esq.,  Secondary.  Registered  7  Sept.,  1792,  at 
Wakefield. 

Wadworth.  Extract  from  the  Inclosure  Act.  "And  whereas 
Josias  Wordsworth,  Esq.,  is  Improprietor  of  the  corn  tithes 
and  patron  of  the  Vicarage  of  Wadworth,  within  the  Peculiar 
Jurisdiction  of  Wadworth  aforesaid." 

Will  of  Arthur  Robinson,  of  Kingston -upon-Hull,  Clerk, 
made  and  published  the  24  Oct.,  1792,  whereby  after  payment 
of  all  his  just  debts  he  gave  and  devised  his  messuage  and 
dwelling-house  wherein  he  then  dwelt,  with  the  appurtenances, 
in  Postern  Gate,  Kingston  aforesaid,  and  all  his  farms,  lands, 
tenements,  and  hereditaments  in  Sutton  in  Holderness,  and  all 
other  his  real  estate  with  the  appurtenances,  unto  his  wife 
Elizabeth  Robinson  for  life,  and  after  her  decease  unto  his 
Mends  Joseph  Sykes  of  West  Ella,  Kingston-upon-Hull,  Esq., 
the  Bev.  John  Bourne  of  the  Charter  House,  same  town,  Clerk, 
and  William  Travis  of  same  town,  Merchant,  their  heirs  and 
assignees,  upon  trust  for  sale  and  pay  the  proceeds  thereof  as 
to  one  moiety  to  Testator's  sister,  Ann  Wordsworth,  absolutely, 
and  the  other  moiety  to  Testator's  other  sister  Mary  Robinson, 
absolutely.  The  Testator  gave  to  his  said  wife  the  use  of  his 
plate  for  life,  and  after  her  decease,  equally  between  his  said 
sister  Mary  Robinson  and  his  two  nieces — Dame  Mary  Kent 
and  Ann  Verelst.  Mentions — sister  Mrs.  Agnes  Thompson,  of 
Brompton  Row,  Knightsbridge,  Miss  Mary  Agnes  Lillington, 
respected  Mend  the  Rev.  Mr.  Mason  of  Ashton,  York,  Clerk. 
Witnesses — Josiah  Prickett,  Attorney  at  Law,  of  Hull,  Nath. 
Holmes,  Junr.,  his  Clerk,  Joseph  Cawthron,  servant  to  the  said 
Arthur  Robinson.    Proved  Prerogative  Court  of  York. 

Original  Affidavit  of  Mrs.  Yerelst. 

Verbatim  et  literatim. 

"  Wordsworth  Pedigree." ' 

Josias  Wordsworth  =p  Sarah 
of  Water  Hall,  Esq. 
Died  after  1706 


A          |  1st  wife                    |    B               2nd  wife 

John  Wordsworth  Ruth  =pElias  Wordsworth=7=Ann  Milner 

of  Burton  Grange,  Baynes      of  Sheffield,  born 

Esq.,  born  8  Feb.  in  1668,  died 

1657,  died  about  about  1724 
1709 


164 


YOBKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


c  I 

Josias  Wordsworth 
afterwards  of  Lon- 
don, Esq.,  born  16 
April,  1691,  died 
in  174! 

I 


I   D 

Samuel  Wordsworth 

of  London,  Esq., 

born  in  Nov.,  1701 

died  sans  issue  in 

1774 


Anne  Wordsworth 
born  July  30, 1717 

married  Peter 

Christopher  Algetor 

died  sans  issue 

about  1794 


Josias  Wordsworth    =p    Ann  Robinson 


the  yor  of  Wadworth,  Esq. 
died  in  June,  1780,  des- 
cribed in  his  father's  will 
as  his  eldest  son 


died  in  Nov.,  1814, 

Vide  Probate 
buried  at  Wadworth 


Mary  Ann 

married  Sir  Charles  married  Henry 
Kent,  Bart.,  died  in  Verelst,  Esq., 
Sept.,  1817,  buried  and  now  living 
at  Wadworth 
Ann  Verelst,  of  Holywell  in  the  County  of  Hants,  widow, 
maketh  oath  and  saith  that  the  Josias  Wordsworth  the  younger, 
of  Wadworth  in  the  County  of  York,  Esquire,  in  the  foregoing 
pedigree  last  named  and  therein  stated  to  have  died  in  June, 
1780,  was  this  deponent's  father  and  the  late  husband  of  Ann 
Wordsworth,  widow,  this  deponent's  mother,  to  whom  he 
devised  in  fee  his  freehold  estate,  situate  in  Dunster  Court  and 
in  Mincing  Lane  and  Mark  Lane  in  the  city  of  London,  and 
saith  that  the  6aid  Josias  Wordsworth  was  the  eldest  son  and 
heir  at  law  of  Josias  Wordsworth  of  London,  Esquire,  and  the 
eldest  grandson  and  heir  of  John  Wordsworth  of  Barton 
Grange,  Esquire,  and  the  great  grandson  and  heir  of  Josias 
Wordsworth,  of  Water  Hall,  Esquire,  all  severally  named  in 
the  above  pedigree,  and  saith  that  the  said  Josias  Wordsworth 
the  younger  was  the  cousin  and  heir  at  law  of  Samuel  Words- 
worth of  London,  Esquire,  and  of  his  sister  Anne  Wordsworth 
afterwards  Anne  Algetor,  widow,  in  the  said  pedigree  named, 
who  were  the  children  of  Elias  Wordsworth  a  younger  son  of 
the  said  Josias  Wordsworth  of  Water  Hall,  Esq.,  first  named, 
which  said  Samuel  Wordsworth  and  Anne  Algetor,  widow,  both 
died  without  issue.  Viz.  the  said  Samuel  Wordsworth  in  the 
year  1774,  and  the  said  Anne  Alegtor  about  the  year  1794 : 
(signed)  "  Ann  Verelst."  Sworn  at  the  Public  Office,  South- 
ampton Buildings,  Chancery  Lane,  London,  this  19th  day  of 
July,  1818,  before  me  (signed)  "  Jas.  Stopler." 

Parish  Church,  Penis  tone.    York.    Baptisms. 
A.    Johannes  filius  Josice  Wordsworth  natus  Febr.  8  et 
baptizatus  fuit  Dartoni©  Febr.  16,  1657* 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES.  165 

B.  Elias  filius  Josi®  Wordsworth  Jan.  24,  1668. 

C.  JosiaB  filius  Johis  Wordsworth  de  Barton  Grange,  natus 
Apri.  3,  bapt.  May  19,  1691. 

Parish  Church,  Sheffield. 

D.  Baptizati  1701,  mense  Novemb.  Samuel  filius  Eli® 
Wordsworth  Mercer  de  ead. 

E.  Anne  daugr.  of  Elias  Wordsworth,  Mercer,  born  July 
30,  bapt.  September,  1717. 

F.  Will  of  Josias  Wordsworth  late  of  the  parish  of  Saint 
Dunstan  in  East  London,  Esquire,  dated  March,  1748,  devised 
all  his  Beal  Estate  to  his  wife  Mary  Wordsworth  for  life, 
mentions  eldest  son  Josias  Wordsworth.  Proved  P.  C.  C.  26 
Jany.,  1749. 

Bill  of  Complaint  filed  in  Chancery  in  the  Suit  of  Calcraft  v. 
Cook  in  Vice  Chancellor  Stuart's  Court.  Beoites  Indentures 
of  Lease  and  Belease  dated  respty.  29  and  80  Jany.,  1812, 
between  Ann  Wordsworth  of  the  1st  part,  Dame  Mary  Kent, 
Widow,  of  the  2nd  part,  and  Sir  Charles  Egleton  Kent,  Bart., 
of  the  8rd  part.  Will  of  Ann  Wordsworth  dated  8th  July,  1809, 
Codicil  thereto  dated  17  Aug.,  1810.  Her  death  on  19  Nov., 
1814,  and  proof  of  Will  and  Codicil  on  2  June,  1815,  in  the 
proper  Ecclesiastical  Court.  Further  recitals  (1)  Indenture 
dated  81  May,  1815,  between  Dame  Mary  Kent  of  the  one  part 
and  Sir  Charles  Egleton  Kent  of  the  other  part.  (2)  Death  of 
Dame  Mary  Kent  in  September,  1817,  leaving  three  children 
only,  Dame  Mary  Thorold,  wife  of  Sir  John  Hayford  Thorold, 
Bart.,  Louisa  Elizabeth,  wife  of  John  Litchford,  Esq.,  and 
Sarah  Ann,  wife  of  Leonard  Walbanke  Childers,  Esq.  (8) 
Death  of  Dame  Mary  Thorold  in  month  of  Dec,  1829,  in  life- 
time of  husband  leaving  Sir  John  Charles  Thorold,  Bart.,  her 
only  son  and  heir  at  law  and  sole  next  of  kin  her  surviving. 
(4)  Indenture  dated  14  June,  1848,  between  John  Litchford 
and  Louisa  his  wife,  of  the  one  part,  and  the  Plaintiffs  to  this 
Suit  of  the  other  part.  (5)  Death  of  Leonard  Walbanke  Childers 
many  years  ago  leaving  his  wife  him  surviving,  (6)  Will  of 
Sir  Charles  Egleton  Kent  dated  25  July,  1818,  and  Codicil 
thereto  dated  27  Aug.,  1880,  his  death  on  5  Dec,  1884,  and 
proof  in  proper  Ecclesiastical  Court.  (7)  An  Order  of  his 
Honor  Vice  Chancellor  Sir  John  Stuart  in  "  the  matter  of  the 
mortgaged  and  trust  estates  of  Ann  Wordsworth  of  Wadworth, 
widow,  deceased,  and  in  the  mattaj  of  the  Trustee  Act,  1850," 
dated  21  Dec,  1852.  The  action  was  for  an  Injunction  and 
damages,  costs  and  expenses. 

The  Manor  of  Dorking,  Surrey.  Court  Baron  of  the  Hon* 
Charles  Howard  and  Abraham  Eucker,  Esq.,  Lords  of  the 
Manor,  holden  Friday  28rd  October,  1747,  by  Thomas  Harris, 
Gentleman,  Steward,  there  it  is  enrolled  thus — That  at  that 
Court  the  2nd  proclamation  was  made  for  the  heir  or  heirs  of 


166  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 

Lambert  Ludlow,  late  of  Bansted,  Surrey,  Esq.,  deceased, 
claiming  title  to  All  thoae  Copyhold  Estates  therein  particularly 
specified  within  this  Manor  to  come  and  take  the  same  out  of 
the  Lords  of  this  Manor.  And  that  at  that  Court  Josias 
Wordsworth  of  London,  Esq.,  and  Mary  his  wife,  Joshua  Smith 
of  Battersea,  Surrey,  Esq.,  and  Anne  his  wife,  and  Elizabeth 
Hawkins  the  widow  and  relict  of  Philip  Hawkins,  Esq.,  deceased 
(which  said  Mary,  Anne,  and  Elizabeth  were  the  sisters  and 
coheiresses  of  the  said  Lambert  Ludlow)  by  Bichard  Glover 
their  next  friend  came  and  humbly  prayed  that  they  the  said 
Mary,  Anne  and  Elizabeth  might  be  admitted  tenants  of  the 
Lords  of  this  Manor  to  the  said  Copyholds  with  their  appur- 
tenances. And  the  Lords  by  their  Stewards  granted  them  and 
their  heirs  for  ever  admission  as  coparceners  subject  to  the 
fines,  rents,  heriots  and  services. 

[This  proves  that  Josias  Wordsworth  of  London,  Esq.,  mar- 
ried Mary  Ludlow,  although  not  shown  in  Affidavit  of  Mrs. 
Verelst.] 

Jolliffe    Indenture  of  Bargain  and  Sale  dated  23  May,  1768, 

and       between  John  Jolliffe  of  Petersfield,  in  the  County 

Baven     of  Southampton,  Esquire,  and  William  Jolliffe  of 

(7)        same  place,  Esquire,  eldest  son  of  the  said  John 

Jolliffe  of  the  one  part  and  Robert  Baven  of  the 

Liberty  of  the  Bolls,  Middlesex,  Gentleman,  of  the  other  part. 

Whereby  (interalia)  All  that  Messuage  or  Tenement  with  the 

appurtenances  situate  in  Ewell,  Surrey,  abutting  on  the  road 

leading  from  Ewell  to  Bansted  on  the  south-west  part,  on  Ox 

Lane  on  the  north-east  part  and  on  Ewell  Common  Field  on 

the  south-east  part  is  stated  in  the  tenure  of  Mary  Wordsworth, 

widow.     [The  above,  formerly  Mary  Ludlow.] 

(Extracts  from  these  MSS  to  be  continued.) 


ACKWOBTH    BEGISTEBS.— 1586-1600. 

by  the  rev.  j.  l.  saywell,  f.b.h.s. 

Mabbiages,  1586. 
Thomas  Bishworth  and  Margery  Austwicke,  married  Oct  9. 
Thomas  Folds  and  Anne  Howet,  October  16. 
Willm  Waringe  and  Isabell  Foster,  Febry.  27. 
[No  deaths  recorded.] 

Baptisms,  1587. 


Anne  Grenfelde,  baptised  Julie 

16. 
Willm  Jackson,  Julie  20. 
Anne  Whiticars,  August  20, 


Elizabethe  Azacher(?)  Septemb. 

80. 
Bichard  Ashe,  October  20. 
Anne  Bawson,  Novemb.  27. 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 


167 


Elizabethe  Helilaye,  Septemb. 

21. 
Alis  Huntingden,  Septemb.  25. 


Willm  Biggliskirke,  Decemb.  8. 
Elizabethe  Horncastle,  Janua- 

riel3. 
Henrye  Wilson,  Februarie  18. 
Marbiages. 

Richard  Lyard  and  Elizabethe married  October  29. 

.  John  Austwicke  and  Katheryne  Pickeringe,  Novemb.  6. 
Bic  Breman  and  Ursula  Rawlin,  Maye  28. 
Edward  Swallowe  and  Elizab.  Shillito,  Jannarie  80. 

Willm  Wood  and  Elizabethe ,  

Robt.  Usher  Rector  presented  to  ye  Living  by  Q.  Eliz.  Feb. 

1588.     How  long  he  held  this  Living  is  uncertain,  but  he 

resigned  it  for  the  Living  of  Bulmor,  &  was  succeeded  by  Will 

Lambe  who  was  presented  by  Q.  Eliz.  also.* 

[No  burials  recorded.] 

Baptisms,  1588. 


George  Howet,  baptised  Marche 

28. 
Willm  Prince,  Marche  29. 
George  Thackera,  Aprill  10. 
Anne  Hawet,  May  8. 
Willm  Aspiner,  August  20. 
George  Shillito,  August  25. 
Richard  Grene,  Septemb.  21 
Richard  Bramham,  Septemb. 22 


Elizabeth  Corker,  Decemb.  11. 
Henrye  Austwicke,  Decemb.  18. 
John  Whiticars,  Januarie  15. 
Richard  Folds,  Februarie  1. 
Mary  Hawksworth,  Februarie 

24. 
Richard  Adamson,  Marche  12. 
Emmat  Bidiall,  Marche  21. 
Willm  Dobson,  Marche  24. 


Makbiages. 

Thomas  Smithe  and  Alis  Burton,  married  June  28. 
Willm  Simson  and  Kathyn  Brigs,  Julie  28. 
Edward  Heaton  and  Isabell  Emson,  August  11. 
Edward  Eshe  and  Alis  Beoket,  Janua  11. 
Jo.  Bidiall  and  Agnes  Folds,  Janua  21. 
Bubialls. 


Elizabethe  Harde,  buried  Aprill 

7. 
Jane  Dodgson,  Aprill  16. 
Robert  Hall,  Maye  28. 
Margret  Hall,  Maye  27. 
Jennet  Heaton,  June  1. 
John  Scholaye,  June  11. 
Leonard  Wetherhead,  June  28 
Anne  Scholayn,  Julie  15. 
Robert  Watson,  Septemb.  8. 
Uxor*  Farrand,  Septemb.  12. 
Ellin  Ashe,  Septemb.  24. 


Esabell  Mallerye,  Septemb.  24. 
George  Hawet,  Septemb.  29. 
Richard  Ashe,  Ootober  12. 
Richard  Bramam,  October  12. 
Thomas  Grene,  October  26. 
Francis  Crawshaye,Novemb.26. 
Mary  Shaye,  Decemb.  24. 
Gilbert  Shawe,  Januarie  6. 
Margret  Folds,  Januarie  81. 
Jennet  Barker,  Februarie  7. 
Richard  Folds,  Marche  18. 


•  Tone  makes  Robt.  Usher's  successor  to  be  "  Joh  Wilson  (resigned  for 
the  Rectory  of  Bnlmer),"  Will  Lambe  being  inducted  "  16  Jan  1594." 

•  "  Uxor"  of  course  means  "the  wife  of ,"  but  it  is  possible  it  may 

btve  been  used  in  the  same  way  as  "  Dame  "  in  later  times. 


168 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 


Anne  Bower,  baptised  Aprill  18 
George  Padget,  Aprill  20. 
Margret  Padget,  Aprill  20. 
Dennys  Lake,  June  1. 
Bic.  &  Tho.  Halilaye,  June  18. 
Willm  Bidiall,  June  14. 
John  Bramham,  August  18. 
Henrye  Bushell,  August  24. 
Richard  Aspiner,  August  24. 


Baptisms,  1589. 


Willm  Heaton,  Septemb.  7. 
Willm  Simeon,  Septemb.  8. 
Betteris  Eshe,  Septemb.  26. 
Jane  Eshe,  Septemb.  80. 
George  Swallowe,  Novemb.  12. 
Boger  Grenfeld,  Januarie  11. 
Anne  Thacker,  Januarie  18. 
Francis  Waringe,  Januarie  18. 
Anne  Howet,  Marche  4. 


Mabkiaoks. 
Thomas  Shawe  and  Jane  Robinson,  married  Septemb. 
Tho.  Stillinge  and  Alis  Binglaye,  Decemb.  29. 
Mathewe  Dodgson  and  Anna  Peele,  Januarie  20. 
Willm  Smithe  and  Jane  Sandson,  Januarie  8. 
Richard  Banold  and  Margret  Mason,  Januarie  9. 

Burialls. 


14. 


Jennet    Horncastle,    buried 

Aprill  4. 
Margret  Folds,  Maye  28. 
Willm  Austwicke,  Senr., 


Maye 


Marye  Paslaye,  June  4. 
Agnes  Mason,  June  8. 
Bic.  &  Tho.  Halilaye,  June  16. 
Isabell  Pickeringe,  June  24. 
Grace  Robinson,  Julie  1. 

Baptisms, 
Bichard  Shawe,  baptised  Maye 

5. 
Mary  Benold,  baptysed  Maye  10 
Francis  Corker,  Maye  81 
Hen.  &  Mary  Horncastle,  June 

20. 
Alis  Bigliskirke,  October  7 
John  Mallerye  October  18, 


Isabell  Rawson,  Julie  29. 
Willm  Heaton,  October  28. 
Agnes  Redman,  Novemb.  8. 
Anne  Becket,  Novemb.  19. 
Alexander  Johnson,    Januarie 


Willm  Ridiall,  Januarie  26. 
John  Ashe,  Februarie  12. 
Robert  Jackson,  Marche  15. 

1590. 
William  Dodgson,  Novemb.  22. 
Thomas  Gawood,  Decemb.  6. 
Anne  A  damson,  Decemb.  8. 
Elizabethe  Ward,  Februarie  6. 
Alice  Dodgson,  Februa  7. 
Willm  Scholaye,  Februa  14. 
John  Norton,  Marche  21. 


Mabriaoe8. 

Jo.  Munket  and  Jane  Brigs,  married  Aprill  26. 
Rob.  Midleton  and  Jane  Jarcks,  June  24. 
Rich.  Pickeringe  and  Alis  Wager,  August  6. 
Rob.  Brodhead  and  Sibbell  Watts,  August  28. 
George  Isat  and  Emmat  Eliot,  Novemb.  16. 

Burialls. 


/  Maria  Benold,  buried  June  6. 
Edward  Austwicke,  Julie  25. 
Bichard  Gorbrige,  August  6. 
Anne  Prince,  August  9. 


Mary  Foores,  Novemb.  8. 
Jennet  Saunder,  Decemb.  11. 
Mathewe  Dodgson,  Decemb.  27 
Lawrence  Whiticars,  Januarie  1 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 


John  Roods,  August  80. 
Margret  Walker,  Septemb.  18. 
John  Whythead,  Septemb.  19. 
Lionell  Wormall,  Octob.  8. 
Christopher  Bobinson,  Ootob.14 
John  Mallerye,  Octob.  81. 
Anne  Morlaye,  Novemb.  8. 

Bapptisms, 


Willm  Simson,  Januarie  1. 
Rowland  Scryvyner,  Febrnarie 

21. 
Agnes  Horner,  Marche  14. 
Margret  Burton,  Marche  21. 
Willm  Bushell,  Marche  24. 


1591. 


Robert  Hawksworthe,  baptysed 

Aprill  15. 
John  Wilson,  Aprill  20. 
Margerye  Folds,  Aprill  22. 
Alis  Sunderland,  Aprill  25. 
Ursulaye  Fernlaye,  Julie  21 


John  Brears,  August  7. 

Jane  Padget,  Novemb.  18. 

Jane  Wilkinson,  Novemb.  2G 

Annes  Grene,  Februa  18. 

Marye  Simson,  Februa  21. 

Anne  Cawood,  Marche  24. 
Marriages. 
Francis  Noble  and  Anne  Roberts,  married  Aprill  20. 
Leonard  Brooke  and  Eathe.  Maser,  Novemb.  81. 
Richard  Fricklaye  and  Margret  Ellis,  Decemb.  7. 
Witworth  Wilkinson  and  Ann  Austwicke,  Januarie  24. 
Bubialls. 


Margret   Horncastle,    buried 

Aprill  2. 
Willm  Bigliskirke,  Aprill  22. 
Alis  Dodgson,  Maye  2. 
Isabell  Fricklaye,  Maye  5. 
Margret  Bigliskirke,  Maye  29. 
John  Aspiner,  June  24. 
Marye  Manser,  August  8. 
John  Renold,  August  25. 
Thomas  Howet,  Septemb.  9. 
Allan  Wyse,  Septemb.  11. 
Richard  Howet,  Septemb.  19. 


Agnes  Tiplin,  October  24. 
Margaret  Scholaye,  Novemb.  7. 
Uxor  Scryvyner,  Novemb.  12. 
Anne  Howet,  Novemb.  16. 
Willm  Burton,  Novemb.  17. 
Sibbell  Waun  and  Eli  Smythe, 

buried  Decemb.  6. 
Margret  Jackson,  Januarie  5. 
George  Heaton,  Janua.  28. 
Willm  Corker,  Februa  18. 
Isabell  Huntingden,  Februa  27* 
Jane  Johnson,  Marche  4. 


Mary    Whiticars,    baptysed 

Marche  26. 
Elizabeth  Renold,  Marche  28. 
Alis  Bigliskyrke,  Marche  28. 
Mary  Mallerye,  Marche  80. 
Thomas  Dodgson,  June  25. 
Anne  Midleton,  Julie  29. 
George  Norton,  August  24. 


Bapty8HS,  1592. 


Robert  Heaton,  Novemb.  10. 
John  Parker,  Januarie  7. 
Willm  Grenfeld,  Februarie  2. 
Alis  Ridiall,  Februarie  4. 
Jane  Wilkinson,  Februarie  8. 
Robt.  Fearnlaye,  Februarie  24* 
Isabell  Tailior,  Marche  2. 
Henrye  Simson,  Marche  16. 


Marriages. 
Thomas  Mallinson  and  Emot*  Brathawat,  married  June  7. 
Bobt.  Glyfe  and  Anne  Nelson,  Auguste  6. 
Richard  Folds  and  Isabell  Mason,  Novemb.  20. 

*  This  name  is  spelt  Emot,  Ernst,  Emmat,  and  Emmet  in  various  places, 
ud  it  equivalent  to  the  modern  "  Emma." 


170 


YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


BUBIALLS. 


Marye  Simson,  buried  Aprill  5. 
Anne  Brigs,  Maye  14. 

Ellin ,  June  6. 

Marye  Austwicke,  Julie  12. 
Willm  Dobson,  Julie  29. 
Elizabethe  Adamson,  August  11 
Anne  Midleton,  August  14. 
Anne  Prince,  August  21. 
Jane  Scholaye,  Septemb.  16. 

Baptysms, 


Willm  Bcholaye,  Novemb.  11. 
Eatheryne  Norton,  Novemb.  28 
Edward  Heaton,  Decemb.  12. 
Agnes  Wormall,  Decemb.  16. 

John ,  Januarie  28. 

Alice  Blackburne,  Februarie  10 
Willm  Hobson,  Februarie  22. 
Margret  Padget,  Marcbe  2. 


1598. 


Anne  Drowrye,  baptysed  Aprill 

25. 
Elizabethe  Thacker,  June  17 
Alis  Cawood,  Julie  29. 
Isabell  Folds,  Septemb.  16. 


JennetBlackburne,  Septemb.  21 
Robert  Ward,  October  7. 
Willm  Hawksworth,  October  14 
Richard  Norton,  Novemb.  17. 


Bubials. 


Robert  Bidiall,  buried  Marche  25 
Margaret  Redman,  Marche  26 
Isabell  Taliour,  Marche  30. 
Alis  Bigliskirke,  Aprill  4. 
Mary  Eshe,  Aprill  25. 
Edmund  Brigs,  Aprill  21. 
Willm  Grenfeld,  Aprill  29. 
Isabell  Eshe,  Maye  6. 
Jo.  Bell  and  Anne  Dodgson, 

Maye  9. 
Jennet  Bigliskirke,  June  7. 
Margaret  Renold,  Julie  14. 
Anne  Cawood,  Julie  20. 


John  Jinkinson,  August  19. 
Edward  Bushell,  August  24. 
Richard  Fricklaye,  Septemb.  27 
Isabell  Folds,  Septemb.  80. 
Alice  Robinson,  October  8. 
Margret  Bryers,  Novemb.  25. 
Marye    Ward's    2    children, 

Decemb.  2. 
John  Ridiall,  Decemb.  9. 
Edward  Eshe,  Decemb.  9. 
John  Turker,  Decemb.  25. 
Elizabethe  Aspiner,  Januarie  80 


Willm  Lamb,  Rectr,  presented  to  this  Living  by  Queen  Eliz. 
in  Januarie,  1594.* 

Baptisms,  1594. 


Robert  Bushell,  baptysed  Aprill 

14. 
Tho.  and  Jennet   Bigliskirke, 

Aprill  14. 
Thomas  Norton,  Maye  1. 
Jane  Taliour,  Maye  16. 
Margerye  Williamson,  June  15. 
Nathaniel  Wilson,  Julie  28. 
Robt.  Cawood,  August  21. 
Eliz.  Wilkinson,  August  21. 


Batholomewe  Heather,  August 
25. 

Marye  Bentlaye,  Septemb.  29. 

Elizabethe  Adamson,  Decemb.  2 

Stepen  Folds,  Decemb.  25. 

Timothye  Parker,  Januarie  12. 

Willm  Briers  and  Margret  Big- 
liskirke, Januarie  12. 

Robert  Norton,  Februarie  9. 

Willm  Wilkinson,  Marche  28. 


*  There  is  no  mention  of  the  induction  of  Willm  Lamb's  predecessor  Joh. 
Wilson. 


YOBKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


171 


Bobert  Wormall,  buried  Maye  12 
Arthur  Feamlaye,  Maye  14 
John  Eshe,  Januarie  19. 


Bubiallb. 


Willm  Hawksworthe,  Marohe  7. 
John    Huntingdon,    Junr.y 
Marche  12. 


Baptisms,  1595. 


Alis  Drowiy,  baptysed  Aprill  6. 
Jane  Whyticars,  Aprill  28. 
Thomas  Thacker,  Maye  4. 
George  Austwicke,  Maye  11, 
Willm  Dodgson,  June  18. 
George  Chauntrye,  Maye  11 
Francis  Simson,  Maye  11. 


Willm  Austwicke,  Pebrua  18. 
Ellin  Alderslaye,  Aprill  18. 
Stephen  Folds,  June  6. 
Jennet  Dodgson,  Auguste  81. 
Willm  Kawson,  Septemb.  12. 
Jo.  Broadlaye  and  Willm  Bent- 
laye,  October  15. 


[No  Marriages  or  Burials  recorded  in  1595.] 
Bapttsms,  1596. 


Francis    Wilkinson,    baptysed 

Maye  1. 
John  Hawksworthe,  Maye  10, 
Thomas  Parke,  Maye  20. 
Anne  Howet,  October  80. 
Alis  Glyfe,  Septemb.  80. 


Sibbel  Alderslaye,  August  18. 
Franncisca  Folds,  Novemb.  21. 
George  Kaye,  Januarie  1. 
Hughe  Bushell,  Januarie  2. 
Margrett  Wills,  Januarie  10. 
Marye  Wrilliamson,  Februarie  2 


Bobert  Wills,  buried  Julie  28 
John  Shawe,  October  28. 
Uxor  Brooke,  Septemb.  2. 
Thomas  Huntingden,  Januarie 
10. 


BURIALLS. 


Uxor  Boyds,  Januarie  20. 
Marye  Williamson,  Februarie  8 
Marye  More,  Marche  10. 


Bapttsms,  1597. 


Willm    Blackburne,    baptysed 

Marche  29. 
Elizabethe  Smythe,  Aprill  14. 
Anne  Gla(y)ton,  Aprill  80. 
Henrye  Cawood,  Maye  26. 
Thomas  Austwicke,  Julie  18. 
Marye  Bentlaye,  October  2. 
Marye  Cawood,  Septemb.  10. 


Henrye  Wilkinson,  Septemb.  8. 
Willm  Lambe,  October  9. 
Susan  Chauntrye,  Januarie  20. 
Grace  Nelson,  Januarie  25. 
George  Shilito,  Marche  5. 
Anne  Williamson,  Marche  12. 
Anne  Baytman,  Marche  12. 


Marriages. 
Thomas  Cawood  and  Jane  Howet,  married  June  12. 
Bo.  Norton  and  Eliz.  Stillings,  Octob.  9. 
Willm  Jackson  and  Ellin  Bobinson,  Decemb.  27. 
Bob.  Hugh  and  Anne  Brigs,  Decemb.  5. 

Burialls. 


George  Izat,  buried  Aprill  8. 
Anne  Pyke  (?)  Aprill  6. 
Hugh  Bushell,  Aprill  8. 
Marye  Austwicke,  June  6. 
Uxor  Jackson,  June  9. 


Uxor  Clyfe,  Julie  14. 
Willm  Wryght,  Maye  28. 
Henrye  Cawood,  August  18. 
Henrye  Smythe,  Marohe  21. 


172  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 

Marriages,  1598. 
Thomas  Gott  and  Jane  Nut,  married  Januarie  8. 
John  Garnar  and  Emat  Izat,  Februarie  12. 
Thomas  Stagg  and  Alis  Bedforthe,  Februarie  12. 
Robt.  Paslaye  and  Anne  Shan,  August  10. 
Lionell  Prince  and  Isabell  Norton,  Novemb.  12. 
John  Shillito  and  Jane  Norton,  Deoemb.  8. 
Baptysmb. 


Willm  Norton,  fil  Bobt.,  bap 

tysed  Maye  21. 
Thomas  Clyfe,  Septemb.  8. 
Jervas  Bigliskirke,  Septemb.  17 
Margret  Parkinson,  Septemb.17 
Marye  Bigliskirke,  October  1. 
Henrye  Warde,  October  29. 
Isabel  Dodgson,  October  29. 

Bubialls. 


Anne  Austwicke,  Novemb.  12. 
Margret  Hugh,  Novemb.  24. 
Ann  Aspiner,  Decemb.  28. 
Alis  TaUour,  Januar.  6. 
Alis  Paslaye,  Januar.  7. 
Mathias  Becket,  Februar.  24. 
Alis  Ho  wet,  Marche  11. 


Uxor  Smythe,  Deoemb.  11. 
Anthonye  Grenfeld,  Januae.  10 


Thomas    Austwicke,    buried 

Novemb.  28. 
Uxor  Howet,  Decemb.  15. 

Bafttbms,  1599. 

Jana  Cawood  filia  Thoma,  baptysed  Aprill  1. 

Jana  Norton  filia  Jacobi,  Aprill  7. 

Anna  Wilkinson  filia  wont  work*  Wilkinson,  Aprill  27< 

Jenneta  Lee  filia  Bichardi  Lee,  Maye  1. 

Bichardus  Simson  filius  William,  Maye  18. 
[Erased]         June  24. 

Anna  Wilkinson  filia  Bichardi,  July  8. 

Henricus  Perke  filius  Francisci,  July  15. 

Thomas  Wilson  filius  Alice ,  Marche  2. 

Samuell  Lambe,  August  5. 

John  Smythes  filius  Jacobi,  Septemb.  8. 

Henricus  Glyfe  filius  Boberti,  October  6. 

Elizabethe  Thomson,  Novemb.  18. 

Margrett  Bushell,  Janua.  1. 

Joame  Kaye,  Januarie  20. 

Elizabethe  Williamson,  Februarie  8. 

Edward  Bentley,  Februarie  17. 

Henry  Austwicke  filius ,  Marchii  2. 

Alis  Prince,  Marche  16. 

Elizabethe  Shillitowe,  Marche  16. 
Bubialls. 


Margarett  Scorer,  buried  Maye 

27. 
Anna  Wilkinson  filia  wont  work 

Jan.  17. 


Bobert  Austwicke,  October  21. 
Jennet  Wood,  Marche  24. 


•  "  Wont  work,"  an  allot,  by  which  the  mother  of  the  child  was  commonly 
known.— ^J.Xj.S. 


YOBKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES.  17$ 

Marbiages. 
Jaeobu8  Smythes  and  Emmet  Huntingdon,  married  June  17. 
Thomas  Broadlaye  and  Frances  Norton,  October  21. 
Francis  Sanderson  and  Isabell  Roper,  October  21. 
Willm  Willyson  and  Mary  Walton,  Novemb.  11. 
Henrye  Huntingden  and  Anne  Smithson,  Jany.  22. 

J.  L.  Saywell,  F.R.H.S.,  &c. 

Grassinoton  Schismatics.  —  "  The  Prophetic  Messenger," 
{1880)  announces  for  December,  1828;  "  A  new  set  of  religion- 
ists sprung  up  at  Grassington  in  Graven,  styling  themselves 
Nazarene  Cariates.  The  chief  tenet  of  this  sect  is,  that  all 
religious  assemblies  are  unlawful  except  they  are  held  in  barnsr 
alleging  that  our  Lord  was  born  in  one ! "  Is  anything  further 
known  of  them  ? 


WBiftxt  tofls  foxs  2U>b*g? 

It  is  not  often  a  matter  in  dispute  as  to  the  Site  of  an  abbey 
for  the  simple  reason  (we  suppose)  that  there  are  very  few* 
instances  in  which  sufficient  relics  do  not  remain  upon  the  spot 
to  point  indubitably  to  the  place  where  it  stood.  In  the  case 
of  Fors  however  the  monks  were  only  settled  four  or  five  years, 
and  as  the  climate  was  so  bleak  and  the  ground  so  unproduc- 
tive, doubtless  a  great  part  of  their  time  would  be  taken  up  in 
conveying  food  and  the  necessaries  of  life  to  their  new  abode. 
Therefore  in  that  limited  period  it  is  not  likely  that  they  would 
have  anything  but  buildings  of  the  rudest  construction,  certainly 
nothing  of  any  architectural  pretensions  would  be  reared,  which 
accounts  for  the  fact  that  no  fluted  columns  or  groined  arches 
remain  (to  prove  the  spot  where  Peter  and  his  monks  squatted 
during  the  short  period  in  which  they  are  said  to  have  under- 
gone such  great  privations,)  as  is  the  case  with  many  of  our 
Yorkshire  religious  houses  which  flourished  for  a  longer  time 
and  in  a  more  genial  climate  than  that  of  Fors.  It  may  seem 
somewhat  presumptuous  on  my  part  after  nearly  all  the  re- 
cognised authorities  in  topography  and  local  history  have 
assigned  it  to  our  place,  that  I  should  oppose  my  humble 
opinion  to  their  great  learning  and  experience  on  this  question. 
However  whether  I  am  right  or  wrong,  if  I  should  succeed  in 
eliciting  information  which  will  tend  to  settle  the  point  my 
object  will  have  been  gained.  The  matter  in  dispute  is  as  to 
whether  the  original  foundation  (i.e.  scheme)  of  the  hair- brained 
JEsculapian  Ecclesiastic — Peter — transferred  to  Jervaulx,  was 
really  on  Low  or  on  High  Abbotside,  (two  townships  running 
for  about  15  miles  along  the  north  bank  of  the  Yore  in  Wens- 
leydale).  Nearly  all  County  topographers  and  local  historians 
have  assigned  its  Site  to  the  former  township.    Oral  traditions 


174  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 

on  the  other  hand,  handed  down  we  suppose  for  generations 
presumably  from  the  times  of  Peter,  point  in  favour  of  the 
Latter.  Putting  aside  both  written  records  and  unwritten  tradi- 
tions there  appear  to  be  plausible  grounds  however  for  con- 
tending that  the  madcap  scheme  of  the  Savignian  monk  had 
its  locus  standi  at  the  latter  named  place.  The  two  townships 
of  High  and  Low  Abbotside  doubtless  received  their  names  from 
the  fact  of  an  abbey  having  existed  there  ;  but  so  far  the  name 
would  indicate  an  equal  claim  in  favour  of  both  as  having 
contained  the  site  of  the  Abbey.  Additional  strength  however 
is  given  to  the  validity  of  local  traditions  as  opposed  to  topo- 
graphical writers,  when  we  consider  that  in  High  Abbotside 
there  is  a  wild  barren  glen  called  Fors  dale  which  is  strongly 
confirmatory  (etymologically)  of  the  belief  locally  entertained 
that  Peter-de-Qunciano's  Abbey  of  Fors  was  not  at  Grainge  in 
Low  Abbotside  but  at  Fors-dale  in  High  Abbotside,  the  drainage 
of  which  latter  forms  the  romantic  and  increasingly  attractive 
falls  known  as  Hardrow  Bear  fors,  which  in  all  probability  gave 
its  name  to  the  valley  (i.e.  JFor*-dale).  If  it  be  true  as  stated 
in  old  documents,  that  when  the  monks  came  to  Fors  their 
hearts  sank  within  them  on  account  of  the  land  being  so  stony 
and  barren,  the  climate  bleak,  and  the  inhabitants  inhospitable, 
so  that  after  five  years  stay  they  were  nearly  starved  to  death ; 
this  account  certainly  goes  far  to  prove  that  the  cold,  cheerless 
and  sterile  valley  of  Forsdale  and  not  the  snug,  sheltered  and 
fertile  domain  of  Dale  Grainge,  the  manor  or  estate  of  the  late 
Lord  Wensleydale  (Baron  Parke),  was  the  site  of  Fors  Abbey. 
In  support  of  this  view,  Lambert  says— Sequel  to  Wensleydale, 
a  Poem,  published  in  1819. — 

"  Stay,  stay  my  roving  muse,  no  farther  go, 
But  haste  thee  back  into  the  vale  below, 
And  on  thy  way  at  ancient  Forsdale  call ; 
Here  superstition  rear'd  the  abbey  wall 
Its  lofty  walls  are  levelTd  to  the  ground 
No  more  is  heard  the  solemn  organ's  sound ; 
Where  once  the  glimm'ring  taper  cast  its  rays, 
We  now  perchance  behold  the  glow  worm's  blaze." 

I  am  reminded  however  that  old  records  refer  to  it  as  "  Fors 
near  Askrigg  "  from  which  place  Grainge  is  but  one  mile  distant 
while  Forsdale  is  six  or  seven  miles  away.  This  objection 
however  to  the  claims  of  the  latter  is  easily  disposed  of  when 
we  consider  that  no  village  higher  up  the  dale  than  Askrigg  is 
mentioned  in  Doomsday  Survey,  consequently  we  may  reason- 
ably infer  that  no  other  place  existed  and  that  west  of  this  the 
dale  was  either  unfrequented  wood  or  wild  mountain  heath, 
excepting  where  the  monks  had  made  a  clearance — to  use  a 
modern  colonial  expression — in  which  case  Askrigg  would  still 


YOBKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES.  175 

be  the  nearest  centre  of  population.  In  Longstaffe's  "  Rioh- 
mondshire  "  we  read  (p.  69) :  In  the  reign  of  Stephen,  Peter  de 
Quincy,  a  Chirurgical  Monk  of  Savigny,  frequented  the  Earl  of 
Richmond's  Court  and  being  accompanied  by  other  brethren 
prevailed  on  Akar  Fitz  Bardolph  to  bestow  on  them  the  pro- 
perty at  Fors,  high  up  Wensleydale ;  which  will  not  apply  with 
the  same  force  to  the  Grainge  site  as  the  other.  It  must  be 
remembered  that  the  authors  who  have  decided  upon  Grainge 
as  the  "local  habitation"  were  not  local  men  and  were  not 
conversant  with  prevailing  traditions  of  the  neighbourhood, 
they  were  simply  seeking  a  site  which  they  conceived  must  be 
near  to  Askrigg  and  they  pitched  upon  what  they  thought  a 
likely  place  regardless  of  the  topographical  etymology  or  tra- 
ditional lore  of  the  district.  I  submit  then  all  things  considered, 
the  etymology  of  the  term,  the  circumstances  of  soil  and  climate 
and  the  voice  of  tradition  ail  appear  to  me  to  point  almost 
irresistibly  to  the  conclusion  that  Fors  Abbey  was  at  Fors  dale 
and  not  at  Grainge  as  stated  by  Mr.  Barker,  Hardcastle  and  a 
host  of  other  itinerant  writers  who  have  followed  them. 

John  Routh,  Hawks. 


#taiutsrrtpis  of  Br.  Icljtt  ^all,  of  Hipping. 

At  the  request  of  Mr.  J.  Horsfall  Turner,  I  have  undertaken 
to  give  an  account  of  certain  volumes  chiefly  in  the  handwriting 
of  my  ancestor  John  Hall,  of  Kipping  House,  near  Thornton 
in  Bradford  dale,  who  died  in  the  year  1709.  We  see  him  figure 
in  the  ( Autobiography  of  Joseph  Lister,'*  and  in  Oliver  Hey- 
wood's  Diaries,!  as  a  practical  physician,  (whether  licensed  or 
or  not,  is  a  doubtful  point)  and  a  chief  member  of  the  infant 
Independent  Church  at  Kipping  which  met  in  a  building  of  his 
own  adjoining  his  house.!  Both  his  house  and  the  building 
above  mentioned  are  still  to  be  seen  by  a  visitor  to  Thornton. 
The  latter  bears  the  date  1669  so  that  it  was  ready  for  use 
when  at  the  Declaration  of  Indulgence  in  1672,  Dr.  Hall 
applied  for  a  license.  One  of  the  manuscript  books  indicates 
Dr.  Hall's  claim  to  have  studied  medicine.  It  is  a  work  com- 
piled by  him  in  the  year  1661,  called  'A  compendium  and 
treasury  of  medicine  and  chirurgery,'  Ac.     It  remains  ready 

*p.54.  f  n.  pp.  70, 109, 114.    IV.  196,  224,  259,  Ac. 

t  From  the  Northowram  Register  Ac. 

Under '  Applications  for  licenses  under  Declaration  of  Indulgences  1672/ 

-John  Hall,  Bradford." 
Under  "  Meeting  Houses  registered  at  Wetherby  Sessions,  Jan.,  1669." 
"Wee  shall  {God  willing)  assemble  and  meet  at  Kipping  house  in 
Thornton  in  Bradfordale,  and  at  Jonas  Dean's  House  in  Mixenden  in  ye 
parish  of  Halltfax,  Matthew  Smith,  Jno  Hall,  Joseph  Lister,  Jonas  Deane,. 
Mb  Hanson,  John  Berry." 


176  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 

for  the  press,  bat  it  does  not  appear  that  it  has  been  printed. 
Dr.  Hall  died  in  London  on  6th  June,  1709,  at  the  age  of  78, 
and  was  buried  in  Thornton  churchyard,  olose  to  the  south 
wall  of  the  now  ruinous  Thornton  Chapel.  His  gravestone 
boldly  and  deeply  out  still  bears  the  inscription — ( Hie  etiam 
deponitur  corpus  Johannis  Hall  de  Kipping  medici  qui  in 
Christ  obdormivit';  the  date  has  perished.  He  was  buried  with 
his  son  Zelophehad*  who  predeceased  him  having  been  born 
April  10th,  1665,  and  having  died  April  18th,  1676,  as  appears 
from  the  same  stone.  In  allusion  to  him  a  motto  has  been 
out  in  a  border  round  the  stone,  of  which  I  make  out  the 
words — '  Like  Jonah's  gourd  earth's  best  things  be  soon .  •  » 
soon  ripe  ? 

On  Dr.  Hall's  death  Kipping  passed  to  his  grandson  Dr. 
Joshua  Firth,  t  son  of  Dr.  Hall's  only  surviving  child  Mary  and 
John  Firthj  of  Wheatley,  (who  had  died  in  1704). 

The  MS.  Books  with  wnich  I  am  now  dealing  form  seven 
volumes  bound  in  leather;  of  which  five  contain  chiefly  sermons 
in  Dr.  Hall's  handwriting  apparently  taken  down  as  he  heard 
them  delivered  at  Kipping  and  elsewhere,  the  sixth  is  the 
medical  work  mentioned  above,  and  the  seventh  is  a  book  of 
accounts  and  prescriptions  in  the  handwriting  of  Dr.  Joshua 
Firth  and  covering  the  period  1728-1788. 

At  present  I  confine  myself  to  the  volumes  of  sermons  and 
to  the  light  they  throw  on  the  religious  history  of  the  Bradford 
district  in  the  period  before  and  after  the  Revolution  of  1688. 
The  volumes  are  endorsed  Quarto  8,  Quarto  5,  Quarto  6, 
Octavo  1,  Octavo  8,  containing  respectively  660,  586,  478,  670 
and  224  pages.  I  regret  to  say  that  I  have  no  trace  of  the 
other  volumes  of  the  two  series,  though  no  doubt  they  existed. 

The  number  of  sermons  in  the  five  volumes  is  842.  I  add 
the  names  of  the  preachers§  with  the  number  of  sermons  by 
each. 

*  Zelophehad  Hall  is  no  doubt  the  hero  of  the  anecdote  in  Heywood'a 
Diaries,  Vol.  II.  p.  240. 

t  Joshua  Firth  appears  in  Heywood's  Diaries  as  already  practising  and 
living  with  Dr.  Hall  from  1700.    Vol.  IV.,  169,  219,  287. 

J  For  John  Firth,  see  Heywood's  Diaries,  II.  88,  (Jan.  23,  78),  121, 144. 

$  With  this  list  compare  Calamy  passim.  Also  the  account  of  the  Kipping 
Church  in  Joseph  Lister's  Autobiography,  p.  52. 

"After  the  Black  Bartholomew  Act  was  passed — when  preaching  and 
praying  were  such  crimes  in  England  as  to  incur  great  fines  and  imprison- 
ments, we  had  several  houses  where  we  met  as  that  at  Kipping,  and  John 
Berry's,  and  our  house,  and  sometimes  at  Horton.  We  had  Mr.  Byther  one 
year,  and  then  he  had  a  call  to  London ;  sometimes  Mr.  Root,  sen. ;  Mr. 
Boot,  jnn. ;  Mr.  Ness ;  Mr.  Manden ;  Mr.  Coats ;  Mr.  Bailey,  and  others ; 
and  at  last  we  got  a  man  called  Mr.  Whitehnrst  and  he  heoame  our  pastor. 
After  some  years  a  difference  fell  out  betwixt  him  and  several  of  the  Church 
members,  and  they  withdrew  from  him  and  I  was  one  of  those  that  did  so. 
And  about  two  years  afterwards  we  heard  of  one  Mr.  Smith,  a  young  man 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES.  177 

Mr.  Accepted  Lister,  184,  (1699-1709.)  Mr.  Matthew  Smith, 
(«)  115,  (1688-1708).  Mr.  Firth,  of  Mansfield,  (b)  47,  (1681 ~ 
97).  Mr.  Ryther,  (c)  7,  (about  1668).  Mr.  Bayley,  (167M699,) 
and  Mr.  Stopforth,  of  Pick  worth,  (a  conformist,)  (1678-9.)  8, 
Mr.  Gamaliel  Marsden,  (1662.)  Mr.  Elkanah  Wales,  (d)  (1649,) 
and  Mr.  Whitaker,  (*)  (1701-9.)  2,  Mr.  Jeremiah  Marsden, 
(1662.)  Mr.  Ness.  (/.)  Mr.  Heywood,  (1700.)  Mr.  Collier, 
(1632  or  8.)  Mr.  Noble,  (1700.)  Mr.  Sraallwood,  (1662,)  and 
Mr.  Bristoe,  (1649.)  Mr.  Robertson,  (1654.)  Mr.  Dawson, 
(1658.)    Mr.  Jolly,  (//)  (1666.)     Mr.  Whitehurst,  (h)  (1677.) 

These  sermons  are  in  Dr.  Hall's  hand-writing,  and  the 
names  of  most  of  the  preachers  will  be  familiar  to  students  of 
Oliver  Heywood  or  Galamy.  The  following  sermons  which  fill 
vacant  pages  in  Dr.  Hall's  books,  are  in  the  hapd* writing  of 
hi9  great-grandson,  John  Firth,  and  belong  to  a  later  gener- 
ation. Mr.  Hulme,  8,  (1740-4.)  Mr.  Macao,.  (1748.)  Mr. 
Doddridge,  (1785.)  Mr.  Samuel  Price,  Mr.  D.  Jenings,  Mr. 
Dan.  Neal,  Mr.  Uffett,.[Huthwaite]  of  Idle,  (1744,)  1. 

Having  thus  summarised,  I  must  proceed  a  Jittje  closer  into 
detail.  And  first  I  must  explain  that  Dr.  HalJ  had  a  system 
of  cypher  or  short-hand,  and  in  the  times  of  persecution  it  was 
his  habit  to  use  this  cipher  for  entering  the  time  and  place  at 
which  each  sermon  was  preached.  Often  too,  (rusting  to  the 
security  thus  afforded,  he  added  to  these  memoranda  some 
notes  on  current  events.  Later  on  in  his  life  wfaen  the  danger 
had  passed,  he  transcribed  part  of  these  cipher  passages,  thus 
giving  us  a  clue  to  his  system.  I  have  not  yet  had  time  to 
decipher  the  passages  left  unexplained,  but  as  Dr.  Hall's  own 
transcriptions  are  full  of  interest,  I  propose  in  the  case  of  two 
of  the  volumes  to  give  the  headings  just  as  they  stand. 

that  lived  with  his  father  at  York,  and  a  man  of  tine  parts,  we  gave  him  a 
call  to  preach  the  gospel  to  ns  which  he  accepted/'  After  Mr.  Smith  had  left 
Kipping  for  Mixende^  Accepted  Lister  was  solicited  to.  preach  at  Kipping, 
and  at  last  prevailed  upon  •'  chiefly  by  the  moving  arguments  of  the  good 
Doctor  Hall."  In  1695  he  moved  to  Bingley,  but  returned  in .  1702  and 
continued  pastor  of  the  Church  at  Kipping  till  his  death  in  Feb.,  1709. 

a.— For  Mr.  M.  Smith;  cf.  Heywood's  Diaries,  III.,  214,  275.  IV.,  102, 
24.5,  294.    Jos.  Lister's  Autobiog.,  p.  53. 

6.— For  Mr.  Firth,  of  Mansfield,  see  the  Northowram  Register,  Index,  and 
Dunton's  Panegyrick. 

c— For  Mr.  Byther,  see  Heywood's  Diaries,  II.,  289. 

(/.—Heywood's  Diaries,  III.,  p.  263.  "precious  Mr.  Wales  is  dead  in  my 
absence,  bury  ed.  at  Leeds,  May  ii.,  69.     Noncon.  Idol.     Rayner's  Pndsey. 

*.— Hyd's.  Diaries,  IV.,  p.  314.  "  T.  Whitaker,  A.M.,  of  Leeds,  author  of 
sermons  on  Joseph  Lister,  etc/' 

/.-For  Mr.  Ness,  see  Heywood's  Diaries,  I.,  227,  262,  290,  304. 

g.-For  Mr.  Jolly,  II.,  70,  95. 

/».— For  Mr.  Whitehurst  and  the  disputes  in  which  he  was  involved,  see 
Heywood's  Diaries,  I.,  223,  295.  II.,  (Sep.  13th,  78,)  p.  101.  (Aug.  6th,  79,) 
p.  112.    Dec.  19tb,  p.  240. 

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178        YORKSHIRE  NOTE8  AND  QUERIES. 

I  begin  with  quarto  6,  as  the  sermons  it  contains  are  as  a 
rule  earlier  than  those  in  the  other  books.  They  are  for  the 
most  part  by  Mr.  Matthew  Smith,  who  was  minister  at  this 
time  of  the  Kipping  Congregation.  Words  in  italics  are  taken 
from  Dr.  Hall's  index. 

p.  1.  Mr.  S.,  Kipping.  Janu.  or  mon.  11th.  Day  10th, 
1681.  Shuckden. 

p.  10.  Mr.  S.  Janu.  or  11th  mon.  12th  day,  168},  at  Kipp- 
ing, 7  at  night.     [Saturday  night.] 

p.  28.  Mr.  S.  27th  Janu.  or  mon.  11th,  8}.  Kipping  at 
11  on  ye  day,    grt.  storme.     [great  snow.] 

p.  89.  Mr.  S.  ffeb.  8.  168J.  Kipping  7  at  night,  at  Leeds 
Sundry,    fined  in  6  score  pound  now.    M.  S. 

p.  54.  Mr.  S.  10th  of  12th  mon.  168}.  Kipping  at  5  in 
morning.     Great  snow,  but  6  besides  ffamily. 

p.  66.  Mr.  S.  1st  of  12th  mon.  168}.  Alerton,  day  of 
humiliation,  [at  brother  Lister's,  Alerton,  day  of  prayer. 
?  now  60  (at)  Leeds.     .     .     fined  160  lb.     .     .    ] 

p.  76.  Mr.  S.  22nd  June  84.  At  Shuckden  at  11  on  day- 
time. Sr.  Tho.  Armstrong  executed.  Taken  in  Holland,  [at 
Leyden,  Holland.] 

p.  87.  (This  sermon  has  the  character  of  being  copied  out 
later,  when  Dr.  Hall's  handwriting  had  altered  somewhat.) 

Mr.  L.  Fast  Day  publiquely  appointed  on  accompt  of  warr 
with  ffrance's  usurpations,  Dessolations  by  his  Ambition  and 
perfidy,  for  forces  success  by  land  &  sea  in  fflanders,  in  Spain, 
in  Germany,  in  Italy.  20th  March,  1705.  Mr.  List'.  Kipping. 
Joshua  5.  14.  form,  clause.  Nay  but  as  Captain  of  ye  Lord's 
Host  am  I  come.     .     .     &c. 

p.  96.  Mr.  S.  11th  of  2d  mon.  84.  [at]  Shukden  [day 
of  humiliation.     Mr.  Smith.] 

p.  105.    Mr.  S.    2d.  mon.  27th  day,  1684  [at]  Kipping. 

p.  115.  Mr.  S.  July  9th,  84  [at]  B.L.  Alerton  [day  of 
humiliation.] 

p.  127.    Mr.  S.     Kipping  [day  of  humiliation. 

p.  188.  Mr.  S.  19th  7  ber,  84.  Alerton.  Brother]  L[ister's], 
humiliation. 

p.  146.  Mr.  S.  10th  8ber,  84.  Kipping,  firyday  [night 
at]  for  Lord's  day. 

p.  159.  19th  8ber  84,  [at]  Kipping  [at]  7  at  night.  Lord's 
day  [night.] 

p.  175.  Mr.  Stopforth  at  Pickworth,  1678.  9ber  5th,  1678,  a 
Conformist. 

p.  202.  A  Conformist  also,  (fast  for  plot.)  A  sermon  preached 
9ber  18th,  1678,  ye  1st  ffast  day  for  ye  Plott. 

p.  229.  Tlie  same  as  visitation  beffore  ye  clsartyy,  <£e.,  at 
SUtford,  May  9th,  1679.  A  Sermon  preaohed  at  ye  visitations 
at  Sleford,  before  ye  whole  clergy  &  ye  churchwardens  of  ye 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES.  179 

Areh-Deconry  of  Lincoln,  on  May  9th,  1679,  by  ye  same  con- 
formist. 

p.  289.  Mr.  S.  6th  mon.  8th  day  [at]  10  at  night  [at] 
Kipping,  1688.  Hue  &  cry  for  D.  Monmouth,  Gray  &  Arm- 
strong now. 

p.  258.  Mr.  S.  Mon.  5th  15th,  88,  [at]  Kipping  [at]  10  at 
night,  wn.  they  are  persecuting  their  Horrid  damnable  plott 
against  many  Innocent  men.  At  the  end  of  the  sermon,  *  Of 
Russell,  Trenchard,  &c,  as  plotters,  &c.  200  Lords  are  said  to 
be  in  it,  &  Essex  throat  now  cutt  in  Tower.  Russel  &  Shafts- 
bury,  &c,  must  off.* 

The  sermons  from  this  date  to  28  Nov.,  88,  are  on  Job  xxi., 
22,  "  Acquaint  now  thyself,"  &o. 

p.  275.  July  22nd,  88,  [at]  Kipping  [at  night.]  papall 
power  now  rises. 

p.  288.  29th  5th  mon.,  88,  [at]  9  at  night,  [at]  Kipping. 
Now  Ld.  Russell  &  other  8  executed  on  20  &  21st  of  July. 

p.  302.  mo.  6th,  day  5th,  at  9  at  night,  2  suspitious  persons 
among  us,  but  we  have  our  Ebenezers  still  to  set  up. 

p.  318.  Aug.  or  mon.  6th,  day  12th,  68,  [at]  Kipping,  at  2 
in  ye  morning. 

p.  825.  Aug.  or  mon.  6th,  day  29th,  88,  [at]  Kipping,  at  2 
in  ye  morning. 

p.  887.  Aug.  or  6th  mon.  88,  25th.  At  night  at  10.  Satur- 
day night.    New  warrants  now  out  againe. 

p.  847.     Sept.  2d.,  1688,  [at]  Kipping  [at]  8  in  ye  morning. 

p.  359.  9th  7ber,  88,  [at]  Kipping,  [at]  8  morning,  warants 
for  us  for  3  weeks  absenting  and  aprehending  dissenters,  &c. 

p.  372.  Sept.  15th,  1688,  [at]  Kipping,  [at]  9  at  night. 
New  warts,  out  for  persons  for  ye  misdemeanor  of  absenting  & 
harboring  such,  &c. 

p.  885.    7ber  28th,  83,  [at]  Kipping,  at  8  morning. 

p.  898.     7ber  ult.  88,  [at]  Kipping,  at  8  in  ye  morning. 

p.  412.  8ber  7th,  88,  [at  H.  m  n]  Shuckden,  at  3  in  ye 
morning. 

p.  425.     8ber  14th,  88,  [at]  Kipping,  at  8  in  ye  morning. 

p.  438.  21th  8br.  88,  [at]  Kipping,  morn  at  8.  done  [at 
6]  in  break  of  day. 

p.  452.  Mr.  S.  9b.  28d.  88.  [at]  Allerton.  B[rother] 
L[ister's] .  Humiliation  Day  [Day  of  Prayer.] 

p.  468.  Mr.  S.  At  Shuckden,  Day  6th  of  mon.  1st,  8?  [at 
sunrise  morning.    Mr.  Smith.] 

p.  472.     Mr.  S. 

p.  474.    day  20th. 

The  headings  to  the  sermons  in  the  book  called  No.  6  of 
Quartos  I  will  give  next,  first  however  giving  the  following 
passage  from  the  Index  page. 


180  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 

"for  it  was  (as  they  got  swearng.  perjured  persons  they 
suborned — nay  Jefferey  made  any  Colour  of  fauour  towards  ym 
or  wt.  he  would  oall  to  be  such)  to  serue  to  take  away  their 
liues,  and  tho  they  had  nothing  agst.  men  in  any  of  ye  4  plots 
or  forgeries  they  made,  yet  no  matr.  still  I  was  they  would  say 
a  favourr.  and  knowing  or  hearing,  as  Russell's  case,  ye  4 
cases  (&  4  eminent  deliuerances)  was — Bingley  list  of  names 
forged  &  put  in  at  stable  door  bottom—  Gawthrop  2d.  ffarnley 
wood.  3d.  ye  forged  list  of  L.  W.  H.  &c.  4o  mon mouth,  ye 
1st  fairly  detected  by  J.  Taylr  in  whose  name  ye  names  was  in- 
serted in  's  ttr.  .  .  .  ?  forged  he  a  prissonr.  ye  2d.  M.  W. 
came  to  aprnd  me  M.  M.  stopt  it  long  unknown  to  me.  ye  3d. 
M.  W.  himself  prevented,  some  years  ere  I  knew  he  did  so.  ye 
last  J.  6.  told  it  publiqly  at  Hardeubeck,  I  sent  hors  Arms  & 
man.  Gap.  Kooks  was  such  a  day  (as  is  noted)  a  coming  to 
aprnd  me.    yet  ye  Id  prevented  still. 

1.  Day  of  Humili,  viz.  10th  of  1st  mon.  81  at  B.  ITs., 
Allerton,  M.  S. 

8.     Mr.  Wales  at  Pudsey,  1649. 

Ad  fin.  Tra  scribitur  undecimo  die  mensis  Secundi  Ano  xti 
1685. 

17.    ult.  mens  1.  (85.  Kipping  Humiliation  Day.  Mr.  Smith. 

24.    8th  of  2d.  mon.  (85.  at  John  Hanson's,  Mixenden. 

27.     Mr.  Smith,  Kipping,  Septemb.  15,  1708.     Lecture. 

83.  26th  Oct.  (84.  at  Kipping,  4  in  morning.  Lord's  Day. 
Mr.  S. 

A  Scotch  plofct  now  talkt  of,  nobillity  is  charged  with  it. 

46.     Kipping,  at  6  at  night.     9th  9br,  84. 

56.     16  9ber  (84.     at  Br  Berry's  at  8  afternoon. 

64.     at  Kipping  at  6  at  night. 

75.    at  Kipping  at  6  at  night.    9br  ult.  84. 

85.     7th  lObr,  84.     at  Br.  B*s.  at  6  at  night. 

96.     14th  lObr,  84.     at  Kipping  at  6  at  night. 

107.     28o  lObr,  64.     Kipping  at  night. 

119.     11th  mon.  8rd  day.     Kipping,  at  6  at  night. 

129.  11th  of  11th  mo.  87.  at  Kipping,  at  6  at  night.  Mr. 
Heywood  now  has  bis  tryall. 

138.  18o.  of  11th  mo.  SI.  at  Kipping,  at  6  at  night.  Mr. 
Heywood  is  fined  50tb.  Biot. 

147.  Kipping,  at  7  at  night,  ffryday  for  Lord's  day.  23  of 
11th  mon.  81. 

156.     feb.  or  12th  mon.  1st  day,  82.     Kipping,  6  at  night. 

165.     ffeb.  or  12th  mon.  15th  85.     Kipping,  7  at  night. 
Now  K.  James  to  be  pclamed  to-day. 

172.     21st  F.  or  12th  mon.  85.     Kipping,  7  at  night. 

180.     1st  day  1st  of  March,  8f .     Kipping,  7  at  night. 

190.     8o  of  mon.  1st,  8*.     Kipping  at  8  at  night. 
Assizes  now  begins. 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES.  181 

199.     15th  of  1st  mon.  8?.    Kipping,  8  at  night. 

207.     22nd  of  1st  mon.  81.     Kipping  at  8  at  night. 
Now  Jesuits,  Priests,  Papists,  are  set  at  liberty  at  York,  but 
Ptestants  are  prissoners. 

216.     28th  of  1st  mon.  86.     Kipping  at  8  at  night. 
Cardinall  Howard  is  said  now  to  be  coming  from  Borne  to 
crown  ye  King. 

224.     2  mo.  5th  day,  85.     Kipping  at  8  at  night. 
Now  Papists  cause  Clergymen  in  Lancashire  to  drink  the  Pope's 
Health. 

281.     12th  of  2d.  mon.  (85.     Kipping,  9  at  night. 
Now  it's  said  ye  prissoners  in  Scotland  are  set  att  liberty  by  an 
Insurrection. 

241.     19o  of  2d.  mon.  85.     Kipping,  8  afternoon. 
Now  ye  papists  have  2  cardinalls  to  crown,  &c,  as  is  said. 

250.     26th  April,  85.     at  Shuckden  at  8  afternoon. 

259.     2  mon.  8d  day,  85.     Kipping  at  8  o'clock. 
Now  16  at  London  are  taken  &  fined  for  Riot. 

267.  10th  May  or  mon.  8,  85.  At  Shuckden.  fforenoori, 
they  say  now  they  have  a  warrant  for  Mr.  S.  but  none  is  here. 

281.  12th  of  5th  mon.  85.  At  James  Kighley's  (not  been 
with  us  of  8  weeks  now.)  Monmouth  is  rooted,  for  which 
Bone  fires  &  Bells,  and  drinking  Healths  to  Confusion  of  Pres- 
biterians,  Ac.  now  8  score  are  taken  at  York  &  carried 
prissonrs  to  Hull,  &  so  from  Hull  to  York.  All  sorts  storme  & 
Bage  against  us  as  helpers  of  ye  Duke  with  men,  Horse, 
monyes.  5000  is  to  be  taken  up  in  Yorkshire  on  yt  accompt 
myself  they  tell  it  is  one  of  ym.  So  Mr.  Books  said  for  Mr. 
Segar  said  yt  I  had  sent  man  &  Horse  armes  &c. 

291.  Note  yt  Capt.  Books  14o.  day  is  coming  to  fetch  me 
into  Sessio's  &  so  to  prisson,  but  God  suffered  ym  not  to  come 
to  my  house. 

292.  12th  mon.  5th  (85.  at  James  Kighley's,  at  midnight. 
299.     Kipping  10  night.  2nd  of  6th  mon.  85.     Note  yt  15th 

July  ye  Gentlemen  of  ye  parish  meets  at  Bradford  to  Consult 
(I  supose  on  a  list  of  names  to  take  &  imprisson  persons)  Note 
that  day  Monemoth  is  executed,     (shorthand  passage.) 

809.  7th  day  8th  of  Aug.  or  6th  mon.  85.  Shuckden  8 
night.  Holland  Embassador  saith  yt  ye  Bebels  yt  fled  thithr 
shall  be  secured.     Argile  is  routed  &  taken  &  trayd. 

820.     16  of  6th  mon.  85.     Kipping  at  8  at  night. 

880.  22nd  Aug.  85.  Shuckden  at  9  at  night.  Now  ye  K. 
is  still  raising  new  soldiers,  now  prissonrs  from  London  is 
carved  to  be  tryed  for  their  Hues  in  ye  west  Bumbolds  Quartr. 
is  boxed  up  fro  Scotland  to  London. 

889.  80th  Aug.  or  mon.  6th,  85.  Kipping,  8  at  night. 
many  are  Butchered  &  hanged  on  signposts  in  ye  west,  of  all 
ages  &  sexes,  <fcc. 


182  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 

Now  a  prodigious  fish  is  taken  at  York  20°  of  August. 

847.  5°7ber,  86.  Shuckden  9  at  night.  Now  a  lady  is  to 
be  burnt  for  entertaining  some  of  monmouths  men,  2  gentle- 
men at  her  house  &c. 

856.  18°  7ber,  85.  Kipping,  8  afternoon.  Maxfield  now 
proclamed  traitor  &  all  yt  relieues  him.     (short-hand.) 

866.     27°  7ber,  85.     Kipping  at  7  at  night. 

876.  81  8ber,  85.  Kipping,  7  at  night.  Jeffrey  now  hath 
condemned  1100  it  said.  Jeffrey  is  to  be  Lord  Chief  Steward 
of  England,  to  try  all  Lords  yt  was  not  for  the  popish 
successor. 

886.     8ber  11°  88.    Kipping  at  7  at  night. 

896.  25th  8r-  85.  Note  yt  Mr.  S.  came  not  ye  week  before, 
Ac  Kipping,  6  at  night.  Now  Sheriff  Shutt  is  hanged  at 
London,  and  another,  &c,  and  a  woman  for  helping  some  to 
escape,  Ac,  &  we  are  disapointed,  &c. 

404.  1st  9ber.  85.  Kipping,  6  at  night.  Now  its  said  2 
Gardinalls  is  come  to  reduce  England  to  Mother  Church. 
Sheriff  Cornish  is  executed  att  his  own  door,  &c. 

(at  foot  of  page)  grt  expectation  from  ye  parliamt  now,  eithr. 
their  discord  and  so  popery  falls ;  or  accord  &  its  set  up  now. 

410.  9r*  15th,  85.  Kipping  5  at  night,  many  executed  at 
London  on  pretence  of  Shaftsbury  conspiracy.  Its  said  there's 
7000  in  Yorkshire  that's  in  it,  and  two  of  them  they  haue  in 
Thornton. 

K.  tells  parlamt  as  he  hath  raised  an  Army  in  stead  of  ye 
militia,  so  hee  will  keep  them,  tho  not  quallifyed  by  the  teste 
&  expects  money  from  ym  to  mai'tane  them  now. 

415.  22°  9r  65.  Kipping  at  6  at  night.  K.  wants  of  pt. 
now  4,000,000  to  maintain  his  Army.  They  giue  him  700,000 
in  Excise  and  Custom  &c.  advisses  him  to  put  out  his  illegall 
officrs  not  qualifyed,  <&c.  &  W.  W.  spks  in  comons  house 
briskly  agst  ym,  &  of  dangr-  of  popry  with  a  high  hand  brought 
in.  forthwith  he's  sent  for  into  ye  K's  clossett  to  be  made 
anothr-  creature. 

425.  25  8r*  85.  Kipping  at  6  at  night.  Mr.  S.  came  not 
Lds.  day  before. 

429.  1st  9r-  65.  Kipping  6  at  night.  Cornish  hangd  (& 
woman  burnt  now)    Hussells  bussyness. 

485.     15th  9ber,  85.     Kipping,  6  at  night. 

441.  22°  9r-  85.  Kipping,  5  at  night.  48  Lords  of  parlmt. 
are  wanting.  K.  will  haue  ym.  raise  him  4,000,000th.  they 
grant  700,0001b.  wil.  willing  tells  ym.  ye  constitution  of 
England  is  not  for  popry,  they  must  look  to  it. 

447.  29  9r  85.  Kipping  at  5  at  night,  parliamt  is  pro- 
rogued. Cook  is  comited  to  Town  for  saying  in  lowrhouse, 
Oentlmen  lets  never  be  run  down  with  ye  K's.  grt  words,  let  it 


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be  seen  we've  English  spirits  &  mind  onr  duty  &  work  we're 
come  on. 

452.  5°  10r-  85.  Kipping  at  5  at  night.  Lord  Grey,  Ld. 
Howard  &  Bumsey  swears  Lord  Brandon,  Gerard,  &c,  out  of 
their  lines  as  far  as  they  can.  Now  Excisers  comanded  to  take 
accompt  of  Beds  &  Stables  in  Inns. 

459.  18°  10*-  85.  Kipping,  5  at  night.  Lord  Brand  or 
Gilbert  Gerard  is  said  now  to  be  reprieued  in  order  to  a  pardon 
for  yt  which  now  he's  condemned  for,  he  was  pardond  for  it  2 
years  agoe  by  ye  late  King,  now  its  said  80  nobles  is  gone  to 
Borne,  &  prisonrs  at  London  is  released  (some  grand  dessign 
carying  on.) 

464.  20  10*-  85.  Kipping,  5  at  night.  Trepaning  designs 
carying  on ;  plotts  pretended  for  keeping  an  Army  to  ruine  all 
Protestants  by :  a  feigned  plot  draw  up  by  Le  Strange  to  reflect 
it  on  all  sorts. 

468.  27.  10r-  85.  Kipping,  6  at  night.  Ld.  Gerrard's 
pardon  is  renoked  &  Balamany  is  condemned  for  High  Treason. 
A  cardinall  at  Lond.  preacht  before  ye  K.  &  tells  him  wt.  grt. 
things  Virgin  Mary  hath  done,  hath  put  a  sword  in  's  hand  to 
destroy  all  hereticques. 

474.  8  of  11th  mon.  85.  Kipping,  6  at  night.  Delemere  is 
now  condemnd  at  Ghestr.  Gerrard  to  have  no  pardon.  K. 
sends  to  grt  men  in  London  to  educate  their  children  in  Bom. 
Belig.  now  its  known  ye  K.  intends  to  quarter  his  army  on  ye 
Dissentrs ;  soldirs  insolent  in  their  quartrs,  &c.  Now  Papists 
in  Lancashire  bring  openly  their  priests  to  bury  their  dead. 

479.  17°  of  mon.  11.  85.  Kipping  at  6  at  night.  K.  hath 
sent  into  Ireland  &  reduced  all  to  his  will,  put  all  protestants 
out  k  papists  in  arms,  &c.     Qu.  said  now  to  be  wth  childe. 

486.  24°  of  12th  mon.  8!.  Kipping  at  7  at  night.  Now 
Delamere  is  cleared,  try'd  by  his  peers.  Gray  and  Bumsey 
witnesses  &c.  Albemarle  1st  spoke  &  told  on  his  Honour  yt 
Delamere  was  not  guilty.  Lord  Gerard  &  Hambden  are  re- 
prieued. The  apparition  of  the  army  in  ye  North  on  yt  day  is 
confirmd. 

498.  Day  ult.  Jan.  or  11th  mon.  85*-  Kipping,  7  at  night. 
Now  protestants  sadly  persecuted  by  all  statutes. 

499.  7°  of  12°  mon.  856  Kipping,  7  at  night.  M™8-  Whitk* 
now  is  Dead  at  York. 

805.  14°  of  12th  mon.  85*-  Kipping,  7  at  night.  Now  its 
said  ye  K.  will  haue  20,000  soldiers  raised  in  Yorkshire  of 
Abeyrents  (?Adherents.) 

*  Now  Dr.  King  is  knighted  for  his  good  service  to  ye  late  K. 
vide  supradict  wt.  it  was. 

511.  21°  of  mon.  12°  85.  Kiping,  4  afternoon,  now  yt  K. 
C.  lined  &  Died  a  Cathollick  is  seen. 


184  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 

517.  11  di.  mens.  12*  85*  Shuckden,  sunrising.  Now  K. 
asks  prelates  ye  reason  they  not  like  roman  religion,  they  say 
because  its  so  bloody,     he  confutes  ym. 

Now  in  York  8  Altars  are  set  up  already,  openly  hath  mass, 
papists  seeks  grt.  men  to  turn. 

628.  7°  of  mo.  1st.  85*  Kiping,  7  at  night.  Now  Count 
Tradley  is  aliue  againe;  after  he's  kil'd  &  his  head  sent  to 
Constantinople. 

529.  Notes  of  a  Sermon  preached  by  Mr.  Bayly  at  North- 
owrom,  June  24, 1678. 

Hitherto  I  have  given  the  headings  to  the  sermons  without 
omission,  as  far  as  they  are  in  Dr.  Hall's  handwriting,  and 
relate  to  his  time.  The  headings  in  the  remaining  volumes 
have  generally  less  historical  interest,  and  I  therefore  propose 
only  to  give  a  few  of  the  more  remarkable. 

The  1st  Octavo  contains  sermons  by  Mr.  Bayly,  Mr. 
Byther,  Mr.  Gamaliel  and  Mr.  Jeremiah  Marsden,  Mr.  Smith. 
Mr.  Ness,  Mr.  Firth  of  Mansfield,  Mr.  Accepted  Lister,  Mr. 
Heywood,  Mr.  Collier,  Mr.  Noble  and  Mr.  Whittaker. 

One  of  Mr.  Firth's  sermons  is  thus  headed — 

"Feb.  14,  168S.  At  Mansfield.  By  Mr.  Firth.  Thanksgiving 
Serm.  for  Engl,  deliuerace  &c." 

It  is  to  be  noticed  that  William  &  Mary  were  declared  King 
and  Queen  Feb.  18th,  1685. 

The  solitary  sermon  by  Mr.  Oliver  Heywood  in  this  collection 
is  headed — 

"Mr.  Heywood,  Northowrom.  preparation  for  sacr.  7ber. 
1700." 

The  next  heading  is  characteristic — 

"  Mr.  Lister  (ye  litle)  at  Bingley.    June  28,  1700." 

Further  on,  we  have 

"Mr.  Listr.  at  Kipping,  publiq  Thanksgiuing  June  27, 
1706.    grt  victory  ouer  ye  ffrench.     fflandrs." 

This  is  Bamilies. 

My  next  volume  "  No.  8  of  Quartos  "  begins  with  a  sermon 
thus  headed — 

"  Mr.  Firth,  a  Sermon  Respecting  ye  electing  of  Parliam' 
men  by  Mr.  J.  Firth.     Mansfield  1681  or  82." 

Then— "  Mr.  Smith.  Mon.  ye  3rd  (i.  e.  May)  ye  1st  day  (87, 
at  Kipping  in  ye  meeting-place,  ye  2nd  time  after  ye  K's  De- 
claration for  liberty.* ' 

"Now  we  are  in  our  meeting-place  by  ye  K's  proclam. 
Kirk  men  rage  and  storm  exceedingly  specialy  at  those  yt  used 
to  bear  in  ye  persecution  time,  naming  Mr.  Sh. 

This  book  contains  an  almost  complete  series  of  expositions 
of  the  5th,  6th  and  7th  chapters  of  Canticles,  2  of  them  being 
delivered  each  alternate  month,  and  the  whole  extending  from 
Nov.  1702  to  Feb.  1709,  the  time  of  the  preacher's  death.    The 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES.  185 

sermons  in  any  given  month  are  headed  respectively — "  Pre- 
paration Day  "  and  "  Snpper  Day."  The  «  Supper  Day '  was,  I 
presume,  a  Sunday;  the  'Preparation'  seems  generally  to 
have  been  held  on  the  Wednesday  preceding,  but  sometimes 
the  interval  is  greater,  sometimes  less,  ranging  between  5  days 
k  2  inclusive. 

The  last  sermon  but  one  which  Accepted  Lister  preached  is 
headed 

"ffeb.  20,  170S.  Supper  Day.  (preparation  17th  Day,  ye 
Day  of  Thanksgiving.) 

The  next  sermon,  headed  merely  '  Afternoon '  has  the  follow- 
ing note  appended — 

'  Note  yt  next  morning  aflr  this  he  was  taken  with  convulsio's 
wch  continued  with  some  intermission  untill  Thursday  night, 
and  yn  about  12  or  2  a  clock  he  dyed — we  lost  him  but  ye 
Church  Triumphant  has  Gained  him.1 

Again  after  another  series  of  sermons  preached  weekly  during 
the  summer  of  1708,  on  S'  John,  xiv.  xv.,  we  have  this  note  at 
the  end  of  the  sermon  of  Sept.  12. 

"Mr.  Listr  intended  to  haue  prooeeded  in  his  expossition 
furthr  herein,  but  ye  Lord  took  him  home,  ffeb.  24th  in  ye 
night  betwixt  12  &  2  a  clock.    He  was  Interred  ffeb.  28th." 

Once  more  we  have  a  series  of  sermons  preached  by  Mr. 
Lister  in  the  end  of  1708,  &  early  part  of  1709,  and  one  more 
note  appended  to  the  sermon  of  Feb.  18.  "  The  next  Lord's 
day  was  Supper  Day.  As  this  day  he  busyly  &  more  difficultly 
attended  and  performed  his  work ;  and  finished  this  text :  so 
ye  Supper  Day's  work  much  more  difficulty,  which  was  his 
last,  for  next  morning  he  begun  to  be  taken  with  convulsions, 
which  continued  till  Thursday  night  (with  some  intermission) 
&  y1-  took  him  off,  to  our  grt.  troble  &  loss,  but  his  grt.  Gain."* 

The  note  is  continued  in  the  hand-writing  of  Dr.  Hall's 
great-grandson,  John  Firth. 

"  for  to  him  to  Live  was  Xt.  and  to  dy  was  Unspeakable 
Gain,  &  it  was  part  of  his  Xtian  Character  that  he  desired  to 
know  nothing  save  Xt  and  him  Crucified,  &  who  had  for  his 
Motto  this  Short  Epitaph  inscribed  on  his  grave-stone,  'Impen- 
dam  &  Expendar,'  i.e.  1 1  will  spend  my  Strength  &  be  willing 

*  These  are  probably  tbe  last  words  written  by  Dr.  Hall,  which  we  have,  as 
within  four  months  of  this  he  followed  Accepted  and  Joseph  Lister  to  the 
grare.    c.p.  the  "  Northowram  Register,"  ed.  by  J.  Horsfall  Turner. 

"  Mr.  Accepted  Lister  minr-  at  Kipping,  preacht  twice  &  administred  Lds. 
Supper,  Febr.  20,  died  Febr.  28.  An  excellent  Preacher,  a  little  helpless 
body,  but  a  great  and  sound  soul.  Mr.  Joseph  Lister  of  Kipping,  The 
Minn.  Father  died  Mar.  11,  aged  abt.  80,  an  Eminent  Christian,  but  a 
fortnight  between  his  and  his  son's  death,  both  buried  at  Thornton  Chappel. 
Mr.  Hall,  of  Kipping,  died  June  6.  A  solid  Judicious  Christian  &  a  useful 
Physician,  aged  abt.  78,  (p.  245.)  Mr.  John  Hall  died  at  London,  June  6, 
('1708.' by  mistake) 

See  also  Jos.  Lister's  Autobiography,  p.  58,  and  Whitaker's  Sermons. 


186  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 

to  be  Spent  in  ye  cause  of  Xt.,  &  in  bringing  Sons  to  Glory  by 
my  preaching  &c.  A  certain  person  was  pleased  to  say  of  him 
that  he  was  Vox  &  proeterea  Nihil,  because  of  his  Excellent  & 
Melodious  Voyce,  &  being  but  of  Low  Stature,  &c,  &c,  &c." 

Then  follows,  "April  17th,  1709.  Mr.  Whitaker  Funeral 
Sermon  for  old  Joseph  Listr,  Kipping.  Dyed  March  11th, 
Buried  14th. "  The  sermon  as  given  here  differs  greatly  from 
the  form  it  takes  in  Whitaker1  s  published  sermons. 

There  are  one  or  two  more  headings  in  this  volume  which 
have  some  interest. 

Thus,  "Aug.  29th,  1708.  Thanksgiving  for  Victory  on'r 
ffrench  army  in  Slanders  in  latr.  end  of  June,  1708.  Mr.  Listr 
at  Kipping.  There  was  King  of  Frances  2  grandsons,  Burbon 
&  Birry,  &  George  Chavilier  ye  Pretender  at  ye  fight  many 
slain,  many  taken." 

"Feb.  17th,  17089-  Thanksgiving  for  Army's  success  in 
fflandrs.  Taking  Lisle  aftr  2  moneths  besieged,  recovering 
Ghent  &  Bruges  &  two  fforts  from  ye  ffrench,  gaining  a  Batle 
at  Overard,  preserving  Brussels  wn.  besieged  &c. 

"  March  28,  1708.  Now  wee've  an  acoompt  of  ye  pretended 
prince  of  Wales  with  a  ffrench  Army  in  Scotland  at  Anderness. 

The  volume  called  Octavo  5  does  not  call  for  illustration 
here.  Nor  need  I  say  much  of  the  later  series  of  sermons  in 
the  handwriting  of  John  Firth.  Mr.  Hulme,  who  contributes  8, 
was  minister  at  Kipping.  The  sermon  preached  by  Mr.  Dodd- 
ridge, at  Northampton  in  1785,  is  strong  evidence  for  John 
Firth  being  the  interpolator  of  these  later  sermons,  as  we  find 
from  his  father's  account  book,  that,  he  was  at  Northampton 
from  Aug.  1785  to  Aug.  1786. 

In  conclusion,  I  may  claim  for  these  volumes  a  distinct  value 
as  material  for  the  history  of  Yorkshire  religious  life.  They 
bring  before  us  again  a  score  or  two  of  worthies  of  whom  we 
have  read  something  in  Galamy,  in  Oliver  Heywood,  or  in 
Joseph  Lister's  Autobiography ;  they  give  us  a  large  collection 
of  the  sermons  which  these  men  preached  and  listened  to,  with 
details  of  time  and  place,  which  speak  eloquently  of  persecution 
met  by  conscientious  perseverance;  they  show  besides  what 
rumours  from  the  outer  world  came  to  disturb  the  remote  & 
pious  congregation  of  the  West  Biding. 

Perhaps  I  may  be  permitted  hereafter  to  say  a  few  words  on 
more  general  points  which  are  raised  by  these  Hall  &  Firth 
MSS.  G.  C.  Moore  Smith. 

Berlin. 

York  Mint. — Your  correspondent  was  a  long  way  out  when 
he  wrote  his  account  of  the  York  coins,  which  were  not  struck 
at  York,  but  at  South wark  under  Sir  John  York,  Master  of 
that  Mint.  T.  W.  S. 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES.  187 

$ iajjue  of  £ttrfelb.* 

Many  of  oar  readers  will  be  interested  in  hearing  that  upon 
the  occasion  of  opening  a  Vault  in  the  area  of  the  Old  Parish 
Church,  for  the  interment  of  the  late  Mr.  Greenwood,  of  Dews- 
bury  Moor  House,  a  stone  was  found  bearing  the  following 
inscription  : — There  was  a  Plague  in  the  Parish  of  Mirfield,  A.  D. 
1631,  whereof  died  140."  We  believe  the  Churchwardens 
propose  to  have  it  placed  in  the  wall  of  the  Old  Church  Tower. 

William  Rhodes,  of  Northorpe,  died  of  the  pestilence  on  the 
18th  September,  1681,  and  was  buried  near  the  Church  Porch 
on  the  20th  of  the  same  month,  as  appears  by  the  inscription 
on  his  grave-stone.  Agnes,  wife  of  William  Rhodes,  of  Nor- 
thorpe, died  of  the  same  epidemical  distemper,  and  was  buried 
6th  October,  1681.  Now  as  there  is  no  memorial  of  her  death 
upon  the  stone,  in  all  probability  she  and  many  more  were 
buried  near  their  own  dwellings.  I  find  Alice,  wife  of  Henry 
Wraith,  buried  June  1st,  1681,  and  it  is  said,  the  husband 
would  not  be  at  the  expense  of  getting  his  wife's  corpse  decently 
interred  at  a  convenient  distance  from  the  house,  which  oc- 
casioned the  following  Rhyme. 

Henry  Wraith  to  save  a  Crown, 
Buried  his  Wife  in  hay-stack  ground. 


JtttQEtt  anb  &fr*plor  Uri&ges. 

THE  FOLLOWING   IS   A   COPY   OF   A   CURIOUS   ENTRY   IN   THE   MIRFIELD 
PARISH   BEOISTEB,    RELATING   TO   LEDOARD   BRIDGE. 


Let  it  be  known  for  the  time  to  come,  of  the  many  suits  and 
troubles  that  were  between  Robert  Ledgard  and  the  parishioners 
of  Mirfield,  about  his  bridge  called  Ledgard  Bridge. 

1627. 
Robert  Ledgard,  about  the  year  of  our  Lord  1627,  did  lay  a 
pain  in  the  General  Quarter  Sessions,  on  the  inhabitants  of 
Mirfield,  of  1001,  to  repair  the  said  bridge,  and  by  the  advice  of 
John  Armytage,  Esquire,  and  Mr.  George  Thurgarland,  there 
were  eight  or  ten  of  the  oldest  men  in  Mirfield  provided  to  go 
to  the  Sessions,  who  entered  a  traverse  of  the  same,  and  by  the 
testimony  of  Thomas  Beaumont,  Richard  Lee,  Henry  Rhodes, 
and  others,  who  could  remember  the  first  foundation  of  the 
said  bridge,  and  that  Ledgard's  elders  did  build  it  only  for  the 
use  of  their  Mill,  and  that  before  ever  it  was  built,  they  kept  a 

'  We  are  indebted  to  Mr.  Nevin  and  Mr.  Chadwick,  for  the  Mirfield  Notes 
contained  in  the  following  pages. 


188  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 

boat,  and  the  close  where  the  boat  was  is  called  still  Boat- 
houses,  and  so  he  was  cast  in  his  own  action,  and  when  he  saw 
he  could  not  prevail,  he  presently  after  set  on  workmen  and 
felled  timber  of  his  own,  and  begs  some  trees  of  others,  and 
also  begs  money  of  some,  who  made  use  of  his  Mill,  and  like- 
wise got  some  gatherings  in  neighbouring  parishes  for  it. 

1650. 
And  in  the  year  1650  he  brings  it  into  the  General  Sessions 
again,  and  the  Justices  flung  it  out  and  would  not  hear  him. 

1655. 
And  in  the  year  1655,  he  brings  an  information  against  the 
inhabitants  of  Mirfield  in  the  name  of  the  Lord  Protector,  and 
Mr.  Shaw,  his  Attorney,  returns  the  writ  again,  and  so  the 
town  was  fined  for  not  appearing,  and  11  and  odd  money  camo 
in  issues,  which  the  town  paid  before  they  knew,  and  they  then 
retained  Mr.  Peoples,  who  put  in  an  appearance,  and  it  came 
to  an  issue  at  Lammas  following,  and  there  he  was  non-suited. 

1656. 

And  he  brought  it  on  again  at  the  next  Lammas  Assizes 
following,  which  was  anno  1656,  and  was  also  cast  there  by  the 
testimony  of  Eichard  Beaumont,  of  Liversedge,  who  made  a 
relation  of  the  first  Session's  business. 

And  presently  after  the  Assizes,  the  said  Robert  Ledgard, 
and  Edward  Hep  worth,  together  hire  Joseph  Senior  and  his 
man  to  repair  and  prop  it,  and  also  found  wood  and  paid  them 
their  wages. 

1657. 

And  again  in  the  year  1657,  after  the  death  of  Robert 
Ledgard,  John  Ledgard,  his  son,  and  some  others,  adjacent 
neighbours  of  their  own  accord,  and  especially  for  their  own 
ends,  did  amend  and  repair  that  remaining  at  the  far  end,  and 
sent  Hirsts'  wife  of  Snake  Hill,  and  Will  Walker's  wife,  to  go 
about  to  beg  money  where  they  thought  they  could  get  enough 
to  pay  wages  with. 

These  are  the  particulars  of  the  several  lawsuits  about  Led- 
gard Bridge  in  the  17th  century,  inserted  in  the  Parish  Register 
for  a  memorandum  to  posterity. 


Note — The  Mr.  Peoples,  above  mentioned,  will  most  probably  l>e  Mr. 
John  Peobles,  or  Peebles,  who  wan  a  Barrister  and  some  time  Clerk  of  the 
Peace  for  the  West-Riding.  He  was  first  Steward,  and  afterwards  by 
purchase,  Lord  of  the  Manor  of  Dewsbnry.  For  his  many  misdeeds  he 
obtained  the  title  of  "the  Devil  of  Dewsbnry."  There  is  a  tablet  to  his 
memory  in  the  Chancel  of  Dewsbnry  Church.  Some  curious  particulars 
about  Mr.  Peebles  may  be  seen  in  Greenwood's  History  of  Dewsbnry,  page 
119,  and  in  note  B  to  Sir  Walter  Scott's  poem  of  Rokeby.  See  also  Oliver 
Heywood's  Diarie*%  where  Mr.  Peebles  is  mentioned  as  taking  part  in  a 
drinking  bout  at  Nunbrook. 


YORKSHIBE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES.  189 

This  biidge,  in  1714,  was  only  a  footbridge,  and  the  ford  was 
called  Cow-ford.  In  1717  the  sum  of  80/  was  allowed  towards 
repairing  it  by  order  of  Sessions,  as  appears  by  the  Sessions 
Record  book. 

In  1767,  Ootober  7th,  this  bridge  was  taken  down  by  the 
largest  flood  ever  remembered,  with  eleven  neighbouring 
bridges ;  and  at  Pontefract  Sessions,  1768,  Sir  John  Kaye,  of 
Grange,  and  others,  obtained  an  order  there  for  it  to  be  put  on 
Agbrigg  Wapontake ;  and  referred  it  to  Sir  Geo.  Armytage,  and 
others,  to  contract  for  rebuilding  it,  and  agreed  with  Joseph 
Annitage,  and  Henry  Wheatley,  Carpenters,  of  Mirfield,  to  do 
it  for  180/ ;  besides  part  of  the  old  materials.  It  was  finished 
that  year. 

A  stone  bridge  of  four  arches,  for  carriages,  was  commenced 
in  the  Autumn  of  1799,  a  little  above  the  old  wooden  bridge 
above  mentioned,  but  owing  to  the  waters  coming  on,  nothing 
more  than  the  Hopton  end  pier,  and  the  next  one  to  it,  were 
got  up.  The  bridge  was  finished  in  the  year  1800 ;  and  at 
Bradford  Sessions  in  the  year  1818,  one  hundred  yards  of  the 
road  through  Milnfold,  was  indicted  for  non -repair,  and  sub- 
mitted to  by  the  Wapontake,  and  set  with  E Hand-Edge  Stones 
in  December  1818,  and  January  1819. 

The  following  is  a  copy  of  the  original  subscription  list,  for 
snbstituting  a  stone  bridge  in  the  place  of  the  wooden  one. 
The  original  list  was  written  on  parchment  with  a  deed  stamp 
impressed,  and  in  October,  1836,  was  in  the  possession  of  Mr. 
Richard  Hurst,  Maltster,  East-thorpe. 
May,  1798. 

The  Bridge  called  Ledgard  Bridge,  over  the  river  Calder, 
leading  from  Mirfield  to  Hopton,  (and  likewise  the  King's 
Highway  from  Bradford  to  Barnsley),  is  in  a  dangerous  situ- 
ation and  much  out  of  repair,  therefore  it  was  indicted  at  the 
General  Quarter  Sessions,  held  at  Pontefract.  The  present 
bridge  being  only  a  pack  and  prime  bridge,  application  was 
made  at  the  Sessions,  that  it  might  be  converted  into  a  carriage 
bridge,  but  standing  upon  the  Wapontake  as  a  pack  and  prime 
bridge,  the  Court  could  not  so  order  it.  Mr.  Hartley,  the 
Bridge  Surveyor,  produced  an  estimate  of  the  expense  of  the 
repairs  of  the  present  bridge,  which  amounted  to  880/  or  850/ 
(the  figures  being  nearly  illegible  in  the  original,)  likewise  a 
plan  and  estimate  of  a  stone  carriage  bridge,  which  amounted 
1,799/. 

It  appeared  to  the  Court,  that  a  carriage  bridge  would  be 
more  convenient  to  the  public,  than  repairing  the  present  pack 
and  prime  bridge,  but  if  the  same  is  undertook  for  a  carriage 
bridge,  they  have  ordered  that  550/  be  allowed  and  paid  to- 
wards the  building  the  same,  and  farther  gratuity  will  be 
allowed  when  the  bridge  is  completely  finished.     TI19  Court 


190 


YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


having  so  generously  come  forward  (though  the  remaining  sum 
to  complete  a  carriage  bridge  will  be  1,250/),  it  will  require 
large  subscriptions  for  performing  the  same,  and  without  which 
a  carriage  bridge  can't  be  obtained. 

Therefore,  we,  whose  names  are  hereunto  set,  being  well  per- 
suaded of  the  great  advantage  the  Country  will  derive  from  a 
Carriage  bridge  instead  of  a  pack  and  priine  bridge,  do  hereby 
severally  and  not  jointly,  agreo  to  subscribe  and  to  pay  unto 
Mr.  Joshua  Ingham,  the  treasurer  appointed  for  the  said  bridge, 
the  several  sums  of  money  set  opposite  to  our  respective  names, 
upon  demand  towards  the  making  of  such  a  carriage  bridge. 


G.  Armytage      100 
R.H.Beaumont  100 
R.LumleySavile  50 
John  Lister  Kaye  80 
Wm.  Norris,  as 
Clark  to  the 
Calder    and 
Hebble  Navi- 
gation 


50    0 


£    s. 

31  10 
42  0 
21  0 
21    0 


Joshua  Ingham 
Joshua  Hint 
J.  Stanoliffe 
Richard  Hurst 
Wm.  and  Thos. 

Dawson 
JasMicklethwaitelO  10 
John  and  Thos. 

Wheatley 
Chas.  Wooler 
Josa.  Smith 
Josa.  Haigh 


21    0 


21  0 
21  0 
15  15 
10  10 


Richd.Wheatley 
Thos.  Wheatley 
Wm.  Ledgard 
Thos.  Oxley 
Josh.  Hall 
Richd.  Batley 
Levi  Sheard 


Mr.  Frans.  Sykes  6    5 

Note. — £15  15  0  is  written  in  pencil  opposite  Charles  Wooler's  name,  and 
the  columns  are  cast-up  in  pencil  as  follows : — 


First    - 
Second 
Third    - 


£830 

214 

-     9 


n  f  Being  11  too  little  on  the  supposition  that 
u  (         C.  Wooler  only  paid  £15  15  0. 
0 


County 
More 


553  14  0 

550    0  0 

416  13  4 

£1,620    7  4 


From  a  note  on  the  copy  subscription  list,  from  which  this 
copy  is  taken,  it  appears  that  the  deficiency  in  the  subscriptions 
was  paid  by  the  gentlemen  who  entered  into  the  contract  with 
the  builders  (Luke  Holt  and  another),  the  "  further  gratuity" 
which  was  promised  at  the  sessions  having  been  refused. 

Ledgard  Mill,  adjoining  Ledgard  Bridge,  takes  its  name  from 
the  Ledgard  Family.  The  bridge  and  mill,  and  a  kiln  adjoin- 
ing, were  carried  away  by  a  flood,  10th  Septr.,  1673.  The  mill 
and  kiln  were  rebuilt  of  stone  by  Mr.  Matthew  Wilkinson,  of 
Oreenhead,  in  1678. 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES.  191 

SHEPLEY    BRIDGE. 


This  bridge  appears  to  have  been  first  built  in  the  year  1732. 
Before  it  was  built  there  was  a  ferry  across  the  river  at  the 
place  now  called  Boathouse;  near  Broad  Oaks.  The  bridge  was 
repaired  by  the  Wapontake,  in  the  year  1766,  and  again  in 
1811.  It  is  a  bridle  bridge,  in  connection  with  the  bridle 
roads,  leading  past  Cote  Wall,  and  the  Reformatory,  to  Whitley 
and  Thornhill,  and  past  New  Hall  to  Liley  Lane.  The  neigh- 
bouring Mills,  now  called  Low  Mills,  Were  formerly  called 
Shepley  Mills,  and  both  the  bridge  and  the  mills  are  named 
from  the  Shepley  family,  one  of  whom  named  Edward,  occupied 
the  mills  under  the  Hoptons,  of  Blake  Hall,  in  the  16th 
Century.  By  a  deed  dated  18th  March,  1652,  Christopher 
Hopton,  of  Wortley,  Esq.,  and  John  Hopton,  his  son  and  heir 
apparent,  for  and  in  consideration  of  the  sum  of  200//  sold  to 
Miles  Stapleton,  of  Wighill,  Esq.,  all  the  Manor  or  Lordship 
called  Blake  Hall,  otherwise  Blackall,  or  Hopton  (i.e.  Hopton 
House.)  And  all  those  mills,  situate  and  being  in  Mirfield, 
commonly  called  Shepley  Mills,  in  the  occupation  of  Robert 
Holdsworth. 


Bretton  Hall  Ballad. — It  is  a  mistake  to  state  that  the 
"original1'  Bretton  Hall  Ballad  was  printed  by  J  as.  Watts, 
Heckmondwike.  He  printed  ballads,  songs,  &c,  for  tramping 
hawkers,  and  copy  would  undoubtedly  be  supplied  by  persons 
who  hawked  them.  Spen  Valley. 


Urufs. 

From  a  little  book  called  How  to  write  the  History  of  a  Parish 
we  learn  that  "Royal  Letters  Patent  authorising  collections  for 
charitable  purposes  within  churches,  were  called  « Briefs.' 
Lists  of  them,  from  the  time  of  Elizabeth  downwards,  are 
often  to  be  found  on  the  fly  leaves  of  old  register  books,  or  in 
churchwardens'  accounts.  The  repair  or  re-building  of  churches 
in  post-reformation  days,  until  nearly  the  beginning  of  the 
Catholic  Revival  was  almost  invariably  effected  by  this  method. 
About  the  middle  of  last  century,  owing  to  the  growing 
frequency  of  briefs,  it  was  ordered  that  they  should  only  be 
granted  on  the  formal  application  of  Quarter  Sessions." 

The  following  is  a  copy  of  all  the  entries  relating  to  Briefs  in 
the  Old  Churchwardens'  book,  kept  in  the  Vestry  of  Mirfield 
Parish  Church.  This  book  is  in  a  very  dilapidated  state,  and 
we  venture  to  suggest  that  it  should  be  carefully  re-bound.  It 
contains  many  curious  entries  and  particulars  of  parish  meet- 
ings, commencing  in  the  year  1686:—  April  ye  18,   1690. 


192        YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

Collected  for  the  Briefe  of  East  Smithfield,  in  Midlesex,  the 
sum  of  three  shillings  and  three  half-pence. 

Witnesse  our  hands,  Rich.  Margerison,  Vic. 

«-*—{&  ssr* 

Collected  for  the  Irish  Protestants  by  a  briefe  in  the  f 
Parish  of  Mirfield,  the  sum  of  one  pound  thirteen]   1    13    6 
shillings  and  sixpence.  ( 

Collected  for  the  Briefe  of  Bungay  in  Suffolke,  six  shillings  and 
three  pence. 

These  three  collections  appear  all  to  have  been  made  on  the 
same  day  and  are  all  signed  by  the  Vicar  and  Churchwardens. 

May  the  5th,  1690.     Collected  for  the  Brieve  of  New  Alers- 
ford,  in  Hampshire,  the  sum  of  five  shillings  and  two  pence. 

Signatures  as  before. 

June  ye  8th,  1690.     Collected  for  ye  Irish  Brieve  the  sum  of 
three  shillings,  seaven  pence  halfe-peny. 

R.  Margerison,  Vic. 

Aug.  ye  8rd,  1690.     Collected  upon  ye  Brieve  for  St.  Ives, 
three  shillings,  three  pence  halfe-peny. 

Same  signatures  as  last  brief. 
Aug.  ye  10,  1690.     Collected  upon  ye  Brieve  for  Stafford, 
the  summ  of  two  shillings,  four  pence  halfe-peny. 

Same  signatures  as  last  brief. 
1691.    Collected  upon  ye  Brieve  for  (name  not  legible)  three 
shillings  and  one  peny. 

Signed  by  R.  Margerison  and  Wm.  Hepworth. 
Collected  upon  ye  Brieve  for  Thirsk,  ye  sum  of  two  shillings 
and  two  pence. 

Signed  as  last  brief. 
Collected  upon  ye  Brieve  for  Clayborne,  ye  sum  of  two 
shillings  and  two  pence  and  halfe-peny. 

Signed  as  last  brief. 
April  ye  20th,  1695.     Collected  upon  ye  briefe  for  York,  ye 
sum  of  seven  shillings  and  ten  pence. 

Rich.  Margerison,  Vic. 

SS^E*  }<*■>*■-*- 

September  ye  26,  1694.     Collected  upon  ye  French  Protest- 
ants Briefe,  ye  sum  of  fourteen  shillings. 

Same  signatures  as  last  brief. 
Aprill  ye  14,  1695.     Collected  upon  ye  Briefe  for  nether 
haven  and  Hivelton  (this  name  is  doubtful)  ye  sum  of  three 
shillings. 

Same  signatures  as  last  brief. 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES.  198 

Hhtg's  Urofs. 

The  Churchwardens1  accounts  of  the  parish  of  East  Budleigh, 
Devonshire,  contain  long  lists  of  Collections  for  Briefs.  These 
were  fairly  responded  to  by  the  inhabitants  from  the  date  of 
the  first  recorded  collection  on  Nov.  5,  1669,  until  the  last 
quarter  of  the  18th  century,  when  the  donations  were  few  and 
far  between.  The  following  list  contains  all  that  relate  to 
Yorkshire. 

s.   d. 

"  1684.    Collected  for  Bunswick  in  Yorksheere,      8    6  ob. 

The  record  of  a  collection  made  at  Clent  in 
Staffordshire,  in  the  same  year  (1684)  upon  a  brief, 
gives  full  details  of  its  object  (N.  <£•  Q.  5th  s.,  iv.  449.) 

"  Bunswick.  Collect.  Aug.  8,  upo'  a  Brief  for  ye 
inhabitants  of  Bunswick,  in  ye  North  Biding  of  ye 
cou'ty  of  York,  wch.  sd.  Town  standing  wtin  a  Bay 
on  ye  side  of  a  greate  Hill  wch  opening  about  ye 
middle  ye  town  did  slip  down  from  it.    08.07." 

1685.  Collected  in  the  prish  of  Est  budligh  for 
the  poore  suffers  by  fier  of  Sicklinghall  in  the 
County  of  York*,  the  sume  of  too  shilens  and  one 
half-peny. 

1706.  Colected  within  our  prish  for  and  towards 
Bepear  of  the  Collegiate  Church  of  St.  John  in 
towne  of  Benerley,  in  the  County  of  York,  eighten 
penc  halfpeny. 

1720.  Colected  fore  Ingman  thorpe  and  norton 
vnder  Cannock  Conabor  [Com:  Ebor. ?]  and 
Stafford  fore  fire  ...  ...  ...        0    8 

Colected  fore  Ingman  trop  and  norton  vnd  canock 
in  Com.  Ebor  and  Staford  fore  fire  County  of  York    0    2 

[The  two  preceding  entries  follow  each  other. 
It  is  not  probable  that  one  brief  included  two  places 
so  widely  apart.  Very  likely  the  recorder  muddled 
the  two  collections.] 

Colected  for  Saint  Olaues  Church  near  the  Cyti 
of  York  ...  ...  ...  ...    0    2 

1721.  Collected  a  briefe  for  Eingson  upon  Hull, 
the  sume  of  six  pence. 

1728.  Collected  a  brieffe  for  Yarme  in  the  County 
of  Yorke  the  sume  of  three  pence. 

1780.  Coleted  for  Ouston  Church  in  Com  Ebor 
the  sum  of  three  pens. 

1782.  Jan.  21. — Collectd  a  breefe  for  austerfeild 
in  Count.  York  ...  ...  ...    1     2 

1785.  Octob.  20.— Collectd  a  breefe  for  Empsay 
inCoxnEber  ...  ...  ...  ...    0  10 

Y.N.Q.  K 


194.  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 

1759.  For  Tadcaster  Church  in  the  County  of 

York  ...                 ...                 ...                ...  0  4 

1766.  Hail  Storm  in  York  Shier    ...                ...  0  2 

1768.  Walkington  Fire  County  of  York  ...  0  0 

1769.  Inundation  in  York  Share   ...  ...  0  8* 

1784.  March  ye  14.  one  for  East  Coltingwith 
Chaple  in  ye  count  York   ...  ...  ...    0    0 

March  ye  28,  one  for  Saint  Anne's  Chapel  in  ye 
Count  York      ...  ...  ...  ...    0    0 

1785.  febery  27,  one  for  Ecclesall  Chapel        ...    0    0 
The  Remainder  are  headed  in  each  'Annual  List — "  Briefs 

Published  in  East  Budleigh  Church,"  and  the  amounts  appended 
to  each  entry,  are  those  for  which  each  brief  was  issued,  except 
in  the  year  1810,  which  omits  them.  "Nothing  collected"  is 
added  to  most  of  the  entries. 

"  1788.  Bolsterstone  Chapel  in  Com.  York 
1790.  Hemingborough  Fire  in  Com.  York 
1795.     Maultby  Church  in  Com.  York 

1798.  Arncliffe  Church  in  Com.  York 
Boltby  Chapel  in  Com.  York 

1799.  Coley  Chapel  in  Com.  York 

1800.  Felbeck  Mill  Fire  in  Com.  York 
Deanhead  Chapel  in  Com.  York 

1808.     Alne  and  appleton  Boebuok  fire  Yourk  894 

1804.  Ey ton  fire    Yourk 

1805.  Grindleton  Chapel    Yourk 

1806.  Coley  Chapel  in  York 
Kingley  Church  in  Yourk 
Wibsey  Chapel  in  Yourk    ... 

1807.  Luddenden  Church  C.  of  York 
Follifoot  Fire  C.  of  York 

1810.     Wibsey  Chapel,     [collected  0.  0.] 

Haworth  Fire.       [      „        1.  0.] 
1812.     Froston  Church  in  the  County  of  York  750    0    0 

Luddenden  Chapel  in  the  County  of 
York 
1814.    Dean  Chapel  in  Com.  York 

1818.  St.  Ann's  Chapel  in  Com.  York 

[collected]  6d. 
Luddenden  Chapel  in  Com.  York 
[collected!  6d. 

1819.  Saint  John's  Chapel  in  Com.  York 
Deanhead  Chapel  in  Com.  York 
Doncaster  Fire  in  Com.  York 

1820.  Fylingdale's  Church  in  Com.  York 
Thornton  Chapel  in  Com.  York 

1821.  Luddenden  Chapel  in  Com.  York 


£         8. 

d. 

1285  18 

5 

566  0 

0 

1706  14 

1 

567  10 

9i 

878  8 

6 

1161  18 

6 

670  14 

8 

578  12  10 

k894  8 

0 

508  6 

0 

664  8 

0 

1064  10 

8 

2060  2 

12  [sic] 

888  14  * 

9 

1408  18 

0 

806  0 

0 

1255 

15 

0 

580 

11 

4 

989 

7 

9J 

1055 

14 

9 

478 

4 

10 

428 

8 

11* 

6000 

0 

0 

885 

18 

2 

882 

6 

0 

946 

8  10i 

YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES.  .195 

Woodkirk  in  Com.  York 
SowerbyBridgeChapelinCom.York  4111 
Kettlewell  Church  in  Com.  York 
1828.    Hampthwaste  Church  in  Com.  York 
1£24.    Deanhead  Chapel  in  Com.  York 

Fylingdale's  Church  in  Com.  York 
Drypool  Church  in  Com.  York 
Calverley  Mills  Fire  in  Com.  York 
[collected]  Is. 
1825.    Redcar  Chapel  in  Com.  York 
[collected]  Is. 
Hampswaste  Church  in  Com.  York 
Low  Harrogate  Church  in  Com. York 
[collected]  Is. 
1827.    Longwood  Chapel  in  Com.  York 
It  will  be  noticed  that  when  the  same  place  for  which  a 
Collection  is  sought,  has  had  its  brief  presented  on  several 
occasions,  the  amount  stated  to  be  required  gradually  dimin- 
ishes.   Presumably  the  difference  will  show  the  total  amount 
received  since  the  date  on  which  the  brief  was  formerly  pre- 
sented.    To  those  who  are  interested  in  this   subject  full 
information  will  be  found  in  a  paper  by  the  late  Cornelius 
Walford,  entitled — "  Kings'  Briefs :  their  purposes  and  history,1' 
in  vol.  x.  of  the  Transactions  of  the  Royal  Historical  Society. 
Salterton,  Devon.  J.  N.  Brushfteld,  M.D. 


572  11 

0 

4111  4 

iH 

892  8 

0 

890  10 

0 

249  8 

1* 

661  18 

0 

1990  0 

0 

8856  16 

0 

1700  0 

0 

595  5 

0 

2000  0 

0 

417  5 

3.' 

Backing  ^tcol. 

The  following  note  is  by  the  late  Mr.  Wm.  Turner,  of  Hopton : 
"  There  was  formerly  a  ducking  stool  in  Mirneld.  On  the 
9th  June,  1818,  Mr.  Hirst  and  self  saw  old  Wm.  Swift,  of 
Quarry  Hole  (aged  upwards  of  87),  who  said  he  could  remember 
it  very  well  but  never  knew  it  used.  It  stood  a  little  nearer  to 
the  church  than  where  the  pinfold  now  is.  In  the  accounts  of 
Michael  Sheard,  who  served  the  office  .of  constable  as  deputy 
for  Samuel  Senior  for  a  house  at  the  sheep  ings,  in  Hopton, 
for  part  of  the  years  1719  and  1720, 1  find  the  following  entry: 

'For  the  cuck  stool  repairing 8s.  6d.' 

The  punishment  of  the  ducking  stool  was  formerly  inflicted  for 
correction  and  cooling  of  scolds  and  unquiet  women.  It  was 
also  anciently  inflicted  upon  bakers  and  brewers,*  offending 

*  In  every  Court  Leet  a  person  called  an  Ale-taster  was  formerly  appointed 
to  look  to  the  assize  and  goodness  of  Ale  and  Beer  within  the  Lordship.  In 
the  early  Court  Rolls  of  the  Manor  of  Dewsbury  of  the  time  when  Queen 
Elizabeth  was  Lady  of  the  Manor,  there  are  many  entries  of  persons  having 
brewed  and  sold  Ale  contrary  to  the  assize,  and  who  were  therefore  fined  ijd. 
(2d.)  each.  We  find  no  entries  of  such  persons  having  incurred  the  penalty 
of  the  Ducking  Stool,  but  possibly  a  more  careful  examination  of  the  Rolls 


196  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIE8. 

against  the  laws.  It  was  a  kind  of  chair  or  stool,  fixed  at  one 
end  of  a  long  pole  which  hung  over  a  pond  of  water,  and  swung 
upon  a  bar  or  post  somewhat  like  a  balance,  and  the  party 
punished  was  fastened  into  the  chair  and  immersed  oyer  head 
and  ears  in  the  pond,  and  the  more  offensive  the  water  pus 
and  the  better. 

This  mode  of  punishment  has  been  suffered  to  decay  and  be- 
come almost  obsolete,  though  there  was  one  of  those  engines 
existing  at  the  end  of  Dawgreen,  nearest  to  Dewsbury,  about 
the  place  where  the  dam  or  reservoir  belonging  to  Mr.  Todd's 
oil  mill  is,  within  the  memory  of  many  persons  now  living. 
Mr.  Hirst  of  Hagg,  can  recollect  seeing  it  when  he  was  young." 


(Extracts  from  tfr*  Biarjj  of  ifr*  &*b.  I.  f  smag. 

A  chronological  account  of  some  memorable  events  in  and 
about  Mirfield,  &c. 

1722.    May  18th— Rippon den  Flood. 

1729.    Nov.  19th— Bournans  Flood. 

1786.  An  apple  tree  near  the  Vicarage  blossomed  and  set 
for  fruit  nine  times,  and  produced  ripe  fruit  at  five  different 
times  this  year,  and  what  is  very  remarkable  it  was  in  blossom 
on  Xmas  Day,  and  a  red  rose  full  blown,  in  the  hedge  by  it. 

1788.  Dec.  80th—  An  earthquake  felt  at  Mirfield.  I  per- 
ceived my  bed  to  rock,  and  the  chamber  to  shake,  at  Kirklees, 
where  I  then  lived. 

1789.  Methodism  first  propagated  at  Mirfield,  by  Ben 
Ingham,  clerk. 

A  great  frost  which  began  on  Christmas  Day  and  lasted 
9  weeks. 

1740.  April  26th. — A  riot  began  at  Dewsbury,  where  1,500 
and  upwards  were  assembled,  and  prooeeded  to  Mirfield,  <fec. 
They  mustered  their  crew  and  beat  up  their  drum  by  the 
Vicarage  in  Mirfield. 

1740.  Aug.  25th. — Buried  Ann  Holdsworth,  of  Little  Lon- 
don, aged  102.  She  could  see  to  thread  a  needle,  sew  and  knit 
without  spectacles. 

which  are  very  lengthy  and  difficult  to  read,  may  discover  some  reference  to 
this  now  obsolete  instrument  of  justice. 

A  Court  Leet  is  a  Court  of  Record  with  power  to  punish  offences  against 
the  Crown.  It  is  held  in  some  large  Manors,  as  the  Manor  of  Wakefield, 
and  the  Steward  of  the  Manor  is  the  Judge.  The  Lord  of  the  Leet  ought 
formerly  to  have  had  a  pillory  and  a  Ducking  Stool  to  punish  offenders,  but 
these  Courts  are  now  nearly  obsolete. 

The  word  assize  above  mentioned  means  a  statute  or  ordinance  of  Parlia- 
ment. 

Numerous  acts  of  Parliaments  were  passed  in  former  days  regulating  the 
sale  of  Bread  and  Ale,  and  these  were  commonly  known  as  the  assize  of 
Bread  and  Ale. 


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In  January,  died  Mr.  John  Philips,  of  Thorner,  near  Leeds, 
in  the  101st  year  of  his  age.* 

1741.  Feby.  4. — A  new  market  begun  at  Dewsbury. 

1742.  June  29th.— £2  lis.  8d.  collected  in  the  parish  of 
Mirfield  for  the  Propagation  of  the  Gospel  in  Foreign  Parts. 

The  Vicarage  of  Mirfield  augmented  a  second  time. 

1748.  June  22nd. — 102  persons  confirmed  at  Wakefield 
from  the  parish  of  Mirfield,  by  Dr.  Thomas  Herring,  Arch- 
bishop of  York,  (now  of  Canterbury.)     • 

Dec.  28rd. — A  very  splendid  comet  was  seen,  in  the  signs 
Aries  and  Pisces,  it  continued  visible  to  Feb.  20th. 

1748.  Dec.  11th. — (ye  shortest  day}  14  persons  were  pub- 
lished in  Mirfield  Church,  and  24  couples  in  ye  year. 

1744.  An  estate  purchased  at  Ribston  in  Craven  for  ye  per- 
petual augmentation  of  the  Vicarage  of  Mirfield. 

Sept.  18th. — The  harvest  flood.  A  late  frost  which  continued 
till  near  Lady  Day.    Fruits  of  all  sorts  in  abundance  this  year. 

1745.  Subscribed  and  paid  by  the  inhabitants  of  Mirfield 
towards  ye  maintenance  of  ye  Yorkshire  Buffs,  £SS  14s.  6d. 

A  dividend  of  12s.  in  ye  pound  was  returned. 

Nine  persons  were  drowned  in  Calder  near*  Mirfield,  from 
Nov.  1789,  to  Dec.  1745. 

Saturday,  Nov.  80th. — Dies  fuit  memorabilia  et  tremebundus, 
commonly  called  runaway  Saturday,  because  a  rumour  was 
spread  thro'  most  towns  in  ye  neighbourhood  yt.  the  Rebels 
were  approaching  them. 

Sunday,  Dec.  1st. — The  people  at  Huddersfield,  Mirfield,  &c, 
were  put  into  a  prodigious  panic  by  ye  Lancashire  Militia 
Officers,  suspecting  them  to  be  Rebels.  A  wonlan  at  Hudders- 
field was  frightened  to  death  with  the  report  of  the  Rebels 
approaching  the  place.  The  coal  pits  at  Mirfield  Moor  and 
other  places  were  stocked  with  clothes  and  provisions,  and  this 
day  few  women  attending  Divine  Service  for  want  of  apparel, 
when  ye  congregation  were  entertained  with  the  finest  notes  of 
a  robin  red  breast  I  ever  heard.  The  bird  was  both  more 
musical  and  familiar  than  at  other  times. 

1745.  Dec.  10th. — A  detachment  of  Marshall  Wade's  army 
proceed  to  Mirfield,  but  are  suddenly  recalled  to  ye  camp  at 
Wakefield  in  order  to  march  back  to  Leeds. 

1745.  Dec.  80.  Carlisle  surrendered  to  the  Duke  of  Cumber- 
land. Dec.  28.  The  cannons  at  Carlisle  heard  to  Mirfield,  6} 
minutes  past  9.     (  !  !  ) 

1746.  Sept. — 15  young  persons  died  of  small  pox  in  Mirfield 
this  month,  and  in  ye  whole  89. 

A  new  tax  upon  windows. 

1747.  Orders  for  cattle  read  in  Churches. 

•  Notice  the  difference  in  age,  tee  p.  186,  Folk-Lore. 


198  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 

June  1st. — 86  persons  from  Mirfield  confirmed  at  Wakefield. 

Saturday,  June  18. — Trinity  flood.  This  was  preceded  by  a 
violent  storm  and  lightning. 

August  21st. — Died  at  Kirklees,  Sir  Samuel  Armytage,  Bart,, 
aged  52. 

Fine  harvest  weather  and  a  plentiful  crop,  scanty  of  apples 
and  nut 8. 

1748.  A  new  stone  wall  erected  on  the  north  side  of  the 
Moor.     Locusts  in  Mirfield  and  other  parts  of  this  kingdom. 

July  14th. — A  great  solar  eclipse. 

1742.  August  7th. — An  extraordinary  Aurora  Borealis  at 
Mirfield. 

July  9th. — A  remarkable  whirlwind  near  the  Vicarage. 

1750.  A  violent  storm  of  thunder  and  lightning  at  Mirfield. 
22nd. — A  fiery  meteor.     A  hot  dry  summer  at  Mirfield. 

This  year  has  been  remarkable  for  earthquakes  and  ye  A. 
Borealis. 

February  26th. — A  violent  storm  of  wind  and  rain. 

1751.  A  wet  summer  and  late  harvest. 

1752.  January. — A  great  snow  this  month  for  11  days 
together. 

1758.     March. — A  great  wind  for  8  days  together. 
June. — Riots  about  turnpikes  in  Yorkshire. 

1754.  Feb.  26th.—  A  meteor  seen  at  Mirfield. 

April  19.  The  shock  of  an  earthquake  felt  at  Mirfield, 
Leeds,  York,  &c. 

A  hard  frosty  winter,  a  cold  sharp  spring,  a  wet  summer  and 
a  fine  autumn. 

Chin  cough  And  small-pox  in  Mirfield. 

Eatables  of  all  sorts  extravagantly  dear  in  ye  spring. 

1755.  Multitudes  of  earwigs  about  the  houses  in  Mirfield 
and  other  places.  A  very  wet  and  cold  summer,  harvest  and 
autumn. 

Oct.  15th. — Gave  tickets  to  182  persons  to  be  confirmed  at 
Halifax  by  Dr.  Edward  Keen,  Bishop  of  Chester,  who  confirmed 
2,600. 

Nov. — Several  acres  of  land  in  and  about  Mirfield,  rendered 
too  wet  and  incapable  of  being  sown  with  wheat  this  season. 

1758.  21  children  died  of  small  pox  and  only  2  of  chin 
cough. 

1754.  Of  ye  small-pox  and  chin  cough  11. 

1755.  Nov.  1st. — A  most  dreadful  and  extensive  earthquake 
in  Portugal  and  various  parts  of  Europe. 

Several  ponds  and  lakes  violently  agitated  in  many  parts  of 
England. 

1756.  Tempests,  storms,  hurricanes,  thunder,  lightning, 
and  other  Phenomena  have  never  been  known  so  frequent 
throughout  Great  Britain  as  in  the  winter  1755-6. 


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Feb.  6th. — Fast  day  for  the  earthquakes  at  Lisbon. 

Feb.  14th. — Died  Mrs.  Eltoff,  of  Ledstone,  Yorkshire,  aged 
114,  she  retained  her  senses  till  within  a  few  hours  of  her  death. 

Feb.  28th. — Died  6.  Wilcock,  Bishop  of  Rochester,  &e. 

May  8th. — Fairs  opened  in  Yorkshire  for  ye  sale  of  horned 
cattle,  being  prohibited  for  upwards  of  nine  years. 

May  18th. — War  declared  against  ye  French  in  London. 

May  25th. — War  proclaimed  against  ye  French  at  Leeds. 

June  4th. — A  most  violent  storm  of  hail,  &c. 

16th. — War  declared  against  ye  English  by  the  French. 

24th. — Much  lightning  in  ye  evening,  it  continued  for  some 
time  in  a  continual  blaze  at  Mirfield. 

May  28th.— The  Port  of  St.  Philips  in  the  Island  of  Minorca 
surrendered  to  the  French. 

July  5th. — Apple  and  Plum  trees  in  blossom  a  second  time 
this  year  in  my  garden. 

July  22nd. — The  Marine  Society  Instituted  in  London.  The 
price  of  wheat  began  to  advance,  which  occasioned  mobs  to 
arise  in  different  parts  of  ye  kingdom. 

Oct.  7th.  A  very  extraordinary  and  extensive  hurricane 
about  1  in  the  morng. 

Nov.  25th. — Died  Mr.  Thos.  Clarke,  Rector  of  Eirkheaton 
and  Swillington,  aged  81. 

1757.  March  14th. — Admiral  Byng  shot  on  board  ye  Mon- 
arque. 

16th. — A  great  hurricane  of  wind  at  Liverpool,  Chester,  &c, 
by  which  much  damage  was  done  by  sea  and  land. 

19th. — Died  in  ye  Parish  of  Tadcaster,  John  Shepherd,  aged 
109.     He  had  lived  in  a  cave  on  Bramham  Moors  many  years. 

Sept. — Riots  in  several  places  about  the  Militia  Act. 

26th. — A  Comet  appears  about  this  time. 

80th.— Died  at  Bath,  David  Hartley,  M.D.  and  F.R.S.,  aged 
58. 

Sept.  15. — A  great  riot  at  Manchester. 

Oct.  19th. — Died  at  Constantinople,  Sultan  Osman,  Grand 
Bignor  and  Emperor  of  the  Turks. 

Seven  battles  fought  by  ye  King  of  Prussia  this  year,  besides 
ye  siege  of  Prague  and  a  great  number  of  skirmishes. 

A  very  droughty  hot  summer. 

All  sorts  of  grain  and  provisions  at  an  excessive  and  extra- 
vagant price. 

1758.  Jan.  29th. — Died  at  Moor  Town,  near  Leeds,  James 
Goodrich,  aged  104. 

A  new  workhouse  erected  and  opened  in  Mirfield,  in  May. 

An  Act  of  Parliament  obtained,  for  extending  ye  navigation 
of  ye  river  thro'  Mirfield  to  Sowerby  Bridge. 

Aug.  9th.— A  Confirmation  at  Wakefield  by  the  Bishop  of 
St.  Asaph. 


200  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 

22nd.  —The  new  Market  house  for  coloured  cloth  was  opened 
at  Leeds. 
*    July  27th. — A  great  flood  about  Wig  ton,  in  Cumberland. 

Nov.  26th. — A  remarkable  meteor  seen  at  Newcastle,  &c. 

Dec.  29th. — A  ball  of  fire  seen  at  Colchester,  moving  N.E. 

Deo.  20th.— Died  at  E aland,  Mr.  Rd.  Detly,  aged  58.  In 
this  memorable  and  glorious  year  we  had  a  plentiful  crop,  and 
have  seen  ye  British  Flag  restored  to  its  Ancient  dignity,  by 
being  victorious  in  almost  every  part  of  ye  world. 

1759.  A  dry  Summer  and  Autumn. 

A  malignant  fever  in  Mir  field,  which  continued  six  years. 

Jan.  27th.— An  Ox  was  lately. killed  at  Lowther  Hall,  which 
weighed  84  stone  and  a  quarter,  and  had  19  stone  of  tallow 
taken  out  of  him. 

July  5th. — A  parhelion  seen  about  the  setting  of  the  sun  at 
Mirfield. 

Sept.  2nd. — Died  at  Thornhill,  Mr.  Samuel  Sandford,  Rector 
of  ye  Church. 

Nov.  4th. — Died  of  a  singular  malady,  Mr.  Wm.  Turner,  of 
Blakehill,  aged  46,  Mirfield. 

Nov.  10th. — An  hurrican  of  wind  at  Mirfield. 

A  dry  Summer. 

Deo.  81st. — A  lunar  iris  observed  from  my  door  at  the  Vicarage 

Great  and  glorious  conquest  made  by  ye  British  Troops  in 
America. 

1760.  Jan.  16th. — A  child  shot  by  an  accident  at  Mirfield. 
A  hot  droughty  summer;  there  was  ye  greatest  mortality 

this  year  in  Mirfield  that  has  happened  since  that  of  1681, 
(?1681),  when  the  plague  raged  in  this  parish.  Many  persons 
were  cut  off  in  their  full  strength,  and  some  in  ye  vigour  and 
bloom  of  their  age,  by  an  eruptive  epidemical  fever,  which 
seized  upon  me  the  5th  September,  and  confined  me  to  my  bed 
for  ye  space  of  ye  14  days,  my  life  being  in  great  danger  from 
ye  violence  of  ye  distemper. 

May  9th. — Died  at  Hermuth  in  Silesia,  Count  Zinzendorff, 
founder  and  head  of  ye  Moravian  sect.  His  son  consecrated 
the  conventicle  at  WeUhouse,  in  Mirfield,  16th  March,  1755. 

Oct.  25th.— Died  E.  George  2nd,  in  the  77th  year  of  his  age, 
and  84th  of  his  reign. 

26th. — K.  George  3rd  proclaimed. 

Sep.  19th. — Effect  of  a  most  surprising  flow  of  water  at 
Brackenthwaite,  in  Cumberland. 

1761.  Jan.  1st.— A  dreadful  hurricane  of  wind  at  the  N.W. 
in  ye  night. 

11th.— Died  of  a  lingering  illness,  Mr.  Joseph  Wheeler,  Vicar 
of  Dewsbury. 

9th.— The  quarter  Sessions  appointed  to  be  held  at  Wakefield 
were  postponed  on  account  of  the  epidemical  distemper  raging 
in  that  town. 


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29th.— Died  at  Mirfield,  Mr.  Edward  Darly,  Attorney  at  Law, 
aged  84. 

April  80th. — (Ascen.  Day)  I  read  ye  Divine  Service  and 
christened  19  children  at  ye  font  in  Mirfield  Gh.  before  dinner. 

1762.  Feb.  21st. — Shrove  Tuesday.  A  dreadful  tempest  of 
wind  and  snow  p.m.,  by  ye  severity  of  which  many  persons 
perished. 

Jnly  14th. — A  violent  storm  of  thunder,  hail,  &c,  at  Kirklees 
and  its  environs.  The  hailstones  were  as  large  as  pigeon's 
eggs,  measuring  three  or  four  inches,  by  which  great  damage 
was  done  to  corn,  fruit,  and  windows.  An  excessive  droughty 
summer,  this  month  and  last  ye  drought  and  heat  of  ye  season 
was  so  great  that  several  moors  and  peat  mosses  took  fire  and 
burnt  underground  for  many  miles  together. 

An  intense  frost  began  Dec.  28rd,  1762,  and  continued  to 
Jan.  29th,  1768. 

Feb.  10th,  11th,  12th. — A  great  fall  of  snow  with  a  severe  frost. 

Mar.  22nd. — Peace  proclaimed  in  London. 

May  18th.— Do.  at  Mirfield. 

14th. — A  B.  of  York  confirms  at  Wakefield,  and  treats  ye 
clergy.  78  persons  confirmed  from  this  Parish.  Three  floods 
in  Mirfield  in  Christmas*  week. 

1768.     An  excessive  wet  summer. 

Turnpike  road  made  through  Mirfield. 

1764.     The  river  through  Mirfield  made  navigable. 

Feb.  26th,  27th.— A  great  fall  of  snow. 

Mar.  4th. — An  illumination  from  E.  to  S. 

April  1st. — A  great  solar  eclipse. 

May  11th. — A  B.  of  York's  primary  visitation  of  ye  clergy. 
He  treats  ye  clergy. 

Oct.  11th. — The  Archdeacon's  visitation  at  Wakefield. 

1768.  The  yew  tree  now  growing  near  the  south-east  corner 
of  the  churchyard  was  planted  by  Thos.  Sherrd,  clerk,  5th 
Nov.,  1678,  as  appears  by  an  entry  in  the  parish  register. 

The  other  two  (yew  trees)  are  so  very  ancient  that  no  man 
living  can  remember  them  in  a  youthful  state. 


Some  Account  of  the  Parish  of  Mirfield  (by  Mb.  Ismat), 

to  a  Friend  in  Cumberland. 

1756. 

Mirfield,  ager  ad  ericetum,  a  manor  lying  near  a  heath  or 

moor,  as  ager  eboracensis,  Yorkshire.     The  parish  is  situated 

on  the  sides  of  two  hills,  between  which  a  fine  river  runs 

through  it. 

Over  the  river,  which  is  called  Galder,  are  two  bridges,  one 
of  them  stands  on  eight  wooden  piers,  and  measures  above  282 
feet  in  length. 


202  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 

There  are  three  corn  mills  here,  and  the  same  number  for 
pulling  of  broad  cloth,  which  is  manufactured  here  and  in  the 
neighbouring  towns.  This  is  a  large  populous  village,  and,  in 
general,  is  well  built.  It  is  bounded  on  the  North  by  the 
parish  of  Birstal,  to  the  South  by  the  parishes  of  Thornhill 
and  Kirkheaton,  and  to  the  East  by  Dewsbury,  and  to  the 
West  by  the  Parochial  Chapelry  of  Hartshead. 

It  is  about  two  miles  in  breadth  from  W.  to  E.,  two  and  a 
half  miles  from  N.  to  S.;  and  in  circumference  near  eight 
miles.  It  is  divided  into  six  hamlets,  and  contains  about  8,000 
acres  of  land,  viz :  2,000  of  arable,  400  of  waste  or  common, 
and  600  of  woodland.  Sir  George  Savile,  of  Rufford,  Notts., 
Bart.,  is  Lord  of  the  Manor.  There  is  a  fair  or  feast  on 
Ascension  Day,  held  near  the  Vicarage.  The  price  of  provision 
is  variable.  Wheat  is  sold  at  present  for  19s.  6d.  per  load,  t.f. 
24  gallons,  which  is  your  Cumberland  bushel.  It  is  sold  at  4s. 
0d.  statute  measure,  three  of  which  makes  your  Wakefield  load. 
Barley  is  at  20s.  per  quarter  ;  Oatmeat  is  £1  ds.  6d.  per  load. 
i.e.  58.  per  bushel,  or  15s.  the  Cumberland  bushel. 

The  load  consists  of  9  strokes,  containing  86  gall.,  which  is 
one  bushel  and  a  half  of  your  measure.  Beef  is  from  2±d.  to 
3d.  per  lb. ;  mutton  and  veal  about  the  same  price  at  different 
seasons  of  the  year ;  butter  from  5d.  to  6d.,  and  cheese  from 
3d.  to  4d.  per  lb. 

The  number  of  houses  are  about  405,  and  allowing  5  persons 
to  each  house,  the  number  of  inhabitants  will  be  2,175.  Land 
is  let  in  general  for  about  30s.  per  acre,  taxes  included.  A 
roasting  pig  is  sold  for  2s. ;  a  turkey  and  goose  at  Christmas 
2s.  6d.  each ;  a  green  goose  Is.  and  Is.  6d.  or  Is.  8d.  at  the 
latter  end  of  the  harvest ;  chickens  4d.  generally ;  a  hen  7d. 
and  ducks  8d.  Agistment  or  pasture  for  cows  and  fat  cattle  is 
35s.  or  £2.  Hay  is  2  id.  or  3d.  per  stone,  or  sometimes  6d. 
Much  Clover  is  grown  in  the  parish  and  made  into  hay.  There 
is  no  copyhold  land,  but  upwards  of  40  freeholders  in  the 
parish.  Day  labouring  men's  wages  is  12d.,  carpenters  and 
masons  Is.  3d.  tailors  6d.  and  their  victuals ;  men  servants  for 
husbandry  7d.,  clothiers  5d.,  maids  about  50s.  per  annum. 
There  are  about  100  pair  of  looms  for  weaving  of  broad  cloth, 
200  persons  employed  in  making  of  cloth,  400  in  carding, 
spinning,  and  preparing  wool  for  the  looms,  consequently  no 
less  than  600  persons  are  employed  in  the  woollen  manufacture 
carried  on  in  this  place. 

The  Church  is  not  large,  but  it  has  two  aisles  and  two 
galleries,  which  in  the  summer  season  can  but  just  contain  ye 
number  of  persons  tbat  attend  divine  worship.  It  was  enlarged, 
and  the  N.  side  new  built  in  the  year  1666. 

It  is  now  74  feet  long  and  89  in  width.  There  is  a  tower 
steeple  47  feet  high,  which  contains  eight  musical  bells,  which 


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were  east  and  hang  about  SO  years  ago.  They  were  increased 
from  three  to  eight  by  Daniel  Heddersley,  in  1725,  and  are 
now  as  fine  a  ring  of  bells  as  any  in  ye  county  of  their  weight. 
The  steeple  is  47  feet  to  the  battlements,  and  57±  ft.  to  the  top 
of  the  pinnacles.  The  mottoes  on  ye  bells  are,  "peace  and 
good  neighbourhood."  "  When  you  hear  me  sound  let  peace 
and  unity  be  found,  1726." 

There  is  an  inscription  in  ye  western  wall  near  ye  font, 
which  shows  that  the  plague  raged  with  great  violence  in  1681. 

There  are  no  remarkable  monuments  of  any  illustrious 
persons  in  the  church.  One  of  ye  Nuns  of  Kirklees  Monastery 
was  interred  here  Feb.  5th,  1561,  as  appears  by  the  parish 
register.  Dr.  John  Hopton,  who  was  made  Bishop  of  Norwich 
in  1554,  was  born  at  Mirfield,  as  we  may  learn  from  ye  history 
of  that  prelate's  life. 

On  a  Table  erected  in  1745,  is  a  list  of  ye  pious  and  charit- 
able benefactions  to  ye  church,  school,  and  poor  of  ye  parish 
of  Mirfield. 

The  arms  of  the  Hoptons,  Saviles,  Mirfields,  &c,  are  curiously 
painted  in  ye  East  Window.  There  is  a  large  candlestick  con- 
sisting of  12  branches,  and  8  more  on  the  reading  desk,  with  a 
carious  font  made  in  1662.  There  are  upwards  of  70  tombs 
and  gravestones  in  church  and  churchyard,  with  sepulchral 
inscriptions  too  long  to  insert. 

The  Church  is  in  the  honour  of  Pontefract,  Diocese  of  York, 
hundred  of  Agbrig  and  the  deanery  of  Pontefract,  dedicated  to 
8t.  Mary,  built  494  years  ago,  and  consecrated  to  be  a  Chapel 
of  ease  under  Dewsbury  in  1261.  It  continued  in  subjection 
to  its  Mother  Church,  All  Saint's,  in  Dewsbury,  (where  it  is 
said  Paulinus,  the  first  Archbishop  of  York,  preached  and 
celebrated  divine  service,)  till  1802,  being  the  space  of  41  years. 
Pope  Urban  4th,  at  the  request  of  Sir  John  Heton,  Kt.,  made 
it  parochial,  and  vested  the  right  of  nomination  in  Sir  John, 
who  presented  his  younger  son  to  the  living.  He  was  the  first 
Rector,  built  the  parsonage  house  or  manse,  and  died  1802. 

Wm.  Cressacre  was  the  2nd  Rector,  who  died  in  1808. 

The  next  we  have  upon  record  is  Wm.  Willinge,  who  died 
in  1402.  After  the  death  of  this  incumbent,  the  predial  tithes 
were  alienated  from  the  church  and  given  to  the  [monks?]  of 
Kirklees  to  pray  for  the  soul  of  John  Burgh.  This  Church 
continued  a  Kectory  for  the  space  of  141  years,  and  then  was 
reduced  to  a  small  Vicarage  to  aggrandize  monkery  and  support 
a  nest  of  drones.  It  remained  in  this  poor  distressed  condition 
for  the  space  of  8  centuries,  till  it  was  relieved  by  a  parochial 
subscription  which  obtained  the  Queen's  Bounty  about  85  years 
ago,  and  invested  in  land  for  a  perpetual  augmentation. 

It  was  augmented  a  second  time  by  a  lady's  benefaction  and 
the  bounty  in  1642,  since  which  time  it  received  £100,  the 


204  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 

donation  of  Sir  Geo.  Armytage,  late  of  Kirklees,  Bart.,  and 
about  £7  lis.  per  annum  in  houses  and  land  given  by  ye  late 
Mrs.  Ann  Horsfall,  by  a  deed  bearing  date  Oct.  80th,  1787* 
duly  enrolled  in  Chancery.    It  devolved  to  the  Church  in  1749. 

The  names  of  the  Vicars  as  appears  by  the  registers  are  as 
follows : — Sir  John  Chrissmor,  buried  Feb.  18th,  1668. 

Sir  Richard  Wordsworth,  buried  Nov.  1677. 

Antony  Crowther  inducted  March,  1668,  and  buried  Aug. 
81st,  1628.  He  had  five  sons  and  one  daughter,  and  was  Vicar 
of  Mirfield  60  years. 

Eichard  Senior  inducted  Sept.  1st,  1628,  buried  Oct.  25th, 
1689. 

Eobert  AUenson  inducted  Dec.  21st,  1689,  buried  Dec.  8th, 
1676.  He  enlarged  the  N.  side  of  the  church,  and  was  buried 
at  Cumberworth,  where  he  had  been  Minister.  He  was  87 
years  Vicar  of  Mirfield,  and  had  five  children. 

John  Gibson  inducted  Dec.  12th,  1677,  he  resigned  ye  vicar- 
age for  the  Rectory  of  Kirkby. 

Thomas  Gledhill  succeeded  Mr.  Gibson,  and  was  buried  Dec. 
20th,  1687.    He  left  a  widow  and  two  daughters. 

Richard  Margerison,  A.M.,  was  inducted  June  14th,  1688. 
He  was  baptized  at  Birstal  Church,  and  buried  at  Mirfield, 
where  he  had  been  Vicar  27  years,  on  the  10th  of  Jan.,  1716. 
He  left  three  children  who  all  arrived  to  maturity.  He  died  in 
the  58rd  year  of  his  age. 

Thos.  Hardy  was  inducted  May  16th,  1706,  and  was  buried 
19th  Dec,  1789,  Vicar  28  years.  He  left  a  widow  and  three 
sons,  the  oldest  then  a  student  at  Cambridge,  who  had  a  good 
living  given  him  by  the  Earl  of  Winchelsea,  (Burleigh,  Rutland- 
shire,) but  he  did  not  live  to  enjoy  it.  The  second  son  is  a 
bookseller  in  London,  and  is  in  good  circumstances.  The  third 
has  been  twice  in  the  East  Indies,  and  is  now  with  Admiral 
West  in  ye  English  Navy.  The  widow  is  still  living  at  Mirfield 
and  receives  ye  Bounty. 

The  present  Vicar,  J.  Ismay,  B.A.,  was  inducted  Jan.  28th, 
1789,  O.  8.  in  the  presence  of  his  worthy  patron,  Sir  Saml. 
Armytage,  late  of  Kirklees,  Bart.,  then  High  Sheriff  of  ye 
County.  The  living  is  worth  now  about  £75  per  annum  to  the 
Vicar.  The  present  patron  is  Sir  John  Armytage,  Bart.,  Mem- 
ber of  Parliament  for  ye  City  of  York,  who  is  now  upon  bis 
travels  in  Italy.  He  is  impropriator  or  lay  rector  of  Mirfield, 
and  receives  200  guineas  per  annum  for  tithe  of  corn,  and  of 
money  made  for  hay,  besides  a  considerable  sum  for  tithe  of 
wood  cut  down  in  the  parish. 

The  Parish  Register  began  in  1689,  when  there  were  no 
dissenters  in  the  parish  and  is  continued  in  one  single  parch- 
ment book  to  this  present  year,  1766.  It  escaped  the  confusion 
of  the  civil  wars,  and  is  perhaps  as  perfect  and  complete  as 


YORKSHIBE    NOTES    AND    QUEBIE8.  205 

any  one  register  in  England.  There  are  100  marriages,  889 
christenings,  and  220  burials  in  the  first  20  years ;  296  marri- 
ages, 1,165  christenings,  and  612  burials  in  the  last  20  years 
as  appears  by  the  register. 

On  the  BOth  Dee.,  1788,  a  sudden  and  violent  earthquake 
was  felt  at  Mirfield  and  in  the  neighbourhood.  I  perceived 
my  bed  at  Kirklees  rock,  and  the  chamber  shake  so  much  that 
I  expected  the  whole  house  would  have  fallen.  Being  surprised 
with  the  shock  I  awaked  my  brother  who  lay  with  me  that 
night,  but  he  felt  nothing  of  it. 

From  the  high  ground  in  Hopton,  especially  the  great 
pinnacle,  on  a  clear  day  I  have  seen  into  12  parishes  at  least, 
with  8  Parochial  Chapelery's.  From  thenoe  ye  enclosed  fields 
in  Mirfield  make  one  grand  parterre,  the  thick  planted  hedge- 
rows seem  like  a  wilderness  or  a  labyrinth,  the  houses  inter- 
persed  look  like  so  many  noble  seats  of  gentlemen  at  a  distance. 

The  nature  of  ye  soil  in  ye  parish  being  of  such  different 
kinds  produces  perhaps  as  great  a  variety  of  plants  as  are  to 
be  found  in  any  part  of  Great  Britain  of  the  same  extent.  I 
have  met  with  250  sorts  of  wild  plants  growing  spontaneously 
in  the  wood,  field,  pastures,  and  waste  grounds,  besides  a 
curious  collection  transplanted  into  my  garden  at  the  vicarage 
from  other  parts.  The  poisonous  plants  found  here  are  the 
cicuta  or  the  lesser  hemlock,  the  common  nightshade,  black 
henbane,  cynocrambe,  the  yew  tree,  &c.  The  berries  of  the 
last  are  frequently  eaten  here  without  any  ill  consequence,  but 
the  fatal  effect  of  the  leaves  to  cattle  was  fully  confirmed  on 
Easter  Monday,  1754,  when  2  young  heifers  near  the  vicarage 
were  poisoned  by  eating  them. 

The  front  of  Castle  Hall,  an  old  building  near  the  church,  is 
adorned  with  a  great  number  of  hieroglyphics  curiously  carved 
in  wood,  and  the  letters  T.B.  and  the  numerical  figures  1,022 
about  the  middle  of  the  large  window.  There  is  a  Danish 
Mount  behind  the  house  with  a  plain  piece  of  ground  at  the 
top  69  ft.  in  diameter.  I  can  meet  with  nothing  in  the  whole 
parish  yet  which  wears  the  face  of  antiquity,  besides  8  or  4  old 
studded  buildings,  much  talked  of  by  the  vulgar  for  their  great 
age,  though  without  any  authentic  marks  of  authority  besides 
ancient  tradition  and  the  curious  fragments  of  painted  glass  in 
the  windows  of  one  of  these  old  mansions. 

Here  is  a  free  Charity  School,  founded  by  Mr.  R.  Thorpe, 
late  of  Hopton  Hall,  1667,  at  Knowle  Lane,  with  a  dwelling- 
house  for  the  Master,  and  a  salary  of  about  £12  per  annum. 

Near  the  school  are  the  vestiges  of  a  large  round  entrench- 
ment resembling  that  near  Penrith,  called  King  Arthur's  round 
table. 

Here  is  a  Workhouse  for  the  poor,  though  it  is  only  rented 
by  ye  parish. 


206  Y0KK8HIBE    NOTE8    AND    QUERIES. 

Blake  Hall  is  supposed  to  be  the  ancient  seat  of  the  Hoptons, 
and  Castle  Hall  the  seat  of  Sir  John  Heton,  Kt.,  ye  1st  parson 
of  the  church,  now  the  property  of  Richard  Beaumont,  of 
Whitley  Hall,  Esqre.  Castle  Hall  stands  very  near  the  church, 
whence  that  proverbial  saying: — He  is  John  Armytage's Neighbour, 
i.e.  he  is  dead.  Sir  John  Heton,  Kt.,  married  ye  oldest  daughter 
of  Sir  Alexander  Nevile  de  Mirfield. 

Robert  Hop  ton,  of  Hopton,  Esqre.,  married  Jennet,  daughter 
of  Henry  Savile,  Esqre. 

Robin  Hood's  gravestone,  and  the  ruins  of  a  Benedictine 
Nunnery  founded  anno  1286,  and  dedicated  to  St.  Mary,  are  to 
be  seen  on  ye  N.W.  side  of  the  parish  near  Nun  Brook. 

The  latitude  of  Mirfield  is  58°  42*"  N.,  the  longitude  about 
1°  81"  W.  of  London,  it  stands  about  80  miles  S.W.  of  York. 

The  soil  is  of  various  sorts.  We  have  sand,  clay,  stone,  and 
gravel.  Our  lands  produce  all  sorts  of  grains  to  great  per- 
fection. The  manure  is  dung,  lime  and  ashes ;  rapes,  wolds, 
and  turnips  are  frequently  sown  in  the  parish,  they  with 
potatoes  are  titheable  to  the  Yicar.  There  are  many  good 
quarries  of  hard  durable  stone  for  building,  very  good  earth  for 
bricks,  and  great  plenty  of  coal  which  is  usually  sold  for  2s. 
the  horse  load  at  the  pit  mouth,  and  it  is  common  in  the 
meanest  cot  to  see  a  good  fire.  The  springs  are  generally 
found  at  various  depths  in  the  parish,  and  the  water  is  very 
sweet  and  soft  in  most  places  except  near  ye  coal,  and  there  it 
is  a  little  hard  and  brakish.  We  have,  I  believe,  as  fine  an  air 
as  any  in  England.  It  is  generally  healthy,  and  the  inhabitants 
in  general  live  to  a  great  age,  especially  the  poorer  sort  who 
use  proper  exercise  and  enjoy  the  benefit  of  it. 

The  present  Yicar  has  buried  no  less  than  92  persons  each 
of  them  aged  80  years  and  upwards,  whereof  8  arrived  at  90 
and  upwards,  and  one  at  102. 

There  are  2  dissenting  meeting  houses  in  the  parish,  one  for 
the  Presbyterians  and  the  other  for  the  Moravian  Brethren, 
they  are  both  small  and  inconsiderable.  Mirfield  is  situated 
about  the  middle  of  the  road  between  the  towns  of  Wakefield 
and  Halifax,  but  there  is  yet  no  turnpike.  The  Gentlemen's 
Seats  bordering  on  the  parish  are  Kirklees,  Whitley  Hall,  and 
Grow  Mount.  The  Aurora  Borealis  is  very  common,  and  par- 
ticularly one  on  the  7th  of  April,  1749. 

The  dams  across  the  river  are  in  the  nature  of  cataracts,  and 
are  a  sort  of  catadupes  by  which  the  inhabitants  form  a  prog- 
nostication of  the  weather.  The  river  produces  salmon,  trout, 
smelts,  graylings,  daice,  perch,  eels,  chubs,  barbies,  gudgeons, 
&c,  wild  ducks,  wigeon,  teal,  coots,  and  several  sorts  of  water 
hens  are  seen  about  the  river  in  winter,  especially  in  a  great 
frost. 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES.  207 

The  great  speckled  loon  or  diver  was  shot  here  Sept.  20th, 
1749,  and  was  the  only  one  perhaps  ever  seen  in  this  country. 
When  mists  appear  to  rise  or  fall  on  Whitley  Wood  or  (Swindon 
Hill)  which  stands  npon  high  ground,  the  people  in  Mirfield 
thereby  prognosticate  of  the  change  of  the  weather,  singing 
this  rhyme : — 

If  Whitley  Wood  wears  a  cap 
Balance  Beck  will  smart  for  that, 
If  Swindon  Hill  wears  a  cap 
Balance  Beck  must  pay  for  that. 
When  the  sun  appears  over  ye  temple  of  Swindon  Hill,  it  is 
12  o'clock  at  the  Vicarage.     The  following  inscription  was 
formerly  over  the  door  of  the  Mansion  House  of  the  Hirsts  in 
Mirfield: — "Know  whom  you  trust.     Robert  Hirst,    1656." 
Over  the  door  at  Wellhouse: — G.B.H.   i.e.  God  be  here  or 
about  tins  house.    Hunting,  fishing,  shooting,  add  setting  are 
diversions  mostly  used.     We  have  hares,  woodcocks,  snipes, 
wood  pigeons,   plovers,  quails,   daker-hens  or  the  land-rail, 
water-rails,  red-wings,  fieldfares,  woodpeckers,  jays,  nightin- 
gales, and  most  of  the  small  birds  known  in  England. 

We  have  some  pheasants  in  the  wood,  but  the  breed  is  in  a 
great  measure  destroyed. 

We  have  a  variety  of  plants  in  the  woods,  one  of  which  is 
called  the  Garden  of  Eden.  We  had  a  fiery  meteor  passed  over 
this  place  July  22nd,  1750.  An  earthquake  in  1754,  and  often 
much  damage  done  by  the  floods. 

Yours, 

J.  ISMAY. 


Hamlets  in  the  Parish  of  Mirfield l9 1755. 
Number  of  houses  in  the  parish  of  Mirfield  in  1739  :- 
In  Towngate  Hamlet      -        -        -        058 
„  Leegreen        ,,  -        -        -        108 

„  Northorpe       „  ...        044 

„  Easthorpe       „  -        -  077 

„  Far  Side  Moor  Hamlet       -        -        088 
„  Hopton  „  -         -        082 

Total 452 


Increase  of  houses  in  18  years,  195.  Inhabitants  increased 
at  5  per  house,  695.  Do.  at  6  per  house,  750,  as  appears  by 
my  calculation,  Jan.  27th,  1759. 

J.  ISMAY. 

Sir  Bichard  Weston,  of  Sutton  place,  first  brought  ye  plant- 
ing of  clover  grass  out  of  Flanders  into  England  about  ve  year 
1660. 


208  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 

There  generally  dies  in  the  parish  of  Mirfield  one  person  in 
70  annually,  as  appears  by  an  accurate  calculation,  about  one 
marriage  per  annum  among  100  persons. 

The  number  of  christenings  generally  is  double  to  the  burials 
in  the  year,  the  congregation  at  Church  (which  is  made  up 
mostly  of  the  male  kind,  there  being  generally  nine  men  to  a 
woman)  is  much  smaller  in  winter  than  the  summer  season, 
and  especially  in  the  forenoons. 

Hay  seeds  were  sold  in  1766  for  1/6  and  2/-  the  sack.  Rape 
dust  at  2/6  a  quarter  in  1757. 

1755. — Agriculture  in  Mirfield. 

Tillage  is  ye  most  ancient  and  honourable  employment  in  ye 
world.  The  soil  being  of  very  different  natures,  produces  all 
sorts  of  grain.  Wheat  and  rye  called  hard  corn  are  sown  in 
great  plenty,  barley,  oats  of  various  sorts,  peas,  beans,  vetches, 
rapes,  and  turnips,  with  wolds  for  ye  dyers  are  frequently  sown 
in  Mirfield.  Clover  was  introduced  into  this  parish  about  60 
years  ago,  and  turnips  for  the  feeding  of  cattle  began  to  be 
sown  in  fields  much  later,  and  are  great  improvers  of  land ; 
another  good  piece  of  husbandry  here  is  ye  draining  of  wet 
lands,  and  turning  the  water  over  ye  dry  ground  designed  for 
hay  or  pasture ;  in  ye  winter  and  spring  time  some  sour  marshy 
grounds  are  made  arable  by  spading  the  turf  from  the  surface 
and  then  burning  it  in  heaps ;  this  is  called  pairing  or  burning, 
and  generally  yields  a  plentiful  crop  of  wheat  or  rapes  ye  first 
year  without  any  other  manure  than  ye  turf  ashes. 

For  stiff  lands  there  is  no  better  manure  than  lime  and  coal 
ashes,  this  is  looked  on  to  be  an  excellent  compost,  better 
mixed  than  laid  on  separately. 

We  have  very  little  common  field  land.  The  advantages 
arising  from  inclosures  have  been  long  experienced  in  this 
parish.  The  fence  is  white  thorn,  and  thrives  greatly  with  us, 
being  often  cut  and  kept  in  repair. 

The  other  manure  that  we  improve  land  with  besides  cow 
and  horse  dung,  lime  and  cold  ashes,  is  soot,  soap  ashes,  and 
rape  dust,  but  these  last  are  used  only  by  a  few  persons  in  this 
place,  and  that  but  seldom. 

The  room  next  to  the  garden  at  Castle  Hall  is  ceiled  over 
the  top,  with  ancient  plaster  work  representing  variety  of 
figures,  viz.: — fir  cones,  acorns,  flower  de  luces,  roses,  etc., 
with  the  Beaumont's  paternal  coat  of  arms  (about  the  centre) 
quartered  with  another,  charged  with  rabbits  or  coneys,  but  to 
what  family  these  belong  I  know  not. 

I  have  since  found  by  an  MSS.  in  ye  possession  of  my  good 
friend  Richard  Frank  of  Campsall,  Esqre.,  F.S.A.,  that  the 
Turtons  of  Smallhaigh  and  Millhouse  in  ye  parish  of  Penistone, 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 

had  for  their  arms  A  8  Conies  sejant  S.     (Sejant  in  heraldry 
means  upright.) 

Northorpe  Hall  was  rebuilt  by  Josiah  Sheard,  Tenant,  in 
1701,  as  appears  by  the  figures  covered  over  the  door ;  here 
are  in  the  windows  some  curious  remains  of  painted  glass,  viz : 
Christ's  presentation  in  the  temple,  with  a  venerable  old  man 
representing  Moses,  etc.  The  house  adjoining  this  ancient 
building  was  rebuilt  by  Edward  Thomas,  as  appears  by  these 
letters  and  figures  over  ye  chimney  piece,  in  ye  kitchen,  £.  T., 
1704. 

Mirfield  is  divided  into  six  hamlets,  each  of  which  has  a 
viacurus  or  surveyor  of  the  highways,  annually  chosen  by  the 
Parish,  A.D.  1755. 

Towngate  Hamlet. 

The  church  parsonage  and  vicarage  stand  in  this  hamlet ; 
an  old  studded  building  near  the  church  called  Castle  Hall, 
built  in  1022-1066,  with  a  Danish  Mount  behind  the  house ; 
Upperhall  the  property  of  Mr.  Richard  Shepley,  who  rebuilt  it. 
The  streets,  lanes,  and  highways  in  Towngate: — Kimlane, 
Dunbottle,  High  Lane,  Church  Lane,  Cross  Green  Lane,  etc. 
Here  are  four  public  houses,  viz: — The  Pack  Horse,  Eight 
Bells,  and  the  Horns,  two  blacksmiths,  and  two  shops  for 
groceries. 

Lee  Green  Hamlet. 

This  hamlet  contains  Lee  Green,  Little  London,  Moorside 
to  Foxroid,  Gibhole,  Wellhouse,  Matchcroft,  Nickhouse,  and 
Oreenside. 

Ways  to  be  mentioned  are  the  great  highroad  over  Mirfield 
Moor  to  Robert-town  nr.  Dewyard  Lane,  Wood  Lane,  and  the 
Lane  between  that  and  Matchcroft,  Water  Boyd  Lane,  etc. 
Here  are  8  public  houses,  viz.: — The  Three  Rungs,  The  Swan, 
and  the  Red  Lion.  Three  Butchers*  Shops,  two  Grocers,  and 
a  Moravian  Meeting  House,  with  a  Workhouse  for  the  poor. 
Northorpe  Hamlet. 

Northorp,  an  old  house  which  has  been  rebuilt,  contains 
some  curious  remains  of  painted  glass  in  the  windows,  and  is 
still  called  Northorp  Hall. 

Shillbank,  here  are  some  good  modern  buildings,  near  which 
is  the  late  Dr.  Bolderstone's,  etc.  Northbar,  Crossley,  Field 
Head,  Pate  Lane,  etc. 

The  roads  are  that  leading  to  Nickhouse,  Shill  Bank  Lane, 
that  from  Crossley,  Dall  Lane,  Gill  Lane,  etc.  Akeroid  Lane 
is  only  a  Bridle  Lane,  and  not  repaired  by  any  public. 

Ravens  thorp  Lane  is  maintained  by  the  parish,  here  are  two 
ale-houses,  a  bowling  green,  a  blacksmith's  shop,  and  one  for 
coffee  and  tea.  There's  a  saddler's  shop  in  Shillbank  Lane, 
and  an  attorney's  office.  The  alehouses  are  the  Hare  and 
Hounds  and  the  Cock. 

Y.N.Q.  N 


210  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 

E  as  thorp  Hamlet. 

The  Low  Mill,  Blake  Hall,  a  handsome  new  building,  the 
property  of  William  Turner,  Esq.  Easthorpe  Lane,  consisting 
of  Water  Hall,  an  ancient  studded  building.  Flash  House* 
another  old  fabric,  and  several  modern  ones.  Fold  Head, 
Legard  Mill,  Littlemoor,  Snakehill,  and  Eastcliffe  Bank,  Knowl 
Lane,  Knowl  School,  and  Knowl.  The  ways  are  the  great 
Low  Road,  Knowl  Lane,  etc.  Here  are  three  alehouses,  viz: — 
The  Black  Bull,  ye  Horse  and  Jockey,  and  the  Cock  ;  two  corn 
and  fulling  mills,  two  grocers  and  drapers,  an  apothecary,  the 
free  school,  and  around  the  entrenchment  vulgarly  called 
Kirkstead  by  it.  Easthorpe,  Villa  arabilis. 
Far  Side  Moor  Hamlet. 

Nabstocks  Bank,  West  Mills,  Cinderhill  (built  by  Thos.  Sharp 
in  1638),  Bracken  Hall,  Nunbrook,  near  it  is  Robin  Hoods 
Sepulchral  Monument,  and  the  ruins  of  a  Benedictine  Nunnery. 
Yew  Tree,  an  old  studded  building.  Mock  Beggar  and  Roe 
Head,  two  good  farm  houses,  the  long  range  of  houses  is 
called  Ratton  Row.  The  Warren  House  stands  upon  a  high 
spot  of  ground,  near  which  appears  ye  butts,  which  were  much 
resorted  to  when  ye  long  bow  was  in  use  in  England.  Here  is 
one  road  to  Leeds,  two  to  Wakefield,  besides  a  cross  causeway 
to  ye  mill.  Here  are  three  alehouses,  viz.:  — The  8  Nuns,  a 
Wooden  Head,  and  the  Virgin's  Inn;  one  blacksmith,  one 
butcher,  and  a  grocer's  shop  with  linen  and  woollen  drapery. 
Hopton  Hamlet. 

Liley,  Windy  Bank,  this  house  stands  upon  ye  highest 
ground  in  Hopton,  except  the  great  pinnacle,  Cuckoo  Hill, 
New  Hall,  Row  Houses,  Brier  Knowles,  Hagg,  Hunger  Hill, 
terra  sterilis,  Threaproyd  i.e.  terra  lilis,  Boat  House,  Sheep 
Tug,  Tithe  Laithe,  Han  Bank,  Hollin  Hall,  Hopton  Hall 
Galverts  Clough.  This  hamlet  consists  of  a  great  number  of 
odd  houses  interspersed  among  the  woods,  hills  and  valleys, 
some  of  which  retain  their  old  names  as  above  mentioned. 

The  roads  consist  mostly  of  lanes,  thro'  different  parts  of  ye 
hamlet.  Here  is  a  Presbyterian  Meeting  House  commonly 
called  a  Chapel,  two  blacksmiths,  three  grocers,  one  butcher, 
and  one  alehouse. 

There  are  40  pairs  of  looms  for  weaving  of  white  broad  cloth 
in  the  hamlet  only. 

There  are  a  great  many  springs  and  woods,  viz.: — Oliver 
Car,  Jordan  Roid,  Liley  Wood,  Gregory  Spring,  Whitley  Wood, 
Hagg  Wood,  Balance  Wood,  Briery  Bank,  Chadwick  Wood, 
Crow  Wood,  Little  Hagg,  Liley  Range,  Hepworth  Wood,  Ac. 
These  woods  produce  such  a  number  of  medicinal  plants,  that 
one  of  them  has  got  the  denomination  of  the  Garden  of  Eden. 

Here  is  employment  for  the  Botanist  in  summer,  and  game 
for  the  Sportsman  in  the  winter  season. 


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The  nature  of  the  soil  is  various,  here  is  sand,  clay,  stone, 
gravel,  Ac.  The  lands  consist  of  woods,  arable  pasture, 
meadow,  &c,  some  of  which  are  firm  and  some  fenny  or 
moorish. 

As  to  the  appearance  of  this  Hamlet,  it  is  mostly  hilly, 
rocky,  or  mountainous,  except  the  land  near  the  river.  There 
are  some  excellent  springs,  plenty  of  coal,  stone,  and  oak  wood. 
The  clay  in  Mirfield  is  generally  of  a  yellowish  colour,  hut 
there  is  Borne  at  the  bottom  of  Mr.  Turner's  quarry  in  Hopton, 
of  a  blueish  colour  and  exceedingly  fine  grain.  It  is  remark- 
able that  the  Vicar,  Churchwardens,  Master  and  Scholars  of 
the  Free  School,  &c,  in  Mirfield,  walk  thro'  the  middle  of  a 
garden,  yard,  and  barn,  belonging  to  a  farm  house  in  Kirk- 
heaton  Parish,  in  their  perambulations  in  Kogation  Week, 
when  it  is  customary  to  go  round  the  bounds  and  limits  of  the 
parish  to  beg  a  blessing  on  the  fruits  of  the  earth,  and  preserve 
the  rights  and  properties  of  their  parish. 

The  men  and  the  boys  in  Hopton  employ  themselves  in  the 
Christmas  holidays  in  hunting  the  squirrel,  which  gives  them 
violent  exercise  in  the  woods,  and  affords  them  excellent 
diversion. 

The  dwellings  at  and  about  Hopton  Hall  are  increased  in 
less  than  40  years,  from  three  to  eloven ;  inhabitants,  from  17 
to  80,  as  appears  by  an  exact  calculation  of  a  person  who 
formerly  lived  there,  and  is  now  (1755)  in  the  82nd  year  of  his 
age. 

Some  boggy  wet  ground  in  Hopton,  consisting  of  black  earth 
upwards  of  12  ft.  deep. 

The  following  inscription  is  painted  in  red  character  over 
the  north  door  at  Hopton  Hall,  with  the  order  of  letters  and 
the  words  inverted,  and,  as  in  Hebrew,  read  from  right  to  left : 
Jehovah  Nisi,  i.e.  The  Lord  my  banner,  1695,  Ex.  17,  15. 

Buddie  or  red  chalk  found  in  a  quarry  near  New  Hall,  in 
Hopton. 

About  2  years  ago  only  8  families  lived  on  ye  N.  side  of  Lee 
Green  (between  Gibhole  and  Little  London,)  but  now  the 
number  of  families  amount  to  28,  and  more  new  buildings  are 
about  to  be  erected. 

Crawfish  in  a  small  brook  by  Briery  Bank  in  Hopton. 
Jackroid,  this  affords  an  extensive  prospect  as  well  as  ye  great 
pinnacle  and  Windy  Bank  before  mentioned. 


Btomxfs  ftorksljire  8*nttr*s. 

Thomas  Blount  was  a  barrister  of  the  Temple,  who  lived  in 
the  seventeenth  century.  He  was  a  voluminous  writer,  his 
works  being  chiefly  connected  with  his  profession.  His  best- 
known  work  is  called  "Fragmenta  Antiquitatis,  or  Jocular 


212  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 

Tenures;1*  it  was  first  published  in  1679,  a  new  edition  was 
published  in  1784,  edited  by  Josiah  Beokwith,  another  in  1815, 
edited  by  Hercules  Malebysse  Beck  with,  son  of  the  former 
editor;  a  fourth  edition  was  published  in  1874,  edited  by  Mr. 
W.  Carew  Hazlitt,  of  the  Inner  Temple,  Barrister-at-Law. 

Aislaby. — Richard,  son  of  Wyde  de  Aslabie,  holds  two  earn- 
cates  of  land  by  the  service  of  teaching  one  hare- dog  (liverius) 
belonging  to  the  King. 

[M.S.  penes  Sam.  Roper,  arm.]  Hare-dog,  "  canem  liveri- 
um,"  perhaps  the  same  with  "  leporarium,"  from  the  French, 
lievre.  J.  Beckwith. 

Athwick-(Adwicx)-upon-Deakne. — William  Clarell  formerly 
did  fealty,  and  acknowledged  that  he  held  the  Manor  of 
Adthwyk,  and  paid  every  two  years  towards  keeping  the  castle 
(of  Tick  hill)  each  year  seven  shillings  and  fourpence,  and  every 
third  year  eight  shillings,  and  ten  shillings  to  keep  a  hawk ; 
and  he  said  that  Hugh  Carson,  every  third  year,  paid  fourteen- 
pence  for  his  tenement  in  Athewyk. 

[Ex.  vel.  Rot.  Feodar,  Honoris  de  Tickhill,  penes  F.  F. 
Foljambe,  arm.]  Hawke,  "  osterer."  Probably  miscopied  for 
"ostercum,"  a  gos-hawk,  and  observe,  that  Francis  F.Foljambe, 
esq.,  is  now  seized  of  a  rent  of  4s.  8d.  issuing  out  of  lands  at 
Mexbrough,  the  adjoining  township,  every  third  year,  by  the 
name  of  "  Hawk-silver."  H.  M.  Beckwith. 

Bainton. — In  the  second  year  of  King  Edward  II.,  Peter  de 
Mauley  was  found  to  be  seized  of  the  Manor  of  Bainton,  with 
the  advowson  of  the  church,  by  the  service  of  finding  two 
knights  and  four  esquires  in  the  King's  army  for  forty  days  in 
time  of  war,  and  to  provide  a  steward  to  do  suit  for  him  at  the 
King's  Court  at  York,  from  six  weeks  to  six  weeks. 

[Escalt.  8.  Ed.  II.,  no.  84.] 

Babnby. — Dionysis,  daughter  and  heiress  of  Robert  de  Cropp- 
ing, holds  one  toft  and  four  oxgangs  of  land,  with  the  appurten- 
ances, in  Barneby,  near  Pocklington,  by  the  service  of  finding 
part  of  one  archer  (partem  unius  sagitt')  within  the  King's 
Castle  of  York,  for  forty  days  in  the  time  of  war. — 11  Richard 
II. 

[De  term.  Hil.,  ann.  11.  Ric.  II.,  rot.  1.] 

Bently. — Richard  Scrope  holds  the  manor  of  Bently,  with 
its  members,  for  four  knight's  fees,  and  pays  yearly,  at  the 
Feast  of  St.  Thomas  the  Apostle,  for  castle-guard,  twenty 
shillings;  and  at  the  Purification  of  the  Blessed  Mary,  six 
shillings  and  eightpence ;  and  at  the  Feast  of  Easter,  for  meat 
to  the  watchmen,  eightpence,  and  aid  to  the  Sheriff,  two 
shillings  and  sixpence ;  and  at  the  Feast  of  the  Nativity  of  St. 
John  the  Baptist,  for  castle-guard,  twenty  shillings ;  and  at  the 
Feast  of  St.  Michael,  for  meat  to  the  watchmen,  eightpence, 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES.  218 

and  for  aid  to  the  Sheriff,  two  shillings  and  sixpence ;  and  does 
suit  to  the  Count  from  three  weeks  to  three  weeks. 

[Ex  prcedicto  Eot.  Feodar.] 

This  manor  afterwards  belonged  to  Adam  de  Newmarch ;  and 
19th  Eliz.,  1577,  to  Francis  Wyndham,  Esq.,  and  was  held  by 
the  same  services. 

[Betnrn  of  a  Commission  to  enquire  concerning  the  Honor 
of  Tickhill,  dated  28th  June,  19  Eliz.] 

The  heirs  of  John  Annesly  hold  one  knight's  fee  of  the  said 
four  knight's  fees,  and  pay  to  the  Castle  of  Tickhill,  at  the 
Feast  of  the  Purification  of  the  Blessed  Mary,  twelve  pence, 
and  more  eightpence  half-penny. 

[Ex  prcedicto  Rot.  Feodar.] 

Bradford. — This  manor  belonged  to  John  of  Gaunt,  who 
granted  to  John  Northrop  of  Manningham,  an  adjoining  village, 
and  his  heirs,  three  messuages  and  six  bovates  of  land,  to  come 
to  Bradford,  on  the  blowing  of  a  horn  on  St.  Martin's  Day  in 
winter,  and  wait  on  him  and  his  heirs,  in  their  way  from 
Blackburnshire,  with  a  lance  and  hunting-dog  for  thirty  days, 
to  have  for  yeoman's  board,  one  penny  for  himself  and  a  half- 
penny for  his  dog,  &c,  for  going  with  the  receiver  or  bailiff  to 
conduct  him  safe  to  the  Castle  of  Pontefract.  A  descendant  of 
Northrop  afterwards  granted  land  in  Horton  to  Bushworth,  of 
Horton,  another  adjoining  village,  to  hold  the  bound  while 
Northrop's  man  blew  the  horn.  These  are  called  "Hornman" 
or  "Hornblow  "  lands,  and  the  custom  is  still  kept  up :  a  man 
coming  into  the  market-place  with  a  horn,  halbert  and  dog,  is 
met  by  the  owner  of  tbe  lands  in  Horton.  After  proclamation 
made,  the  former  calls  out  aloud,  "  Heirs  of  Bushworth,  come 
hold  me  my  hound,  whilst  I  blow  three  blasts  of  my  horn,  to 
pay  the  rent  due  to  our  "  Sovereign  Lord  the  King."  He  then 
delivers  the  string  to  the  man  from  Horton,  and  winds  his 
horn  thrice.  The  original  horn,  resembling  that  of  Tutbury  in 
Staffordshire,  is  still  preserved,  though  stripped  of  its  silver 
ornaments. 

[Gough's  Camd.  Brit.  edit.  1789,  vol.  iii.,  p.  45.] 

Braithweix. — In  the  seventh  year  of  the  reign  of  King 
Richard  II.,  1888,  William  Cownall  held  a  tenement  in  Braith- 
well,  by  homage,  fealty,  Ac,  and  suit  of  court  to  the  manor  of 
Conisborough,  and  by  finding  one  footman  ( hominem  peditum J 
to  guard  the  Castle  for  forty  days,  in  time  of  war,  at  his  own 
proper  costs.  At  the  Court  held  at  Conisborough  the  24th  of 
August,  18  Hen.  IV.,  1412,  William  Eylmyn  did  fealty  to  the 
Lord,  and  acknowledged  that  he  held  of  him  one  messuage, 
one  toft,  and  nineteen  acres  of  land,  in  Braithwell,  in  right  of 
his  wife,  lately  belonging  to  William  Cresey,  by  homage,  fealty, 
and  the  service  of  ten  shillings  a  year  rent,  and  by  suit  of  court 


214  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 

to  the  Court  of  Conisborough,  from  three  weeks  to  three  weeks, 
and  by  suit  to  the  Lord's  mill  at  Conisborough,  &c. 

[Ex.  Cop.  Rot.  Cur.  penes  edit.  H.  M.  B.] 

Brook-house. — A  farm  a  Brook-house,  in  Langsett,  in  the 
parish  of  Penis  ton,  pays  yearly  to  Godfrey  Bosville,  Esq.,  ft 
snowball  at  Midsummer,  and  a  red  rose  at  Christmas. 

[Extracted  from  the  writings  of  Godfrey  Bosville,  of  Gun- 
thwaite,  Esq.,  and  communicated  to  the  editor  (H.  M.  B.)  by 
John  Wilson,  of  Broomhead,  Esq.] 

Brotherton. — Not  far  from  the  church  of  Brotherton  is  a 
place  of  twenty  acres,  surrounded  by  a  trenoh  and  wall,  where, 
as  tradition  says,  stood  the  house  in  which  the  Queen  of 
Edward  I.  was  delivered  of  a  son.  The  tenants  are  still  bound 
to  keep  it  surrounded  by  a  wall  of  stone. 

[Gough's  Camd.  Brit.,  edit.  1789,  vol.  iii.,  p.  46.] 

Carlcoats. — Two  farms  at  Carlcoats,  in  the  parish  of  Peni- 
stone,  pay  to  Godfrey  Bosville,  Esq.,  the  one  a  right-hand,  and 
the  other  a  left-hand  glove,  yearly. 

[From  the  writings  of  Godfrey  Bosville.] 

Carlton -juxta-Rothwell. — William  Hunt,  of  Carlton-by- 
Bothwell,  holdeth  freely  from  all  services  and  demands  (except 
one  rose  in  the  time  of  roses,  if  demanded)  in  Carlton  aforesaid, 
one  capital  messuage,  six  curtilages,  four  cottages,  two  carneals 
(carucates)  of  land  and  meadow,  and  six  assarts  inseparable  at 
all  times  in  the  year,  with  their  appurtenances,  of  the  Earl  of 
Lincoln  (Henry  de  Lacy),  as  of  his  manor  of  Both  well,  and  the 
same  William  and  his  heirs  shall  have  and  for  ever  enjoy,  in 
the  manor  of  the  said  Earl  there,  without  the  park  there,  a 
leash  of  greyhounds  and  six  hounds,  and  the  said  William  and 
his  heirs  shall  be  ready  and  prepared,  when  they  shall  be 
required  by  the  forester  there  for  the  time  being  of  the  afore- 
said Earl  and  his  heirs,  with  the  greyhounds  and  hunting- 
hounds  aforesaid,  to  hunt  and  kill  fat  venison  of  the  aforesaid 
Earl  and  his  heirs  in  venison  season  in  the  said  park. 

[Ex.  Record,  18  Edward  vi.] 

Cotingham.— Margaret,  Duchess  of  Clarence,  one  of  the 
sisters  and  heirs  of  Edward,  late  Earl  of  Kent,  held  the  manor 
of  Cotingham  of  the  King  by  grand  serjeantry,  viz.,  by  the 
service  of  finding  one  horseman,  or  esquire,  sufficiently  armed, 
to  carry  the  coat  of  mail  (Inricam)  of  our  Lord  the  King,  in  his 
war  with  Wales,  at  her  own  proper  costs,  for  forty  days,  if 
there  should  be  a  war  in  Wales. 

[De  term.  Mich.,  ann.  4  Hen.  vi.  Harl.  MS.  Brit.  Mus.  84, 
pp.  488,  489.1 

[Note. — The  words  here  translated,  "  horseman  or  esquire,'* 
are  "  unum  armigerum  equitem."  It  would,  I  think,  be  more 
correct  to  translate  "one  horse  soldier,"  or  perhaps,  "one 
mounted  esquire  "  would  be  better  still. — W.P.B.] 


YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES.        215 

Cuckwold. — Sir  Thomas  Colevyle,  Knight,  holds  the  manor 
of  Cuckwold,  of  Thomas,  late  Lord  de  Mowbray,  as  of  his 
manor  of  Threke  (Thirsk),  rendering  one  target  or  shield,  with 
the  arms  of  the  said  Lord  painted  thereon,  yearly  at  Whitsun- 
tide. 

[Escalt.  6  Hen.  vi.  no.  48.] 

Danegate. — John  Thwaytes,  and  Joan,  his  wife,  held  the 
manor  of  Danegate  ("Danygate  "),  in  the  county  of  York, 
called  the  Prison  of  the  Lardonary,  with  the  appurtenances,  of 
our  Lord  the  King,  by  the  service  of  keeping  the  King's  gaol  in 
his  forest  of  Galtres,  receiving  every  year  of  our  Lord  the  King 
and  his  heirs  for  keeping  the  said  gaol  £1  12s.  Id.  by  the  hands 
of  the  Sheriff  of  the  county  aforesaid,  for  the  time  being,  at 
Easter  and  Michaelmas,  by  equal  portions,  and  two  oaks  every 
year  in  the  forest  aforesaid,  and  one  buck  in  summer  and  one 
doe  in  winter  every  year  within  the  said  forest,  and  with  liberty 
to  hunt  foxes  and  hares  in  the  said  forest  at  all  times  in  the 
year. 

[De  term.  Hil.,  ann.  4  Hen.  vi.,  Harl.  MS.  Brit.  Mus.  84, 
p.*441.] 

Doxgasteb. — At  this  place,  on  the  5th  November  yearly, 
whether  it  happens  on  a  Sunday  or  any  other  day  of  the.  week, 
the  town  waits  play  for  some  time  on  the  top  of  the  church 
steeple,  at  the  time  when  the  congregation  are  coming  out  of 
church  from  Morning  service,  the  tune  of  "God  Save  the  King." 
This  has  been  done  since  1700  at  least,  and  very  possibly  ever 
since  the  5th  November  has  been  a  festival,  except  that  form- 
erly the  tune  played  was  "Britons  Strike  Home.1'  The  waits 
always  receive  from  the  churchwardens  sixpence  apiece  for  this 
service.  [Letter  from  the  Bev.  Mr.  Scott,  of  Doncaster,  dated 
17th  November,  1780.] 

Elmsaix. — John  Besett  gave  to  the  King  eight-pence  for  his 
relief  for  forty-eight  acres  of  land  in  Elmesale,  which  John,  his 
father,  held  of  the  King  by  the  service  of  paying  at  the  Castle 
of  Pontefracc  one  pair  of  gloves  furred  with  fox's  skin,  or  eight- 
pence  yearly. 

[De  term.  Mich.,  ann.  2  Edw.  iii.  Harl.  MS.,  Brit.  Mus. 
84.  p.  96.] 

[An  heiress  of  Bissett  brought  this  estate  to  a  branch  of  the 
Wentworth  family.  See  Tong's  Visitation  of  Yorkshire. 
W.P.B.] 

Gowthobp,  Billingley,  and  Swinton. —  Our  Lord  the  King 
had  eighteen  bovates  of  land  and  a  half  in  Goul thorp,  Billinge- 
lay,  and  Swinton,  which  were  his  escheats,  and  he  gave  them 
to  Daniel  Pincerna,  by  the  service  of  one  sextary  of  wine,  with 
the  flaskets,  to  be  rendered  at  London  at  the  Feast  of  St. 
Michael.    The  land  was  worth  five  marks. 


216  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 

[Testa  de  Nevil,  p.  875.]  Sextary,  about  a  pint  and  a  half, 
sometimes  more.  Blount.  Flasket,  flaskettum,  a  kind  of 
basket.  Blount.  Probably  a  small  bottle  covered  with  basket- 
work,  a  "  twiggen-bottle,"  Othello,  act  ii,  sc.  8. 

Gunthwaite. — In  the  year  1588  the  following  rents  were 
paid  to  Francis  Bosville,  lord  of  this  manor,  ancestor  of  Godfrey 
Bosville,  Esq.,  viz. : — 

George  Blunt,  gent.,  paid  two  broad  arrows  with  heads. 

James  Bilcliffe  paid  a  pair  of  gloves. 

Thomas  Wardsworth,  for  Boughbanks,  paid  a  thwittle. 

[From  the  writings  of  Godfrey  Bosville.] 

Halifax. — Mr.  Hazlitt  gives  an  account  of  the  Gibbet,  from 
Watson's  History  of  Halifax,  p.  214,  et  seq. 

Hunshelf. — A  farm  called  Unshriven  Bridge  (vulgo  Unsliven 
Brigg),  in  Hunshelfe,  in  the  parish  of  Penistone,  pays  yearly  to 
Godfrey  Bosville,  Esq.,  of  Gunthwaite,  in  the  same  parish,  two 
broad-headed  and  feathered  arrows. 

[From  the  writings  of  Godfrey  Bosville.] 

Hutton-Conyers. — Near  this  town,  which  lies  a  few  miles 
from  Rip  on,  there  is  a  large  common,  called  Hutton-Conyers 
Moor,  whereof  William  Aislabie,  Esq.,  of  Studley  Royal  (Lord 
of  the  Manor  of  Hutton-Conyers),  is  lord  of  the  soil,  and  on 
which  there  is  a  large  coney  warren  belonging  to  the  Lord. 
The  occupiers  of  messuages  and  cottages  within  the  several 
towns  of  Hutton-Conyers,  Melmerby,  Baldersby,  Bainton, 
Dishforth,  and  He  wick,  have  right  of  estray  for  their  sheep  to 
certain  limited  boundaries  on  the  common,  and  each  township 
has  a  shepherd. 

The  lord's  shepherd  bas  a  pre-eminence  of  tending  his  sheep 
on  any  part  of  the  common,  and  wherever  he  herds  the  lord's 
sheep  the  several  other  shepherds  are  to  give  way  to  him,  and 
give  up  their  hooiing-place  so  long  as  he  pleases  to  depasture 
the  lord's  sheep  thereon.  The  lord  holds  his  court  the  first 
day  in  the  year,  and  to  entitle  those  several  townships  to  such 
right  of  estray,  the  shepherd  of  each  township  attends  the 
court,  and  does  fealty  by  bringing  to  the  court  a  large  apple 
pie  and  a  twopenny  sweet  cake,  except  the  shepherd  of  Hewick, 
who  compounds  by  paying  sixteenpence  for  ale  (which  is  drunk 
as  after-mentioned)  and  a  wooden  spoon ;  each  pie  is  cut  in 
two  and  divided  by  the  bailiff,  one-half  between  the  steward, 
bailiff,  and  the  tenant  of  the  coney  warren  before-mentioned, 
and  the  other  half  into  six  parts,  and  divided  amongst  the  6ix 
shepherds  of  the  before-mentioned  six  townships.  In  the  pie 
brought  by  the  shepherd  of  Rain  ton  an  inner  one  is  made 
filled  with  prunes.  The  cakes  are  divided  in  the  same  manner. 
The  bailiff  of  the  manor  provides  furmety  and  mustard,  and 
delivers  to  each  shepherd  a  slice  of  cheese  and  a  penny  roll. 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES.  217 

The  furmety,  well  mixed  with  mustard,  is  put  into  an  earthen 
pot  and  placed  in  a  hole  in  the  ground,  in  a  garth  belonging  to 
{he  bailiff's  house,  to  which  place  the  steward  of  the  court,  the 
bailiff,  the  tenant  of  the  warren,  and  the  six  shepherds  adjourn, 
with  their  respective  wooden  spoons.  The  bailiff  provides 
spoons  for  the  bteward,  the  tenant  of  the  warren,  and  himself. 
The  steward  first  pays  respect  to  the  furmety  by  taking  a  large 
spoonful,  the  bailiff  has  the  next  honour,  the  tenant  of  the 
warren  next,  then  the  shepherd  of  Hutton-Conyers,  and  after- 
wards the  other  shepherds  by  regular  turns ;  then  each  person 
is  served  with  a  glass  of  ale  (paid  for  by  the  sixteen -pence 
brought  by  the  Hewick  shepherd),  and  the  health  of  the  Lord 
of  the  Manor  is  drunk ;  then  they  adjourn  back  to  the  bailiffs 
house,  and  the  further  business  of  the  court  is  proceeded  with. 

[From  a  letter  addressed  by  Mr.  Henry  Atkinson,  of  Eipon, 
to  the  editor  H.  M.  Beckwith,  dated  19th  January,  1778.] 

In  addition  to  the  above  account,  which  the  editor  received 
from  the  steward  of  the  court,  he  learned  the  following  par- 
ticulars from  a  Mr.  Barrowby,  of  Dishforth,  who  has  several 
times  attended  the  court,  and  observed  the  customs  used  there : 
He  says  that  each  pie  contains  about  a  peck  of  flour,  is  about 
16  or  18  inches  in  diameter,  and  as  large  as  will  go  into  the 
mouth  of  an  ordinary  oven;  that  the  bailiff  of  the  manor 
measures  them  with  a  rule,  and  compasses  them  into  four  equal 
parts,  of  which  the  steward  claims  one,  the  warrener  another, 
and  the  remainder  is  divided  amongst  the  shepherds.  In 
respect  to  the  furmety,  he  says  that  the  top  of  the  dish  in 
which  it  is  put  is  placed  level  with  the  surface  of  the  ground ; 
that  all  persons  present  are  invited  to  eat  of  it,  and  those  who 
do  not  are  not  deemed  loyal  to  the  lord ;  that  every  shepherd 
is  obliged  to  eat  of  it,  and  for  that  purpose  is  obliged  to  take  a 
spoon  in  his  pocket  to  the  court,  for  if  any  one  of  them  neglects 
to  carry  a  spoon  with  him  he  is  to  lay  him  down  upon  his 
belly,  and  sup  the  furmety  with  his  face  to  the  pot  or  dish  ;  at 
which  time  it  is  usual,  by  way  of  sport,  for  some  of  the  by- 
standers to  dip  his  face  into  the  furmety;  and  sometimes  a 
shepherd,  for  the  sake  of  diversion,  will  purposely  leave  his 
spoon  at  home. 

Lanowath. — On  the  18th  of  the  Calends  of  January  (20th 
December),  1279,  the  Chapter  of  St.  Peter  of  York  granted  to 
farm  to  J.  S.  all  their  Hay  of  Laugwath,  with  the  soil  of  the 
same  Hay,  heath,  marsh,  and  all  other  appurtenances,  render- 
ing therefor  yearly  to  them  in  the  buck  season  one  buck,  and 
in  the  doe  season  one  doe. 

[Ex  ipso  autographo.] 

Lbtwell. — Thomas  de  Lettewelle  holds  one  acre  of  land  in 
Lettewelle  by  serjeanty,  and  he  is  to  receive  one  hound  at  the 
Nativity  of  the  Blessed  Mary,  and  to  keep  it  the  whole  winter, 


218  YOBKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 

and  to  have  every  day  for  keeping  it  threepence  half-penny. 
It  appears  in  the  book  of  fees  that  eight  oxgangs  of  land  were 
held  of  the  Honour  of  Tickhill  by  the  same  service. 

[Ex  prcedicto  Rot.  Feodar.] 

Levington. — Adam  de  Br  us,  lord  of  Skelton,  gave  in  marriage 
with  his  daughter  Isabel,  to  Henry  de  Percy,  eldest  son  and 
heir  of  Joceline  de  Lovain,  the  manor  of  Levington,  for  which 
he  and  his  heirs  were  to  repair  to  Skelton  Castle  every  Christ- 
mas Day,  and  lead  the  Lady  of  the  Castle  from  her  chamber  to 
the  chapel  for  mass,  and  thence  to  her  chamber  again,  and, 
after  dining  with  her,  to  depart. 

[Circ.  temp.  Ric.  I.  vel.  Joh.  Regis.  Great  Percy  chartulary, 
fo.  60.     Collin8's  Peerage,  vol.  2,  pa.  97,  edit.  5.] 

Mexbobough. — The  tenants  of  the  land  of  Roger  Bacon  did 
fealty,  and  acknowledged  that  they  held  in  M  ex  borough  four 
oxgangs  of  land,  and  paid  every  two  years  for  keeping  the 
Castle  (of  Tickhill),  in  each  year,  two  shillings  and  four  pence, 
and  the  third  year  they  paid  nothing ;  and  they  came  to  the 
two  great  courts. 

[Ex  proedict.  Rot.  Feodar.] 

Query  if  this  was  not  the  famous  friar,  Roger  Bacon ;  for 
there  is  a  tradition  that  he  was  a  native  of  this  part  of  York- 
shire, and  that  his  brazen  head  was  set  up  in  a  Held  at  Roth- 
well,  near  Leeds,  where  the  editor  was  born.       J.  Beckwith. 

[Note. — Roger  Bacon  is  said  to  have  been  born  near  Ilches- 
ter,  co.  Somerset,  in  1214.  I  do  not  understand  what  is  meant 
by  the  allusion  to  the  brazen  head,  and  should  like  an  expla- 
nation.—W.  P.  B.] 

Newbiogin. — The  Knights  of  St.  John  of  Jerusalem  in  Eng- 
land, had  at  Newbigging  thirteen  oxgangs  of  land  of  assize  held 
by  these  men — Baldwin  held  one  oxgang  for  two  shillings  and 
a  half,  and  two  hens,  and  twenty  eggs,  and  four  days'  work  in 
autumn,  with  one  man,  to  plough  twice,  to  harrow  twice,  to 
mow  once,  to  make  hay  once,  and,  when  necessary,  to  repair 
the  mill-dam,  and  carry  the  mill-stones,  and  to  wash  sheep  one 
day,  and  to  shear  them  another ;  Bertram  and  Osbert,  for  one 
oxgang  of  land,  paid  thirty  pence,  and  did  service  as  aforesaid, 
&c.  And  be  it  known  that  all  cottagers  ought  to  spread  and 
cock  hay  once,  and  to  wash  and  shear  sheep,  and  repair  the 
mill-dam,  as  those  which  held  one  oxgang  of  land. 

[Inquis.  capt.  ann.  1185.     Mon.  Aug.  torn,  ii,  pa.  589.] 

North  Gyneldale. — Thomas  de  Walkingham,  son  and  heir 
of  John  de  Walkingham,  gives  to  the  King  six  marks,  for  his 
relief,  for  tenements  in  North  Gyneldall  and  East  Gineldale, 
which  he  held  by  the  service  of  finding  one  balistar  towards 
fortifying  the  castle  of  York  in  time  of  war.     80  Ed.  I. 

[De  term.  Hil.  ann.  80  Edw.  I.  Harl.  MS.  Brit.  Mas.,  84. 
pa.  24.]     Now  Great  and  Little  Givendale.    W.P.B. 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES.  219 

Okston  and  Dalton. — Anketil  Malore  holds  certain  lands 
and  ten  shillings  rent,  in  Oketon  and  Dalton,  by  serjeanty  to 
the  King  by  archery  (per  archeriamj  which  land  the  King  gave 
to  the  said  Anketil  in  marriage  with  the  daughter  and  heir  of 
William  de  Muletorp ;  and  he  holds  the  aforesaid  land  of  one 
archery  for  finding  one  servant  towards  the  guarding  of  the 
Castle  of  York  in  time  of  war,  for  forty  days,  at  his  own  proper 
charge.  He  has  also  to  find  a  servant  to  conduct  the  treasure 
of  our  Lord  the  King  throughout  the  whole  county  at  his  own 
proper  charge,  and  out  of  the  county  at  the  charge  of  our  Lord 
the  King. 

[Plac.  coron.  15  Hen.  III.     Ebor.  rot.  i,  dors.] 

Oxspbing. — In  the  year  1572,  John  Waynwright,  Wytwell 
Hall,  in  Hallamshire  (in  the  manor  of  Bolsterstone),  paid  to 
Godfrey  Bosvilie,  Esq.,  Lord  of  the  manor  of  Oxspring,  "  two 
grett  brode  arrows  well  hedyd,  and  barbyd  ordrly." 

[From  the  writings  of  Godfrey  Bosvilie.] 

Poluhoton. — The  Manor  of  Pollington,  near  Snaith,  is  copy- 
hold, and  the  custom  is  there  that  if  a  copyholder  dies  seised  of 
lands,  having  no  issue  male,  but  having  daughters,  and  does 
not  surrender  it  to  them  in  his  lifetime,  the  same  shall  escheat 
to  the  Lord  of  the  Manor,  and  the  daughters  shall  not  inherit. 
Sir  Henry  Savile,  of  Methley,  Baronet,  purchased  this  manor 
of  Sir  Thomas  Metham,  Knight,  and  John  Savile,  of  Methley 
aforesaid,  Esq.,  now  enjoyeth  the  same,  1674. 

[Ex.  MS.  in  Bibliotheca,  Monast.  Ebor.] 

Ripon. — There  are  the  remains  of  a  very  ancient  custom 
once  generally  observed  here  by  the  inhabitants.  On  Mid- 
summer Eve,  every  housekeeper  (i.e.  householder)  who  has  in 
that  year  changed  his  residence  into  a  new  neighbourhood 
(there  being  certain  limited  districts  called  neighbourhoods), 
spreads  a  table  before  his  door  in  the  street  with  bread,  cheese, 
and  ale,  for  those  that  choose  to  resort  to  it,  where,  after  stay- 
ing awhile,  if  the  master  is  of  ability,  the  company  are  invited 
to  supper,  and  the  evening  is  concluded  with  mirth  and  good 
humour.  The  introduction  of  this  custom  is  immorial,  but  it 
seems  to  have  been  instituted  for  the  purpose  of  introducing 
new  comers  to  an  early  acquaintance  with  their  neighbours ;  or 
it  may  have  been  with  the  more  laudable  design  of  settling 
differences  by  the  meeting  and  mediation  of  friends.  The 
feast  of  St.  Wilfrid,  celebrated  annually  at  this  place,  continues 
nearly  a  week.  On  the  Saturday  after  Lammas  Day  an  effigy 
of  the  Prelate  is  brought  into  the  town,  preceded  by  music  ;  the 
people  go  out  to  meet  it  and,  with  every  demonstration  of  joy, 
commemorate  the  return  of  their  former  patron  from  exile. 
The  next  day  is  dedicated  to  him,  being  here  called  St.  Wilfray's 
Sunday. 

[Hist,  of  Ilipon,  pp.  46,  47.] 


220        YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

Sheffield. — [What  follows  is  a  revised  translation  of  the 
title  of  a  roll,  as  given  by  •'E.G."  in  a  letter  to  the  Gentleman's 
Magazine,  vol.  84,  p.  829.] 

From  the  office  of  the  Escheator,  89,  Edw.  III.,  after  the 
death  of  Thomas,  Lord  de  Furnival,  comity  of  York ;  the  Castle 
and  Lordship  of  Sheffield,  with  its  members  and  appurtenances, 
are  held  of  our  Lord  the  King  in  capite,  as  of  his  crown,  by 
homage  and  fealty,  and  by  the  service  of  one  Knight's  Fee,  and 
by  the  service  of  paying  to  the  King  and  his  heirs  yearly  two 
white  greyhounds  ( leporarios )  on  the  Feast  of  the  Nativity  of 
St.  John  the  Baptist. 

(There  is  a  long  note  here  as  to  whether  the  correct  reading 
is  •'  lepores"  hares,  or  "  leporarios"  greyhounds.  The  various 
editors  of  Blount,  and  others,  have  given  their  opinions,  which 
are  mostly  in  favour  of  "hares."  With  great  deference,  I 
venture  to  say  that,  in  my  opinion,  the  greyhound  theory  is 
much  more  likely  to  be  correct.— W.P.B.) 

At  this  place  there  was  a  custom  formerly  used,  that  those 
persons  who  held  lands  of  the  Manor  of  Sheffield,  by  Knight's 
service,  met  yearly  in  the  Wicker,  near  that  town,  on  Easter- 
Tuesday,  dressed  in  armour  and  on  horse-back,  and  were  there 
drawn  up  by  a  captain,  and  proceeded  from  thence  to  the  Town 
Hall  and  back  again ;  after  which  parade  they  had  a  dinner 
provided  for  them  by  the  lord's  steward.  The  person  whose 
duty  it  was  to  act  as  captain  of  this  company  was  John  Wilson, 
Esq.,  of  Broomhead,  who  for  soveral  years  employed  one 
Thomas  Bam  forth,  a  scissor-3inith,  as  his  deputy,  to  officiate 
for  him,  to  whom  he  used  to  lend  his  horse  and  sword  for  the 
day;  and  this  Bamforth,  by  leading  up  the  men  in  that  manner 
for  several  years  acquired  the  name  of  Captain  Bamforth. 

In  the  pleadings  upon  a  writ  of  Quo  Warranto  brought 
against  Thomas  de  Furnival,  before  John  de  Yallibus  and  other 
Justices  Itinerant,  at  York,  7  Edw.  I.,  1279,  he  claimed  to 
cause  an  assembly  of  all  his  men  in  Hallamshire  to  be  held 
every  year  after  Easter,  for  the  confirming  of  the  peace  of  the 
King,  in  the  place  of  the  Great  Tourne.  This  account  was  had 
by  Josiah  Beckwith,  the  editor  of  the  1784  edition,  from  John 
Wilson,  Esq.,  of  Broomhead,  a  gentleman  well  skilled  in  the 
science  of  antiquities,  son  to  the  Mr.  Wilson  whose  deputy, 
Captain  Bamforth  was.  Mr.  Wilson  says  he  does  not  know  how 
his  ancestors  came  to  head  up  the  men,  as  there  were  gentlemen 
of  more  landed  property  in  the  manors,  which  comprehended 
Sheffield,  Hands  worth,  Whiston,  Treeton,  &c,  but  thinks  it  took 
rise  from  Adam  Wilson,  of  Broomhead,  his  ancestor,  who  was 
shield-bearer,  or  esquire,  to  the  said  Lord  Furnival,  and  had 
lands  given  him  in  Wigtwisle,  near  Broomhead,  which  Mr. 
Wilson  still  possesses,  for  his  good  services  in  the  wars  against 
the   Scots ;   in  which  grant   Thomas  de  Furnival  calls  him 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES.  221 

"  scutiger  mens,"  and  gives  him  the  lands  "pro  bono  servitio 
sno  in  guerram  contra  Scotos."  This  custom,  Mr.  Wilson 
says,  was  kept  up  till  the  year  1715  or  1716,  when  it  was  quite 
dropped,  but  for  what  reason  he  knows  not,  unless  the  Duke  of 
Norfolk,  who  was  then  lord  of  the  district  of  Hallamshire,  and 
was  a  Roman  Catholic,  thought  it  prudent  so  to  do,  lest  some 
hundreds  of  his  tenants,  so  arrayed,  should  give  offence  to  the 
Govenment,  especially  at  that  time.  Mr.  Wilson  further  says 
he  was  told  by  Mr.  Andrew  Wade  and  Mr.  Thomas  Eadford, 
two  old  master  cutlers,  who  could  remember  this  custom 
several  years,  that  it  was  usual  to  hang  a  large  bag  filled  with 
sand  upon  the  bough  of  a  tree  in  the  wicker,  with  a  number  of 
small  rings  fastened  to  it,  at  which  they  tilted  full  gallop  with 
their  swords  drawn ;  if  they  missed  running  their  swords  into 
one  of  the  rings,  the  bag  came  back  with  such  force  that  it 
knocked  them  off  the  horse's  back,  which  was  good  sport  for 
the  bystanders. 

According  to  a  writer  in  the  Builder,  March  26 bh,  1870,  there 
is  a  custom  here  of  granting  leases  for  800  years. 

Softley. — A  farm  at  Softley,  in  the  parish  of  Penistone,  pays 
yearly  to  the  Bosvilles  of  Gunthwaite  a  whittle. 

[From  the  writings  of  Godfrey  Bosville.] 

Strafpobd  Wapentake. — Thomas  Garnifex  holds  of  our  lord 
the  King,  in  capite'  the  manor  of  R  (sic)  by  the  sergeanty  of 
finding  for  him  in  his  army  in  Wales  one  horse,  one  bill,  one 
pin,  (brochiam)  and  one  sack,  &c. ;  and  the  aforesaid  Thomas 
was  amerced  for  the  unjust  detention. 

[Plac.  Coron.  7  Edw.  I.  Ebor.] 

Swinton. — William  FitzDaniel  holds  four  oxgangs  and  a  half 
of  land  in  Swinton,  paying  therefor  yearly  one  flasket,  &c. 

[Plac.  Coron.  15  Hen.  III.  Ebor.  rot.  17.]  Vide  under 
Goulthorp. 

Two  farms  lying  in  this  township  which  belong  to  Earl  Fitz- 
william,  late  in  the  occupations  of  John  Mercer  and  Richard 
Thompson,  every  year  change  their  parish  ;  for  one  year,  from 
Easter-day  at  twelve  noon  till  next  Easter-day  at  the  same 
honr,  they  lie  in  the  parish  of  Mexborough,  and  then  till  the 
Easter-day  following  at  the  same  hour  they  are  in  the  parish 
of  Wath-upon-Dearne,  and  so  alternately.  These  farms  con- 
sist of  about  802  acres. 

[H.  M.  Beckwith,  1815.] 

Tinsley. — William  de  London  holds  Tinneslowe  by  serjeanty, 
and  he  is  to  receive  a  hawk  at  the  feast  of  St.  Michael,  and  to 
train  and  teach  it  custodire  the  whole  winter,  and  to  have  for 
training  it  sevenpence  halfpenny  every  day  out  of  the  lord's 
purse  for  his  service ;  and  his  horses  were  to  be  appraised  if 
they  died  in  the  same  service,  and  the  lord  was  to  pay  him  the 
price. 


222  Y0BK8HIRE    N0TE8    AND    QUERIES. 

William  Wyntworth  holds  his  tenements  in  Tynneslowe  by 
the  service  of  training  and  teaching  custodiendum  a  hawk,  as 
above ;  and  Thomas  Denman  holds  the  other  moiety  in  Tynnes- 
lowe by  the  same  service. 

[Ex  prcediot.  Rot.  Feodar.] 

Ulf's  Lands. — About  the  time  of  King  Canute  the  Dane,  Ulf, 
the  son  of  Thorold,  a  prince  of  that  nation,  governed  in  the 
western  part  of  Deira,  that  division  of  the  ancient  kingdom  of 
Northumbria  which  was  bounded  by  the  river  Humber  south- 
wards, and  to  the  north  by  the  Tyne,  which  continued  so  dis- 
tinguished under  the  Danes,  but  is  now  better  known  by  the 
name  of  Yorkshire,  and  the  five  other  northern  counties  of 
England.  "This  prince,  by  reason  of  a  difference  like  to 
happen  between  his  eldest  son  and  his  youngest,  about  his 
estate  after  his  death,  presently  took  this  course  to  make  them 
equal ;  without  delay  he  went  to  York,  and  taking  with  him  the 
horn,  wherein  he  was  wont  to  drink,  he  filled  it  with  wine,  and 
kneeling  upon  his  knees  before  the  altar,  bestowed  upon  God 
and  the  blessed  St.  Peter,  Prince  of  the  Apostles,  all  his  lands 
and  revenues."  [Camd.  Brit.  tit.  Yorkshire,  West  Biding.] 
The  figure  of  which  horn,  in  memory  thereof,  is  cut  in  stone 
upon  several  parts  of  the  choir,  but  the  horn  itself,  about  King 
Edward  VI's  time,  is  supposed  to  have  been  sold  to  a  gold- 
smith, who  took  away  from  it  those  tippings  of  gold  wherewith 
it  was  adorned,  and  the  gold  chain  affixed  thereto ;  it  is  certain 
that  it  was  remaining  among  many  other  ornaments,  and  pre- 
sented in  the  Sacristy  at  York  in  the  time  of  King  Henry  VIII. , 
some  time  before  the  Reformation ;  where  it  lay  from  the 
time  of  King  Edward  VI.  till  it  fortunately  came  into  the  hands 
of  Thomas,  Lord  Fairfax,  General  of  the  Parliament  Army, 
there  is  no  account ;  but  he  being  a  lover  of  antiquities,  took 
care  to  preserve  it  during  the  confusions  of  the  civil  wars ;  and 
dying  in  1651,  it  came  into  the  possession  of  his  next  relation, 
Henry,  Lord  Fairfax,  who  restored  it  again  to  its  first  re- 
pository, where  it  now  remains  a  noble  monument  of  modern 
as  well  as  ancient  piety. 

As  to  its  present  condition,  its  beauty  is  not  in  the  least  im- 
paired by  age,  it  being  of  ivory,  (of  an  eight-square  form) — the 
carving  is  very  durable,  and  it  is  ornamented  in  the  circum- 
ference, at  the  larger  extremity,  with  the  figures  of  two  griffins, 
a  lion,  unicorn,  dogs,  and  trees  interspersed  in  bas  relief,  and 
where  the  plates  are  fixed,  with  a  foliage  after  the  taste  of  those 
times. 

Lord  Fairfax  supplied  the  want  of  the  plates,  which  anciently 
embellished  this  horn,  honoured  in  all  probability  with  the 
name  of  the  donor,  (the  loss  of  which  original  inscription  can 
only  be  lamented,  not  retrieved)  and  substituted  the  present 
one,  with  the  chain  of  silver  gilt. 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 

CORNY  HOG  VLPHV8,  IN  OGCIDENTALI  PARTE  DEIRAE  PRINCEPS, 

YNA  GVM  0MNIBV3  TERRJS  ET  REDDITI3YS  SYIS 

OLIM  DONAYIT: 

ADMISSYM  YEL  ABREPTVM 

HENRICY8  D«  FAIRFAX  OEMYM  RE8TITVIT  DEC.  ET  CAP  OE  NOVO 

ORNAVIT.  AN.  DOM.  1675. 

[Arclucologia,  vol.  i.,  p.  168,  et  seq.] 

[The  following  lands  are  mentioned  in  Doomsday  Book  as 
having  formerly  belonged  to  Ulf,  and  now  (1087)  belonging  to 
the  Archbishop  of  York. 

Biding  not  specified. 

Langtoft,       1  Manor,  9  Carucates. 
Gotham,        1       „         9  ,, 

Nobth  Biding. 

Salt  on,  2  Manors,  9  Carucates. 

Brawby,  2  ,,  6          „ 

Barugh  \    q  qj 

AliaBarughj  *  "  ** 

Nawton  4  ,, 

Malton  1  ,,  1          ,, 

Wimbleton  1  ,,  1          „ 

Pockley  1  „  1          ,, 

Ampleford  1  ,,  8          ,, 

Flaxton  1  ,,  6  oxgangs. 
Morton 


'Baschebi" 
Coulton 


2 J  carucates. 

6  ,,  and  1  oxgang. 

4* 


Stonegrave  6  oxgangs. 

W.P.B.] 
Wadslky. — Josiah  Beckwith  (editor  of  the  1784  edition)  was 
informed  by  his  correspondent,  Mr.  Wilson,  of  Broomhead,  that 
he  has  heard  old  men  speak  of  an  ancient  custom  in  the  Manor 
of  Wadsley  which  was  that  the  lord  or  owner  of  Wadsley  Hall 
always  maintained  twelve  men  and  their  horses  at  free  com- 
mons twelve  days  in  Christmas,  and  when  they  went  away 
every  one  stuck  a  large  pin,  or  a  needle,  in  the  mantle  tree. 

Wakefield. — John,  Earl  of  Warren  and  Surrey,  granted  to 
one  John  Howson  a  messuage  in  Wakefield,  the  said  Howson 
paying  the  annual  rent  of  a  thousand  clusters  of  nuts,  and  up- 
holding a  gauntlet  firm  and  strong. 

[Watson's  Memoirs  of  the  Earls  of  Warren  and  Surrey,  Vol.  1, 
pa.  264;  from  a  deed  in  French,  dated  7  Edw.  I.,  late  in  the 
possession  of  Mr.  Thos.  Wilson,  of  Leeds.] 

To  be  continued.  W.P.B. 


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YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 

Saltan*, 


Sir  Titus  Salt,  Bart. 
Saltaire,  as  will  bo  seen  from  the  plate  herewith,  is  a  modern 
town,  with  a  newly-invented  name.  It  is  the  grand  design  of 
a  noble  mind.  The  Founder  of  Saltaire  was  the  son  of  Daniel 
Bait  and  Grace,  his  wife,  daughter  of  Isaac  Smithies,  of  Mor- 
ley.  He  was  born  September  20th,  1808,  and  named  after  his 
grandfather,  Titus  Salt,  of  Hunslet.  Soon  after  his  birth, 
which  took  place  at  the  old  Manor  House,  Morley,  the  family 
removed  to  a  farm  at  Crofton.  Whilst  Titus  was  at  Heath 
Grammar  School,  Wakefield,  his  father  removed  to  Bradford, 
and  commenced  busiuess  as  a  woolstapler,  and  was  joined  in 
due  time  by  his  son,  the  firm  becoming  known  as  Daniel  Salt 
and  Son.  During  the  partnership  with  his  father,  he  intro- 
duced the  Russian  Donskoi  Wool  into  the  worsted  trade. 
About  1880,  ho  first  became  acquainted  with  Alpaca,  and  the 


3 


YORKSHIBE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

business  outgrew  the  Bradford  accommodation.  It  is  said  that 
8ir  Titus  intended  to  form  a  new  establishment  east  of  Brig- 
house,  but  falling  to  agree  with  Sir  George  Armytage  about 


Saltaire  Congregational  Church, 
the  land,  he  procured  a  site  at  Shipley,  and  in  1851  commenced 
the  erection  of  the  model  factories  and  town,  now  known  as 
Saltaire,  from  the  founder  and  the  river* 

Y.N.Q.  0 


226  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 

We  need  not  repeat  the  oft-told  story  from  Dickens'  HoiueluM 
Words  of  the  purchase  of  the  "frowsy  nondescript  stuff/'  Alpaca 
wool,  in  1886,  nor  the  growth  of  this  beautiful  little  town, 
whose  praise  has  reached  the  four  quarters  of  the  globe.  In 
Abraham  Holroyd's  booklet — "  Saltaire,  and  Its  Founder/*  the 
grand  conception  and  its  ultimate  development  is  minutely 
traced.  The  whole  story  stands  forth  more  like  an  idea  worked 
out  by  some  Utopian  novelist  than  an  accomplished  fact  in 
these  pushing  times.  We  have  the  romantic  incidents  of  the 
opening  of  the  works  on  the  Founder's  fiftieth  birthday,  Sep- 
tember 20th,  1858.  The  workpeople,  2500  in  number,  were 
conveyed  by  special  train  from  Bradford,  and  rubbed  shoulder 
to  shoulder  with  Yorkshire's  aristocracy,  including  the  Lord 
Lieutenant  of  the  County,  the  Earl  of  Harewood,  in  the  unpar- 
alleled rejoicings  of  that  day.  Not  content  with  a  large  mill 
and  first-class  cottage  houses,  each  succeeding  year  saw  some 
magnificent  structure — literary  or  religious,  or  purely  philan- 
thropic— such  as  Infirmary  and  Alms-houses,  added  to  the  at- 
tractions of  the  town,  but  public  houses  were  rigidly  suppressed. 
The  Literary  Institute  and  the  Park  crowned  the  unique  design, 
and  the  Queen  and  her  subjects  were  of  one  mind  in  the  be- 
stowal and  approval  of  a  Baronetcy.  Sir  Titus  had  yielded  his 
seat  as  Member  of  Parliament  for  Bradford  for  more  congenial 
labours  in  local  philanthropy.  He  must  have  looked  with 
great  satisfaction  and  thankfulness  on  the  accomplishment  of 
his  noble  purpose.  Sir  Titus  died  at  Crow  Nest,  Lightcliffe, 
but  was  brought  to  the  Congregational  Church  at  Saltaire, 
which  he  had  himself  founded,  to  be  interred,  and  a  beautiful 
mausoleum  was  added  to  the  structure.  Since  his  death,  royal 
pageants  reminding  us  of  the  days  of  Queen  Elizabeth  have 
been  seen  at  Saltaire, — the  first  when  the  Prince  and  Princess 
of  Wales  stayed  over-night  at  Milner  Field,  Mr.  Titus  Salt's 
residence,  and  again  in  the  Jubilee  year  when  the  Princess 
Beatrice,  accompanied  by  her  husband,  opened  the  Exhibition 
at  Saltaire.  Hardly  had  the  Exhibition  come  to  a  close  when 
Mr.  Titus  Salt  was  suddenly  struck  down  by  heart  disease,  and 
he  too  was  interred  amongst  the  people  with  whom  he  had 
spent  his  life's  labours. 

Of  Sir  Titus  Salt's  ancestors  we  know  nothing,  save  that  his 
grandfather  died  at  Hunslet  Foundry,  August  21st,  1827. 


COINS  STRUCK  IN  YORKSHIRE. 

By  the  Rev.  G.  F.  Cbowtheb,  M.A.,  Member  of  the  Numismatic 
Society,  and  Author  of  a  "  Guide  to  English  Pattern  Coins." 

In  a  description  of  coins  struck  in  Yorkshire  our  attention  is 
limited  to  only  a  small  number  of  towns.    In  fact,  with  the 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES.  AND    QUERIES.  227 

single  exception  of  York  itself,  no  Yorkshire  mint  long  retained 
the  privilege  of  issuing  coins.  Edward  I.  established  a  mint  at 
Kyngeston  upon  Hull,  and  we  have  silver  pennies  of  his,  bearing 
on  the  reverse  the  inscription,  vill  kyngeston.  But  these  pen- 
nies of  Edward  I.  are  by  no  means  common,  and  they  are  the 
only  coins  that  were  ever  issued  from  the  Kyngeston  mint. 

During  the  Civil  War  various  pieces  of  necessity,  or  siege 
pieces,  were  struck  at  Scarborough  and  at  Pontefract.  At  the 
last  named  town  the  Governor  of  the  Castle,  Colonel  John 
Morris,  held  out  against  the  rebels  for  seven  weeks  after  the 
death  of  King  Charles  I.  During  that  period  he  coined  some 
shillings  of  an  octagonal  shape,  inscribed  on  the  obverse,  post  : 
mortem  :  patbis  :  pro  :  filio  ;  and  on  the  reverse,  carol  :  ii  :  d  : 
g:  mao:  b:  f:  et:  h:  rex. 

The  only  other  coins  struck  in  Yorkshire  are  those  which 
were  issued  from  the  York  mint.  The  earliest  known  coins 
which  can  undoubtedly  be  attributed  to  York,  date  from  the  end 
of  the  eighth  century:  from  which  time  to  the  end  of  the  seven- 
teenth century,  the  York  mint  was  worked  almost  without 
interruption.  It  is  probable  that  the  coins  of  Ecgfrith,  King  of 
Northumbria  (670-685),  were  struck  at  York:  and  there  can  be 
no  doubt  that  most,  if  not  all  the  small  copper  coins,  known  as 
"styctf,"  issued  by  the  Archbishops,  E  an  bald  (796),  Yigmund 
(887-854),  and  Yulfhere  (854-900;,  also  owe  their  origin  to  the 
city  of  York. 

The  number  of  early  coins  still  extant,  which  were  struck  in 
this  city,  bears  witness  to  the  wealth  and  power  of  Northumbria; 
and  shews  that  the  second  city  of  the  kingdom  was  at  one  time 
no  mean  rival  of  London  itself.  Although  I  have  not  sought 
for  coins  of  the  York  mint,  my  collection  furnishes,  amongst 
others,  the  following  examples  : — 

A.D.  887-854.     Styca  of  Vigmund,  by  the  moneyer  hvnlap. 
877-894.     Silver  penny  of  Cnut,  or  Guthred,  reading  on 

the  reverse,  ebraice  ctvita  ••• 
circa  905.    Silver  penny  of  S.  Peter,  with  sword  to  left. 
1016-1038.    Silver  penny  of  Cnut  the  Great,  with  name 
of  moneyer  and  mint  on  reverse,  pvlnod  m.o 
eof.,  i.e.  Wulnoth  monetaries  Eoferwic. 
But  to  give  a  list  of  the  York  coins  in  my  collection  would  be 
tedious  to  your  readers.*    It  is  enough  to  add  that  coins  were 
struck  there  by  Aethelstan,  Eadmund,  Eadvig,  Eadgar,  Aethel- 
raedlL,  Cnut,  Harold  I.,  Edward  the  Confessor,  Harold  II., 
William  I.  &  II.,  Henry  I.,  Stephen,  Henry  II.  &  III,,  Edward 
L,  H.  &  HI.,   Bichard  H.,   Henry  V.  &  VI.,  Edward  IV., 
Bichard  HI.,  Henry  VII.  &  VIII.,  Edward  VI.,  Charles  I.,  and 
William  IH. 

•  We  trow  not.— Ed. 


228  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 

With  respect,  however,  to  the  coins  of  Edward  VI.,  your  cor- 
respondent is  in  error  in  attributing  to  the  York  mint  those 
which  bear  the  mint  mark  Y.  This  letter  has  reference  to  Sir 
John  Yorke,  who  was  master  of  the  Southwark  mint,  where  all 
pieces  of  Edward  VI.  with  this  mint  mark  were  coined.  The 
York  coins  of  Edward  VI.  have  for  mint  mark  a  pierced  mullet. 
Of  these  we  have  sixpences  and  threepences  of  fine  silver,  with 
the  King's  bust,  full  faced,  on  the  obverse ;  and  on  the  reverse,  a 
shield  of  arms  divided  by  a  cross,  with  legend,  civitas  ebobaci  : 
and  a  penny  of  base  silver,  with  a  Tudor  rose  on  the  obverse, 
and  legend  e.d.o.  rosa  sine  spi.,  the  reverse  bearing  a  shield  of 
arms  divided  by  a  cross,  with  legend,  civitas  ebobaci. 


Blount's  Yorkshire  Tenures. — Continued. 

Wakefield. — In  ejectment  for  copyhold  lands,  held  of  this 
manor,  it  was  admitted  at  a  trial  at  bar  that,  by  the  custom  of  the 
manor,  copyhold  lands  might  be  entailed ;  and  that  the  custom  to 
bar  such  entails  is  for  the  tenant  in  tail  to  commit  a  forfeiture ; 
and  then  after  three  proclamations  made,  the  lord  of  the  manor 
may  seize  for  such  forfeiture,  and  regrant  the  lands  to  the 
copyholder  and  his  heirs,  by  which  means  he  hath  an  estate  in 
fee,  and  by  consequence  the  estate  tail  is  gone;  but  that 
another  custom  to  bar  such  entails  is  for  the  tenant  in  tail  in 
possession  to  make  a  surrender  to  a  purchaser  and  his  heirs, 
and  then  such  purchaser  is  to  commit  a  forfeiture,  for  which 
the  lord  of  the  manor  is  to  seize,  and  to  regrant  to  the  pur- 
chaser,  and  by  this  means  the  issue  in  tail  are  barred,  though 
the  tenant  in  tail  did  not  join. 

[1  Sid.  814 ;  Pilkington  v.  Stanhope] 

[Under  Wakefield  Manor  it  is  customary  to  make  surrender 
by  yielding  a  straw,  and  occasionally  a  straw  may  be  found 
affixed  to  the  deed.    J.H.T.] 

Whitby. — In  the  fifth  year  of  the  reign  of  King  Henry  II., 
after  the  conquest  of  England  by  William,  Duke  of  Normandy, 
the  lord  of  Uglebarmby,  then  called  William  de  Bruce,  the  lord 
of  Snaynton,  called  Ralph  de  Percy,  and  a  gentleman  free- 
holder, called  A  Hot  son,  did,  on  the  16th  day  of  October,  meet 
to  hunt  the  wild  boar,  in  a  certain  wood  or  desart  called  Esk- 
dale-side :  the  wood  or  place  did  belong  to  the  Abbot  of  the 
Monastery  of  Whitby,  who  was  then  called  Sedman,  and  Abbot 
of  the  said  place. 

Then  the  aforesaid  gentlemen  did  meet  with  their  hounds 
and  boar-staves  in  the  place  aforesaid,  and  there  found  a  great 
wild  boar ;  and  the  hounds  did  run  him  very  hard  near  the 
chapel  and  hermitage  of  Eskdale-side,  where  there  was  a  monk 
of  Whitby,  who  was  a  hermit ;   and  the  boar  being  so  hard 


YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES.        229 

pursued,  took  in  at  the  chapel  door,  and  there  laid  him  down 
and  died  immediately,  and  the  hermit  shut  the  hounds  out  of 
the  chapel,  and  kept  himself  at  his  meditation  and  prayers,  the 
hounds  standing  at  a  bay  without,  the  gentlemen  in  the  thick 
of  the  wood,  put  behind  their  game,  in  following  the  cry  of  the 
hounds,  came  to  the  hermitage,  and  found  the  hounds  round  the 
chapel ;  then  came  the  gentlemen  to  the  door  of  the  chapel, 
and  called  on  the  hermit,  who  did  open  the  door,  and  then  they 
got  forth,  and  within  lay  the  boar  dead,  for  which  the  gentle- 
men in  a  fury,  because  their  hounds  were  put  out  of  their 
game,  run  at  the  hermit  with  their  boar-staves,  whereof  he 
died ;  then  the  gentlemen  knowing,  and  perceiving  that  he  was 
in  peril  of  death,  took  sanctuary  at  Scarborough ;  but  at  that 
time,  the  Abbot,  being  in  great  favour  with  the  King,  did  re- 
move them  out  of  the  sanctuary,  whereby  they  came  in  danger 
of  the  law,  and  not  privileged,  but  like  to  have  the  severity  of 
the  law,  which  was  death.  But  the  hermit,  being  a  holy  man, 
and  being  very  sick,  and  at  the  point  of  death,  sent  for  the 
Abbot,  and  desired  him  to  send  for  the  gentlemen,  who  had 
wounded  him  to  death ;  so  doing,  the  gentlemen  came,  and  the 
hermit,  being  sick,  said,  "  I  am  sure  to  die  of  these  wounds :  " 
the  Abbot  answered,  "  They  shall  die  for  it ; "  but  the  hermit 
said,  "  Not  so,  for  I  will  freely  forgive  them  my  death,  if  they 
are  content  to  be  enjoined  this  penalty  (penance)  for  the  safe- 
guard of  their  souls :  "  the  gentlemen  being  there  present,  bid 
him  enjoin  what  he  would,  so  he  saved  their  lives :  then  said 
the  hermit,  "  You  and  yours  shall  hold  your  land  upon  (of)  the 
Abbot  of  Whitby  and  (his)  successors  in  this  manner ;  that 
upon  Ascension-day  even,  you,  or  some  of  you,  shall  come  to 
the  wood  of  Stray  heads,  which  is  in  Eskdale-side,  and  the 
same  day  (Ascension-day  at  sun-rising),  and  there  shall  the 
officer  of  the  Abbot  blow  his  horn,  to  the  intent  that  you  may 
know  how  to  find  him,  an4  deliver  unto  you,  William  de 
Bruce,  ten  stakes,  eleven  strut  stowers,  and  eleven  yadders,  to 
be  cut  with  a  knife  of  a  penny  price ;  and  you,  Ralph  de  Percy, 
shall  take  one  and  twenty  of  each  sort,  to  be  cut  in  the  same 
manner ;  and  you,  Allotson,  shall  take  nine  of  each  sort,  to  be 
cut  as  aforesaid,  and  to  be  taken  on  your  backs,  and  carried  to 
the  town  of  Whitby,  and  to  be  there  before  nine  o'clock  of  the 
day  before  mentioned ;  and  at  the  hour  of  nine  o'clock,  if  it  be 
fall  sea,  to  cease  their  service,  as  long  as  till  it  be  low  water ; 
and  at  nine  o'clock  of  the  same  day,  each  of  you  shall  set  your 
stakes  at  the  brim  of  the  water,  each  stake  a  yard  from  another, 
and  so  yadder  them  with  your  yadders,  and  to  stake  them  on 
each  side  with  strut-stowers,  that  they  stand  three  tides,  with- 
out removing  by  the  force  of  the  water;  each  of  you  shall  make 
at  that  hour  in  every  year,  except  it  be  full  sea  at  that  hour, 
which  when  it  shall  happen  to  come  to  pass  the  service  shall 


280  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 

cease :  you  shall  do  this  to  remember  that  yon  did  slay  me,  and 
that  you  may  the  better  call  to  God  for  mercy,  repent  yourselves, 
and  do  good  works.  The  officer  of  Eskdale-Side  shall  blow, 
Out  on  you !  Out  on  you !  for  this  heinous  crime  of  yours :  if 
you  or  your  successors  refuse  this  service,  as  long  as  it  shall 
not  be  a  full  sea,  at  the  hour  aforesaid,  you  or  yours  shall  forfeit 
all  your  lands  to  the  Abbot  or  his  successors ;  this  I  do  intreat, 
that  you  may  have  your  lives  and  goods  for  this  service,  and 
you  to  promise  by  your  parts  in  heaven,  that  it  shall  be  done 
by  you  and  your  successors  as  it  is  aforesaid  " :  and  then  the 
Abbot  said,  "  I  grant  all  that  you  have  said,  and  will  confirm 
it  by  the  faith  of  an  honest  man  "  :  then  the  hermit  said,  "  My 
soul  longeth  for  the  Lord,  and  I  as  freely  forgive  these  gentle- 
men my  death,  as  Christ  forgave  the  thief  upon  the  cross";  and 
in  the  presence  of  the  Abbot  and  the  rest,  he  said  moreover 
these  words,  "In  manus  tuas,  Domine,  commendo  spiritual 
meum,  a  vinculisenim  mortis  redemisti  me,  Domine  veritatis." 
(Into  Thy  hands,  0  Lord,  I  commend  my  spirit,  for  Thou  hast 
redeemed  me  from  the  bonds  of  death,  0  Lord  of  truth.)  And 
the  Abbot  and  the  rest  said  "Amen."  And  so  (the  hermit) 
yielded  up  the  ghost  the  8th  day  of  December.  Upon  whose 
soul  God  have  mercy,  Anno  Domini,  1160. 

[From  a  printed  copy  published  at  Whitby  a  few  years  prior 
to  1816.] 

N.B. — This  service  is  still  annually  performed.     H.M.B. 
[The  Lord  of  Whitby  Manor,  as  successor  to  the  abbots, 
about  half  a  century  since  offered  to  dispense  with  the  cere- 
mony, but  the  proprietor  of  the  remaining  lands  held  by  this 
remarkable  tenure  declined  it.     N.  &  Q.,  3rd  ser.,  ii.  pa.  88. 

The  feudal  system  of  the  Penny  Hedge  was  duly  observed  on 
Wednesday  Morning  (Ascension  Eve),  by  Mr.  Herbert,  in  the 
presence  of  Mr.  Pennock  and  others.  Whitby  Gazette,  May 
81,  1862.     W.P.B.] 

Whorlton. — Nicholas  de  Menyll  held  the  Manor  of  Whorlton, 
&c,  of  the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  by  serving  the  said  Arch- 
bishop of  Canterbury  on  the  day  of  his  consecration,  with  the 
cup  out  of  which  the  Archbishop  was  to  drink  that  day. 
[Escaet.     16  Edw.  III.,  no.  87.] 

I  [Bradford  Horn,  see  p.  218.  UlfsHorn, 
York,  see  pp.  222,  223.  Poulson  gives  the 
arms  of  Ulf,  the  Danish  Lord  of  Aldbrough, 
and  other  East  Biding  Manors,  as  shewn 
herewith,  and  &tates  that  he  died  in  the 
reign  of  the  Confessor,  and  that  the  fifth 
in  descent  from  him  married  in  1228  the 
daughter  of  Thomas,  Lord  of  Greystock, 
and  the  later  Barons  of  Greystook  take  the 
Forno  and  Ulf  arms  quarterly.] 


Y0BK8HIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


281 


York. — Philip  le  Lardiner  claims  to  be  salesman  (venditor) 
for  our  Lord  the  King  in  fee,  within  the  county  of  York,  of  all 
things  to  be  sold  for  debt  owing  to  the  King,  and  also  for  Queen - 
gold  fproauro  Regime).  In  this  manner — viz.,  that  he  or  his 
certain  attorney  should,  at  the  command  of  the  Sheriff,  go  from 


282       Y0RK8HIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

place  to  place  within  the  county  at  his  own  charges  to  make  the 
said  sales,  and  should  take  for  every  such  sale  for  his  fee  xxxij. 
pence.     [Quo  Warr.  Ebor.  temp.  Edw.  I.] 

Which  tenure  was  afterwards  seized  into  the  King's  hands 
for  the  abuse  thereof,  as  appears  by  the  Great  Roll  of  the  Pipe, 
2  Ed.  II. 

David  Lardinar  holds  one  piece  of  land  in  York  by  the  service 
of  keeping  the  gaol,  and  of  selling  the  cattle  which  were  taken 
for  the  debts  of  our  Lord  the  King,  and  it  is  worth  yearly  6 
shillings. 

[Testa  de  Nevil.  868.] 

William  de  Malehovers  holds  one  piece  of  land,  and  the  ad- 
vowson  of  the  chapel  of  St.  Mary  Magdalen,  by  the  service  of 
finding  benches  for  the  county  court. 

iibid.] 

The  1st  of  August  is  said  to  be  called  Lammas,  quasi  Lamb 
Mass,  because  on  that  day  the  tenants  that  held  land  of  the 
cathedral  church  of  York,  which  is  dedicated  to  St.  Peter  ad 
Yincula,  were  bound  by  their  tenure  to  bring  a  live  lamb  into 
the  church  at  high  mass  on  that  day. 

[Blount's  Law  Diet,  in  verbo.] 

Before  the  Enclosure  Act  came  into  effect,  a  large  portion  of 
the  land  in  the  immediate  vicinity  of  York  was  held  by  a  rather 
peculiar  tenure.  The  owners  of  the  fields  were  entitled  to  keep 
them  enclosed,  and  have  the  exclusive  enjoyment  of  the  land 
during  the  summer  half-year;  but  on  Michaelmas  Day  the 
fences  were  thrown  down,  and  certain  freemen  of  the  city  had 
the  right  of  turning  on  their  cattle  to  depasture  for  the  ensuing 
six  months. 

[Extracts  from  the  York  Records,  by  Robert  Davies,  1848, 
pp.  186,  198.] 

London.  W.  Paley  Baildon. 


Washbdrn  Place  Names. — I  should  be  extremely  obliged  by 
the  notes,  etymological  and  otherwise,  of  correspondents  upon 
the  following  place-names,  all  occurring  near  the  head- waters 
of  the  Washburn,  some  on  the  high  moors,  some  on  the  rocky 
slopes  of  the  dells,  and  some  as  names  of  brooks,  &c.  The 
spelling  is  that  of  the  Ordnance  Survey.  The  portion  in  italics 
is  the  portion  of  the  word  to  which  attention  is  drawn— Hood- 
stnrth,  Whams  ("  The  Whams,"  "  White  Whams,"  &c.) ;  Slade 
(Hangon  Slade);  CapelshtLW,  or  Cappish&vr;  Lifo'shaw;  Brandrith, 
or  BrandrrtA;  RedfwA ;  Fleets  (on  the  moor);  Iioclianl  Dyke; 
Maukin  Gro68 ;  Pan  Head ;   Yaud  Bones  Ridge ;  /WAstones. 

A   FORESTEB. 


YOBXBHIBE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES.        288 

Domestic  State  Papers,  James  I.,  Vol.  XXXVII,  No.  107. — 
An  undated  and  an  unsigned  State  Paper  being  a  description  of 
the  Manors  of  Wakefield,  Pontefract,  Knaresborough,  and  Tic- 
kell  in  Yorkshire,  belonging  to  the  Duchy  of  Lancaster,  and  of 
others  in  Lincolnshire,  according  to  a  recent  survey  with  entries 
of  the  nature  of  the  tenures,  the  occupation  and  character  of 
the  inhabitants,  and  the  feasibility  of  obtaining  increased  rents. 
About  November,  1608. 

Ducatus  Lancaster. — Wakefeild. 

The  Manor  of  Wakefeild  is  neare  800£  of  copihold  rent, 
rented  generally  at  iiijd.  the  acre. 

The  most  of  it  inclosed  ground,  meadow  and  pasture  worthe 
Eight  or  Tenn  shillings  an  acre,  p.  ann. 

Their  fynes  upon  deathe  or  alienacon  arbitrable. 

The  proffitts  of  Courts  are  in  lease. 

The  Stewards  make  great  proffit. 

The  better  sort  of  tenants,  there,  desire  to  be  made  free  and 
thinck  fourescore  years  fyne  no  great  rate. 

The  Tenants  generally  riche  and  traders  in  clothe,  most  of 
them  peaceable  and  quietly  disposed. 

Therefore  I  think  this  Lordshipp  may  be  made  a  worthie  ex- 
ample of  proffitt  to  many  other  of  like  tenure,  for  I  verily  think 
they  may  be  drawen  with  some  circumstances  to  very  high  rates. 
Pountfrett. 

The  Honor  of  Pountfrett  consists  of  eightene  Manors  whereof 
fowre  of  the  best  are  in  Joincture  to  the  Queen,  therefore  not 
surveyed  by  me.  The  Copihold  rent  of  the  rest  amounts  to  £400 
or  thereabouts. 

The  rents  are  rated  Higher  than  Wakefeild. 

Their  fynes  arbitrable  as  Wakefeild. 

The  soile  nor  Tenants  so  riche,  yett  well  disposed  and  may 
be  drawen  to  convicons  annswerable  to  their  abilities  and  the 
benefitt  they  shall  receave. 

Knaresbroughe. 

The  manor  and  forest  of  Knaresbroughe  in  Copihold  rent  is 
about  £200. 

The  soile  good  and  inclosed,  the  tenants  generally  riche. 

The  one  half  of  this  rent  is  in  the  forest  where  all  their  land 
is  rented  at  vjd.  an  acre,  their  measure  is  so  great  as,  one  with 
another,  they  hold  fowre  acres  for  one  throughout  the  forest. 

They  observe  their  Customs  curiously  and  stand  upon  it  that 
their  fynes  are  certein  upon  alienacon,  and  so  are  they,  for 
anything  I  could  either  see  or  learne. 

They  are  the  most  headstrong  people  in  that  country,  there- 
for preparatives  must  be  there  used  before  the  mayne  service  be 
in  band. 

There  neither  is  nor  hath  been  (within  memory)  any  deare 
in  the  forest,  nor  any  woods  to  make  account  of. 


284        YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

Great  store  of  sheep  are  kept  in  the  forest  which  are  no  forest 
goods. 

In  this  Lordship  are  moch  and  good  demesnes  claymed  and 
holden  by  Copie,  the  Tenants  whereof  are  willing  to  give  fortie 
yeares  fyne  to  be  made  free,  thoughe  their  rent  farr  exceed  the 
forest  rent  ratably. 

Tickhull. 

In  the  manor  of  Tickhull  is  about  100£  Gopihold  rent. 

The  fynes  arbitrable  but  the  rents  highly  rated. 

The  Tenants  nor  soile  so  good  or  riche  as  in  other  places, 
yet  will  the  Tenants  intertayne  their  freedome  at  a  reasonable 
highe  rate,  in  respect  they  think  their  Steward  useth  them 
hardely  thoughe  the  King's  proffitt  be  small  therein. 

Some  other  small  manors  there  are  in  Yorkshire  of  like  state 
and  nature  as  Tickhull,  but  the  rents  of  them  all  amount  not 
to  100£. 

Lincoln. 

All  the  Duchie  Manors  in  this  countie  I  have  surveyed  and 
fynd  the  Copihold  rents  there  amount  near  to  500£. 

Their  fynes  generally  uncertaine,  except  the  Manors  of  Gree- 
tham  and  Waddington,  which  are  but  small  things. 

The  rents  of  the  Manors  of  Long  Sutton  and  Ingoldemeales 
are  about  200£.     The  Soile  very  good  and  inclosed. 

The  Tenants  riche  and  great  reason  to  hope  to  raise  as  moch 
proffit  to  His  Matie.  in  these  two  manors  as  in  Wakefeild. 

The  rest  in  Lincolnshire  are  not  so  riche  tenants  nor  soile  so 
good,  yett  may  they  easily  be  drawen  by  example  of  their 
neighbours  to  what  their  abilities  will  beare. 

So  the  whole  Copihold  rent  in  theis  two  Counties  (which  I 
have  onely  yett  surveyed)  comes  to  about  1500£. 

In  Lancashire,  Staffordshire,  Derbishire,  Leicestershire  and 
other  Counties  within  my  office  are  very  great  store  of  Copihold 
rent  which  I  shall  willingly  survey  upon  direccon. 

Transcribed  by  Dr.  F.  Collins,  York. 


Yorkshire  Collections  on  Briefs  from  the  Parish  Records 
of  Denston,  Suffolk.  £     Bm  <j# 

1665.     It.  Collected  to   a   Breife   Oct.  15,  for 
Shelling  ffleete  in  the  East  Ridinge  of  Yorkeshire  2    1 

1691.  Aug.  16,  for  Thirske  (Poor  Persons  in  N. 

Riding  of  Yorks.    Arch.  Cant.  xiv.  211.) 1    0 

1692.  For  Hedon  in  Yorkshire  1     1 

1805.    June  16,  Coley  Chapel,  co.  York,  charges  106  10    8 

*     „     28,  Kighley  Church,       „  „      2620  12    9 

Collected  nothing. 

•  This  is  written  Kinjley  in  \\>rki.  Notei  an  I  Queriei.     p.  194. 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 

1805.  +  Nov.  24,  Wobsey  (?)  Chapel,  co.  York. 

Collected  nothing.  Charges  888  14    9 

1806.  June  15,  Lnddenham  Chnrch,  co.  York. 

Charges  1418  18    0 

1807.  July  19,  Thornwaite  Chpel.  co.  York. 

Charges  258  11     5| 

1807.  Aug.  9,  Folly  foot  Fire,  co.  York.        „       806    0    0 

1808.  July  17,  Fewston  Church  in  co.  York. 

Charges  719  16     5£ 
Sep.  18,  Pudsey  Mill  Fire  co.  York. 

Charges  128  14     0 
From  Proceedings  of  Suffolk  Institute  of  Archaology,  VI.  p. 
425-9.    1888.  F.  R.  F. 


Weeping  Cross. — I  am  collecting  materials  for  the  history  of 
the.  Weeping  Cross  (Crux  lacrymansj,  to  illustrate  the  phrase 
"coming  home  by  Weeping  Cross  ";  and  shall  be  much  obliged 
to  you  if  you  can  contribute  any  information  from  unpublished 
sources.  W.  H.  8.,  Yaxley,  Suffolk. 

Inscriptions  on  Early  English  Pottery. — Believing  that  not 
a  few  collectors  would  appreciate  a  list  of  the  names,  initials, 
inscriptions  and  dates  occurring  on  pieces  of  English  pottery  of 
the  Mrlier  fabriques,  I  am  collecting  information  with  a  view  to 
publication.  I  have  already  notices  of  such  specimens  as  are 
to  be  found  in  the  public  and  larger  private  collections,  but  am 
desirous  of  including  as  many  as  may  be,  of  those  in  private 
hands,  and  my  object  in  asking  you  kindly  to  insert  this  letter, 
is  to  encourage  possessors  to  communicate  with  me.  The  prin- 
cipal varieties  of  pottery  which  I  propose  to  include  in  my  list 
are  the  following : — Slip  Ware,  including  Toft.  Maroud  Ware. 
Lambeth,  Bristol  and  Liverpool  Delft.  Salt  Glazed  Ware. 
Jackfield.  Nottingham.  Fulham  and  Lambeth  Stone  Ware. 
Porcelain  and  the  later  descriptions  of  pottery  such  as  Leeds 
and  Wedgewood  are  outside  the  scope  of  my  enquiries. 

Replies,  stating  size  of  specimens  and  giving  full  particulars 
of  the  Inscriptions  or  Dates  will  be  gratefully  received  by 

Childwall,  Bichmond-on-Thames.  J.  Eliot  Hodgkin. 

A  Regiment  of  Yorkshire  Militia  before  1815. — I  should 
be  glad  if  any  of  your  readers  could  give  me  information  re- 
specting a  regiment  of  Militia  which  was  raised  some  time 
before  the  battle  of  Waterloo,  in  the  neighbourhood  of  Halifax, 
when  there  was  a  scare  about  an  impending  French  invasion. 
Is  there  any  account  of  same  in  any  Yorkshire  books,  giving  a 
list  of  officers,  etc.  W.  A.  T. 


t  Wibsey.    Ibid. 


286  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 

[Several  sketches,  including  one  in  YorksJdre  Costumes,  have 
appeared  respecting  the  83rd  Regiment,  alias  Haver-cake  Lads. 
Notices  of  Halifax  Volunteer  Regiments  appeared  in  the  Local 
Portfolio,  a  series  of  papers  in  the  Halifax  Guardian.  A  list  of 
Officers,  &c,  will  oblige. — Ed.] 


Notes  from  Silkstone  Registers. 
Marriages. 

1655.  Nov.  22.  John  Moksone  and  Jane  Wardsworth. 
1661.  Feb.  14.  Josias  Wardsworth  and  Elizabeth  Harison. 
1668  or  9  qy  month  80.  Thomas  Wordsworth  &  Anne  Burdett. 
1670.  Oct.  27.  John  Wordsworth  and  Jane  Heap. 

1676.  May  25.  Francis  Wodsworth  and  Mary  Smith. 

Nov.  7.  Francis  Wardsworth  and  Martha  Samson. 
1680.  Oct.  7.  Francis  Wordsworth  and  Sarah  Pollard. 
1702.  Dec.  81.  William  Wadsworth  and  Mary  Roberts,  both  of 

Hoy  lands  waine. 
1702.  Oct.  12.  George  Womersley  and  Mary  Wordsworth. 
1710.  Apr.  18.  Robert  Wadsworth  and  Anne  Bramha. 
1718.  Oct.  27.  Jeremy  Kenerley  and  Martha  Wardsworth. 

1714.  Aug.  81.  Robert  Wordsworth  and  Anne  Harper,  of  ye 

p'ish.  of  Darfield. 

1715.  Apr.  22.    Edward  Wilkinson,   of  Peniston,   and   Sara 

Wadsworth  of  p'ish  of  Tankersley. 
The  5th  Vol.  of  Registers  containing  entries  up  to  1788  is  so 
full  of  notes  of  Wordsworths,  I  had  not  time  to  extract  them. 
I  also  observed  numerous  entries  of  Wordsworths  in  the  2nd 
Vol.,  that  is  during  the  period  anterior  to  1598.  There  is  a 
note  in  Vol.  8  as  follows : — "  There  is  a  deficiency  in  these 
Registers  of  55  years,  from  1598  to  1658.  Note  this  Vol.  com- 
mences with  a  single  Baptism  in  1651." 

Baptisms. 

1656.  Dec.  21.  Robert,  s.  Adam  Wardsworth,  of  Stainborough. 
7.  July  4.  Elizabeth,  d.  Cristopher  Wardsworth,  of  Healey 

in  Hoyland. 
1659.  Apr.  11.  Mary,  d.  John  Wardsworth,  of  Thurguland. 
1664.  Aug.  14.  William,  s.  Adam  and  Anne  Wadsworth. 

5.  Mar.  4.  Adam,  s.  Adam  and  Anne  Wadsworth,  of  Stain- 
brough. 
1669-70.  Jan.  8.  Amos,  s.  Thomas  and  Anne  Wordsworth. 
71.  Aug.  12.  Mary,  d.  John  and  Jane  Wod worth. 
75.  Feb.  6.  William,  s.  John  and  Jane  Wod  worth. 

77.  July  10.  Francis,  s.  Francis  and  Sarah  Wadsworth. 

78.  July  11.  Mary,  d.  Richard  Wordsworth. 
71.  Jan.  8.  Joshuah,  s.  John  Wordsworth. 

Feb.  11.  Anne,  d.  John  Wordsworth. 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES.  23V 

1679.  May  15.  Sarah,  d.  Francis  Wordsworth. 

Sep.  5.  Elizabeth,  d.  of  Mr.  Richard  Wordsworth. 

80.  Jan.  11.  Susanna,  d.  Mr.  Richard  Wordsworth,  of  Folth- 

wait. 

81.  July  28.  John,  s.  Francis  and  Sarah  Wordsworth,  of 

Stainborough. 
168}.  Mar.  22.  Joseph,  s.  Johnathan  Wordsworth,  of  Thurgo- 
land. 
88.  May  27.  William,  s.  Mr.  Richard  Wordsworth,  of  Faw- 
lethwaite. 

84.  Oct.  0.  Elizabeth,  d.  Johnathan  Wordsworth,  of  Thurgo- 

land. 
Dec.  26.  Joseph,  s.  Francis  Wordsworth,  of  Thorgoland. 

85.  Sep.  8.  Hanna,  d.  Robert  Wordsworth,  of  Thorgeland. 
8i.  Jan.  19.  Thomas,  s.  Mr.  Richard  Wordsworth,  of  Fawlett 

87.  Sep.  20.  Jonathan,  s.  Robert  Wordsworth,  of  Thorgoland 

88.  Sep.  18.  Johnathan,  s.  Johnathan  Wordsworth,  of  Thur- 

guland. 
91.  May  21.  Benjamin,  s.  „  „  Thorgoland. 

99.  July  16.  William,  baseborn  son  of  Martha  Wadsworth, 
of  Thurgoland. 
1708.  Sep.  28.  Adam,  8.  William  Wadsworth,  of  Hoylandswaine 

}.  Jan.  15.  Jonathan,  8.  John  Wadsworth,        „        ,, 
1704.  Oct.  8.  John,  s.  Josias  Wordsworth  (altered  from  Wails- 
worth),  of  Thurgoland. 

5.  May  8.  Martha,  d.  Matthew  Wadsworth,  Brettain. 
June  6.  Sarah,  d.  Jo.  Wordsworth,  Hoylandswaine. 

6.  April  29.  Jonathan,  8.  Wm.  Wordsworth,        „ 

7.  „     11.  John,  s.  John  ,,  „ 

June  4.  Jane,  d.  Josias  „         of  Thurgoland. 

9.  Dec.  81.  Sarah,  d.  William  Wadsworth,  of  Hoylandswaine 
10.  Apr.  19.  Joseph  &  Benjamin,  s.  of  Robt.  &  Anne  Wods- 
worth,  base  begotten,  of  Hoylandswaine. 
171?.  Feb.  2.  Josias,  s.  John  Wodsworth,  of  Hoylandswaine. 

BUBIALS. 

1658.  Nov.  11.  Elizabeth  Wardsworth,  of  Silkston. 
57.  May  7.  Robert,  s.  Adam  Wardsworth,  of  Stainborough. 
68.  April  16.  William  Wardsworth,  of  Wrathhouse,  in  the 
p'ish  of  Peniston. 

60.  Mar.  25.  WUlem,  s.  Wilem  Wardsworth,  of  Stainbrough* 
Oct.  26.  Anne,  wife  „  ,,  „ 

Dec.  8.  Richard,  s.  John  Wardsworth,  of  Thurgoland. 
„    21.  Elizabeth,  d.  John        „  „ 

61.  July  17.  Christopher  Wardsworth,  of  Hoylandswaine. 

65.  Apr.  4.  Richard,  s.  Mr.  Willm  Wadsworth,  of  Fawfet. 

66.  Oct.  8.  Christopher,  s.  Jane  Wadsworth,  of  Hoola. 
11.  Jane,  d. 


Dec.  28.  William,  s. 


288  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 

166?.  Mar.  5.  William  Wordsworth,  of  Falthwaite. 

79.  Aug.  29.  Ann  Wordsworth. 
Sep.  1.  John  ,, 
Oct.  10.  Mary  „ 

80.  Aug.  11.  Mary  ,,  of  Thurgoland. 

81.  June  7.  Adam  „  of  Stainborough. 

82.  Feb.  18.  Sarah  Wordsworth,  of  Thurgoland. 

82.  Nov.  7.  Sarah,  d.  John  Wordsworth,  of  Thurgoland. 
88.  Oct.  1.  Sarah,  d.  Francis  Wordsworth. 

84.  Apr.  10.  John  Wordsworth,  of  Thurgoland. 

85.  July  6.  William  Wordsworth,  of  Stainborough. 

87.  Aug.  7.  Mary,  wife  of  Francis  Wordsworth,  of  Thurgoland 
98.  Dec.  11.  Mary,  d.  Bobert  Wordsworth,  of  Thurgoland. 
1707.  Nov.  25.  Jane,  d.  Josias  Wordsworth,  of  Thurgoland. 

10.  Ap.  29.  Joseph  and  Benjamin,  ss.  of  Bobert  and  Anne 

Wadsworth. 

11.  July  18.  Joshua,  s.  Bobert  Wodsworth,  of  Thurgoland. 
4i.  Jan.  28.  Bobert  Wodsworth,  of  Thurgoland. 

if.  Feb.  14.  A  still  born  child  of  John  Wadsworth's  of  Hoy- 

landswaine. 
London.  J.  T.  Squibe. 


Ancient  Sessions  Notes  Extracted  fkom  the  Originals. 

Alehouse. — Upon  a  good  certificate  now  prsentd.  at  Corte 
vnder  the  hands  of  Sir  George  Cook  Barrt.  John  Mawhood 
Clerk  Vickar  of  Arksey  and  eighteen  more  substantyall  Inhi- 
tants  there,  as  alsoe  by  the  oath  of  two  witnesses  now  sworne 
in  corte  it  is  made  appeare  That  Bobte  Carver  and  Anne  his 
wife  of  Stockbridge  within  the  pish,  of  Arksey  aforesaid  who 
kepes  a  comon  Alehouse  or  Tipleing  house  are  psons  much 
debauched  in  their  lives  amongst  their  neighbors  for  cheateing 
and  deceiving  all  whom  they  converse  with,  haveing  heretofore 
suffered  for  Thefte  and  doe  uniustly  sue,  vex  and  trouble  many 
psons  at  Law  without  any  iust  cawse  and  sevall  other  misde- 
meanors all  wch  the  Corte  now  takeing  into  seryous  considera- 
cion  doe  think  fitt  and  accordingly  order  That  the  said  Bobte 
Carver  for  the  reasons  above  said  be  for  future  supprest  for 
keeping  any  Alehouse  or  tipling  house  any  longer,  and  if  hee 
continue  to  doe,"  &c.  then  to  be  sent  to  York  Castle.  Don- 
caster,  1677. 

A  Leeds  Wedding. — The  Information  of  Jane  Streaker  taken 
before  Thomas  Fairfax,  Esq.,  March  8,  1685,  Who  saith,  That 
she  did  goe  to  Leeds  old  Church  to  be  marryed  about  ffoure 
yeares  agoe  with  one  John  Streaker  and  they  did  both  then  say 
part  of  the  words  required  by  the  Church  of  England  in  Matri- 
mony but  did  not  say  all  that  should  compleat  their  marryage. 
After   living   sometime  with  her  husband  she  ran  away  to 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES.  289 

London,  returning  to  Yorkshire  to  know  if  her  husband  was 
dead  so  that  she  could  marry  Mathew  Holdsworth,  servant  to 
a  stapler  in  Sotherick  (Southwark)  att  the  signe  of  the  plume 
of  ffeathers."    Pontefract,  April  1686. 

Scene  in  Bradford  Church. — Sarah  Hurd  on  Sunday,  7th 
March  1674  (O.8.),  in  a  very  disorderly  and  seditious  manner 
com'd  into  the  Church  of  Bradford  in  time  of  divine  service, 
and  did  then  and  there  by  some  indecent  and  clamorous 
speeches  disturb  the  minister  in  his  prayer  and  the  whole  con- 
gregation in  their  devotion.     She  was  a  qnakeress. 

Witchcraft. — The  Information  of  Laurence  Slater  of  Idel, 
W.  R.  Yorks,  Salter,  taken  upon  oath  the  27th  August,  1690, 
That  he  was  by  and  prsent  with  James  Booth,  Martha  Thorn- 
ton Junr.,  and  John  Thornton  of  Idel  his  neighbours  about  a 
fortnight  since  in  the  dwellinghouse  of  Anthony  Baistricke  of 
Idel  aforesaid  in  the  parlour  there  (drinking  ale)  when  the 
aforesaid  Martha  Thornton  and  James  Booth  began  to  differ  in 
words  in  his  hearing,  and  James  Booth  said  to  Martha  Thorn- 
ton What  do  my  children  call  thee,  and  she  answered  They  call 
me  Witch.  And  he  said  What  art  thou  but  a  Witch.  She 
answered  Ye  have  not  such  a  one  to  set  by  me.  And  he  said 
again,  I  had  a  daughter  but  thou  hast  destroyed  her  by  Witch- 
craft. Vpon  wch  the  said  Martha  Thornton  did  catch  the  said 
Jamefl  Booth  by  the  hair  of  the  head  and  dasht  his  head  against 
a  cupboard  but  afterwards  they  were  quieted.  Before  Walter 
Calverley,  Esq.,  J.P.,  Esholt.     Wakefield,  Oct.  1690. 

Hearth  Tax. — "John  Simpson,  of  IdeD,  yeoman,  Constable, 
gave  information  Oct.  18th,  1686,  before  Walter  Calverley  Esq., 
J.P.,  that  Anthony  Sclater,  of  Idell,  yeoman,  in  February  last 
did  assault  him  when  assisting  Mr.  Joseph  Holden  to  collect 
the  hearth  money  there;  and  set  his  mastine  dogg  upon  them." 
Settlements. — The  Churchwardens,  Overseers  and  Inhabi- 
tants of  Idell,  1686,  petition  the  magistrates,  reciting  that  Luke 
Sutcliffe,  in  order  to  gain  a  settlement  had  pretended  to  take  a 
farm  of  William  Hillhouse  of  £10  rent  per  annum,  assisted  by 
James  Hobson,  of  Eccleshill,  they  pray  for  his  removal  to  his 
own  town,  Laurence  Bucke,  of  Idel,  churchwarden,  Jas.  Booth, 
Thomas  Slater,  Joseph  Vicars. 

There  was  some  disturbance  about  the  settlement  of  Jeremy 
Ffield  at  Idel  in  1699,  but  the  previous  order  giving  him  a  set- 
tlement, was  confirmed.  [I  have  traced  the  Fields  from  1280, 
when  they  were  owners  of  land  at  Fieldhouse,  in  Sowerby,  a 
branch  settling  at  Hipperholme  about  1580.  This  Jeremy  was 
of  the  Hipperholme  family,  and  progenitor  of  the  Fields,  Lords 
of  the  manor  of  Shipley,  now  represented  by  Lady  Kosse.] 

Roads. — At  Pontefract  Sessions,  1695,  two  magistrates  certi- 
fied that  Wrose  Bank  bad  been  placed  in  good  repair. 


240  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 

In  1699  the  inhabitants  of  Idel  petition  to  be  freed  from  an 
expensive  service  laid  upon  them,  by  the  main  road  passing 
over  a  narrow  strip  of  the  township  at  Apperley  Bridge. 

To  the  Bight  Worppfull  His  matyes  Justices  of  the  Peace  at 
Wakefield  Sessions  in  January  1699. 

The  Humble  Petioon  of  the  Con[sta]ble  &  other  Inhitants  of 
Idel  Sheweth 

That  the  High  Boad  leading  from  Bewick  vpon  Tweed,  New- 
castle vpon  Tyne  and  seu'all  other  places  in  the  north  to  Hallifax 
Manchester  Leverpool  Chester  Wales  and  other  places  adjacent 
lyeth  from  Otley  to  Carleton  and  from  thence  to  Yeadon  and  so 
down  a  long  lane  called  Apperley  Lane  in  the  Constablerys  of 
Yeadon  and  Bawdon  to  Apperly  Bridge  and  thence  in  a  little 
track  or  neck  of  land  by  the  Biver  Ayre  not  above  one  hundred 
yards  in  length  within  the  Gontblery  of  Idel  aforesaid  and  no 
further  within  that  Contblery  but  then  up  a  Long  Lane  called 
Eccleshill  Banke  to  Eccleshill  Town  and  so  through  Gontblery 
of  Eccleshill  to  Bradford  And  though  the  town  of  Idel  lyeth  a 
mile  backwards  from  the  said  Bridge  out  of  the  Boad,  yet  by 
reason  of  the  said  little  neck  of  Land  in  their  Gonblery  through 
wch  the  Boad  passeth,  the  Gonbles  of  Yeadon  Bawdon  and  Ec- 
cleshill aforesaid  do  daily  bring  passengers  to  the  Conble  of  Idel 
aforesaid  to  be  passed  to  or  fro  (as  occasion)  on  the  said  Boad 
to  the  manifest  grievance  of  yor  Peticoners  and  the  great  hin- 
drance of  such  passengers  on  their  Boad,  for  by  that  means 
they  are  put  a  long  mile  and  a  half  at  least  out  of  theire  way 
besides  the  badness  and  inconveniency  of  the  Byroad.  And 
though  the  Gonbles  of  Yeadon  Bawdon  and  Eccleshill  doe  know 
and  have  been  often  informed  that  they  might  more  convenient- 
ly and  for  quicker  conveying  of  the  said  passengers  bring  them 
from  one  to  another  without  going  out  of  the  said  way  to  Idel 
yet  they  p'tend  they  cannot  do  it  by  reason  of  the  said  little 
neck  of  land  lying  in  Idel  without  an  order  of  these  sessions 
for  it. 

Yor  Peticoners  therefore  humbly  pray  that  yor  Wor'pps 
would  be  pleased  to  grant  them  an  Order  that  the  said  Conbles 
of  Yeadon  Bawdon  and  Eccleshill  may  convey  passengers  from 
one  to  another  on  the  said  Boad  without  going  out  of  the  way 
to  yor  peticoners  And  that  upon  notice  of  the  said  Order  they 
yield  Obedience  therevnto. 

And  yor  Peticoners  shall  ever  pray,  &c. 
[An  Order  to  be  pursuant  to  this  Petition.    Becite  the  whole 

matter.] 

Tobacco. — Order  requiring  the  law  suppressing  the  planting 
of  tobacco  in  England  to  be  more  rigidly  enforced.    1675. 
J.  H.  T. 

T.  HARRISON,  M  INTRA.  ROCKRINDRR.  AC,  RtNttkRY. 


$n&*£  jSominum- 

(Yorkshire  Notes  d-  Queries.) 

[Compiled  by  Mr.  G.  F.  Tudor  Shebwood,  88  Museum  Street, 
Oxford  Street,  W.] 


Abbott,  112. 
Adam,  109,  111. 
Adamson,  167,  168,  170 

Mb. 
Aethelraed,  227. 
Aethelatan,  227. 
Aislabie,  6,  212,  210. 
Akroyd,   12,   16,  17  p., 

18  bis.,  54. 
Albermarle,  48. 
Alderburae,  63. 
Alderalaye,  114, 171  bis. 
Aldenon,  162. 
Algetor,  161, 162,  164  p. 
AUenson,  204. 

Alline,  109. 

AUotson,  228,  229. 

Axnandus,  87. 

Ames,  53. 

Amyas,  90  bis. 

Aneram,  5. 

Anderson,  26  bis. 

Andrews,  Andros,  And- 
roys,  97,  98  p. 

Annesley,  213. 

Aqmtaine,  90. 

Archer,  109. 

Arderne,  90. 

Argyll,  181. 

Armitage,  Axmytage,  20 
p.,  27,  49,  76,  101  p., 
105,  138,  152,  187, 
189,  190,  198,  204  p., 
206,225. 

Armstrong,  178, 179. 

Arnold,  39 

Arundel,  5, 109. 

Ashe,  166, 167  bis.,  168. 

Ashley,  28. 

Ashton,  115. 

Ashworth,  125. 

Askew,  136. 

Aspiner,  117,  118,  167, 
169, 170, 172. 

Atberskme.  68. 

Atkins,  48  bis. 

Atkinson,  82  p.,  48,217. 

Aodland,  31. 

Aorelianus,  160. 
T.H.Q. 


Austwicke,  108,  109  bis., 
Ill,  112,  113,  115  p., 

116,  117,  118,  166, 
167  bis.,  168  bis.,  169, 
170, 171  p.  172,  p. 

A'Wood,  7. 
Azacher  (?),  166. 

Bacon,  218  p. 

Baildon,  64. 

Bailey,  96,  41,  50,  176, 

177, 184  bis. 
Baines,  32  p. 
Balamany,  183. 
Baldwin,  218. 
Ball,  162. 
Bamforth,  220  p. 
Banks,  79. 
Barber,  37,  141. 
Barghe,  113. 
Barker,   110    bis.,    167, 

175,  192. 
Barkeston,  87. 
Barnebnrgh,  89. 
Barnebnrn,  87. 
Barnes,  15. 
Barras,  52. 
Barrowby,  217. 
Barton,  27. 
Barwic,  54. 
Bate,  75  bis. 
Batley,  190. 
Batt,  12, 13. 
Batty,  25, 79  bis.,  81  bis., 

82,  161. 
Baynes,  74, 163. 
Bayntnn,  22  bis.,  23. 
Baytman,  171 
Beaumont,  Bemond,  88, 

94, 187,  188,  190, 206, 

208.' 
Beckit,    44,    109,    110, 

111  bis.,  113, 114  bis., 

117,  167, 168, 172. 
Beckwith,  97,  212  bis., 

217,218,220,221,228. 
Bedforthe,  172. 
Beet,  115. 
Beilly,  47. 


Bell,  111  p  ,  112,   114, 

115  bis.,  118,  170. 
Benson.  30. 
Bent,  96. 
Bentley.    Bentlaye.    27, 

170, 171  bis.,  172. 
Benton,  162. 
Benyon,  125. 
Berry,  29,  39,  42,  175, 

176,  180. 
Bertram,  218. 
Beverlaye,  109,  111,  112, 

116,  117. 
Bewlay,  110. 
Bigleskirke,     108,     116, 

167,  168,  169  p.,  170 

p.,  172. 
Bigmore,  42. 
Bileliffe,  216. 
Billington,  39. 
Binglaye,  168. 
BinnB,  96. 

Birtwhistle,  150,  160. 
Besett.  Bissett,  215. 
Blackburn,   40,   41,   92, 

96,  170bis.,  171. 
Blacketer,  41. 
Blackett,  1,  4. 
Blaize,  42. 
Blakeley,  38. 
Blakeling,  31  bis.,  32  p. 
Bland,  27,  47. 
Blunt,  216. 
Blythman,  48. 
Bcehler,  66,  67  bis. 
Bolderstone,  209. 
Boiling,  94. 
Bollon,  51. 
Boniface  Pope,  91 
Booth,  239  p. 
Borlase,  142. 
Bosril,   214  p.,  216  p., 

219  bis.,  221  bis. 
Boswell,  120. 
Bourne,  163. 
Bousfield,  80. 
Bower,  168. 
Bowling,  40. 
Bowser,  73. 


242 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 


Boyes,  138. 
Boynton,  28. 
Bradley,  24. 
Bramha,  236. 
Bramhall,  76  big. 
Bramham,  167  bis.,  168. 
Brand,  89  bis.,  188. 
Brandon,  183. 
Branthwaite,  32. 
Brathwaito,  110, 116,169. 
Braddell,  11. 
Brayshaw,  28. 
Brears,  Bryers,  169, 170 

bis. 
Breman,  167. 
Brigge,  Briggs,  11,  37. 

109,  110,  111  bis.,  113 

bis.,    117.,    167,   168, 

170  bis.,  171. 
Bright.  42. 
Bristoe,  177. 
Britton,  55  p. 
Broadbent,  162. 
Broadlaye,  110,  111  p., 

116  p.,  117  bis.,  118, 

171,  173. 
Broadrick,  162  bis. 
Broadhead,  168. 
Brooke,  Brook,  Brooke, 

28,  39,  51  bis.,  87,  96 

p.,  98,  99,   113,    115, 

116,117,141,169,171. 
Brooks,  94. 
Brooksbank,  29. 
Brownbrigg,  108,  109. 
Brace,  61,  228,  229. 
Bras,  218. 

Book,  26,  48, 118.  289. 
Burd,  27. 
Bnrdett,  236. 
Burgh,  90,  203. 
Burnett,  114,  115. 
Burnleye,  115. 
Burnouf ,  59  bis. 
Bnrrell,  40. 
Barrow,  52. 
Barrows,  75. 
Barton,  78, 169  bis. 
Bushel,    116,    117    bis., 

168, 169, 170  bis.,  171 

bis.,  172. 
Butler,  94  p.,  96  p. 
Byng,  199. 

Calamy,  124. 
Calcraft,  165. 
Calthom,  89. 
Calverley,  60,  78  p.,  239 
bis. 


Cam,  31. 
Caney,  73. 

Canterbury  Aby.,  230. 
Carnifex,  221. 
Carr,  42, 184. 
Carter,  5,  43. 
Carver,  238  bis. 
Casson.  72  p.,  81. 
Cavendish,  20,  21  p. 
Cawbord,  49. 
Cawood,168.169,170p., 

171  p.,  172. 
Cawthron,  163. 
Chadwiok,  116,  187. 
Chaloner,  22  bis. 
Chamber,  93,  98. 
Chappell,  65  bis.,  56. 
Chatburne,  109  p.,  110, 

111  bis.,  112, 113, 114. 

117. 
Chauncy.  161,  162. 
Chauntrve,  109,  171  bis. 
Child,  116. 
Childers,  165  bis. 
Chippendale,  26. 
Chorlton,  125  p. 
Chrissmor,  204. 
Clapham,  110  bis ,  111, 

113,  117. 
Clarell,  212. 
Clarence,  214. 
Claridge,  16. 
Clarke,  162,  199. 
Clarkson,  96, 192. 
Clay,  49. 
Clayton,  10  bis.,  11  p., 

12  p..  13  p.,  14  p.,  15 

p.,  98,  99,  171. 
Clayworth,  85. 
Clif,  Clyfe,  88,  109  bis., 

169,  171  bis.,  172  bis. 
Clifford,  29,  48. 
Clifton,  88. 
Cioughe,  110  bis. 
Cnut,  227  p. 
Coates,  Coyts,  113,  138 

bis..  176. 
Cockin,  74, 125, 127, 128. 
Cookshott,  94,  96. 
Cordington,  6. 
Collres,  117. 
Coldwell,  42. 
Colevyle,  215. 
Collins,  138. 
Collyer,  96  bis.,  184. 
Coltass,  96. 
Comber,  53. 
Conder,  51. 
Constantino,  48. 


Cooke,   22  p.,   44,    73, 

165,  182,  238. 
Cope,  42. 
Copeland,  30. 
Copley,  12,  13,  28,   48, 

79  p. 
Coppindale,  81. 
Corlrige,  108,  109,  111, 

16ft 
Corker,  113,  114  p..  115 

bis.,   116  p.,   117  p., 

118,  167,  168, 169. 
Cornewell,  75. 
Corney,  32. 
Cornish,  182  bis. 
Costable.  111. 
Cotton,  124,  160. 
Coward,  125. 
Cowell,  50,  51. 
Cownall.  213. 
Cowper,  99  bis.,  100. 
Cowpland,  47. 
Crabtree,  10  p.,  14  bis., 

75. 
Crawshaye,  167. 
Cropping,  212. 
Cresey,  213. 
Cressacre,  203. 
Crew,  53. 
Cric,  122. 
Crigan,  18. 
Croft,  17,  82,  47, 138. 
Crofts,  17. 
Crosley,  18  bis. 
Cromwell,  140. 
Crowther,  204. 
Cumberland,  197. 
Cumming,  56. 
Cunningham,  125. 
Carson,  212. 

D'Abernoun,  63. 
D'Arcy,  5  bis. 
Dalkeith,  5. 
Dalton,  88. 
Darby,  201. 
Darwin,  139. 
Davenport,  122. 
Davidson,  108. 
Davies,  43,  232. 
Davis,  133. 
Davison,  110. 
Dawney,  5. 

Dawson,  29, 89, 177, 190. 
Dealtry,  79.  82. 
Dean,  175  bis. 
Deane,  27. 
Deighton,  81. 
De  Lacy,  214. 


INDEX    NOMINUM. 


248 


Delamere,  183  bis. 
Dent,  32. 
Denton,  46,  47. 
Derby,  71  bis.,  73  bis., 

78. 
Detley,  220. 
Dewsberry,  120. 
Dickinson,     Dickinson, 

19,  29,  32. 
Dickson,  125. 
Digby,  89. 
Dobeon,   117,  118,  167, 

170. 
Doddridge,  125, 177, 186. 
Dodgson,  110,  111  bis., 

117,  167,  168  p.,  169 

bis.,  170, 171  bis.,  172. 
Dodson,  51, 113,  114. 
Dodsworth,  28,   49,    74 

bis,  83. 
Donlrin,  115,  116. 
Dorker,  113,  115. 
Downe,  5,  25. 
Dowoit,  120. 
Draper,  17  bis., 
Drurye,  170,  171. 
Dugdale,  80. 
Duncombe,    6,    21    bis., 

138  bis. 
Dnndas,  21  bis.,  22  p., 

23. 
Dunnill,  44. 
Dvight,  119  bis.,  120. 
Dyghton,  100. 
Dyson,  43. 

Eidgar,  227. 

Eadmund,  227. 

Eadyig,  227. 

Eanbald,  227. 

Ecgfrith,  227. 

Edmunds,  73. 

Edward  Confessor,  227. 

Elgood\37. 

Eliot,  168. 

Ellis,  27,  115,  169. 

Elmsall,  81. 

Eltoff,  199, 

Empson,  28, 167. 

England,  68  p. 

Eoferwic,  227. 

Ergnm,  89. 

Erwin,  74  bis. 

Esh,  112,  116,  117  bis., 

118, 167, 168  bis.,  170 

P.,  171. 
Essex,  179. 
Encker,  165. 
Everingbam,  43,  111. 


Eyre,  45. 
Eylmyn,  213. 

Fairfax,  20  bis.,  45,  48, 

222  p.,  238. 
Farrand,    13,    115,    116 

Mb.,  117, 167. 
Farrer,  12,  13,  51,  138. 
Fawcett,  32. 
Fawconer,  111,  112. 
Fawkes,  41. 
Fayle,  52. 

Fearnlaye,  169  bis  ,  171. 
Fenton,  40. 
Field,  79,  81,  239. 
Fieldhouse,  96. 
Finch,  5. 
Firth,   176  p.,  177  bis., 

184  p.,  185,  186. 
Fitz-Bardolph,  174. 
Fitz-Daniel,  221. 
Flamevill,  87. 
Flandrensis,  88. 
Fleming,   83,  87,  88  p., 

105. 
Fletcher,  86. 
Foljomb,  212  bis. 
Foolde,    Foulds,   Folds, 

108,    110,    116,    117, 

166,  167  p.,  168,  169 

bis.,  170  p.,  171  bis. 
Foores,  117,  168. 
Forno,  230. 
Forster,  163,  166. 
Fox,  5,  20,  30  bis.,  31  p. 
Frances,  116. 
Franke,  118,  208. 
FrankJand,  6  bis.,  124  p. 
Fricklaye,  108,  110  bis., 

113,  117  bis.,  169  bis., 

170. 
Frilend,  63. 
Fuller,  93,  98. 
Fnrnival,  72  bis.,  220  p. 
Fyshe,  114. 

Galway,  6  p.,  21  bis. 
Gargrave,  100. 
Garner,  172. 
Gaunt,  213. 
Gaythorne,  74. 
Gee,  110,  bis. 
Geffirason,  112. 
Gennings,  96. 
Gerard,  183  p. 
Geryas,  25  p. 
Gibson,  27,  49,  73,  204 

bis. 
Gilbert,  87. 


Gill,  26,  42. 
Gledhill,  29,  204. 
Glover,  166. 
Godartins,  53. 
Golding,  32. 
Goldsbrough,  96. 
Goodrich,  199. 
Gosling.  162. 
Gott,  172. 
Gough,  105, 118. 
Gourd,  39. 
Graham,  39. 
Graunt,  81. 
Gray,  32, 179, 183. 
Greaves,  41. 

Green,  20  bis.,  61,  54,  56, 
111  bis.,  112  bis.,  114, 

115,  116,    117,    118, 
123,  167  bis.,  169. 

Greens,  54  bis.,  55,  56. 
Greenwood,  32,  38,  49, 

81,  86,  110  bis.,  Ill 

bis.,  187. 
Gregg,  73. 
Gregory,  44. 
Grenfield,    113,  115  p., 

116,  118  p.,  166,  168, 
169,  170,  172. 

Grenegate,  88. 
Grey,  183. 
Greystock,  230. 
Griffith,  162. 
Grosvenor,  72  p. 
Gutch,  104. 
Guthred,  227. 
Gyles,  53. 

H.,  62. 

Habergham,  74. 

Hague,  47  bis. 

Haigh,  190. 

Hailes,  75. 

Hailstone,  123. 

Hainsworth,  55  bis. 

Hakebourne,  63. 

Halilaye,  Helilaye,  118, 
167, 168  bis. 

Hall,  37  bis.,  108,  110 
bis.,  Ill  bis.,  112,  113 
p.,  115,  116,  117,  138, 
167  bis.,  175  bis.,  176 
p.,  17*  bis.,  185, 190. 

HaUey,  124  bis. 

Halliday,  40,  46,  47  bis. 

Hambden,  183. 

Hammond,  161,  162  bis. 

Hancock,  46. 

Handasyd,  5. 

Hanson,  160,  175. 


244 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 


Hardacres,  47. 
Hardcastle,  175. 
Harde,  167. 
Hardy,  204. 
Harewood,  226. 
Hargraves,  43. 
Harold,  227  bis. 
Harper,  40,  236. 
Harris,  165. 
Harrison,  32,   76,    118, 

236. 
Hartley,  24,  54  p.,   55, 

56,  67,  123,  189,  199. 
Hartyndon,  108. 
Hasse,  66  bis.,  68. 
Hattersley,  43. 
Hauptman,  67. 
Haveweldun,  88. 
Hawke,  21  p. 
Hawkswortb,    94,    116, 

117  bis.,  118, 167, 169, 

170,  171  bis. 
Hazlitt,  212,  216. 
Heald,  38,  39,  40. 
Heap.  236. 
Heard,  239. 
Hearne,  151. 
Heatb,  81. 
Heather,  170. 
HeatoD,  10  bis.,  114  bis., 

115  bis.,  116, 118, 167 

bis.,  168  bis.,  169  bis., 

203,  206  bis. 
Heddersley,  203. 
Hemingway,  27. 
Heptinstall,  108,  112. 
Hepworth,  41,  113,  116, 

188,  192  bis. 
Herbert,  230. 
Herring,  197. 
Hewett,  47. 
Hewley,  129. 
Herwood,  46  p.,  81, 124, 

175,  177  bis.,  180, 184. 
Hickman,  124  p. 
Hicks,  85. 
Hill,  6,  85,  125. 
Hillhoupe,  239. 
Hinchliffe.  45,  109  bis., 

114,  116,  117  p. 
Hirst,  27,  113,  188,  189, 

190,  195, 19fr,  207. 
Hitchin,  125. 
Hobkirk,  105. 
Hobson,  170,  289. 
Hodgson,  32,  40,  51,  70, 

81. 114, 115  bis.,  116  p. 
Holderness,  75, 161. 
Holdon,  94bie,96p,239. 


Holdroyd,  28. 

Holdsworth,  191,  196, 
239. 

Hollinworthe,  111. 

Holloway,  77. 

Holme,  32. 

Holmes,  29,  66,  96,  163. 

Holroyd,  226. 

Holt,  190. 

Hood,  82,  103,  105,  206. 

Hop,  63. 

Hopkins,  161. 

Hopkinson,  108,  109, 
110  p.,  Ill  bis. 

Hopton,  87,  191  p.,  203 
bis.,  206  bis. 

Hopwood  72  bis. 

Hornby,  71  bis. 

Horncastle,  113,  114  p., 
115, 116, 118, 167, 168 
bis.,  169. 

Horner,  109  bis.,  Ill  bis., 
118,  114,  169. 

Horsfall,  29,  204. 

Horsley,  160. 

Horton,  26,  70  p  ,  71  p., 
72  p.,  73  p.,  74. 

Hotham,  130. 

Houghton,  45, 54, 119  p. 

Howard,  165,  181,  183. 

Howden,  22  bis. 

Howet,  Hawet,  J 09  bis., 
110  p.,  Ill  bis.,  112 
bis.,  113,  114  bis.,  115 
bis.,  116,117, 118  bis., 
166,  167  p.,  168,  169 
p.,  171  bis.,  172  bis. 

Howgill,  31,  bis. 

Howson,  223, 

Hudson,  94  p.,  96. 

Hugh,  171,  172. 

Hulme,  177,  186. 

Humble,  54. 

Hunlaf,  227. 

Hunt,  41,  214. 

Hunter,  51,  81, 105  bis., 
124  bis. 

Hnntingden,  110,  112 
biB  ,  113,  114,  115  p., 
HObis.,  117  bis.,  167 
169,  171  bis.,  173  bis. 

Huntington,  118. 

Hurst,  190. 

Hurstwood,  121. 

Hutchinson,  109,  111. 

Huthwaite,  177. 

Hutton,  47  bis. 

Hyrst,  192. 

Hyrd,29. 


Ibbotson,  20. 
Illingworth,  28. 
Ingham,    66    bis.,    101, 

190  bis. 
Ingram,  6  bis.,  74. 
Irwin,  6. 

Ismay,  84, 85  bis.,86, 204. 
Isat,  168. 
Izat,  115,  116  bis.,  117 

bis.,  171,  172. 

Jackson,  49,  110  bis., 
Ill,  112  p.,  113  p., 
114  bis.,  115, 117, 133, 
166,  168,  169, 171  bis. 

Jagger,  50,  51. 

Jarcks,  168. 

Jecorngill,  13. 

Jefferey,  180, 182. 

Jefferson,  112,  139  bis., 
141. 

Jenkins,  20  bis. 

Jenkinson,  115  bis,  116 
bis.,  117  bis.,  170. 

Jennings,  29,  177. 

Jessop,  11. 

Jewit,  120, 122. 

Jollic,  124  bis.,  177. 

Jolliff,  20,  166  bis. 

John,  87. 

Johnson,  120  bis.,  135, 
168,  169. 

Jowett,  49. 

Eaye,  20  p.,  26,  27,  43, 

48  bis.,  76,  117,  171, 

172,  189,  190. 
Kean,  41,  77. 
Keen,  198. 
Keith,  138. 
Kemp,  41. 
Kendall,  40. 
Kenerley,  236. 
Kent,  43,  161,  162  bis., 

163,  164,  165  p.,  214. 
Kenyon,  75. 
Kepast,  Kepax,  Keps,  86, 

87. 
Kerfoot,  73  bis. 
Kerr,  5. 
Kershaw,  76. 
Kighley,  99,  181  bis. 
Kirkby,  78,  125  p. 
King,  183. 
Kitson,  29. 

Lake,  168. 

Lambe,  112,  167,  170, 
171, 172. 


INDEX    NOMINUM. 


245 


Lambert,  50, 161,  174. 

Lancaster,  27. 

Lane.  20  p.,  21. 

Langdale,  47, 68  bis.,  70. 

Langton,  32  big. 

Langwith,  96. 

Larthner,  231,  232. 

La9celle3, 5  bis.,  6  bis. 

Latham,  125. 

La  Trobe,  65,  67,  68. 

Law,  28. 

Lawson,  52. 

Lawton,  80. 

Ledgard,  187  bis.,   188 

p.,  190  bis. 
Lee.  39,  52, 93, 108, 172, 

187. 
Lees,  133. 
Legh,73bis.,  74. 
Lepton.  88. 
Le  Strange,  183. 
Lethall,  118. 
Letteron,  111   bis.,   112 

bis.,  113  bis.,  114. 
Lettewelle,  217. 
Lewis,  80. 
Lillington,  163. 
Linfield,  111. 
Linnecar,  39. 
Lister,  6, 19  p.,  29,  160, 

175  bis.,  176, 177, 178, 

179,  184  p.,    185  p., 

186  p. 
Litchford,  165  bis. 
Lbyd,  71  p.,  73  p.,  75. 
Lobley,  94. 
Lockley  96. 
London,  221. 
Long,  96. 
Longley,  51. 
Longstaff,  174. 
Lorraine,  43. 
Lothian,  5. 
Louther,  12. 
Lorain,  218. 
Lowther,  23,  43,  74. 
Ludlow,  166  p. 
Lund,  26  bis. 
Lyard,  167. 
Ljwegge  89  P- 

Macan,177. 
MariU,  41  bis. 
Makin,  109. 
Malhaos,  24. 
MalhoTors,  232. 
Mtlhom,  89  bis. 
MaUerye,  167,  168,  169 
bis. 


Mallinson,  169. 
Malore,  219. 
Manners,  5. 
Manser,  169. 
Marchlund,  116. 
Margerison,  192  p.,  204. 
Margison,  109  bis. 
Marriott,  72  bis. 
Marryatt,  123. 
Marsden,  176,  177  bis., 

184. 
Marshall,  81. 
Martin,  106. 
Maser,  169. 
Mason,  32, 117, 162, 163, 

168  bis.,  169. 
Matthews,  41. 
Maude,  40,  41,  96  bis,, 

106. 
Mauley,  118,  212. 
Mawhood,  238. 
Mawson,  109. 
Maxfield,  182. 
Maylins,  75. 
Medhurst,  39. 
Medope,   109,    115    116 

bis.,  117  bis.,  118. 
MenyU,  230. 
Mercer,  221. 
Meteyard,  122. 
Metham,  89,  219. 
Mexbro',  138  p. 
Miall,  47,  124  bis. 
Micklethwaite,  103,  190. 
Midleton,  168,  169,  170. 
Milner.  20  p.,  21  p.,  22 

p.,  29, 51,  75, 112, 163. 
Milnerson,  111,  113, 114. 
Milnes,  21  p. 
Mirfield,  89  p.,  90,  203. 
Modestus,  159. 
Moidre,  112. 
Moisier,  18,  53. 
Moksone,  236. 
Molt,  24. 
Monkhouse,  40. 
Monkton,  6  Mr.,  47. 
Monmouth,  179, 181  bis., 

182. 
Monson,  5. 
Montgomery,  68. 
More,  100, 171. 
Morley,  76,  112,  169. 
Morris,  38,  227. 
Morritts,  48. 
Moseley,  72. 
Mostyn,  5,  6,  72  p. 
Mounger,  88. 
Mounteney,  90  bis. 


Mowbray,  215. 
Moxon,  51. 
Muletorp,  219. 
Muller,  59. 
Munket,  168. 
Murray,  5,  53. 
Musgrave,  138. 

Naylor,  37  bis.,  79. 

Neai,  122,  177. 

Nelson,  82,  111,  113, 
114,  169,  171. 

Ness,  176,  177,  184. 

Nettleton,  81  bis. 

Neuell,  12,  13. 

Nevill,  74,  76,  206. 

Nevin,  187. 

Newall,  110. 

Newby,  94,  96. 

Newmarch,  213. 

Newnham,  6. 

Newton,  161. 

Nichols,  41,  44. 

Nightingale,  127. 

Noble,  124, 169, 177, 184. 

Norfolk,  221, 

Norris,  190. 

Northrop,  213,  p. 

Norton,  109  p.,  110  bis., 
Ill  p.,  112,  113  p., 
114,  115,  116,  117  p., 
168,  169,  170  p.,  171, 
172  p.,  173. 

Nowell,  11. 

Nussey,  38. 

Nut,  172. 

Oastler,  68. 
Ockershausen,  67. 
O'Conner,  43. 
Oddie,  28,  41. 
Oglethorp,  81. 
OUerton,  23,  24. 
Orde,  138. 
Osbert,  218. 
Owen,  125. 
Owens,  162. 
Oxley,  190. 

Padget,  110,  111,  112, 
113, 114, 117  bis.,  118, 
168  bis.,  169, 170. 

Palin,  19. 

Palmes,  74. 

Pape,  26. 

Park,  114,  117, 171, 174, 

Parker,  11,  27,  50,  169, 
170. 

Parkinson,  118, 172, 


246 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 


Parrott,  82. 
Parsons,  54,  79. 
Paslaye,  117,  118,  168, 

172  bis. 
Payler,  73. 
Pearson,  11,  29  bis.,  108, 

111,112,113,116,117. 
Pease,  75. 
Peirse,  6. 
Peoples.Peobles,  Peebles, 

188 
Peel,  112  bis.,  113,  116, 

117,  168. 
Pelham,  6. 
Pemberton,  13. 
Pennock,  230. 
Percy,  218,  228,  229. 
Perke,  172. 
Perkins,  162. 
Perrot,  17. 

Peter,  87, 118. 

Petre,  22  bis. 

Philips,  197. 

Philipson,  75. 

Pickering,  81,  109  bis., 
110,  111,  112  bis.,  113, 
114,    115,    116,    117, 

118,  167,  168  bis. 
Pighels,  10,  11  bis.,  14  p. 
Pilkington,  6, 49, 97  bis., 

228. 
Pincerna,  215. 
Pitt,  Pitts,  6,  44. 
Place,  52,  53  p.,  54  p., 

119  p.,  121. 
Planohe,  120. 
Plantagnett,  81. 
Pollard,  28,  236. 
Popplewell,  99. 
Popelay,  89. 
Portington,  74. 
Poulson,  230. 
Powell,  74. 
Preston,  119,  122. 
Price,  177. 
Prickett,  163. 
Priestley,  71  bis.,  72 bis., 

98,  125. 
Priestman,  96. 
Prince,   116,    117,    167, 

168,  170,  172  bis. 
Proctor,  114. 
Pyke,  171. 
Pyman,  114. 

Qnincy,  175. 
Qninciano,  174. 

Raistracke,  239. 


Ramsden,  6,  42,  48,  49, 

97  p.,  98,  100  p.,  114. 
Ranolde,    Renold,    116, 

118,  168  p.,  169  bis., 

170. 
Rather,  42. 
Raven,  166. 
Bawling,  118  bis.,  167. 
Rawson,    72    bis.,    108, 

115  p.,   116  p..    117, 

118  bis.,  166, 168, 171. 
Ray,  81. 
Reame,  111. 
Redman,  109,  111,  113, 

114  bis.,  115, 116, 168, 

170. 
Reresby,  73. 
Reyner,  Rayner,  Rainer, 

26  bis.,  27,  29,  47  bis. 
Rhodes,  26,  187  p. 
Rich,  45,  46  p. 
Richardson,  28,   37,  38 

bis.,  81,  124,  138. 
Ridgnal,  118. 
Ridiall,    118,    167    bis., 

168  bis.,  169,  170  bis. 
Rikysbere,  93. 
Ripon  Bp.,  96. 
Rish worth,   43,  44  bis., 

166. 
Ritson,  104. 
Roades,  113. 
Robart,  14  Mb. 
Roberts,  39  bis.,  81, 109, 

110,113,114  bis,  115 

p.,  116,  117,  169,  236. 
Robertson,  177. 
Robinson,  5,  17,  20  p., 

30,31,  32,  41, 112  bis., 

113  bis.,  115, 161  bis., 

163  p.,  164,  168  bis. 
Robson,  40,  138  Mb. 
Rockingham,  21. 
Rodwell,  108,  110,  111. 
Roeley,  88. 
Roger,  109,  110,  111  p., 

115. 
Rogers,  39. 
Rokeby,  28. 
Roods,  169. 
Rooks,  180,  181  bis. 
Rooks,  87. 
Root,  176  bis. 
Roper,  173,  212. 
Rose,  39. 
Rotherham,  125. 
Royes,  Royds,  112,  113, 

171. 
Rumsey,  183  bis. 


Rushworth,  213. 

Raskin,  1. 

Russell,  179  p.,  180, 182. 

Rastbie,  109. 

Rutland,  5, 

Ryan,  40. 

Ryche,  93. 

Rycroft,  46  Ms. 

Ryther,  177,  184. 

St.  Asaph,  Bp.,  199. 
St.  George,  80. 
8t.  John,  of  Beverley,  7. 
Salt,  96,  224  p.,  226  p. 
Saltershall,  87. 
Saltonstall,  68  p. 
Samson,  236. 
Sandall,  29,  90  bis. 
Sanderson,  45,  173. 
Sandford,  200. 
Sandson,  168. 
Saunder,  168. 
Savile,  5,  48,  76,  79,  97 

p.,  100,  160,  190,  202, 

203,  206,  219  Ms. 
Scatcherd,  38,  79  p. 
Scales,  125. 
Schliemann,  59. 
Scholaye,  109,  110  bis.. 

Ill  p.,  114  bis.,  115, 

116,  117  bis.,  167, 168, 

170  bis. 
Scholayn,  167. 
Scholefteld,  39. 
Scorer,  172. 
Scott,  44,   125  p.,    126 

Ms.,  127  p.,  129,  215. 
Screvyn,  85. 
Scroope,  Scrope,  91,  212. 
Scruton,  96. 
Scryvyner,  169  bis. 
Seaton,  138. 
Sedgwick,  37. 
Sedman,  228. 
Seebohn,  68. 
Segar,  181. 
Senhouse,  138. 
Senior,  87,  88  p.,  188, 

195,  204. 
Seyvill,  85  bis.,  89. 
Shackleton,  29,  40. 
Shaftsbury,  179. 
Sharp,  24  p.,  29  bis.,  40, 

44. 
Shaw,  40,  47,  72  bis.,  79 

p.,  81,  117,  167,  168 

Ms.,  171. 172,  188. 
8haye,  167. 
Sheard,  190,195,201,209 


INDEX    N0M1NUM. 


247 


Shepherd,  115, 199. 
Shepley,  191,  209. 
Shildon,  48. 

Shillito,   111  bis.,   114, 
115, 116, 117, 167  bis., 
171, 172  bis. 
Short,  29. 
Shaft,  26,  182. 
Sigston,  50,  51. 
Sill.  52. 

Simson,  Simpson,  109 
bis.,  110  p..  Ill  bis, 
112, 113  bis.,  167, 168, 
169  p.,  170,  171,  172, 
239. 
Slack,  73. 
Slater,   Sclater,    28,   94 

bis.,  239  p. 
Slingsby,  5. 
Smallwood,  177. 
Smith,  9  bis.,  10  p.,  11 
p.,  12  p.,  13  p.,  14  p., 
16  p.,  17,  28,  39,  51, 
87,  96,  110,  121,  166, 
167,    168,    175,    176, 
177, 178, 179, 180  bis  , 
184, 190,  236. 
Smithies,  224. 
Bmithson,  74, 173. 
Smythe,  81,    118,    169, 
171  bis.,  172  bis.,  173. 
Snawden,  50. 
Soetzler,  67. 
Somerscales,  118. 
Bonthcoat,  41. 
Sonthwood,  Sawood,  99 

bis. 
Spangenberg,  67. 
8parke,  98  bis.,  99  bis. 
Speight,  32. 
Spencer,  116, 118. 
Spode,  122. 
8tagge,  116,  172. 
Btancliffe,  190. 
Stanhope,  48  p.,  228. 
Stansfeld,  42,  86. 
SUpleton,  191. 
Stapyltoc,  5. 
Steade,  112. 
Stephenson,  138. 
Sterne,  63. 
Stevens,  84. 
Btileman,  27. 
8tiUinge,109p.,110bis., 
Ill,    112,    113,    114, 
168, 171  bis. 
Stock*,  43. 
Stones.  82,  99. 
Btopforth,  176,  178. 


Stopler,  164. 
Stormont,  5. 
Strange,  78. 
Strangways,  96. 
Strawbenzee,  41. 
Streaker,  238  bis. 
Stretton,  129. 
Stringer,  48,  74  bis. 
Stuart,  166. 
Stnbbs,  52,  88. 
Staynton,  85  p.,  103, 105. 
Sogden,  116  p. 
Sunderland,    68  p.,   69, 

81,  169. 
Surrey,  83. 
Sutcliffe,  239. 
Swaine,  29,  96. 
Swallow,  167,  168. 
Swift,  46  bis.,  195. 
Swinbunke,  51. 
Sykes,22p.,75bis.,162, 

163,  190,  192. 

Taptou,  113. 

Tarlton,  85. 

Tasbnrgh,  100. 

Tattershnll,  87. 

Taylor,  Tayler,  Tailior, 
10  bis  ,  11  bis.,  14  p., 
15, 31,  44.  79, 125, 169 
170  bis.,  172,  180. 

Terry,  39. 

Tester,  78. 

Thacker,  115,  116  bis., 
117, 118, 168, 170, 171 

Thackrah,  29,  39,  167. 

Thirnbeck,  32  bis. 

Thomas,  209. 

Thomlinson,  81. 

Thompson,  Thomson.  20 
p.,  82  p.,  42,  53,  94, 
96  p.,  114,  163,  172, 
221. 

Thoresby,  51, 52,  53  bis., 
122. 

Thornbory,  1. 

Thornhill,  69. 

Thornton,  5, 20  p.,  239  p. 

Thorold,  165  p.,  222. 

Thorp,  45,  205. 

Thnrgarland,  187. 

Thwaytes,  215. 

Tillitson,  12. 

Tindall,  51 

Tiplinge.  109,  169. 

Todd,  196. 

Toeltschig.  66  bis.,  67. 

Toothill,  125. 

Topcliffe,  86. 


Toir,  86, 167. 

Townley,  74. 

Tradley,  184. 

Trnvis,  163. 

Treichard,  26, 179. 

Troos,  110. 

Trotter,  32. 

Troughton,  117. 

Turker,  170. 

Turner,  Tornar,  1, 9  bis., 
10, 14  p.,  15,  20  bis., 
21  p.,  31,  40,  51,  105, 
135,162,175,195,200, 
210,  211. 

Tnrton,  208. 

TweUall,  110  bis. 

Tyas,  87. 

Tyler,  88. 

Tyreinan,  52. 

Uffett,  177, 
Ulf,  222,  223,  230. 
Upperdale,  42. 
Usher,  1671 
Utley,  52. 

Vallibus,  220. 
Vavasor,  47. 
Venables,  161. 
Verelot,  161  p.,  162  p., 

163  bis..  164  p.,  166. 
Verity,  133. 
Vernon,  5. 
Vestris,  42. 
Vicars,  239. 
Victoria,  43. 
Vigmund,  227  bis. 
Vint,  127. 
Vulfhere,  227. 

Wade,  13,  28,  48,  197, 
221. 

Wadsworth,  124,  125, 
236  p.,  237  p  ,  238. 

Wardsworth,  216. 

Wager,  168. 

Wailes,  44. 

Wainwright,  24,  40,  54 
bis.,  55  bis.,  219. 

Wakefield,  27. 

Walbank,  76. 

Wales,  177,  180. 

Walker,  32  p.,  71  p.,  72, 
94  bis.,  96  p.,  109  bis., 
110  bis..  113  bis.,  114 
p,  115  bis.,  116  p.,  117 
bis.,  118,127,138,169 

Walkingham,  218  bis. 

Wall,  120. 


248 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 


Walpole,  52  bis.,  54. 
Warbnrton,  55  bis. 
Ward,  31,38,70,72,116 

168,  170  big.,  172. 
Waringe,  166,  168. 
Warren,  83,  223. 
Warton,  173. 
Waterton,  74. 
Watkin,  111. 
Watson,  5,  68,  151  bis., 

154,  159  bis.,  167,  223 
Watteville,  67. 
Watts,  72  bis.,  168,  191. 
Waun,  169. 
Webber,  41. 
Wedgwood,  54,  121. 
Wells,  73. 
Wentworth,  19,  20  bis., 

21.  41,  78  p.,  215. 
Wesley,  66. 
Westbie,  Westabye,  113 

bis,. 
Wester-man,  44. 
Weston,  207. 
Wetherhead,    110   bis., 

Ill  p.,  113,  115,  116, 

118,  167. 
Whalleye,  115. 
Wharncliffe,  42. 
Wharton,  48,  188  bis. 
Wheatley,  189, 190  p. 
Wheeler,  200. 
Whit,  12,  13. 
Whitaker,  Whiticars,  79, 

83  bis.,  85,  103,  115, 

116, 117, 159, 166, 167, 


168,169,171,177,183, 
184,  186. 

White,  40,  76,  78,  110, 
113. 

Whitehead,  24,  169. 

Whitehurst,  176,  177. 

Whittingdale,  137. 

Widap,  16. 

Wilbye,  112. 

Wilcocke,  108,  199. 

Wilkinson,  6,  26,  109, 
169  p.,  170  bis.,  171 
bis.,  172  p.,  190,  236. 

Williams,  129. 

Williamson,  170,  171  p., 
172. 

Willinge,  203. 

Willis,  86,  90. 

Wills,  171  bis. 

Wilson,  22,  27,  29,  32 
bis.,  45,  51,  52  bis., 
112,116,117,118,167 
bis.,  169,  170  bis.,  172, 
173,  214,  220  p.,  221 
bis.,  223  bis. 

Winchester,  5. 

Winckley,  73  bis. 

Windebanke,  117. 

Windham,  213. 

Winn,  32. 

Wintringham,  81. 

Woderone,  90  bis. 

Wommersley,  192,  236. 

Wood,  42,  47,  114,  118, 
167,  172. 

Woodhouse,  26  bis. 


Woofenden,  27. 
Wooilin,  52. 
Woolner,  190  bis. 
Wordsworth,  45  p..  46, 

161  p.,  162  p.,  163  p., 

164  p.,  165  p.,  166  p., 

204,    236  p.,  237  p.. 

238  p. 
Wormald,  112  bis.,  169, 

170,  171. 
WormaU,  109  bis,  110  p, 

111  p,  113  p,  114  p, 

115, 116, 117  p. 
Wortley,  6. 
Wraith,  187  bis. 
Wray,  94. 
Wright,  47, 110,  111,  113 

Mb,  114, 117  bis,  171. 
Wrightson,  138. 
Wrigley,  99. 
Wnlnoth,  227. 
Wyndham,  58. 
Wyntworth,  222. 
Wyse,  169. 
Wyvill,  22  bis. 

Yarbnrgh,  28,  73. 

Yordas,  137. 

York,  Abp.,  76, 115, 118, 

201  bis.,  223. 
Yorke,  5,  186,  228. 
Young,  77. 

Zinzendorf,  67  bis.,  200. 
Zoust,  53. 


|nb*£  Eocorum. 

[Compiled  by  Mr.  G.  F.  Tudor  Sherwood,  88,  Museum  St., 
Oxford  Street,  W.] 


Abberforth,  144. 
Abbotside,  173, 174. 
Acaster,  144. 
Ackworth,  52,  108,  129, 

146,  166. 
Addingham,  149. 
Adlingflete,  146. 
Adwalton,  80. 
Adwyke,  149. 
Agbrigg,  75,  76, 142, 189 
Airedale,  127. 
Airton,  142. 
Akeroid  Lane,  209. 


Alcot,  72. 
Aldborongh,  6. 
Aldebnrgh,  148. 
Aldfleld,  147. 
Alersford,  192. 
Alford,  24. 
Alkley,  148. 
Allaneley,  143. 
Allerton,  142,  144,  145, 

178  p.,  179. 180. 
Allerton  Gledhow,  143. 
Allerton  Mauleverer,  5, 

147. 


Almondbury,  48,  75,  99. 

142,  145. 
Alne,  194. 
Alnwick  Castle,  61. 
Altofts.  142, 146. 
Alton,  148. 
Alum  Pot,  138. 
Alverthorpe,  39. 
Amonderness,  12. 
Ampelford,  223. 
Amthoyre,  148. 
Aneoates,  72. 
Anderness,  166. 


INDEX    LOCORUM. 


249 


ApperlftT  Bridge,  240  bis. 
Apperley  Lane,  240. 
Appleby,  6.  31. 
Appleion,  144,  194. 
Apyltreweke,  149. 
Ardsley,  78,  79  p.,  80  p., 

81  p..  82,  142,  146. 
Ardyslowe,  145. 
Arksey,  238. 
Armrne,  146. 
Arncliffe,  149,  194. 
Arthington,  144. 
Ashton,  148,  163. 
A&ke,  5. 

Askrigg,  174.  175. 
Askwyth,  147. 
Aston,  161,  162  p. 
Atheriawe,  147. 
Atherton,  47  bis. 
Atsham,  144. 
Atwick,   149,   157,   158, 

212  p. 
Attercliffe,  124. 
Aughton.  75.  162. 
Ansterfeild.  198. 
Auston,  146,  148. 
Awsthorpe,  148. 
Awstwyke,  150. 
Ajkton,  145. 
Ayre,  R.  240. 
Ayrton,  149. 

Backstone  Gill  Hole,  135 
Badenham,  17. 
Badsworth,  28,  146. 
Baildon,  64,  66,  68,  94, 

96,  143. 
Balaton,  118,  212  bis. 
Balance  Beck,  207  bid. 
Balmce  Wood.  210. 
Baldersly,  216. 
Ballye,  148. 
Bansted,  166  bis. 
Barghe,  147. 
Barkerend,  24. 
Barkeston,  87,  144. 
Barley,  144. 
Barmby,  148. 
Bannston,  i9. 
.  Barnbrogh,  148. 
Barnby-upon-Dunn,  74. 
Bamsley,  1.  26  bis.,  41, 

42,  64, 146,  189. 
Banland,  142. 
Barugh,  223  bis. 
Barwick,  12,  47  p.,  143. 
Baschebi.  223. 
Baiedale,  85. 
Baihame,  150. 


Bath,  60,  199. 

Batley,  17  bis.,  11,  27, 
37,  38,  48,  89  bis.,  100 
bis.,  142,  144. 

Battersea.  166. 

Bawtry,  52,  148. 

Baysfield,  162. 

Beall,  146. 

Bedal,  6,  29. 

Beezley  Falls,  135. 

Beiston,  142. 

Bell  Hill,  142. 

Benthame,  150. 

Benthon,  46. 

Bentley.  148,  212. 

Bergh,  89. 

Berrey,  47. 

Benton,  145. 

Bettain,  237. 

Beverley,  6  bis.,  53, 153, 
193. 

Bewick-upon-Tweed,  240 

Billingley,  215  bis. 

Bingley,  55,  152,  184. 

Birchwaye.  89. 

Birdoswald.  61. 

Birstall,  125,  202,  204. 

Blacker  Hall,  42. 

Blacwell  Hall,  19. 

Blake  Hall,  101, 191  p., 
206,  210. 

Blakehill,  200. 

Blakeiai  a,  83. 

Blakstou.  148. 

Bleak  Low  Lane,  83. 

Blea  Moor,  137. 

Boathonse,  191,  210. 

Bollinge.  112,  145. 

Holsterstone  Chapel,  194 

Boltby  Chapel,  194. 

Bolton.  142, 145, 149  bis. 

Bolton  Percy,  29. 

Boroughbridge.  5,  6. 

Boston  Spa,  72. 

Bournans,  196. 

Bousland,  145. 

Bow,  120. 

Bowling,  23. 

Bowton,  47. 

Bracken  Hall,  210. 

Bracken  Hall  Glen,  106. 

Brackenthwaite,  200. 

Bradfeld,  148. 

Bradford,  8  bis.,  9,  10, 
16, 24  p..  29, 42,  47  bis. 
48,68.77,80,142,153, 
176,  181,  189  bis.,  213 
bis.,  224,225,  226  bis., 
230,  239  bis.,  240. 


Bradforth,  13,  23,  145, 

150. 
Bradforthdale,  12. 
Bradley,  149. 
Bradley  Hall,  151,  160. 
Bradley  Wood,  49. 
Bradsburton  Cross,  166. 
Bradsworth,  149. 
Braithwell,  218  p. 
Bramcroft,  146. 
Bramham,  144  bis.,  199. 
Bramham  Park,  5,  20. 
Bramley,  142,  145,  148. 
Bramton,  148  p. 
Bramwyth,  146. 
Braswell,  149. 
Brawby,  223. 
Brawell,  148. 
Brearley,  146. 
Brearton,  148. 
Brememium,  61. 
Bretton  Hall,  1,  191  bis. 
Breton.  144,  145. 
Brier  Knowles,  210. 
Briery  Bank,  fclO/211. 
Brig  Flat,  30,  31. 
Brighouse,  74,  160,  225. 
Bristol,  45,  120, 132. 
Brockwell,  72. 
Brode  Ynge,  92. 
Brook  House,  214  bis. 
Broomhead,  214,  220  p., 

223. 
Brotherton,  144  bis.,  214 

bis. 
Bronghton,  146,  149. 
Bruges,  186. 
Brussels,  186. 
Buerley,  18. 
Bulden,  150. 
Bu'lhouse,  40  p ,  46  p., 

47. 
Buhner,  167. 
Bungay,  192. 
Burgwallis,  49,  146  bis. 
Burgbrigge,  148. 
Burley,  144. 
Burlington  Key,  47. 
Burne,  144. 
Burnsall,  27  bis.,  149. 
Burstall,  28. 
Burton,   144,   145,   148, 

150. 
Burton  Constable,  154  bis 
Burton  Agnes,  29. 
Burton  Grange,  163, 164, 

165. 
Burton-lane-head,  45. 
Butterington,  114. 


250 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 


Byachworth,  146. 
Byerley,  144. 
Byland,  85. 
Byllome,  148. 
Byngeley,  144. 
Byram,  6,  144. 
Byrkyii,  144. 

Cadebie,  148. 

Calder,  R..  43,  152,  197, 

201. 
Calfe  Crofte,  92. 
Calton,  149. 
Calverley,  78,  142,  144, 

195. 
Calverts  Clough,  210. 
Cambodunum,  152,  159. 
Cambridge,  17  bis. 
Campsall,  14C,  208. 
Cams-gill,  31. 
Cantley,  148. 
Carhousc,  148. 
Carlcoats,  214  bis. 
Carlisle,  197. 
Carleton,   76,  143,  114, 

146,  149,  214  p.,  240. 
CaBtilfelde,  92. 
Castlefurth,  146. 
Castle  Hall.  205, 206, 208 
Castley,  147. 
Cattal,  5. 
Cawode,  144. 
Cawthome,  76,  147. 
Chadderton,  70,  71,  72. 
Chadwick  Wood,  210. 
Chalons,  84. 
Chamber,  73. 
Chancery  Lane,  164. 
Chapel-le-Dale,  135. 
Chapel  Wells,  86  bis. 
Charter  He  use,  163. 
Chelsea,  120. 
Cherry  Burton,  29. 
Chester,  45, 132, 199, 240 
Chette,  146. 
Church  Lane,  209. 
Cindcrhill,  210. 
Citeaux  or  Cisteaux,  84 

bis. 
Clapdale  Beck,  137. 
Clapham,  137,  150. 
Claro,  147. 
Clayborne,  192. 
Clayhouse,  49,  74. 
Clayton,  89,145. 146, 148 
Cleckheaton,  142,  144. 
Clent,  193. 
Clifford,  144. 
Clifton,  51,  83,  88,  97 


bis.,  100  bia.,  142,145. 
Clifton  Flat,  92. 
Clitheroe,  6. 
Clothorme,  147. 
Cloughbank,  10. 
Clyent,  147. 
Colchester,  61,  62,  200. 
Coley,  70,  152,  194  bis., 

234. 
Collinge,  149. 
Collingham,  144. 
Collyston,  144. 
Colne,  R.,  83. 
Colthorpe,  147. 
Conington,  160. 
Coni6borough,   148,  213 

bis.,  214  bis. 
Constantinople,  199. 
ConyBton,  149  bis. 
Cote  Flat.  92. 
Cote  Wall.  191. 
Cotham,  223. 
Cotingham,  214  bis. 
Coulton,  223. 
Cowe-forde,  92,  189. 
Co  wick,  5. 
Crakeowe,  149. 
Craven,  197. 
Credlinge,  146. 
CreKjlston,  142,  145. 
Crofton  93,  324. 
Cros*  Greon  Lane,  209. 
Cross  i'th  'Dean,  152. 
Crossland.  152, 145, 152. 
Cross-leigh.  152. 
Crossley,  209  bis. 
Cross-stone,  152. 
Croston,  142,  145. 
Crow  Mount,  206. 
Crow  Nest,  71,  72,  226. 
Crow  Wood,  210. 
Crynglington,  150. 
Cuckoo  Hill,  210. 
Cuckwold,  215  bis. 
Cudworth,  26. 
Cnllingworth,  87,  93. 
Cumberworth,  142,  145, 

204. 

Dalc-bech,  135  bis. 
Dale  Graingo,  174. 
Dull  Lane,  209. 
Dalton,142,145,219bis. 
Danbye  Grange,  93. 
Danegate,  215  bis. 
Danish  Mount,  205. 
Dartield,  29,  148,  236. 
Dariogton.  146. 
Darton,  64,  93. 


Daventry,  47, 125. 
Dawgreen,  196. 
Dean  Chapel,  194. 
Deanhead    Chapel,   194 

bis.,  195. 
Dearham,  60. 
Delft.  70. 

Deuby,  98,  99, 146, 149. 
Dent,  32,  150. 
Denston,  234. 
Denton,  147  bis. 
Derby,  120. 
Derton,  89. 
Derwent  Edge,  45. 
Dewsbory,    27,   39,  42, 

142.  145,  187.  188  p.. 

195, 196  bis.,  197, 2UO, 

202,  203  bis. 
Dowyard  La.,  209. 
Diusdale,  53. 
Dirtcar,  43. 
Dishforth,  216,  217. 
Diss,  47. 
Doddington,  6. 
Dodworth,  146. 
Doe,  R.,  136,  137. 
Don,  R..  45  bis. 
Doncaster,    26,  62.  75, 

82,  148,  194,  215  bis. 
Dorking,  165. 
Douk  Cave,  137. 
Dowkers,  99. 
Downton,  6. 
Dranwell,  31. 
Drax,  144. 

Drighlingtont29, 142, 145 
Droughton,  149. 
Drypool  Church,  195. 
Dunbottle,  209. 
Duncombo  Pk.,  6. 
Dunford  Bridge,  45. 
Dun  Keswyke,  147. 
Dunster  Court,  164. 
Duntford,  147. 
Durham,  53. 
Dusthorpe,  124. 

Ealand,  49,  50,  74,  200. 
Earlsheaton,  26, 75, 133. 
Easegill  Force,  135  bis.  I 
Eastbridleigh,  192,  193, 

194. 
Eastcliff  Bank.  210. 
East  Coltingwith.  194. 
Easthorpe,  189,  207, 210 

bis. 
East  Horsley.  5. 
East  Smiihfield,  192. 
East  Oxe  Pasture.  92. 


INDEX    LOCORUM. 


251 


Eaton,  72. 
Ecclesall,  142,  194. 
Ecdesfield,  26,  73, 148. 
EccleshiU,  49,  145,  239, 

240  p. 
Edgoott,  162. 
Edghill,  48. 
Edinburgh,  7. 
Edlington,  148. 
Edworth,  146. 
ERburgh,  146. 
Eland,  142,  144. 
Elletrye  Flat,  92. 
Elmsall,  215. 
Elreton,  85. 
Emley,  145. 
Emsey,  142, 149,  193. 
Erinden,  142. 
Erkcndale,  148. 
Esholt,  77,  85,  239. 
Eskdale-aide,    228    bis., 

229,  230. 
Esthtou,  149. 
Estkeswyke,  143. 
Esyngton,  149. 
EweU,  166  p. 
Exeleye,  97. 
Exeter,  39,  132. 
Eyton,  194. 

Fairfield,  68. 

Fairweather  Green,  152. 
Farebnrne,  144. 
Farnham,  5.  • 
Farnley,   41,    101,    142 

bis.,  145. 
Farseley,  145. 
Far  Bide  Moor,  207,  210. 
Fawlett,    Fawlethwaite, 

237  p..  238. 
Felbeck  MiU,  194. 
Fenton,  48, 144. 
Femhill,  149. 
Fernley,  145,  147. 
Fernnam,  148. 
Ferrybridge,  6. 
Fetberston,  146. 
Fewston,  25,  26,  235. 
Fieldbead,  125,  209. 
Fieldhoose,  239. 
Filey,  41. 
Findern,  125. 
Firbank,  31. 
Firbeck,  75. 
Fixby,  69, 151. 
Flanders,  207. 
Flanahaw,  39. 
PUpley,  147. 
Rub  House,  210. 


Flaxbye,  149. 
Flaxton,  223. 
Flekesby,  145. 
Flintshire,  6. 
Flockton,  142,  145. 
Fokerbye,  146. 
Fold  Head,  210. 
Folly  foot,  25,  147, 194, 

235. 
Forbrigge  Flat,  92. 
Fors  Abbey,  173. 
Forsdale,  174. 
Fountains,  85,  97,  104. 
Foxroyd,  209. 
Frewell,  92. 
Frickley,  148. 
Fryston,  144,  146. 
Fulneck,  65,  66,  67,  68, 

119, 120,  123. 
Fylingdales  Cb.,  194, 195 
Fysbelake,  148. 

Gallows  Moss,  45. 
Gaping  GUI  Hole,  137. 
Garfartbe,  144. 
Gargrave,  149. 
Gatefurth,  144. 
Gatebill,  144. 
Gatekirk  Cave,  137. 
Gawthorpe  Hall,  5. 
Gaynes  Hall,  5. 
Ghent,  186. 
Gibhole,  209. 
Gilling,  29. 
Gill  Lane,  209. 
Gingle  Pot,  135. 
Gingling  Cave,  137. 
Gisburne  Park,  6. 
Glasgow,  70. 
Gloucester,  41. 
Glysburne,  149. 
God's  bridge,  135. 
GoldhaU,  146. 
Goldsbnrgbe,  147. 
Gomersal,   66,   68,  142, 

145. 
Gowthorp,  147,  215  bis. 
Grace  Hall,  67. 
Grainge,  174,  189. 
Grantley,  147. 
Grassington,  173. 
Great  Tonrne,  220. 
Greenhead,  190. 
Greenside,  209. 
Greetham,  234. 
Greetland,  49,  159  bis. 
Gregory  Spring,  210. 
Grenehamton,  147. 
Gresbrooke,  149. 


Greta,  B.,  135  bis. 
Grisedale,  32. 
Grindleton  Chapel,  194. 
Grimston,  144. 
Gnnthwaite,  146. 216  bis. 
Gygleswyke,  149. 
Gyreington,  149. 
Gysburne,  149. 
Gyseley,  143. 

Haddockstones,  74. 

Haddyl,  144. 

Hadesley,  144  bis. 

Hagg,  196,  210  bis. 

Haigh  Pk..  42. 

Halgton,  89. 

Halifax,  10,  12  bis.,  13, 
24  bis.,  27,  29,  43,  46, 
48,  49,  50,  68,  70,  73, 
74,  127,  143, 145, 152, 
158,  161, 198,  206,  216 
bis.,  235,  236,  240. 

Hallcroft,  87. 

Halsome-moore,  47. 

Halton,  148,  149  bis. 

Hamelton,  144. 

HameBworth,  148. 

Hampole,  85. 

Hampthwaste  Ch.,  195 
bis. 

Hampton,  107,  149. 

Handsworth,  220. 

Hanercrofte,  147. 

Hanging  Banks.  162. 

Harden,  152. 

Hardenbeck,  180. 

Hardrow  Soar,  174. 

Hardwicke,  162  bis. 

Harewood,  43, 144. 

Harrigate,  28. 

Hartcliff,  45. 

Harthill,  148. 

Hartsbead,  27, 82, 83  bis. 
89,  93,  100  bis.,  142, 
145,  152,  202. 

Haslewood,  144. 

Hatefeld,  148. 

Hathweyte,  87. 

Hathermire,  133. 

Haw  Bank,  210. 

Hawdonbye,  146. 

Hawes,  135,  175. 

Hawkeswyke,  149. 

Hawksworth,  143. 

Hawnlytbe,  149. 

Haworth,  10,  12,  13, 15, 
142,  144,  194. 

Hayke,  99. 

Hazlehead,  45. 


252 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 


Healey,  236. 
Heath,  224. 
Heaton,  29,  142. 
Hebden,  149. 
Hecke,  146. 
Heckmondwike,  29,   49, 

68.  93,  94,  99,  125  p, 

126,  127, 143, 145, 191 
Hcdensley,  83,  87. 
Hedingley.  144. 
Hedon,  5,  153,  154,  234. 
Heghome,  89. 
Heirthlington,  149. 
Hellifield,  49,  149. 
Helliwell,  158. 
Hemingborough,  194. 
Hemsworth,  43. 
Hensall,  146. 
Heptonstail,  76,  143. 
Hepworth  Wood,  210. 
Hereden,  87. 
Hermutb,  200. 
Hessye,  144. 
Heton,  88,  94,  148, 149. 
Hewick,   144,   147,   216 

bis,  217. 
He j ton,  145  bis. 
Higham  Ferrers,  6. 
High  Lane,  209. 
High  Stubbinge,  92. 
Hiph  Sunderland,  68, 70, 

71. 
Hillome,  144. 
Hipperholme,  50,  75, 143 

145,  239  bis. 
Hivelton,  192. 
Holbeck,  50,  74. 
Holland,  146,  148. 
Hollin  Hall,  210. 
Holmefirth,  143,  145. 
Holy  Well,  158,  164. 
Hoola,  237. 
Hopton,  189  bis,  191  bis, 

195  bis,  205  bis,  207, 

210  p,  211  p,  213  bis. 
Hopwood,  72. 
Horbury,  24,  39,  42,  44, 

142,  145. 
Hornsea,  155  p. 
Horsford,  143. 
Horsham,  6. 
Horton,  24,  29, 125, 143, 

145,  149, 150. 
Hoton.  18,  149. 
Honndhill,  70. 
Howke,  146. 
Howley.  76,  81, 143, 145. 
Hoyland,  236. 
Hoylandswaine,    237   p, 


238. 
Hoy  ton  Pannell,  148. 
Huddle  Cross,  158. 
Huddersfield,  41,  49,  76, 

93,  97,  99,  100,  143, 

145,  152  bis,  197  Mb. 
Hudleston,  144. 
Hnkrode,  92. 
Hall,  44,  129,  163,  181 

bis. 
Hull  Pot,  138. 
Hulton,  17  bis. 
Hnnburton,  148. 
Handyshelfe,  146. 
Hnnger  Hill,  210. 
Hunnesworth,  142,  145. 
Hnnshelf,  216  bis. 
Hansinghome,  147. 
Hunslet.    73,    121,   143, 

145,  224,  226. 
Huntington,  18. 
Hunt  Pot,  138. 
Huret,  144. 
Hurtle  Pot,  135. 
Hutton  Conyers,  216  p, 

217. 
Hygheholland,  146. 
Hyghemelton.  149. 
Hykylton,  148. 
Hvmsworth,  146. 
Hyndeley,  147. 

Idel,  15,  29,  127,  148, 
145,  239  p,  240  p. 

Ilkley,  144. 

Illingworth,  46. 

Ingleborough,  135,  187 
bis. 

Ingleton,  134,  185,  137 
bis,  150. 

Ingmanthorpe,  193  bis. 

Ingoldemeales,  234. 

Ingraththorpe,  147. 

Inner  Temple,  212. 

Jenkin  Beck,  135. 
Jervaulx,  85,  178. 
Jordan  Roid,  210. 

Kelder,  R.,  83. 
Keldon,  85. 
Kellyngton,  146. 
Kensing  Ch..  63. 
Kendal,  77,  125. 
Kepaxe,  148. 
Kettering.  40. 
Kettlewell,  149,  195. 
Kezburgh,  89,  93, 146. 
Keyingham,  158,  155. 


Kighley,  10,  13,  15,  27, 
149,  234. 

Killington.  32  bis. 

Kilnsey,  25,  154  p. 

Kimlane,  209. 

Kingley  Ch.,  194. 

King's  Cross,  152. 

Kingsdale  Beck,  137. 

Kings  Manor  House,  1S8 

Kingston -upon -Hull,  5, 
47, 163  p,  193, 227  bis. 

Kippax,  39,  73. 

Kipping,  128,175  p,  176  p, 
177  p,  178  p,  179  p,  180 
p,  181  p,  182  p,  183  p, 
184  p,  185  p,  186  p. 

Kirby  Lonsdale,  32. 

Kirby  Misperton,  29. 

Kirby  Moorside,  16. 

Kirby  Overblow.  25. 

Kirk  Burton,  76, 142. 

Kirkby,  144, 147,  204. 

Kirkheaton,  97, 124, 142, 
199,  202,  211. 

Kirkleatham,  20. 

Kirklees,  82,  83,  84,  85 
bis,  86,  87,  90,  91,  93, 
97,  98  p,  100, 151, 196, 
198,  201,  203  bis,  204 
bis,  205,  206. 

Kirkstall,  68,  85. 

Kirkthorpe,  39,  40. 

Knapton,  144. 

Knaresborough,  5, 27, 74 
78,  147,  148,  283  p. 

Knightsbridge,  163. 

Knottyngley,  146. 

Knowl,  205,  210  p. 

Krymsfurth,  148. 

Kuthales,  83. 

Kuthelagam,  83. 

Kyldwyke,  149. 

Kyllinghall,  147. 

Kymberworth,  148. 

Kyndall,  147. 

Kyrbye,  147. 

Kyrbye  Cattail,  148. 

Kyrkbie,  147,  149. 

Kyrkefaenton,  146. 

Kyrkhamton,  147. 

Kyrk  Sandall,  148. 

Kytton,  149. 

Lamlyffe,  149. 
Lambs  Hill,  67. 
Langefeld,  143, 145. 
Langhton,  149. 
Langsett,  146,  214. 
Langtoft,  223. 


INDEX    LOCORUM. 


258 


Langthwate,  148. 

Langwath,  217  bis. 

Lardonary,  215. 

Laughton,  75, 149. 

Laweton,  77. 

Leapool,  47. 

Ledgard  Bridge,  187  bis, 
188,  169,  190. 

Ledgard  Mill,  190,  210. 

L*dsham,  144. 

Ledstone,  143, 199. 

Leeds,  18,  20,  23,  24  p, 
27  bis.  28, 29, 37, 40  p, 
42  p,  44,  48,  49  bis, 
53,  54,  74,  75,  76, 121, 
122  p,  144, 177  bis,  178 
bis,  197  Ms,  198,  199 
bis,  200,  210,  222,  238 
bis. 

Leegreen,  207,  209,  211. 

Lepton,  143, 145. 

Lester,  77. 

Letwell,  217  bis. 

Leven,  29, 156,  158. 

Levington,  218  bis. 

Lewknor,  63. 

Leyden,  178. 

Leythley.  147. 

Ltghtcliffe,  66,  226. 

Laey,  191,  210  p. 

Lincoln,  234. 

Linton,  27. 

Lisbon,  199. 

Lisle,  186. 

Little  Don,  R.,  45. 

Little  Hag,  210. 

Little  Horton,  68. 

Little  London,  196,  209. 

Littlemoor,  210. 

Liverpool,  199,  240. 

Liversedge,  83,  89  bis, 
93,  94,  98,  99,  143, 
145, 188. 

Lofthouse,  39,  76, 144. 

London,  7, 12, 45, 50, 53, 
66,  72,  132,  165,  166, 
182, 183,  185,  215. 

Lonkester,  11. 

Longley,  97, 100  bis. 

Long  Mareton,  17,  18. 

Long  Preston,  49. 

Long  Sntton,  234. 

Longwood  Chapel,  195. 

Londenden,  10. 

Loversall,  148. 

Low  Harrogate  Ch.,  195. 

Low  Mills,  191,  210. 

Low  Road,  210. 

Lowther  Hall,  200. 


Lnddenden,  194  p,  235. 
Lune  R.,  31,  135. 
Lyndley,  147. 
Lyon  Roode,  93. 
Lynton,  147,  149. 

Magna  Cattail,  147. 
Magna  Usbrirne,  148. 
Mallame,  149. 
Maltby,  75, 149. 
Malton,  6,  222. 
Manchester,  45,  71,  125 

bis,  152, 159, 199,  240. 
Mankynholes,  151. 
Man,  Ifle  of,  56. 
Manningham,    24,    143, 

145,  213. 
Manor  Ho.,  52,  53  bis, 

54  bis,  119. 
Mansfield,  177,  184  bis. 
Marebrigge  Flat,  92. 
Mark  Lane,  164. 
Marledoore,  92. 
Marre,  149. 
Marscoate,  96. 
Marsden,  49. 
Marsheden,  143. 
Marsheland,  146. 
Mareton,  16,  17,  18. 
Marton,  87. 
Matchcroft,  209  bis. 
Manltby  Ch.,  194. 
Meagill,  28. 
Meaux  or  Melsa,  85. 
Medhope,  149. 
Medleton,  147. 
Medley,  143,  145. 
Meklefeld,  144. 
Melmerby,  216. 
Melthaxn,  73, 143,  145. 
Menston,  143. 
Merkynton,  147. 
Merton,  144. 
Merton  Coll.,  63. 
Methley,  5,  219. 
Mexbrongh,  148, 212, 218 

bis,  221. 
Middleton,  32,  74,  123, 

143. 
Migeley,  143. 
Mile-end,  125. 
Mill-bridge,  126. 
Mill-house,  208. 
Milner  Field,  226. 
Milnfold,  189. 
Mincing  Lane,  164. 
Minorca,  199. 
Mirfield,  82  bis,  83  p,  84, 

86,  90,  91,  93,  94,  97, 


100,  101  bis,  143  144, 
187  p,  188,  189  bis, 
191  bis,  192, 195,  196 
p,  197  p,  198  p,  199  p, 
200  p,  201  p,  203  f>, 
204  p,  205  bis,  206, 
207  p,  208  p,  209,  211 
bis. 

Mixeuden,  177,  180. 

Mock  Beggar,  210. 

Molesme,  84. 

Monkton,  144.  147. 

Montier-la-Celle,  84. 

Moor  House,  40. 

Moorside,  209. 

Moor  Town,  199. 

Moravia,  66. 

Morkar,  74. 

Morlev,  75,  76  bis,  79, 
124,  142,  143,  145, 
224  bis. 

Morton,  144,  223. 

Moss  Farm,  96. 

Mostyn,  72. 

Mount  Sorril,  53. 

Mydleton,  145. 

Myghley,  145. 

Mynskyppe,  148. 

Mytton,  150, 

Nabstocks  Bank,  210. 
Naustrope,  74. 
Nawton,  223. 
Nesfeld,  147. 
Netherneld,  45. 
Nether  Hall,  79. 
Nether  Thong,  43. 
Netherton,  143. 
Nettlested,  78. 
Newall,  147. 
Newbiggin,  218  bis. 
Newbye,  147. 
Newcastle,  7,  200,  240. 
New  Close,  92. 
New  Hall,  191,  210,  211. 
New  Miller  Dam,  76. 
Newsoin,  143,  149. 
Newthorpe,  144. 
Newton,  149,  150. 
Newton  Kyme,  144. 
Newton  Wallys,  144. 
New  Wood,  93. 
Nickhouse,  209  bis. 
Nidderdale,  23. 
Norland,  50. 
Normanton,  143, 145. 
Northallerton,  5,  6,  107. 
Northampton,  40. 
Northbar,  209. 


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YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


North  Birley,  143. 
Northcroft,  87. 
North  Crossland,  145. 
Northdighton,  147. 
North  Elmsall,  146. 
North  Frodingham,  155. 
Northgate,  40. 
North  Gynedale,  218  p. 
Northorpe,     187,     207, 

209  p. 
Northowram,  19,  47,  50, 

127,    143,    145,    177, 

184  bis,  185. 
Norton,  146,  193  big. 
Norwich,  132. 
Nostell,  97,  146. 
North  Stanley,  147. 
Nottingham,  48. 
Notton,  146. 
Novou,  15. 

Nun  Appleton,  22,  85. 
Nunbanke,  93. 
Nunbrook,  82,  83,   188, 

206,  210. 
Nunkeeling,  157, 158. 
Nnnmonkton,  20, 73, 147. 
Nunwood,  97. 
Nun  Wyk,  147. 
Nydd,  147. 

Oakham,  63. 
Ockbrook,  68. 
Okenshaw,  158. 
Oketon.  219  bis. 
Oliver  Car,  210. 
Onchan,  56,  60. 
Osgodcrosse,  146. 
Osmonderbye,  147. 
Ossett,  43,  75,  143, 145. 
Oswestry,  125. 
Otley/39, 143,  240. 
Otterburne,  149. 
Ouse-bridge  Hall,  21. 
Ousterfeld,  148, 
OuBtoh  Ch.,  198. 
Ovenden,  143,  145,  174. 
Overard,  186. 
Oxford,  17. 
Ox  Lane,  166. 
Oxspringe,  146,  219  bis. 
Oxthorpe,  148. 

Padeham,  11. 

Paper,  or  Papist   Hall, 

86  bis. 
Parkgate,  26. 
Pate  Lane,  209. 
Pathorn,  149. 
Pecca  Falls,  135. 


Pendle  Hill,  30. 

Penistone,  45,  46  p,  146, 
162,  164,  208,  214. 

Penny  Hedge,  230. 

Penrith,  205. 

Peterboro\  6. 

Petersfield,  166. 

Petrosslanus,  83. 

Pickworth,  178. 

Pimbledow,  72. 

Plompton,  147. 

Pockley,  223. 

Pollington,  74,  144,  146, 
219  bis. 

Pomfret,  146. 

Pontefract,  6  bis,  12,  24 
bis,  25  bis,  26,  27,  46, 
47,  48,  49,  54,  74,  75, 
76  bis,  90,  98,  133, 
146, 189  bis,  208,  218, 
215, 227, 233  p,  239  bis. 

Poole,  119,  148. 

Popleton,  144  bis. 

Postern  Gate,  163. 

Potternewton,  121,  143. 

Prague,  198. 

Preston,  12,  143,  146, 
149. 

Pudsey,  29,  143,  145, 
180,  285. 

Pygburne,  148. 

Quarmbv,  27, 143, 145. 
Quarry  Hole,  195. 
Queenborongh,  6. 
Quick,  143. 

Rainton,  216  bis. 
Ranfeld,  148. 
Rastriok,  143, 145, 152. 
Rathmel,  124  bis. 
Ratton  Row,  210. 
Ravenspurn  Gross,  153, 

154. 
Ravensthorpe  Lane,  209. 
Ravenwray,  135. 
Rawoliffe,  148. 
Rawden,  144,  240  p. 
Rawmarshe,  148. 
Rawthy,  R.,  29. 
Redbonrn,  5. 
Redear  Chapel,  195. 
Rednesse,  146  bis. 
Reinsley,  147. 
Remyngton,  149. 
Reyll,  146. 
Reylston,  149. 
Ribston,  197. 
Richmond  -  on  -  Thames, 


235. 
Richmond,  Yorks,  5. 
Rigton,  143. 
Ripley,  23, 147. 
Ripon,  5,   29,   147  his, 

216,  217,  219  bis. 
Ripponden,  196. 
Rise,  158. 
Rishforth,  143. 
Risingham  Station,  61. 
Rivaulx,  85. 
Road  End,  45. 
Roall.  146. 
Robert  Town,  2^9. 
Roche,  85,  97. 
Rochester.  199. 
Roclyffe,  146. 
Roebuck,  194. 
Roehead,  210. 
Roodes,  76. 
Rosington,  148. 
Rothemell,  149. 
Rotherham,  47,  75,  127, 

148,  162. 
Rothwell  Haigh,  40,  41, 

42,76,81,143,145,218. 
Roughbanks,  216. 
Row  Houses,  210. 
Rowley,  29. 
Rowting  Cave,  187. 
Royston,  140. 
Rufford,  202. 
Runswick,  193  p. 
Rushford  Farm,  94. 
Rygton,  147. 
Rykston,  147  Ms. 
Ryllyingley,  148. 
Ryshworth,  146. 
Ryther,  144. 

Saddleworth,  94  bis,  99. 
St.  Ann's  Chapel,  194  bis. 
St.  Ives  192. 
St.  John's  Chapel,  194. 
St.  Mary's  Abbey,  85. 
St.  Miohrcl  de  Tounerre, 

84. 
St.  Olave's,  Ch.,  193. 
St.  Philip's  Cross,  153. 
St.  Philip's  Well,  153. 
Sallay,  85,  147. 
Saltaire,  224  p,  225,226 

p,  289. 
Saltersbrook,  45. 
Salterton,  195. 
Salton,  223. 
Saltwood,  17. 
Sandall,    43,    143,  145, 

148. 


INDEX    LOCORUM. 


255 


f 


Sandford  Park,  17 

Sandsend,  153. 

Saxton,  144. 

Scaleber  Force,  133. 

Scarboro',  5,  6,  53,  138, 
227,  229. 

Scarcroft,  144. 

Scavrgbye,  149. 

Scladburne,  149. 

Scoles,  15,  93,  99  bis. 

Scothorpe,  149. 

Scrathayks.  99. 

Screfyn,  148. 

Scyrcotte,  144. 

Secroft,  143. 

Sedbergh,  29,  30,  31,  32. 

Sedgbige,  150. 

Selby,24bis,44,47,144. 

Selesden,  149. 

Settle,  133,  149. 

Settrragton,  29. 

Shadwell,  144. 

Shafton,  U6. 

Sharbore,  147. 

Shariesto*,  143, 145. 

Sheep  To/,  210. 

Sheffield,  8,  28,  29,  148, 
163,  lf5,  220  p. 

8helfe,fc,87,93,98,99, 
144. 

Shelley,  143,  145. 

Shepefeycarre,  99. 

ShepK,   U3,  145,  187, 
tfiris. 

Bhfeurne,  144. 

mien  Hall,  19  bis. 

ShUnk  La,  86,  209  p. 

%ley,    49,    105,   143, 
44,  225,  239. 

Slrclif ,  90. 

litlington,90,143,145. 

faewsbury,  125. 

huckden,  178  p,  179  bis, 

181  p,  182,  184. 
Sicklinghall,  25, 193. 
Silkstone,  236,  237. 
Sindall,  143. 
Sitiningthwait,  85. 
Skeffling,  156. 
Skellbrooke,  146. 
Skellowe,  146. 
tikelton,  147,  218. 
Skimlthorpe,  146. 
Skipton,  24,  25  p,  28  bis, 
48,  49,  52,  149. 

Skircote,  50,  143. 

Skybdcn,  149. 

Slaok,  152, 159  bis. 

Slaithwaite,  94,  143, 145 


Slate  quarries,  135. 
Sleeford,  178. 
Smallhaigh,  208. 
Smeaton  parva,  146. 
Snaith,  25.  146,  219. 
Snake  Hill,  188,  210. 
Snaynton,  228. 
Sneaton  Castle,  22. 
Snydall,  145. 
Softley,  221  bis. 
South  Dighton,  147. 
South  Elmesall,  146. 
Southfield,  127,  128. 
Southgate,  155. 
South  Kirkby,  73,  146. 
South  Mylefurth,  144. 
Southowram,  27, 50, 143, 

145. 
South  Stanley,  148. 
Sonthwark,  48,  239. 
Sowerby.   50,   143,  145, 

195,  199,  239. 
Soytyll,  145. 
Spennymoor,  118. 
Spofforth,  29, 147. 
Sprodburgh,  148. 
Stafford,  192. 
Stainborongh,    236    bis, 

237  p,  238  bis. 
Stainclif,  149. 
Staincrosse,  146. 
Stainland,  143,  145,  150, 

151. 
Stainley,  6,  145. 
Staintou,  125, 149. 
Stakford,  92. 
Stanbury,  9,10p,  11, 13, 

14  bis,  15  p. 
Stanhope,  29. 
Stanley,  41,  49. 143, 148 
Stansfeld,  52,  75, 143. 
Stapylton,  146. 
Statton,  144. 
Staynburne,  147. 
Staynfeld,  145. 
Staynfirth,  148,  149. 
Staynsall,  149. 
Steton,  149. 
8teynburghe,  146. 
Stockbridge,  238. 
Stokesley,  138. 
Stonegate,  121. 
Stonegrave,  223. 
Stonehouses,  99. 
Stoynfeld,  149. 
Strafford,  75  bis,  148, 221 
Strawberry  Hill,  54. 
Stubbes  hampoll,  148. 
Stubbes  Walden,  146. 


Stubbynge,  92. 
Studley,  5,  147. 
Stump  Gross,  152. 
Styrton,  149. 
Sutcliffe,  239. 
Suttell,  143. 
Sutton,   144,   148,    149, 

163.  209. 
Sutton  place,  207. 
Swillabottom,  135. 
Swillington  Ho.,  43,  143, 

199. 
Swindon,  149,  207  p. 
Swine,  85, 155  bis. 
8wine  pasture,  92. 
Swinfleet,  75. 
S  win  ton,    149,   215  bis, 

221  bis. 
Sylkstone,  146. 
Synclynghall,  147. 

Tadcaster,  47,  144,  194, 

199. 
Tankersley,  146,  236. 
Temple,  211. 
Thanet,  162. 
Thirsk,  6  bis,  192,  215, 

234. 
Thome,  73.  148. 
Thornell,  143. 
Thorner,  197. 
Thornhill,  29,  145,  191, 

200,  202. 
Thornnour,  143. 
Thornton,    6,    29,    128, 

143,  145, 147, 149, 160 

176,  182,  185,  194. 
Thornton  Force,  134, 137 
Thornwaite  Chapel,  235. 
Thorp  Arch,  72. 
Thorpawdleybye,  146. 
Thorpe,  28,  74,  79,  147. 
Thorpsalvyn,  148. 
Thorp  Stapleton,  144. 
Thorpsup'monte,  143. 
Thorpwillingbye,  144. 
Threaproyd,  210. 
Thrownstone,  148. 
Thryberg,  138. 
Thurguland,   .146,    236, 

237  p,  238  p. 
Thurlstone,  45,  147. 
ThurscroBse,  147. 
Thurstonland,  143, 145. 
Tickell,  75  bis,  148,  149, 

162, 213  bis,  233, 234  p. 
Tinmouth  Castle,  53. 
Tinsley,  221  bis. 
Tithe  Laithe,  210. 


256 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 


Tockboles,  125. 
Toddwyke,  148. 
Tong,  28,  51,  143,  145. 
Topgrave,  147. 
Tore  R,  173. 
Towcrosse,  150. 
Towngate,  207,  209  bis. 
Towton,  144. 
Tresfeld,  149. 
Treton,  148,  220. 
Trougill  gorge,  137. 
Turnbridge  24  bis,  27. 
Tutbury,  213. 
Twickenham,  6. 
Twiselton  Soar,  135. 
Tymkill,  147  bis. 
Tynslowe,  149,  222  bis. 

Uglebarmby,  228. 
Ulf's  Lands,  222. 
Ulley,  148. 
Undercliffe,  127. 
Unshriven  Bridge,  216. 
Upperhall,  209. 
Upper  Wortley,  68. 
Upton,  146. 
Uakett,  146. 
UskUl,  144. 
Uskorne,  147. 

Victoria  Cave,  133. 

Waddington,  150,  234. 

Wadsley,  26,  223  p. 

Wadsworth,  143,  145, 
149,  161,  162,  163  p, 
164  p,  165. 

Wagestan,  83. 

Wakefield,  1,  11, 12  bis, 
13  bis,  24  p,  26  bis,  27, 
37,  39  p,  40  p.  41  p,  42 
p,  43  p,  44  p,  49  p,  50, 
61,  52,  70,  71,  72,  74 
p,  75  bis,  80  p,  98, 143, 
145, 162  bis,  163, 196, 
197  bis,  198, 199,  200, 
201  bis,  202,  206,  210, 
223  bis,  224,  228  bis, 
233  p,  234,  239,  240. 

Waicot,  5. 

Walkingtdn,  194. 

Walles,  148. 

Walton,  74,  83, 143, 145, 
152  bis. 

Warley,  50, 148, 145. 


Warmefeld,  143,  145. 
Warmsworth,  148  bis. 
Warren  House.  210. 
Warrington,  125,  126. 
Washburn  Place,  282  bis. 
Water  Hall,  45, 163, 164 

bis,  210. 
Waterloo,  235. 
Water  Royd  Lane,  209. 
Wath,  148  bis,  221. 
Wekeleye,  93. 
Wellhouse,  66,  68,  200, 

207,  209 
Wenning,  R.,  137. 
Wensley,  29. 
Wensleydale,    30,    173, 

175. 
Wentworth,  26, 148. 
Wentworth  House,  43. 
Westbretton,  89,  146. 
Westchestre,  78. 
West  Ella,  163. 
Westgate,  42,  96. 
Westhalton,  49. 
Westhaye,  89, 93, 97, 98, 

99. 
Westhonse,  137. 
West  Mills,  210. 
West  Oxe  Pasture,  92. 
Weston,  147. 
West  Strodes,  99. 
Westwike,  147. 
Wetecroft,  87. 
Wethercote,  135. 
Wetherby,    27,    28,  47, 

147. 
Whalley,  78, 152. 
Wharfe,  R.,  1. 
Wheat-hey,  148. 
Wheatley,  22,  176. 
Wheldall,  146. 
Whernside,  137. 
Whetlye,  146. 
Whiston,  25  bis,  148, 220 
Whitby,  153,  158,  228  p, 

229  bis,  230  bis. 
Whitecross,    156,    157, 

158. 
Whitehaven,  125. 
Whitgyfte,  146. 
Whitley,  94,    145,   191, 

206,  207  bis,  210. 
Whittington,  73. 
Whitwood,  143, 145. 
Whorlton,  230. 


Whyxley.  147. 

Wibsey  Chapel,  194  bis, 

285. 
WighiU,  191. 
Wigles worth,  49. 
Wigton,  144,  200. 
Wigtwisle,  220. 
Wike,  28,  49,  66,  68, 143 

bis,  144, 145. 
Willoughby,  47. 
Wimbleton,  223. 
Windy  Bank,  210. 
Winwick,  71. 
Wifitow,  144. 
Wodersley,  143. 
Wodesom,  143. 
Wolley.  89,  90, 146. 
Wombewell,  148. 
Woodchurch,  78,  79,  80. 
Woodhouse,  160. 
Woodkirk,  81.  195. 
Woodlane,  209. 
Woodlesford,  41,  76. 
Wooley  Park,  41. 
Worcester,  120. 
Wornesloy,  146. 
Wortley.  6,  53]  119, 143, 

146, 191.       \ 
Wospurne,  147  A 
Wrangbrooke,  1U6. 
WroseBank,  2] 
Wyokham,  85. 
Wyghton,  147. 
Wygylsworth,  149)i 
Wykerley,  145,  147, 148. 
Wyntercett,  147. 
Wytwell  Hall,  219.  I 

Yarme,  193. 

Yeadon,  143,  240  p. 

Yew  Tree,  135,  210. 

Yordas  Cave,  137. 

York,  5, 7, 11, 18  bis,  J 
22,  24  bis,  26  bis,  23 
29,  32.  33,  34,  35,  36\ 
37,  39  p,  41,  42,  43, 
46,  52,  53,  121,  122, 
132,  181  bis,  182, 184, 
186  p,  192. 193  p,  194 
p,  197,  198,  203,  212, 
218,  220,  227  p,  228, 
230,  231  bis,  232  p, 
234,  235. 


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Vol.  I. 


$)rinteb  for  ilj*  ©Mtor 

By  T.  Harrison,  Queen  Street,  Bingley. 

1888. 


T'-V.:.-.  '     . 

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Mother  Shipton  1,  81,  82. 

Witches — Hares,  Broom- 
sticks 2,  25,  98,  94,  209. 
Spiders     -         -         -  2, 22. 
Charms — Sore  Mouth    -       21. 
Potato       ...       48. 
Kincough  -         -         -     282. 
Selling  Warts        -         -  2, 21. 
Robin  Hood  Gravestone  2. 
Haunted  Houses,  2,  22,  88,  45, 
70,  286. 
Holy  Wells      8,120,191,194, 
196,  200. 
Children's  Games        8,  22,  45, 
46,  214. 
Prophet  Wroe    5,  6,  7, 17,  210. 
Anecdotes        8,  67,  69,  78,  91, 
99, 167,  215,  225. 
Popular  errors : 
Cromwells          -         -         9. 
Romans    -         -         -       73. 
Abbotside     -         -         -  9, 25. 
Hardrow  Scar  (Poem)   -       11. 
Poor  Man's  Bane             12,  78. 
Calder-vale  Dialect,  12,  22,  78, 
87, 109, 122. 
Burials  in  Woollen        -       17. 
"  Duck "  threat     -         -       21. 
Frxis  jingle  -         -         -       21. 
Arkengarthdale     -          22, 66. 
Fair  Imogene        -          22, 45. 
Ballads,   22,  23,  25,  42,  45,  46, 
99,  102,  117,  119,  146,  151, 
165, 170,  180,  183, 184,  186, 
187,  188,  204,  211,  229. 
Christmas  Customs,  25, 29, 210. 
York  Waits            -         -       27. 
Wassailing             -         28, 178. 
Devil's  Knell         -         -       29. 
Boiling  Ghost        -         -       88. 


Superstitions       48,  45,  88,  96, 
98,  229. 
G.  Daniel's  Poem  -       45. 

York  Minster  Screen  (North 

Riding  Dialect  -         -       49. 
Centenarians,    55,  57,  66, 188, 
186,  168,  192,  194,  280. 
Henry  Jenkins      -         57, 169. 
Strike  luck  66. 

Yorkshire  Charac^a,     67,  69, 

120,  122, 189, 167, 171, 174, 

207,  208,  222,  228,  225,  240. 
Paper  Hall  Ghost  -       70. 

Lope  Hoil  -       78. 

Births,  &c.  -  -  -  78. 
Darney's  Hymn    -  74. 

Wife  Sales  -  -  87, 189. 
Aerial  Phenomena  88,  92. 

Batley  Legend  -  -  89. 
Dewsbury  Legend  -       89. 

Tenure  Custom  -  -  91. 
Golden  Ball  Legend  -  94. 
Hull  Corporation  Arms  104. 
Cruel  Unkle  Legend  -  115. 
Palm  Sunday  -  -  120. 
Tibby  Tinkler  -  121, 166. 
Yorkshire  Bite  -  121, 166. 
Local  Preachers  -  122, 189. 
Peace  Egg,  F.axterFjm,  127,140. 
Yorkshire  Speyks,  181,217,225. 
Clothier's  Vain  Wife  -  186. 
Soothill  Legend  -  -  140. 
Yorkshire    PI  ace -Name 

Rhymes     -       141, 143,  144. 
Robin  Hood  -      146, 147. 

Whitby  FisherLad  Ballad,  151. 
Nursery  Rhymes  -  -  152. 
Sprotbro'  Hospitality  -  166. 
Ribston  Song  -  -  170. 
Hal  of  Kirklees      -         -     174. 


Contents — continued. 


Herbert  Knowles  - 

180 

PAGE. 

,182. 

Yorkshire  Wit  &  Humour 

PAGE 

225 

All  Fool's  Day      - 

- 

185. 

Delivering  a  Sod  - 

281 

Parkin 

- 

186. 

Runswick  Charm  - 

282. 

Whig  and  Tory     - 

189 

,190. 

Whitby  Legend     - 

234. 

Gabriel  Hounds    - 

- 

201. 

York  Castle  Custom 

284 

Hal  of  Bradford    - 

- 

207. 

Bradford  Waits     - 

284 

Pyrah  the  Prophet 

- 

208. 

Horn -blowing 

286. 

Semerwater  Legend 

46 

,211. 

Simeon  Rayner     - 

289 

Burial  Customs     - 

- 

212. 

Index  Nominum    - 

241. 

" Stand  a  York  drop' 

' 

214. 

Index  Locorum     - 

248. 

Mischief  Night 

215. 

Simeon  Rayner 
Boiling  Hall 
Hull  Arms 


PAGE. 

Frontispiece. 

-  89.. 

-  105. 


PAGE. 

Witches  -  -  2,88,209. 
Prophet  Wroe's  Birthplace,  17. 
Woollen  Burial  Certificate, 

18, 19. 
Boiling  Hall  -         -       39. 

44  Pity  Poor  Bradford"  -  41. 
A  Yorkshire  Post  -  -  67. 
Paper  Hall,  Bradford  -  71. 
Senior  the  Hermit  -     102. 

Hull  Seals  (6)        -         -     105. 


Cruel  Unkle 
John  Phillips,  gent. 
Bradford  Legend  - 
44  Prophet  Wroe  " 
Typical  Yorkshiremen,  22 
Runswick 
Whitby  Abbey       - 
Bradford  Waits     - 
Tasker  the  Grave-digger 
Bentley  the  Bellman     - 


PAGE" 

117. 
192. 
196. 
210. 
2,228. 
232. 
288. 
235. 
240. 
240. 


With  Notes  Comical  and  Dialectic. 


Fabricated  "  Ancient  Prediction.  (Entitled  by  popular  tra- 
dition— 'Mother  Shipton's  Prophecy,'  published  in  1448, 
republished  in  1641.) 

"  Carriages  without  horses  shall  go, 

And  accidents  fill  the  world  with  woe. 

Around  the  earth  thoughts  shall  fly 

In  ttie  twinkling  of  an  eye. 

The  world  upside  down  shall  be, 

And  gold  be  found  at  the  root  of  a  tree. 

Through  hills  men  shall  ride, 

And  no  horse  be  at  his  side. 

Under  water  men  shall  walk, 

Shall  ride,  shall  sleep,  shall  talk. 

In  the  air  men  shall  be  seen, 

In  white,  in  black,  in  green. 

Iron  in  the  water  shall  float, 

As  easy  as  a  wooden  boat. 

Gold  shall  be  found  and  shown 

In  a  land  that's  not  now  known. 

Fire  and  water  shall  wonders  do, 

England  shall  at  last  admit  a  foe. 

The  world  to  an  end  shall  come 

In  eighteen  hundred  and  eighty-one.,, 

This  alleged  "prediction"  has  been  published  in  several 
newspapers,  &c,  during  the  past  few  years,  and  having  very 
strong  doubts  regarding  its  authenticity  I  forwarded  a  cutting 
of  it  to  Notes  and  Queries,  with  the  enquiry  "  Where  was  it  first 
published,  and  is  it  considered  genuine  ?  "  It  appeared  in  (4th 
8.,  vol.  X.,  p.  450,  Dec.  7,  72,)  and  replies  appeared  at  page 
502;  and  vol.  XI.,  pp.  60  and  206,  from  the  Rev.  W.  W.  Skeat, 
Mr.  J.  C.  Cox,  Dr.  Rimbault,  and  Mr.  Wm.  Andrews.  The 
answers  were  to  the  effect  that  there  were  very  great  doubts 
regarding  its  authenticity,  and  that  the  date  1448  could  not  be 
correct,  as  the  accounts  of  "  The  Life  and  Prophecies  of  Mother 
Shipton,"  generally  say  that  she  died  in  1661,  aged  78,  so  that 
her  birth  would  be  about  1488.  However,  the  matter  was  com- 
pletely set  at  rest  by  the  following  note  by  the  editor  in  "  Notices 
to  Correspondents,"  at  page  855,  4th  S.,  vol.  XI.,  Notes  and 
Queiies: — 

Y.F.  B 


2 


YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE. 


Mother  Shipton's  Prophecies. — Mr.  Charles  Hindley,  of 
Brighton,  in  a  letter  to  us,  has  made  a  clean  breast  of  haying 
fabricated  the  Prophecy  quoted  at  page  450  of  our  last  volume, 
with  some  ten  others  included  in  his  reprint  of  a  chap-book 
version,  published  in  1862."  Simeon  Bayneb. 

Witches  and  Broomsticks. — I  have  an  old  Mother  Shipton 
chap-book  bearing  on  the  title  page  a  woodcut  as  follows : — 


Can  any  reader  favour  me  with  the  origin  of  the  broomstick 
notion  ? 

Spiders. — The  other  day  I  knocked  a  spider  from  my  face, 
and  a  little  girl,  standing  by,  remarked,  "  You  are  going  to  have 
a  fortune." 

Selling  Warts. — My  little  boy's  hands  were  covered  with 
warts  a  few  months  ago,  and  a  bottle  I  got  from  the  doctor 
containing  some  liquid  to  rub  them,  seemed  to  be  ineffective  in 
removing  them.  A  neighbour  woman  seeing  the  disfigurements 
told  the  boy  to  go  to  her  house  and  sell  them.  She  paid  him  a 
half-penny," wrapped  in  paper,  and  told  him  to  place  it  carefully 
away  till  the  warts  disappeared.  In  a  month  his  hands  were 
clear,  and  the  coin  is  still  wrapped  up.  Ho  has  not  had  one 
since  September.  This  is  a  fact ;  whether  the  doctor's  lotion 
took  effect  afterwards  I  cannot  say.  Mary  Stead. 

Robin  Hood's  Gravestone. — Not  only  is  this  old  stone  sur- 
rounded by  high,  iron  railings,  but  the  top  has  been  also 
protected  by  iron  bars,  because  the  rustics  stole  into  the  grounds 
and  climbed  the  rails,  to  chip  a  little  off  the  stone  as  a  charm  for 
toothache.  J.H.T. 

Haunted  House. — Mayroid,  the  old  home  of  the  Cockrofts, 
at  Hebden  Bridge,  was  formerly  reported  to  be  haunted ;  and 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  S 

no  wonder  such  statements  should  arise,  if  all  that  Oliver  Hey- 
wood  and  others  tell  of  their  debauchery  is  true.  Persons  now 
living  have  heard  many  unaccountable  noises  in  the  roof,  but 
my  chief  object  in  writing  is  to  report  that  the  knockings  have 
ceased  since  we  bored  holes  in  the  under-drawing.  There  is  a 
fine  coat  of  arm's  over  the  side  door,  of  the  Gockroft  family, 
with  a  Cock  for  crest.  W.H. 

Holy  Wells. — A  descriptive  list  of  these  interesting  relics 
will  be  acceptable.  We  have  accounts  of  three  to  hand,  viz.: 
Alegar  Well,  near  Kirklees,  Holywell  at  Stainland,  and  Helliwell, 
in  Lightcliffe.  Ed. 

Ancient  Village  Sport. — In  the  XortJuimptonshire  Notes  and 
Queries  for  April,  188$,  is  a  Note  which  we  transcribe  as  it  cor- 
responds with  a  favourite  game  now  played  in  Shipley  district, 
under  the  name  of  A  Farmer's  Life.  My  daughter  has  given 
me  the  following  rendering,  retaining  the  bad  grammar : 

Oats,  and  beans,  and  barley  corn, 
You,  nor  I,  nor  any  one  knows, 
You,  nor  I,  nor  any  one  knows, 
Where  oats,  and  beans,  and  barley  grows. 

First  the  farmer  sows  his  seed, 
And  then  he  stands,  and  takes  his  ease, 
Stamps  his  foot,  and  clasps  his  hand, 
And  turns  him  round  to  view  the  land. 

Waiting  for  a  partner ;  waiting  for  a  partner, 

Open  the  ring,  and  take  one  in, 

And  piok  the  fairest  of  the  ring. 
Now  you're  married  you  must  obey, 
You  must  attend  to  all  I  say, 
You  must  be  kind,  you  must  be  good, 
And  help  your  wife  to  chop  the  wood. 

We  make  a  ring  by  joining  hands,  and  a  boy  goes  into  it,  and 
we  begin  to  sing.  At  the  proper  time,  he  picks  a  girl  he  likes 
the  best.  He  then  kisses  the  girl,  and  goes  out  whilst  she 
remains  in  and  picks  a  boy.  Ed. 

"Having  been  recently  invited  by  the  kind  Vicar  of  Eaunds, 
to  join  the  annual  Christmas  Entertainment  of  the  Eaunds 
Church  Choir,  I  noticed  that  a  very  favourite  pastime  of  the 
evening  was  one  which  I  shall  call  "  Choosing  Partners,"  and 
this  I  will  go  on  to  describe,  as  being  in  all  probability  a  sport 
which  has  come  down  by  tradition  from  very  remote  times,  and 
possibly  has  not  before  been  noticed  in  print.  The  game  is 
played  thus.  The  young  men  and  maidens  join  hands  indis- 
criminately, and  form  a  ring ;  within  the  ring  stand  a  lad  and 
bus ;  then  they  all  step  round  the  way  the  sun  goes,  to  a  plain 
tune  and  the  following  words : — 


4  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

"  Does  you,  or  I,  or  anie  one  knowe 
Where  oates  and  beanes  &  barlie  growe  f 

Where  oates  and  beanes  and  barlie  growe  ? 
The  farmer  comes  and  sowes  ye  seede. 
Then  he  standee  and  takes  hys  ease 
Stamps  hys  foote,  and  slappes  hys  hand 
And  turnes  hym  rounde  to  viewe  ye  lande." 

During  the  singing  of  the  two  last  lines  they  all  disjoin  hands, 
stop,  and  stamp  their  feet,  and  clap  their  hands,  and  turn  right 
round — all  in  time  and  tune ;  and  then  join  hands  again,  and 
proceed:— 

"  Waiting  for  a  partner 
Waiting  for  a  partner 
Open  the  ringe  and  take  mee  in 
Make  haste  and  choose  your  partner." 

The  two  in  the  middle  here  choose  each  of  them  a  partner  of 
the  opposite  sex  out  of  the  ring,  which  they  do  by  pointing  to 
the  one  chosen ;  then  they  continue  the  dance  round  to  the 
words  below,  the  two  pairs  of  partners  crossing  hands, — first 
right  and  then  left, — and  revolving  opposite  ways  alternately. 
The  march  round  is  temporarily  suspended  for  choosing  part- 
ners : — 

"  Now  you're  married  you  must  obey 
Must  bee  true  to  alle  you  saye 
Must  bee  kinde  and  verie  goode 
And  helpe  your  wyfe  to  choppe  ye  woode." 

The  partners  then  salute — or  rather  each  lad  kisses  his 
chosen  lass,  with  the  proper  amount  of  reluctance  on  her  part, 
and  the  first  two  partners  go  out ;  the  game  continues  as  before, 
being  repeated  ad  infinitum;  until  every  one  in  the  ring  has 
chosen,  and  been  chosen ;  and  consequently  every  lad  has 
saluted  every  lass,  which  is  lovely. 

The  antiquity  of  the  pastime  is  evidenced  by  its  not  mention- 
ing wheat;  wheat  was  in  remote  times  an  exceptional  crop. 
The  village  people  lived  on  oatmeal,  and  barley  bread,  and 
were  none  the  less  strong  and  happy  for  that. 

It  also,  possibly,  points  to  a  period  when  most  of  the  land 
lay  in  grass.  Portions  of  the  open  fields  were  cultivated  in 
turn,  and  after  a  few  years  of  merciless  cropping  were  laid  down 
again  to  recuperate. 

The  advent  of  a  young  bachelor  farmer  to  a  parish  would 
cause  a  flutter  among  the  girls ;  and  in  the  winter  time  when 
this  eligible  individual  had  nothing  to  do  but  walk  over  his 
land  and  slap  his  hands  to  keep  them  warm,  then  was  the  time 
to  choose  a  partner  to  grace  his  lonely  hearth  and  warm  his 
heart. 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  5 

One  good  joke  to  be  noticed  is  the  ignorance  calmly  professed 
by  each  maiden,  and  recognised  as  the  correct  thing,  as  to  the 
whereabouts  of  the  farm  in  question.  "  Do  yon  or  I  or  anyone 
know?'*  No,  of  coarse  we  don't  know,  who  ever  thought  we 
did? 

When,  at  length,  the  farmer's  heart  has  been  entangled,  and 
the  knot  securely  tied  by  the  good  Priest  of  St.  Peter's ;  then 
the  triumphant  Baunds  damsel,  in  secure  possession  of  the 
ring,  quite  forgetful  of  the  marriage  service,  proceeds  to  say  or 


"  Now  you're  married  you  must  obey,"  &c.  &c. 

"  Helping  to  chop  the  wood  "  recalls  the  time  when  coal  was 
not  known  as  fuel. 

There  are  many  other  local  village  pastimes  still  existing 
with  quaint  rhymes  attached  to  them,  which  ought  to  be  pre- 
served from  possible  extinction  by  being  recorded  in  "  N.N.  &  Q." 

Will  your  readers  say  whether  they  have  met  with  "  Choosing 
Partners,"  or  other  sports  of  a  like  kind  ? 

I  am  indebted  for  the  correct  words  of  the  above  to  a  Baunds 
maiden,  Miss  Bertha  Finding,  a  native  of  the  village,  who 
kindly  wrote  them  down  for  me.  Bob.  S.  Baker. 

Hargreave.     Hon.  Local  Sec.  of  the  Soc.  Antiquaries,  London. 

The  same  game  is  played  at  the  school  feast  at  Maxey ;  but 
the  words,  as  I  have  taken  them  down,  vary  from  those  given 
above.  We  have  no  mention  of  any  crop  except  barley,  which 
18  largely  grown  in  the  district ;  and  the  refrain,  repeated  after 
the  second  and  sixth  lines,  is 

"  Waiting  for  the  harvest." 

A  lady  suggested  to  me  that  the  two  first  lines  of  the  conclu- 
sion are  addressed  to  the  bride  of  the  game ;  and  the  two  last, 
which  in  our  version  run 

"You  must  be  kind  and  very  good," 
apply  to  the  happy  swain.  Ed.,  N.  N.  &  Q. 


Pbopbet  Wboe. — The  following  is  a  copy  of  a  placard  in  my 
possession  which  was  posted  in  this  neighbourhood  fifty  years 
ago,  and  will,  no  doubt,  be  interesting  to  your  readers ; — 

The  public  are  respectfully  informed 

that 

John  Wboe, 

will  be 

Publicly  Baptised 

in  the  Biver  Aire, 

near  Idle  Thorpe, 

At  half-past  one  o'clock 

on  Sunday,  the  29th  day  of  the  2nd  month,  1824, 


8  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

TAKE  NOTICE 
to  facilitate  said  parties  in  their  search  for  proof,  I  do  hereby 
agree  to  furnish  them  with  my  Public  writings  for  the  past  8 
years,  and  furthermore,  I  will  agree  to  be  examined  Mentally, 
before  any  number  of  Clergymen  of  the  Church  of  England,  or 
be  examined  Physically  by  any  number  of  Doctors,  or  Morally 
by  any  number  of  Lawyers. 
Given  under  my  Hand  this  25th  day  of  April,  1861,  in  Wakefield, 

DANIEL  MILTON. 

Copy  of  a  letter  from  Lawyer  Barratt,  to  the  parties  that  I  have 
hired  the  field  from  to  Lecture  in,  and  to  expose  a  most  Gigan- 
tic and  Outrageous  Swindling  Company  : 

"  I  do  hereby  give  you  and  each  of  you  Notice  that  every 
person  who  shall  knowingly  permit  or  suffer  any  congregation 
or  assembly  for  Beligious  Worship  of  Protestants  to  meet  in 
any  place  occupied  by  him  until  the  same  shall  have  been  certi- 
fied as  required  by  Law,  shall  forfeit  not  exceeding  Twenty 
Pounds.  You  are  therefore  hereby  required  to  take  Notice  that 
if  you  permit  any  person  or  persons  or  any  congregation  or 
assembly  to  meet  in  or  on  your  premises  on  Sunday  next,  or  at 
any  other  time  for  the  purpose  aforesaid,  proceedings  will  be 
taken  against  you  to  recover  the  said  forfeiture." 
Dated  this  Nineteenth  day  of  April,  1861. 

Yours  &c, 

B.  BABBATT, 
Attorney  at  Law,  Wakefield. 
To  Jane  Bamsden,  Thos.  Bamsden,  1 
and  each  of  them.  ) 

W.  B.  Hall,  Machine  Printer,  Free  Press  Office,  Wakefield. 

CW. 


Anecdotes. — In  the  early  days  of  Moravianism  in  Yorkshire, 
1742,  a  German  Preacher  was  sent  to  Gomersall,  bnt,  being 
overtaken  by  darkness,  managed  to  slide  down  one  of  the  top- 
shafts,  or  surface  coal  pits,  on  Hartshead  Moor,  where  he  was 
fortunately  discovered  next  morning  by  a  collier,  who  hearing 
a  call,  looked  down,  and  heard  the  marvellous  question,  "  Is 
this  the  way  to  Gomersall  ?  "  the  only  words  of  English  the 
foreigner  had  been  taught. 

A  Bradford  girl  of  tender  years,  hearing  the  Coffee  Tavern 
movement  highly  praised,  expressed  a  strong  desire  to  go  into 
a  Toffee  Cavern. 

The  Bev.  Canon  Hulbert  being  shewn  Tillotson's  Sermons, 
three  folio  volumes,  chained  to  the  Communion  Table  at  Lyd- 
gate  Unitarian  Chapel,  Holmfirth,  where  David  Clarkson's 
Works  had  formerly  kept  them  company,  expressed  his  earnest 


YOBKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  9 

desire  they  should  be  released  from  their  captivity  and  elevated 
to  the  Pulpit.    Well  done! 

Mr.  Slugg's  Woodhouse  Grove  School  records  an  instance  of 
juvenile  revolt.  A  boy  had  seen  the  porridge  ladle  in  the  «  swill* 
tab.  All  vowed  they  would  touch  no  more  porridge  until  they 
had  taught  the  governor  their  sense  of  indignation.  Most  of 
the  boys  refused  their  porridge  morning,  noon,  night ;  but  next 
morning,  when  they  should  have  joined  in  the  Lord's  Prayer, 
they  were  mute,  except  in  responding  to  one  sentence,  which 
they  thundered  out  with  more  indignation  than  devotion — 
"  Give  us  this  day  our  daily  bread." 

Cbomwells — Thomas  and  Oliver. — It  is  amazing  to  find  the 
amount  of  confusion  that  obtains  regarding  these  two  Gromwells. 
Thomas,  to  nine-tenths  of  the  people,  is  a  name  unknown,  and 
his  acts  are  added  to  those  of  the  more  recent  Oliver.  The 
latter  has  the  credit,  like  Robin  Hood  in  a  former  day,  of  all 
the  marvellous  feats  and  wicked  pranks  of  giants.  In  the 
popular  mind,  it  was  Oliver  that  planted  his  cannon  against 
Bolton,  Kirklees,  Kirkstall,  and  all  our  old  abbey  ruins,  and 
a  line  or  two  may  be  of  service  to  your  readers  in  calling 
attention  to  the  anachronism,  that  they  may  rectify  this  wide- 
spread notion.  Y. 

Notes  on  Township  of  High  Abbotside. — Libraries,  News- 
papers, Beading  Boom,  Booksellers, — nil.  Education  is  under 
control  of  3chool  Board.  New  Schools  (two),  one  at  Hardrow, 
one  at  Lunds  (Hell  Beck  Lunds).  Curate  was  formerly  school- 
master. The  Fawcetts  were  curates  and  schoolmasters  for 
three  generations.  The  Bev.  John  Fawoett,  the  last  curate- 
pedagogue,  is  said  to  have  been  the  author  of  many  poems,  the 
M8.  of  which  is,  I  believe,  in  the  hands  of  the  Bev.  Bichard 
Fawcett.  I  was  fortunate  enough  to  obtain  copies  of  two  of 
the  poems,  said  to  be  the  composition  of  the  above  reverend 

rtleman,  which  I  enclose.  The  poems  have  never,  so 
as  I  am  aware,  been  published  in  book  form,  although  I 
am  given  to  understand  such  a  thing  has  been  contemplated. 
The  Church  is  new,  having  been  opened  in  1880.  It  was  built 
by  the  Bt.  fionble.  the  Earl  of  Wharncliffe,  who  is  owner  of  by 
for  the  largest  portion  of  the  Township ;  the  villages  of  Hardrow, 
Sedbusk,  Shaw,  and  Cotterdale  being  almost  wholly  his 
property.  There  are  no  remarkable  epitaphs  in  the  Church 
Yard,  but  the  names  most  numerous  are  those  of  Stuart 
(formerly  one  of  the  principal  land-owners  of  the  distriot); 
Metcalfe  (whose  original  home  was  Bear  Park,  Aysgarth), 
Taylor,  Moore,  and  Johnson ;  the  latter  three  do  not  seem  to 
be  original  natives,  but  of  comparative  recent  importation. 
Bell,  Ineson,  and  Mason  are  also  very  common  names  in  the 


10  YORKSHIBE    FOLK-LORE. 

District.  Dinsdale  was,  I  believe,  the  original  owner  of  the 
Simonstone  estate,  but  as  a  tombstone  in  memory  of  George 
Dinsdale,  of  Simonstone,  states — "In  the  Dale  had  lived 
and  died  his  forefathers  for  800  years.  And  in  him  passed 
away  the  last  who  made  it  his  dwelling-place,  beloved  and 
honoured  fax  as  he  was  known."  George  Dinsdale's  mother 
was  a  Stuart.  There  are  tombstones  to  the  Stuarts  from  1768, 
one  signed,  Firmadge,  Fecit,  Leicester,  is  a  most  beautiful 
specimen  of  caligraphy,  on  a  Lias  flag,  to  Guthbert  Stuart, 
Esq.,  of  Simonstone,  who  died  in  1768. 

Customs. — Hen  Silver  at  Weddings,  spent,  with  additions,  in 
feasting  and  drinking. 

Begging  Collops,  i.e.  begging  slices  of  bacon  on  the  Monday 
(i.e.  Collop-Monday)  before  Shrove  Tuesday.  This  custom 
is  almost  extinct. 

Barring  Out  the  Schoolmaster  on  the  5th  of  November,*  is  still 
encouraged  by  the  elders  as  it  was  by  their  forefathers. 

Peace-egging  or  Mumming  at  Xmas. 

The  Church  bell  is  rung  at  8  a.m.  each  Sunday  to  inform  the 
people  there  will  be  Morning  Service,  and  at  4  p.m.  to  in- 
form them  there  will  be  Evening  Service. 

Words,  &c. — Bad  with  you,  injurious  or  detrimental  to  you. 

Good  with  you,  beneficial  or  of  service  to  you. 

Thummel  tea  bo,  the  ball  of  the  big  toe. 

Formel,  to  order  for  any  person  what  he  or  she  might  require 
from  a  shop,  &c,  i.e.  to  forward. 

Garth,  a  small  field,  as  Mill  Garth,  the  field  in  which  the  mill 
either  stands  or  stood. 

Scar,  a  waterfall,  as  "  Hardrow  Scar." 

Fobs,  fors,  or  force,  a  waterfall,  as  Colter  Force,  Aysgarth 
Force. 

Ghyl,  a  ravine,  as  Shaw  Ghyl,  Hell  Ghyl. 

Beck,  a  small  river  or  beck. 

Sett,  against : — generally  a  village  set  against  or  opposite  to  a 
hill,  as  Burtersett,  Countersett,  Appersett. 

Ware,  to  spend. 

Gan,  to  go, 

Gane,  gone. 

Lile,  little. 

Car,  care.  Hardrow,  Aug.  25, 1885. 

[Our  friend  has  omitted  to  mention  that  grand  sight  of  some 
winters  back,  when  Hardrow-force  was  one  mass  of  ice.  Photo* 
graphs  were  taken  of  it.] 

•  This  was  (and  slightly  lingers  still,)  the  custom  in  various  parts  of  York- 
shire on  Shrore  Tuesday,  at  11 1 


YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE.  11 

HARDROW    SCAR. 
A  Descriptive  Poem  by  Rev.  J.  Fawcett. 


While  modern  bards  depict  the  scenes  of  war, 

The  rival  muse  resorts  to  Hardrow  Scar, 

A  strange  hiatus  formed  in  nature's  mould, 

A  striking  portrait  wondrous  to  behold. 

On  first  approaching  this  romantic  place. 

Majestic  rocks  the  op'ning  prospect  grace, 

A  humble  cottage  at  the  foot  appears, 

Above,  a  towering  hill  its  summit  rears. 

A  scene  of  grandeur  meets  the  ravished  eye, 

Here  rocks  impend,  there  moss-grown  fragments  lie, 

While  round  the  top  or  elms  or  ashes  grow, 

And  form  an  ombre  o'er  the  gulf  below. 

Amidst  the  rocks,  and  near  the  centre,  stands 

A  curious  pile  as  if  composed  with  hands ; 

Ingenious  nature  here  displays  a  part 

That  seems  to  rival  all  the  traits  of  art. 

Yet  what  excites  our  wonder  most  of  all 

Is  the  renowned  Cascade — the  water-fall. 

When  low  the  river,  and  the  day  is  bright, 

The  stream  descending  forms  a  brilliant  sight ; 

A  thousand  colours  beauteously  display 

The  various  power  of  Sol's  reflective  ray, 

While  o'er  the  top  a  pond'rous  rock  impends 

In  awful  grandeur,  as  the  stream  descends ; 

But  if  incessant  rains  have  swelled  the  rills 

That  pour  spontaneous  from  the  neighbouring  hills, 

And  these  united  in  one  common  course 

Rush  down  the  precipice  with  rapid  force, 

From  the  deep  gulf  the  raging  flood  recoils 

And  hideous,  roaring,  like  Cb&rybdis  boils. 

The  gazing  trav'ller,  with  uplifted  hands, 

In  dread  amazement  at  a  distance  stands, 

8truck  with  the  scene  he  contemplates  it  o'er, 

And  tries  the  work  of  nature  to  explore ; 

Then  tired,  at  last,  he  quits  his  nice  surveys 

And  on  the  Scar  betows  his  meed  of  praise. 


12  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

The  Poob  Man's  Bane  and  Antidote. 

Poverty,  begone !  thou  dread  source  of  my  care, 
Thou  parent  of  sorrow  and  nurse  of  despair ; 
Through  thee  life's  a  portion  embittered  with  gall 
I  trust  there's  a  Providence  careth  for  all. 

I  find  with  regret  the  old  adage  too  true — 
When  Fortune  deserts  us  our  friends  are  but  few, 
Yet  blessed  with  content,  though  my  pittance  is  small, 
I  know  there's  a  Providence  careth  for  all. 

To  numberless  ills  so  [oft  subject]  *  are  we, 
From  suffering  and  sorrow  no  mortal  is  free. 
Distress  was  entailed  on  our  race  through  the  fall 
Yet  still  the  same  Providence  careth  for  ail. 

What  though  I  am  plunged  in  misfortune  and  woe, 
And  mis'ry  and  want  are  my  portion  below, 
Joy  beams  on  my  soul  which  no  grief  can  appal 
From  the  trust  that  a  Providence  careth  for  all. 

Then  why  should  I  fret  and  in  anguish  despair, 
Since  man  still  is  Heaven's  peculiar  oare, 
This  anchor  of  hope  shall  my  spirit  console 
A  firm  trust  that  a  Providence  careth  for  all.      per  J.G. 
•  Obnoxious,  in  copy. 


Yorkshire  lialetts. 


Each  of  the  numerous  Yorkshire  valleys  has  its  own  peculiar 
words  and  modes  of  pronunciation ;  nay,  there  is  frequently  a 
marked  difference  on  opposite  sides  of  a  valley,  and  between  the 
dwellers  in  the  upper  and  lower  dales.  By  the  aid  of  oar 
philological  friends,  we  hope  to  register  the  dialectic  peculiar- 
ities of  each  district ;  and  we  commence  with  a  list  compiled  a 
dozen  or  twenty  years  ago  of  words  and  pronunciations  common 
to  Galder  Yale,  from  the  source  of  the  river  to  Wakefield.  It 
need  scarcely  be  added  that  omissions— few  or  many — will  be 
thankfully  inserted  as  supplied.  Some  of  the  words  are  recog- 
nized as  good  English,  and  found  almost  throughout  the  country, 
but  we  give  the  list  in  its  entirety. 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LOREL  18 

Aaae-verae,  a  '  spell '  on  a  house,  to  prevent  its  being  burnt,  or 

to  keep  off  witchcraft. 
Aboon,  above,  more  than. 
Abaht,  about. 
Abide,  tolerate. 
Ackerons,  ackerils,  acorns. 

Addle,  to  earn ;  addlins,  earnings.     "  Savin'  's  gooid  addlin'." 
Afore,  before. 

Agate'ards,  to  accompany  part  of  the  way. 
Agait,  get  agate,  begin. 

Agate,  annoying;  "Agate  o'  sumdy,"  (somebody.) 
Ah,  oi,  I ;  ah-ther-say,  I  dare  say. 
Aht,  out ;    ahted,  put  out ;    ahtin,  outing  or  excursion  ;   aht  o' 

t'gate,  out  of  the  way,  or  dead. 
Ait,  eat ;  Saxon  aete. 
Aight,  ought,  or  owed;    "handed  down  to  us  by  our  Saxon 

ancestors."    Watson's  Halifax. 
Akst,  banns  of  marriage  published. 

Aks,  ax,  ask,  from  acsian.    Used  by  Chaucer  and  other  writers. 
Alegar  (Elliker)  Well,  near  Kirklees,  a  noted  <  holy  well." 
Aleker,  elliker,  vinegar. 

Alehoof,  ground  ivy,  used  in  brewing,  formerly. 
Amang,  among ;  Saxon  gemang. 
Ample,  a  corruption  of  amble. 
A  nod  glass,  a  nuther,  a  nahnce ;    an  odd  glass,  an  other,  an 

ounce. 
All-hallow-tide,  All  Saints'  day,  November  1st. 
All  aht,  entirely ;  all  nowt,  nothing ;  all  ta  nowt, 
Alley,  passage,  also  aisle. 

All  theare,  self-possessed ;  not  all  theare,  short  of  intellect. 
Anent,    opposite ;    we  hear    "  opposite    anent " ;    sometimes 

"  ower  anent." 
Apprun,  apprum,  apron. 
Ammut,  am  not. 
Arr,  vicious,  as,  arr  toad. 
Arless,  an  earnest  penny.  (Watson's  Halifax.) 
A-e,  though  now  considered  a  vulgar  and  indecent  word,  is 

frequently  used  without  any  intention  of  being  indecent. 

It  is  found  in  old  writings,  particularly  ballads.     Saxon, 

breach  or  fundament. 
[Cart- a-e]  behind  a  cart,  tied  behind  a  cart. 
Ar-e-smart,  water  pepper-plant. 
Arran,  a  spider ;  Latin. 
Arrandweb,  spider's  web. 
Arrant,  downright,  monstrous,  arrant  rogue. 
ABsart,  to  grub  roots  up,  land  cleared  of  roots. 
Ask,  keen,  piercing,  as,  an  ask  mruh 
Asteead,  instead. 


14  YOBKSHIRE    FOLK-LOBE. 

Askerd,  "  dry  askerd,"  a  land  lizard ;  "  watter  askerd,"  a  newt. 

Ass,  ashes,  cinders. 

Assemever,  how-so-ever,  however. 

"  Tremmle,  (tremble)  like  an  aspin  leaf,"  trembling  poplar. 

At,  t/tat :  probably  a  Danish  habit. 

Aumery,  a  provision  cupboard. 

An-all,  also ;  but  really  is  and  all ;  l  him  an-all "  means  "  him 

also." 
Aumust,  almost. 

Awand,  a  warrant,  as,  I'll  awand  tliee. 
Awms-haases,  owms-hahses,  alms-houses. 
Awf,  elf;  also  a  sly  fellow.     "  Awf- Houses  "  in  Hipperholme, 

"Half,"  or  "Elf"? 
Awther,  ayther,  either.     Saxon  awther. 
Anparcy,  and  parcel,  &o.     "  x,  y,  z,  and  parcel,  goa  ta  bed." 
Arridge,  edge  or  ridge,  in  front  of  the  horse  shoe. 
Arvil-cake,    bread  given  to  poor  people  at  funerals.     Now  a 

Savoy  biscuit  is  given. 
At-after,  afterward. 
Assoyl,  absolve.     On  a  gravestone  found  in  Ilkley  Church. 

Obsolete. 
Avver-breead,  oat-cake. 
Awfish,  sickly,  neither  ill  nor  well ;  half-ish. 
Aye,  eea,  ah ;  yes. 
Aye  Marry,  Ave  Mary,  Hail  Mary !  yes,  surely. 

B  thru  a  bull  fooit,  one  who  does  not  know  the  alphabet ;   an 

illiterate. 
Baarns,  children.     Saxon-baeran,  to  bear. 

"  The  blissful  Barne  that  bought  us  on  the  rode."  [  Cross.] 

Shakespeare  and  other  old  writers  use  it. 
Bang-full,  bank-full,  brim-full. 
Balack-handed,  left-handed,  gauchy. 
Bahn,  going.    Where  are  ta  balm  *      |Tm  bahn  to  go,    I  am 

going  away.] 
Bain,  near,  convenient.     (Watson). 
Bat,  bundle  of  straw.      "  The  straw  of  two  wheat-sheaves." 

(Watson.) 
Bat,  speed,  to  go  at  a  great  bat. 
Bat,  a  knock  on  the  head. 
Bad,  a  cricketer's  bat. 
Bawson,  ugly,  brutish  fellow. 
Bauk,  a  beam,  joist. 
Bauk,  to  disappoint,  disappointment. 
Badger,  flour-dealer. 
Baarly,    barly,    a  truce  when  boys  are* at  play;    "parley;" 

"by  your  leave." 
Bas,  a  doormat.     German — ajruslu 
Beade,  a  prayer ;  obsolete. 


YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE.  15 

Beck,  a  brook.    Scandinavian — a  small  stream. 

Beass,  beasts,  cows. 

"  Begin  at  t'beginnin,'  like  t'clark  o*  Beeston." 

Beest,  firstjnilk  after  the  cow  has  calved.     It  was  formerly 

distributed  among  the  customers  gratuitously,  and  a  rich 

Yorkshire  pudding  made  from  it. 
Bezzlt,  drunken,  tipsy. 
Bensel,  to  soundly  beat,  thrash  a  person. 
Bene,  beneson,  blessing. 

Belive,  in  the  evening,  quickly,  immediately.     (Watson.) 
Bell,  belling,  bellowing. 
Benin,  burying,  funeral. 

Birk,  birch;  Saxon-berc,  "Birk-hill,"  "American  birk." 
Bildering,  levelling  the  ground,  breaking  the  clouds ;  billing. 
Bid,  to  invite ;  bid  to  burying. 
Bigging,  a  building;  big,  to  build.     (Watson.) 
Blags,  blackberries,  fruit  of  bramble,  one  of  the  sweetest  of 
fruits,  and  makes  a  delicious  preserve.  "Bumblekites,"  N.R.Y. 
Blade,  slang  term  for  a  sharp,  cutting  fellow. 
Bleared,  besmeared,  sticky  substance;  "bleared  to  th'  een." 
Blether,  bladder :  "  as  a  full  bleddere,"  Piers  Plowman,  1890. 

Welsh,  dd  and  th  often  interchange. 
Blether-eead,  a  wrong  head,  an  empty  head ;  like  a  bladder. 
Blether,  blethered,  blethering,  roared,  wept. 
Bluthered,  bellowed,  roared,  wept. 
Blink,  evade. 

Bloke,  a  name  of  contempt  applied  to  persons. 
Boadle,  half-farthing.  We  were  well  pleased  formerly  if  we  got 

a  boadle-worth  of  spice,  [sweets.] 
Boken,  nauseate,  inclination  to  vomit. 
Bother,  trouble. 
Bonny,  beautiful. 
Bosm,  bosom.    Saxon-bosm. 

Botch,  a  novice  at  workmanship,  a  jobber,  but  not  a  cow-jobber. 
Boggard,   ghost,  common  to  Northern  languages.     "Be  not 

afraid  of  the  bugs  (terrors,  evil  spirits)  by  night."     One 

scarcely  dare  stir  out  on  dark  nights  before  gas  lights  were 

common  for  fear  of  boggards. 
Boh,  to  frighten;  "Boh,  son  of  Odin." — Fosbroke. 
Bolster,  bowster  drawer,  pillow-case,  pillow-beer. 
Bolster,  a  boy  against  whom  another  places  his  head  at  the 

game  "  Ships." 
Brackle,  broken,  unsettled;  " brackle  weather." 
Brackens,  fern.    Used  still  for  bedding  for  cattle  during  winter, 

instead  of  straw. 
Brah,  brow,  bank  of  a  hill.     ?  Brea  in  Over  Brea. 
Braidy,  foolish.     (Watson.) 
Bran-new,  brand  new,  burnt  new,  quite  new.  * 


16  YORKSHIBE    FOLK-LOBE. 

Brake,  broken. 

Brag,  boasting. 

Brades,  resembles,  acts  like. 

Brat,   a  pinafore,  coarse  apron.    Used  by  Chaucer.  *  Brat '-ft 

child,  is  seldom  used  in  Calder  Vale. 
Breet,  bright;  Saxon-breoht. 
Brander,  Brandrith,  an  iron,  over  the  fire  place,  to  set  a  vessel 

upon.    Also  an  iron  frame  on  which  Yorkshire  puddings 

are  baked. 
Bray,  to  beat,  to  pound,  to  hammer,  to  break. 
Brig,    bridge;    Saxon-brig,    "Brighus  for  Brighouse,  Brigg, 

Briggs."     Used  by  old  writers. 
Briggs,   a  two-forked  branch  of  a  tree,  similar  to  Y,  placed 

across  the  brewing  tub,  on  which  was  placed  the  hop-seive, 

and  all  the  liquor  '  strained '  through  it.  Recent  legislation 

on  '  home  brewing  *  will  render  this  description  necessary 

for  the  next  generation. 
Brocks,  old  name  for  badgers  or  pates ;  used  by  the  Bev.  Oliver 

Heywood. 
Brocks,  cuckoo  spit,  an  insect.  "  Sweat  like  a  brick,1'  properly, 

"  Sweat  like  a  brock."  the  little  fly  which  envelopes  itself 

in  '  spit '  for  self-defence,  found  by  thousands  on  the  grass 

on  road  sides  in  spring.   The  spit  is  locally  called  "  cuckoo 

spit." 
Brief,  a  funeral  club.    Probably  the  name  is  derived  from  the 

briefs  granted  by  magistrates  authorizing  collections  in 

places  of  worship  for  persons  &c,  suffering  from  fires,  ship* 

wrecks,  floods,  before  the  days  of  Insurance  Societies. 
Bridle  sty,  a  road  for  horses  but  not  for  vehicles. 
Breward,  braward,  the  rim  of  a  hat. 

Broached,  broiched,  a  spire  steeple,  (Watson) ;  tapping  a  barrel. 
Brust,  burst. 
Bukth,  bulkth,  great  size. 
Bun,  bound,  bond. 
Bur,  to  stop  a  boy's  marble ;  to  put  a  block  or  stone  behind  a 

cartwheel ;  to  prop,  as  a  bur-wall ;   to  burrow ;   a  rabbit's 

bur. 
Buck-hummer,  used  as  an  invective ;   "  Go  to  Buck-hummer, 

where  there's  nother  winter  nor  sunagner." 
Butty,  partnership,  rendering  mutu&Hielp,  often  surreptitiously. 
Butter  and  Cheese,    the  tender  leaves  of  the  thorn.     Some 

children  are  fond  of  eating  them. 
Butts,  abuttals,  (French^,   boundaries.    Used  also  as  a  verb. 

Also  for  the  place  where  archers  met  to  shoot  at  a  mark. 
Buokstick,  a  smart  or  brave  fellow. 
By,  in  place  names,  is  found  at  Sowerby.    Danish. 
Byerlaw,  by-law,  b6rough-laws. 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 


17 


Pbophst  Wbob. — Bonks,  in  his  "Walks  in  Yorkshire,'* 
records  that  Wroe's  house  at  Wrenthorpe  was  broken  into  by 
burglars  in  1842,  and  in  consequence  of  false  statements,  made 
by  Wroe's  son,  daughter,  and  servant,  three  innocent  persons 
were  transported  for  ten  years  but  released  at  the  end  of  five 
years,  as  it  had  been  discovered  to  be  the  work  of  others,  and 
the  servant  declared  she  had  given  her  statements  under  com- 
pulsion. The  three  convicts  returned  home  to  find  their  homes 
ruined.  Prophet  Wroe's  mansion,  otherwise  Melbourne  House, 
was  built  in  1866-7,  at  a  cost  of  £9,000.  It  is  two  storeys 
high,  Doric  in  style,  and  has  a  frontage  of  about  ninety  feet 
toward  Wakefield.  This  temple  for  the  Israelites  was  left' by 
his  will  to  his  grandchildren.  The  old  house  at  Bowling, 
where  the  prophet  was  born,  is  still  standing,  and  we  give  an 
excellent  sketch  of  it  made  by  Mr.  W.  Scruton. 


Wroe  began  his  mission  in  1822,  issued  his  Southcottian 
writings  about  1828 ;  travelled  in  Spain,  Italy,  Germany,  Scot- 
land and  Wales ;  was  mobbed  in  Bradford  and  Ashton-under- 
Lyne  in  1881,  settled  in  and  near  Wakefield  about  1882,  visited 
America  and  Australia — the  latter  several  times,  and  died  at 
Melbourne  in  that  colony,  in  1864. 

Burials  in  Woollen. —  Two  witnesses  were  required  to 
certify  on  oath,  immediately  after  any  funeral  ceremony  took 
place,  that  the  deceased  person  was  buried  in  woollen.  Entries 
in  our  parish  registers,  referring  to  this  custom,  are  not  in- 
frequent. Generally  the  woman  who  "  laid  out "  the  body,  and 
a  relative,  took  the  oath.  The  following  is  a  copy  of  the 
printed  certificate,  9}  inches  by  7J,  and  is  worthy  of  insertion 
in  the  pages  of  Y.  N.  d  Q.f  because  (1)  of  its  great  scarcity ; 

T.F.  C 


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YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 


(one  in  the  possession  of  Mr.  W.  Scruton  being  the  only  one  I 
have  ever  seen),  (2)  it  bears  a  local  Bookseller's  name,  and  (8) 
its  pictorial  embellishments  are  admonishing  if  not  charming* 
A  monument  at  Otley  bears  a  sculptured  alto-relief  copy  of  * 
winding  sheet,  with  the  face  uncovered. 


of  the  Parish  of 

in  the  of  make  Oath,  That 

of  the  Parish  of 

in  the.  of 

lately  Deceased,  was  not  put  in,  wrapt, 
or  wound  up, 

or  Buried,  in  ant/  Shirt,  Shift,  Sheet,  or 
Shrowd,  made  or  mingled  with 

Flax,  Hemp,  Silk,  Hair,  Gold  or  Silver, 
or  other  than  what  is  made  of 

Sheep  s   Wool  only:    Nor  in  any  Cojfin 
lined  or  faced  with  any  Cloth,  Stuff, 

or  any  other  thing   whatsoever   made  or 
mingled  with  Flax,  Hemp,  Silk, 

Hair,    Gold   or   Silver,    or   any    other 
Material,  contrary  to  the  Act  of 

Parliament  for  Burying  in   Woollen,  hut 
Sheep  s   Wool  only. 

Dated  the  of 

year  of  the  Reign  of  our  Sovereign  Lord, 
Charles  the  Second,  King  of  England, 
Scotland,  France  and  Ireland,  Defender 
of  the  Faith.  And  in  the  year  of  our 
Lord  God,  16 

•Sealed  and  subscribed  by  us 
who  were  present,  and  Wit- 
nesses to  the  swearing  of 
the  abovesaid  Affidavit- 


YORKSHIKE    FOLK-LORE.  19 


do  hereby  Certifie,  that  the  Day  and  Year  abovesaid,  the  said 
came  before  me,  and  made  such  Affidavit  as 
is  above  mentioned,  according  to  the  said  late  Act  of 
Parliament,  Intituled,  An  Act  for  Burying  in  Woollen. 
Witness  my  Hand  the  Day  and  Year  above-written. 
London :  printed  for  John  Penrose,  Bookseller  in  Leedes. 


By  tlte  SO  Curl.  #.,  St.  1,  c  S. — For  the  encouragement  of  the 
Woollen  Manufactures,  and  prevention  of  the  exportation  of 
money  for  the  importing  of  linen,  it  is  enacted  that  no  corps 
(sic)  of  any  person  shall  be  buried  in  any  shirt,  shift,  sheet  or 
shroud,  or  any  thing  whatsoever  made  or  mingled  with  flax, 
hemp,  silk,  hair,  gold  or  silver,  &c,  in  any  stuff  or  thing,  other 
than  what  is  made  of  sheep's  wool  only ;  on  pain  of  £5. 

And  all  persons  in  holy  orders,  deans,  parsons,  deacons, 
vicars,  curates  and  their  substitutes,  shall  take  in  account  and 
keep  a  register  of  every  person  buried  within  their  respective 
precincts,  or  in  such  common  burial  places  as  their  respective 
parishioners  are  usually  buried  ;  and  one  of  the  relations  of  the 
party  deceased,  or  other  credible  person,  shall  within  eight 
days  next  after  the  interment,  bring  an  affidavit  in  writing 
under  the  hands  and  seals  of  two  or  more  witnesses,  and  under 
the  hand  of  the  Magistrate  or  Officer  before  whom  the  same 
was  sworn  (for  which  nothing  shall  be  paid),  to  the  minister  or 
person,  that  the  said  person  was  not  put  in,  wrapt  or  wound 
up  or  buried,  in  any  shirt,  shift,  sheet  or  shroud,  made  or 
mingled  with  flax,  hemp,  silk,  hair,  gold  or  silver,  or  other 
than  what  is  made  of  sheep's  wool  only ;  or  in  any  coffin  lined 
or  faced  with  any  cloth,  stuff,  or  any  other  thing  made  or 
mingled  with  flax,  hemp,  &c,  or  any  other  material  but  sheep's 
wool  only;  And  if  no  relation  of  the  party  buried  or  other 
person  shall  bring  an  affidavit  as  aforesaid,  to  the  parson  or 
minister  within  the  time  aforesaid,  then  the  goods  and  chattels 
of  the  party  deceased  shall  be  liable  to  the  said  forfeiture  of  £5, 
to  be  levied  by  way  of  distress  and  sale  thereof,  by  warrant  of 

*  This  Capital  I  is  adorned  with  a  flowering  plant  on  each  side. 


20  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

the  chief  Magistrate  in  a  town  corporate,  or  any  Justice  of  the 
Peace ;  or  in  default  thereof,  by  like  distress  and  sale  of  the 
goods  of  the  person  in  whose  house  the  party  died,  or  of  any 
that  had  a  hand  in  putting  such  person  into  any  shirt,  shift, 
shroud  or  coffin,  contrary  to  the  act,  or  did  order  or  dispose 
the  doing  thereof;  and  in  case  such  person  were  a  servant,  and 
died  in  the  family  of  his  master  or  mistress,  the  same  shall  be 
levied  on  the  goods  of  such  master  or  mistress,  and  if  such  per- 
son died  in  the  family  of  his  father  or  mother,  then  the  same  to 
be  levied  on  the  goods  of  such  father  or  mother ;  which  said 
forfeiture  shall  be  levied,  paid  and  allowed,  out  of  the  estate  of 
the  deceased  person  before  any  statute,  judgment,  debt,  legacy, 
or  other  duty  whatsoever. 

The  said  Affidavit  to  be  made  before  a  Justice  of  the  Peace, 
or  Master  of  Chancery,  Mayor,  or  other  Chief  Officer  of  the  city, 
borough,  corporation,  or  market  Town  where  the  party  was 
buried,  who  shall  administer  the  said  oath,  and  attest  the  same 
under  their  hands  upon  such  Affidavit  gratis.  And  if  no  such 
Affidavit  shall  be  brought  to  the  minister  where  the  party  was 
buried  within  eight  days,  such  Minister  shall  forthwith  give  or 
cause  notice  to  be  given  in  writing  under  his  hand  to  the 
churchwardens  or  overseers  of  the  poor  of  such  parish,  who  ' 
shall  within  eight  days  after  such  notice,  repair  to  the  chief 
magistrate  in  a  town  corporate,  if  such  party  was  buried  there, 
or  else  to  any  justice  of  the  peace,  who  upon  the  certificate 
thereof  from  such  minister,  shall  forthwith  grant  a  wan-ant  for 
the  levying  the  forfeiture :  Half  of  which  forfeitures  shall  be  to 
the  poor  of  the  parish  where  the  party  shall  be  buried,  and  half 
to  him  that  shall  sue  for  the  same  ;  to  be  recovered  by  warrant 
of  the  chief  Magistrate  or  any  justice  of  peace  in  the  city,  town 
corporate,  or  county  where  such  party  was  buried. 

Then  follows  a  clause  setting  forth  that — If  any  Minister 
shall  neglect  to  give  notice  to  the  churchwardens  or  overseers 
of  the  poor,  or  not  give  unto  them  a  note  or  certificate  that  such 
affidavit  was  not  brought  to  him  within  the  time  limited ;  or  if 
the  churchwardens,  or  overseers  of  the  poor,  shall  not  within 
eight  days  after  the  receipt  of  such  certificate,  repair  to  such 
chief  Magistrate  or  justice  of  the  peace  with  such  certificate  and 
demand  his  warrant  thereupon  for  levying  the  forfeiture ;  and 
if  such  magistrate  or  justice  of  the  peace  shall  neglect  his  duty 
in  not  issuing  his  warrant  for  levying  the  same,  he  shall  forfeit 
£5,  to  be  recovered  by  him  that  shall  sue,  with  full  costs,  so  as 
the  suit  be  commenced  within  six  months ;  one  fourth  to  the 
King,  two  fourths  to  the  poor  of  the  parish  where  the  offender 
shall  dwell,  and  one  fourth  to  him  who  shall  sue. 

The  Minister  of  every  parish  to  keep  a  register  in  which  he 
shall  keep  an  account  of  all  burials  within  his  parish,  and  of  all 
affidavits  brought  to  him  as  aforesaid. 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  21 

Provided  that  no  penalty  shall  be  incurred  by  reason  of  any 
person  that  died  of  the  plague.  W.6. 

Cubes  fob  Wabts. — Your  note  on  SeUiny  Warts  in  No.  1,  re- 
minds me  of  a  few  "  Notes  "  made,  Captain  Cuttle  like,  some 
years  ago  when  I  heard  the  cures  mentioned: — If  you  have 
warts  that  you  want  to  be  rid,  try  some  of  the  following 
remedies,  which  I  have  been  told  are  never  failing  cures.  Hell 
them  to  some  one,  a  friend,  and  then  wrap  up  the  money  re- 
ceived, be  it  a  penny  or  more,  and  hide  it,  not  looking  at  it 
again,  and  you  will  soon  lose  your  warts ;  so  my  informant,  a 
woman,  told  me,  and  she  had  it  done,  and  successfully  too,  she 
said.  Other  remedies  are — Rub  them  with  raw  beef,  and  then 
bury  the  beef  somewhere,  and  as  the  flesh  decays  so  will  your 
warts  die.  Tie  a  piece  of  silk  round  the  warts  cutting  off  the 
ends  of  the  silk  after  tieing :  wrap  up  the  ends  and  lose  them, 
and  you  will  soon  lose  your  warts,  not  knowing  how  or  when : 
so  my  informant  did,  (again  a  woman,)  and  she  lost  her  warts, 
and  never  knew  how.  Bub  them  with  a  cinder  and  then  throw 
the  cinder  over  your  head.  This  reminds  me  of  a  practice 
we  used  to  perform  when  I  was  a  boy  at  school.  When  we 
found  one  of  these  long  haired  or  downy  snails,  or  caterpillars, 
which  are  generally  found  in  hedge  bottoms  and  which  we 
called  "  Tommy  Tailyers,"  we  used  to  throw  them  over  our 
heads  for  luck.  S.B. 

Our  readers  will  remember  the  instance  of  wart-cure  by  cut- 
ting notches  off  a  stick  in  Tom  Bmwn's  Schooldays.     Ed. 

A  woman  here,  a  noted  Methodist,  cures  warts  regularly 
simply  by  looking  at  them.  The  usual  advice  is  "  Go  to  Mrs. — 
and  let  her  look  at  them."  B. 

Cure  fob  a  Sobe  Mouth. — A  woman  was  going  recently  to 
a  medical  man  with  her  child  who  had  a  sore  mouth,  with  a  view 
to  have  it  cured,  and  meeting  on  the  way  with  an  old  woman 
whom  she  knew,  told  her  her  errand.  The  old  woman  said  to 
her  go  back  home,  and  obtain  a  live  frog  and  put  it  into  the 
child's  mouth ;  then  pull  it  out  by  the  legs  and  the  child  would 
be  cured,  and  not  only  that,  but  ever  afterwards,  any  person 
who  might  be  suffering  from  a  sore  mouth  might  also  be  cured, 
if  her  child  should  blow  its  breath  into  the  mouth  of  the  person 
so  afflicted.  S.B. 

Duck. — "  The  duck  will  come  and  lay  you  if  you  don't  behave," 
was  the  expression  used  by  a  poor  woman,  whose  child  would 
not  keep  quiet  when  my  wife  called  on  her.  What  is  the  mean- 
ing of  the  word  "  duck  "?  G.  W. 

Botherham. 

Finis.— Who  does  not  remember  his  wonderful  school-boy 
feat  of  F.  for  fig,  and  I.  for  jig  and  N.  for  nigny  no  ne,  I.  for 
John  the  Waterman  and  S.  for  Sally  Stoney  ?  and  still  the 
wonder  grew  how  I.  rather  than  J.  should  stand  for  John. 


22  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

Arkengarthdale. — A  great  majority  of  the  Christian  names 
of  the  people  here  are  Scriptural.  When  I  came  here,  ten 
years  ago,  I  had  in  the  School  a  Matthew,  a  Mark,  Luke  and  a 
John.  Obadiah,  Reuben,  and  Benjamin  are  not  uncommon 
names.  There  is  a  peculiar  custom  here  with  regard  to  the  use 
of  Christian  names — a  custom  which  is  even  more  prevalent  in 
the  neighbouring  dale  (Swaledale).  An  illustration  will  make 
plain  the  custom  to  which  I  refer :  There  is  a  person  living  in 
the  dale  named  Win.  Slack,  whose  father's  name  was  Andrew. 
.  He  is  almost  invariably  called  Andrew  Will.  Sometimes  three 
and  occasionally  four  Christian  names  are  connected  in  this 
way,  the  surname  being  omitted.  In  White's  "  Month  in 
Yorks."  you  will  find  a  reference  to  this  custom.  The  principal 
Inn  in  this  dale  is  called  the  C.B. — the  initials  it  is  said  of 
Charles  Backhouse,  the  person  who  discovered  lead  in  the  dale 
more  than  two  centuries  ago.  H.G. 

Prison  Bars,  or  Run-out  Scotch. — This  is  an  old  game  for 
boys,  and  a  great  favourite.  It  was  a  royal  amusement  in  1549. 
It  seems  to  have  originated  with  the  Scotch  depredations.  The 
boys  take  opposite  sides,  and  one  of  set  A  runs  or  ventures  out 
as  scout,  and  is  followed  in  hot  haste  by  one  of  set  B,  who  is 
again  followed  by  one  from  A,  and  he  is  also  pursued.  The 
first  may  elude  all  his  opponents  and  get  back  safely  to  his  den. 
Any  that  are  caught  by  opponents,  who  left  the  den  after  they 
departed,  are  sent  to  prisons.  A's  prison  is  at  some  distance 
opposite  B's  den,  and  B's  prison  opposite  A's  den.  One  of  As 
lot  can  release  an  imprisoned  countryman  if  he  can  manage  to 
touch  him  before  a  B  touches  the  gallant  rescuer.  The  game 
is  really  up  when  all  are  caught  save  one,  or  if  a  den  is  totally 
abandoned.  The  enemy  leaps  over  the  line,  and  raises  a  jubilant 
shout  of  victory.  If  tjie  armies  are  face  to  face  the  prisons  are 
kept  in  the  enemies'  dens,  and  all  the  skirmishing  is  between 
the  dens,  with  the  greatest  latitude  commandable.  This  is 
called  "  Short  Scotch."  E.R. 

Shipley. 

Fair  Imogene. — Where  can  I  find  a  poem  beginning:  "A 
warrior  so  bold  and  a  maiden  so  bright "  ?  M.T. 

Spiders.— It  is  said  to  be  unlucky  to  kill  spiders.  The  very 
small  spiders  we  see  suspended  by  a  thread  of  web,  are  known 
as  money-spinners,  and  are  said  to  betoken  good  fortune  to 
those  they  visit.  I.B. 

What  is  the  Ghost  Story  of  Woodsome  Hall  ?  J.H.I. 

The  Bretton  Ballad  cannot  be  very  old,  from  the  substitu- 
tion of  beer  for  ale,  and  the  common  use  of  gla*$e&,  not  cups  or 
horns.  I.B. 

.    Obnoxious. — "  The  Poor  Man's  Bane  and  Antidote,"  page  12, 
should  properly  be — "To  numberless  ills  vlmoxiou*  are  we." 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LOJtE.  2a 

The  word  obnoxious  has  two  meanings  the  older  one  is  "liable/* 
the  later  one  is  "disagreeable,  repulsive,  offensive,"  &c,  and 
any  good  dictionary  will  give  both  forms.  I.B. 

Alegab,  is  not,  correctly  speaking,  vinegar.  Alegar  was 
formerly  made  from  stale  ale,  vinegar  from  wine,  or  grapes. 
The  latter  word  has  been  improperly  adopted  in  both  cases.  I 
can  remember  when  it  was  otherwise,  at  least  in  Manchester. 

LB. 


fjorksljir*  Sallabs. 

The  following  ballad,  communicated  by  the  Rev.  J.  L.  Say- 
well,  F.R.H.S.,  F.S.Sc,  (London),  was  written  by  a  lady  on 
the  occasion  of  the  Duke  of  Gloucester's  visit  to  Ackworth  in 
October,  1828  :— 

"  I  trust  my  muse  will  not  refuse 

To  celebrate  the  happy  day 
When  Gloucester's  Duke  his  court  forsook, 

And  to  the  Country  hied  his  way. 

T'was  Gantley  Hall  which  first  of  all 
Received  this  most  illustrious  guest ; 

What  there  befell  I  cannot  tell, 
I  must  proceed  to  speak  the  rest. 

All  in  the  dark  to  Kippax*  Park 

The  royal  stranger  sped  amain, 
Perchance  that  he  disliked  to  see 

On  Pomfret's  wall,  the  bloody  stain. 

All  danger  past,  arrived  at  last, 

He  finds  a  noble  party  there, 
The  welcome  said,  the  board  is  spread 

With  fish,  and  soup,  and  viands  rare. 

And  fowl  and  game,  both  wild  and  tame, 

Were  all  in  tasteful  plenty  given, 
And  fruit  so  fine,  and  choicest  wine 

From  every  country  under  heaven. 

Each  day  and  night,  with  rapid  flight 

In  gay  succession  sunk  and  rose ; 
The  time  is  flown  the  Duke  is  gone, 

I  must  pursue  him  as  he  goes. 


Jm!*  objeet  of  the  Duke's  visit,  was  to  stand  sponsor  to  the  twelfth  child 
of  Thomas  Davidson  Bland,  Esq.,  of  Kippax. 


24  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

A  friendly  call  at  Hundhill*  Hall 

Impedes  him  in  bis  hasty  coarse ; 
He  there  would  stay  the  Sabbath  day, 
•  That  day  of  rest  for  man  and  horse. 

Then  in  the  morn  to  Ghurchf  he's  borne, 

But  not  in  car  of  royal  state  ; 
To  lay  aside  all  thoughts  of  pride, 

Full  well  becomes  the  rich  and  great. 

The  Rector's]:  seat,  as  (h)is  most  meet, 
Receives  him  with  a  train  of  friends ; 

The  bells  have  rung,  the  hymn  is  sung ; 
The  congregation  mute  attends. 

"  God  save  the  King,"  or  some  such  thing, 

Is  sung  with  ready  glee  and  art ; 
Then  out  they  pour  forth  from  the  door, 

And  for  the  Quaker's  school  depart.  § 

All  in  amaze,  with  steady  gaze, 

The  assembled  crowd  astonished  stare, 

Take  a  last  look  at  Gloucester's  Duke, 
Then  to  their  several  homes  repair. 

The  school  is  seen,§  so  neat  and  clean ; 

The  boys  and  girls  prepare  to  eat ; 
The  dinner  brought,  the  grace  is  thought,  || 

Who  would  not  relish  such  a  treat  ? 

The  meal  is  done,  the  clock  strikes  one, 

The  noble  party  onward  passed ; 
T'was  pleasure  all  at  Hundhill  Hall 

That  even,  but  it  was  the  last. 

The  noble  guest  awakes  from  rest, 

And  takes  his  leave  with  grief  so  true  ; 
The  coach  and  four  are  at  the  door 
.  Adieu,  Adieu,  Adieu,  Adieu ! " 

The  caJigraphy  of  the  original  MS  is  very  obscure,  and  al- 
though several  hiati  are  apparent,  the  rhyme  is  a  good  specimen 
of  the  Yorkshire  ballad. 

*  The  residence  of  Mrs.  Bland,  mother  of  T.  D.  Bland,  Esq.,  and  two  or 
three  unmarried  daughters.  It  was  said  that  she  had  been  kind  to  the  Duke 
when  he  was  a  young  officer  in  the  army,  hence  his  intimacy  with  the  family 
J.L.S. 

t  Ackworth  Church.  J  Rev.  W.  R.  Hay,  M.A. 

{  The  writer's  chronology  is  doubtful.  The  visit  to  Ackworth  8ehool  took 
place  on  Monday  morning,  the  festivities  on  Monday  evening,  and  the  depar- 
ture on  Tuesday  Morning. 

i|  After  the  manner  of  the  Quakers. 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LOBE.  25 

In  the  Ballad— "  The  History  of  Sir  John  Elland  of  Eland, 
and  his  Antagonists,"  given  in  "  Whitaker's  History  of  Leeds," 
one  Verse  has  been  omitted.  The  ballad  as  given  in  "  Watson's 
Halifax  "  consists  of  124  verses,  but  Whitaker  has  only  given 
128,  having  omitted  verse  no.  116  which  is  as  follows : — 

"  And  then  they  slew  him  out  of  hand, 

Dispatch'd  him  of  his  pain  ; 
The  late  death  of  their  Lord  Eland 

Inforced  them  certain." 

It  will  perhaps  be  as  well  to  give  the  115th  verse  in  order  to 
understand  the  above. 

"  When  Eland  men  returned  home 

Thro  Aneley  Wood  that  day, 
Then  they  found  Quarmby  laid  alone, 
Scarce  dead,  as  some  men  say." 

Batlbt.  W.  Colbeck  Dyson,  F.S.A.  (Scot). 

Witches  axd  Broomsticks  (vol.  1,  p.  2). — Perhaps  the  follow- 
ing remarks  will  not  be  unacceptable  to  your  correspondent : — 
The  notorious  besom  or  broomstick  is  an  instrument  in  the 
operations  of  witchcraft  common  to  all  the  Aryan  nations. 
According  to  the  "  Asiatic  Register,"  for  1801,  the  Eastern,  as 
well  as  the  European  witches,  "practice  (sic)  their  spells  by 
dancing  at  midnight,  and  the  principal  instrument  they  use  on 
such  occasions  is  a  broom."  It  is  regarded  as  "  a  type  of  the 
winds,  and  therefore  an  appropriate  utensil  in  the  hands  of  the 
witches,  who  are  wind  makers  and  workers  in  that  element." 
Traditions,  Superstitions,  and  Folk-Lore,  by  C.  Hardwick,  1872, 
p.  116.  F.  C.  Bibkbeck  Terry. 

Notes  on  Township  of  High  Abbotside,  (vol.  1,  p.  9). — The 
explanation  of  "  formel"  given  by  your  correspondent  is  incorrect. 
The  word  has  nothing  at  all  to  do  with  "  forward,"  but  is  from 
the  A.  8.  "fur-mtBl,"an  agreement,  a  treaty,  &c;  hence  the  verb 
means  to  bespeak,  order,  &c.  Again,  "  Scar  "  never  means  a 
"waterfall,"  but  a  rock  from  Icelandic  "sker,"  isolated  rook, 
and  is  cognate  with  "  share."  "  Sett "  has  nothing  to  do  with 
the  meaning  of  "  against,"  but  probably  means  "  seat,"  "  settle- 
ment," "  possession." 

It  may  be  as  well  to  mention  that  Hardraw  Force  was  frozen 
in  January,  1881,  an  event,  I  believe,  which  had  never  occured 
since  the  great  frost  of  1789-40.  F.  C.  Bibkbeck  Terry. 

Christmas  Observances  at  York  in  the  Olden  Time. — The 
ceremony  of  "  the  Sheriff's  riding  "  used  to  be  one  of  the  greatest 
observances  in  the  city  of  York,  but.  is  now  discontinued.  The 
riding  day  was  usually  on  Wednesday,  eight  days  after  Martin* 
mas,  but  they  were  not  strictly  tied  to  that  day;  any  day 
betwixt  Martinmas  and  Christmas  would  serve  for  the  ceremony. 


26  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

They  then  appeared  on  horseback,  apparelled  in  their  black 
gowns  and  velvet  tippets.  Their  horses  were  in  suitable  costume, 
and  each  sheriff  carried  a  white  wand  in  his  hand,  a  badge  of 
his  office,  and  there  was  a  servant  to  lead  his  horse,  who  also 
carried  a  gilded  truncheon.  Serjeants-at-mace,  attorneys,  and 
other  officers  of  their  court  then  came  on  horseback,  in  their 
gowns,  preceded  by  the  city  waits  in  their  scarlet  liveries  and 
silver  badges,  playing  all  the  way  through  the  streets,  one  of 
these  wearing  on  his  head  a  red  or  pink  tattered  cap  or 
badge.  They  then  went  at  the  toll  of  the  bell  to  Allhallows' 
Kirk,  in  the  Pavement,  to  hear  a  mass  of  St.  Thomas.  When 
the  mass  was  over,  they  made  a  proclamation  at  the  Pillory  of 
the  Yoole-Girthal  in  the  form  that  follows : — "  0  yes,  &c.  We 
command  in  our  liege  lord's  behalf,  the  King  of  England,  whom 
God  save  and  keep,  that  the  peace  of  the  King  be  well  kept 
within  this  city,  by  night  and  by  day,  with  all  manner  of  men 
both  gentle  and  simple,  &c.  Also  we  command  that  the  bakers 
of  the  city  bake  good  bread,  and  that  no  baker  nor  huckster 
put  to  sale  any  manner  of  bread,  unless  that  it  be  sealed  with  a 
seal  delivered  from  the  sheriffs,  also  that  the  brewers  of  the  city 
brew  good  ale  and  wholesome  for  man's  body,  &c.  Also  that 
all  manner  of  thieves,  diceplayers,  and  all  other  unthrifty  folks 
be  welcome  to  the  town,  whether  they  come  late  cr  early,  at  the 
reverence  of  the  high  feast  of  Yoole,  till  the  twelve  days  be 
passed.'*  After  this  proclamation,  the  four  sergeants  shall  go 
and  ride  whither  they  will,  and  one  of  them  shall  have  a  horn 
of  brass  of  the  Toolbooth,  and  the  other  three  sergeants  shall 
have  each  a  horn,  and  so  go  forth  to  the  four  Bars  of  the  city 
and  blow  the  Yoole -girth,  &c.  The  origin  of  this  custom  is  said 
to  be  as  follows  : — "  William  the  Conqueror  in  the  third  year 
of  his  reign  (on  St.  Thomas's  day)  laid  siege  to  the  city  of  York, 
but  finding  himself  unable  either  by  policy  or  strength  to  gain 
it,  raised  the  siege,  which  he  had  no  sooner  done,  but  by  acci- 
dent he  met  with  two  Fryers  at  a  place  called  Skelton  not  far 
from  York,  who,  being  examined,  told  him  they  belonged  to  a 
poor  Fryery  of  St.  Peter's  in  York,  and  had  been  to  seek  relief 
for  their  Fellows  and  themselves  against  Christmas,  the  one 
having  a  wallet  full  of  victuals  and  a  shoulder  of  mutton  in  his 
hand,  with  two  great  cakes  hanging  about  his  neck,  the  other 
having  bottles  of  ale  with  provisions  likewise  of  beef  and  mutton 
in  his  wallet.  The  King  knowing  their  poverty  and  condition 
thought  they  might  be  serviceable  to  him  towards  the  attaining 
York,  wherefore  (being  accompanied  by  Sir  George  Fothergill,* 
General  of  the  field,  a  Norman  baron),  he  gave  them  money  and 
promised  that  if  they  would  let  him  and  his  soldiers  into  their 
Priory  at  a  time  appointed  he  would  not  only  rebuild  their 

•  Who  ever  heard  of  General  Fothergill  before?  Where  has  the  writer  got 
his  information  ? 


YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE.  27 

Priory,  but  endow  it  likewise  with  large  revenues  and  ample 
privileges.  The  Fryers  easily  consented  and  the  Conqueror  as 
soon  sent  back  his  army,  which  that  night,  according  to  agree- 
ment, were  let  into  the  Fryery  by  the  two  Fryers,  by  which  they 
immediately  made  themselves  masters  of  all  York,  after  which 
Sir  Robert  Clifford,  who  was  Governor  thereof,  was  so  far  from 
being  blamed  by  the  Conqueror  for  his  stout  defence  made  the 
preceding  days  that  he  was  highly  esteemed  and  rewarded  for 
his  valour,  being  created  Lord  Clifford,  and  there  knighted  with 
the  four  magistrates  then  in  office,  viz.  Howngate,  Talbott, 
Lassels,  and  Erringham.  The  arms  of  the  city  of  York  at  that 
time  were  Argent,  a  cross  Gules,  viz.  St.  George's  Cross.  The 
Conqueror  charged  the  cross  with  five  lions  passant  gardant  or 
in  memory  of  the  five  worthy  captains  magistrates  who  governed 
the  city  so  well  that  he  afterwards  made  Sir  Robert  Clifford 
governor  thereof  and  the  other  four  to  aid  him  in  counsel,  and 
the  better  to  keep  the  city  in  obedience  he  built  two  castles  and 
double  moated  them  about,  and  to  show  the  confidence  and 
trust  he  put  in  these  old  but  new  made  officers,  he  offered  them 
freely  to  ask  whatsoever  they  would  of  him  before  he  went,  and 
he  would  grant  their  request,  wherefore  they  (abominating  the 
treachery  of  the  two  Fryers  to  their  eternal  infamy)  desired  that 
on  8t.  Thomas's  day  for  ever  they  might  have  a  Fryer  of  the 
Priory  of  St.  Peter's  to  ride  through  the  city  on  horseback  with 
his  face  to  the  horse's  tail  and  that  in  his  hand  instead  of  a 
bridle  he  should  have  a  rope  and  in  the  other  a  shoulder  of 
mutton,  with  one  cake  hanging  on  his  back,  and  another  on  his 
breast,  with  his  face  painted  like  a  Jew,  and  the  youths  of  the 
city  to  ride  with  him,  and  to  cry  and  shout  ( Yoole !  Yoole ! ' 
with  the  officers  of  the  city  riding  before  and  making  proclam- 
ation that  on  this  day  the  city  was  betrayed.  Their  request 
was  granted  them,  which  custom  continued  till  the  dissolution 
of  the  said  Fryery  and  afterwards  in  imitation  of  the  same  the 
young  men  and  artizans  of  the  city  on  the  aforesaid  St. 
Thomas's  day  used  to  dress  up  one  of  their  companions  like 
the  Fryer  and  call  him  Yoole,  this  being  done  in  memory 
of  betraying  the   city   by   the    said  Fryers   to  William  the 

Conqueror."  

Thb  York  City  Waits. — On  the  1st  December,  1571,  it  was 
ordered  and  agreed  that  the  common  waits  of  the  city  of  York, 
"for  divers  good  causes  and  considerations,  shall  from  hence- 
forth use  and  keep  their  morning  watch  with  their  instruments 
accustomed,  every  day  in  the  week  except  only  Sundays,  and  in 
the  time  of  Christmas  only,  any  custom  or  usage  heretofore  had 
and  used  amongst  them,  or  others  before  them  to  the  contrary, 
notwithstanding."  But  on  the  2nd  of  February,  1770,  another 
order  was  made,  which  is  read  to  them  on  their  several  appoint- 
ments, as  follows : — "  You  shall  be  obedient  to  the  Lord  Mayor, 


28  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

or  his  Deputy  for  the  time  being,  and  shall  attend  and  play 
upon  such  musical  instruments  as  you  are  best  masters  of,  in 
all  service  of  the  Corporation  when  required  by  him  or  his 
Deputy.  You  shall  attend  the  Sheriffs  of  this  city  in  their  public 
oavalcade  to  read  the  proclamation  on  or  about  Martinmas,  as 
also  each  Sheriff,  on  the  day  he  makes  an  entertainment  for  the 
Lord  Mayor  and  Aldermen,  for  which  service  you  shall  receive 
from  each  Sheriff  one  guinea,  but  if  the  Sheriffs,  or  either  of 
them,  require  your  further  attendance  for  the  entertainment  of 
their  friends  after  the  aforesaid  days,  then  you  shall  be  paid  as 
such  service  may  deserve.  You  shall  call  the  city  from  the 
Monday  after  Martinmas  to  the  end  of  February,  that  is  every 
Monday,  Wednesday,  and  Friday  in  the  morning,  (Fast  dayB 
and  Christmas  week  excepted)/'  Thos.  Haxuy. 

Wassailing. — In  nearly  all  parts  of  Yorkshire,  the  week 
after  Christmas,  children  go  from  house  to  house  with  a  box 
containing  two  dolls,  one  to  represent  the  Virgin  Mary  and  the 
other  the  child  Jesus,  and  various  ornaments.  They  sing  the 
following  primitive  verses :  — 

Here  we  come  a  wassailing, 

Among  the  leaves  so  green ; 
Here  we  come  a  wandering, 

So  fair  to  be  seen. 

Uwrwt. — Love  and  joy  come  to  you, 
And  to  your  wassail  too ; 
And  God  send  you  a  happy  new  year ; 

A  new  year ; 
And  God  send  you  a  happy  new  year. 
Our  wassail  cup  is  made  of  the  rosemary  tree, 
So  is  your  beer  of  the  best  barley. 

We  are  not  daily  beggars 

That  beg  from  door  to  door, 
But  we  are  neighbours*  children, 

Whom  you  have  seen  before. 

Call  up  the  butler  of  this  house. 

Put  on  his  golden  ring ; 
Bid  him  bring  up  a  glass  of  beer, 

The  better  that  we  may  sing. 

We  have  got  a  little  purse, 
Made  of  shining  leather  skin ; 

We  want  a  little  of  your  money 
To  line  it  well  within. 

Bring  us  out  a  table, 

And  spread  the  table-cloth ; 
Bring  us  out  a  mouldy  cheese, 

And  some  of  your  Christmas  loaf. 


YORKSHIBE    FOLK-LOBE.  2fr 

God  bless  the  master  of  this  house, 

Likewise  the  mispress  too ; 
And  all  the  little  children, 

That  around  the  table  go. 

Good  master  and  mistress, 
While  you're  sitting  by  the  fire, 

Pray  think  of  us  poor  children 
Who  are  wandering  in  the  mire. 

[The  following  is  the  Chorus  in  Calderdale : 

For  it  is  at  Christmas  time 

Strangers  travel  far  and  near, 
So  God  bless  you,  and  send  you 

A  happy  now  year : 
So  God  bless  you,  and  send  you 

A  happy  new  year. 

The  Carol  was  formerly  sung  on  New  Year's  day  only,  and 
chiefly  by  girls,  who  carried  a  holly-bush  decorated  with  ribbons 
and  dolls,  and  having  apples  and  oranges  suspended  from  the 
branches.    The  jingle  ran  as  follows : 

d-r  m-f  s-m  r- 
s,  d-t,  d-m  r- 
r  m-r  d-t,  d-r  Da- 
rn r-t,  1,-t,  d.- 

Chorus— 1,-t,  d-d  d-1,  t,- 
d-1,  8,-fe,  s,-l,  t,- 
s,-l,  t,-m-r  d-1,- 
d  m-d-d-d- 
8,-1,  t,-m-r  d-1,- 
d  m-d-d-d.  ] 

Devil's  Knell. — At  Dewsbury,  Yorkshire,  it  is  the  custom 
to  toll  the  bells,  as  at  a  funeral,  every  Christmas  Eve,  which 
ringing  is  called  the  "  devil's  knell/'  meaning  that  the  devil 
died  when  Christ  was  born. 

Chkistmas  Customs. — Christmas  has  again  come  round  with 
its  accompanying  customs  and  feastings.  Some  of  its  customs 
we  of  high  antiquity,  and  very  generally  diffused.  It  will, 
perhaps,  not  be  out  of  place  to  record  them  as  we  find  them  in 
our  day.  The  history  of  each  custom  would  form  an  article  of 
itself,  so  we  must  confine  ourselves  to  a  bare  recital  of  them. 

Our  good  dames  of  the  olden  type  are  still  very  anxious  to 
stcnre  a  yule  log,  which  some  term  a  '  unionclog.'  The  word 
'yule'  leads  our  thoughts  back  to  days  of  heathenism,  and 
reminds  us  that  our  Christ's  Mass  is  founded  on  the  ancient 
heathen  yule  feast.  A  superstitious  notion  still  obtains,  that 
H  is  unlucky  to  light  a  fire  either  on  Christmas  or  New  Year's 


80  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

mornings.  Whilst  the  yule  log  is  blazing,  groups  of  young 
men,  and  sometimes  youpg  women,  (chiefly  composed  of 
Sunday  Scholars  or  Chapel  Choirs,)  sing  the  well-known 
Christmas  Hymn — 

"  Christians,  awake !  salute  the  happy  morn/' 
To  the  tune  called  '  Yorkshire.'     They  have  generally  a  bass, 
flute,   concertina,   or  harmonium,   to  play  the  prelude   and 
interlude — 

*  "  Tom,  torn,  the  roddi  diddi, 
Diddi  diddi,  hey  ow  om." 
The  local  brass  band  is,  of  course,  the  chief  musical  body,  and 
plays  the  same  tune. 

We  people  of  Brighouse  are  apt  to  think  that  this  hymn  and 
tune  is  common  over  the  wide  English  world,  and  nearly  as  old 
as  Christianity ;  but  the  contrary  is  the  fact.  By  five  o'clock 
in  the  morning,  the  night  carolling  has  mostly  subsided,  and 
young  boys  prowl  from  door  to  door  to  "let  Christmas  in," 
which  they  announce  in  the  following  strain : — 
"  I  wish  you  a  merry  Christmas, 

And  a  happy  New  Year, 
A  pocket  full  of  money, 

And  a  cellar  full  of  beer, 
And  a  great  fat  pig 
To  kill  every  year." 
For  these  good  wishes  they  expect  a  penny  or  a  half-penny. 
Sometimes  either  through  ignorance  or  desire  to  obtain  a  larger 
donation,  they  construe  this  nomeny  into — 
"  A  cellar  full  of  money, 

And  a  pocket  full  of  beer, 

And  two  fat  pigs 

To  kill  every  year." 

The  ridiculous  superstition  that  boys  with  black  hair  are  the 

lucky  ones,  still  clings  to  the  benighted  minds  of  some  persons. 

Breakfast  time  comes,  when  the  rich  Christmas  or  spice-cake 

is  brought  out.     The  carollers  and  musicians  pay  their  second 

visit,  not  merely  to  play  'Yorkshire,'  'The  Last  Wish/  and 

'  Hail,  Smiling  Morn,'  but  to  receive  cash,  bread,  cheese,  and 

beer,— the  last-named  article  to  such  an  extent,  sometimes,  as 

to  drive  both  music  and  devotion  out  of  their  soul.    Breakfast 

being  finished,  the  male  part  of  the  family  adjourn  to  the  lanes, 

fields,  and  ponds,  to  divert  themselves  with  the  bracing  games 

of  foot-ball,  skating,  sliding,  &c;  whilst  within,  the  good  ladies 

are  busily  preparing  dinner— Christmas  dinner,  remember  !— 

such  fare  as  only  comes  once  a  year,— prime  roast  beef,  or  it 

*  Key  D.    m.  s.  f.  m.      I  r.  rr.  r.m.  f.r.      I  m.  m.m.  m.  r.  m.f. 

|  Tom  torn  |  Tom  torn 

a.  8.8.  s.  1.  t.  d\      j  d.  d.  d.  d.  r.  m.  f.  I  8. 1.  s.  f.  m.  r.  d. 

Tom  torn  |  Tom  torn  |  Biddy  Diddy 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  31 

may  be  goose,  turkey,  &c,  &c,  and  the  jolly-looking  plum 
padding,  and  other  et  cetera*  too  numerous  to  mention.  Dinner 
over,  oat-door  games  are  resumed,  or  families  gather  round 
their  respective  hearths,  and  spend  the  afternoon  in  pleasant 
conversation.  Christmas  is  especially  the  season  of  family 
gatherings, — when  the  absent  ones  join  their  family  circle,  to 
spend  a  "  merry  Christmas  "  at  home.  Evening  brings  with  it 
an  abundance  of  public  and  private  parties,  with  their  varied 
attractions,  from  the  gay  ball  to  the  little  '  toffy '  party.  This 
is  the  time  for  in-door  enjoyments,  and  this  evening  is  perhaps 
the  most  enjoyable  one  of  the  year.  During  the  day,  deputies 
from  the  various  trades  solicit  Christmas  boxes  (though  they 
are  not  particular  about  the  box,  now-a-days,  if  they  only  get 
the  money)  from  the  firms  with  whom  their  firm  does  business. 
These  deputies  visit  the  neighbouring  towns,  and  divide  the 
proceeds  on  their  return. 

St.  Thomas'  Day  ( 21st  December)  was  till  recently  the  great 
alms-giving  day,  and  a  few  years  ago  each  boy  and  girl  that 
went  to  Crow  Nest,  Toothill,  &c,  received  a  penny. 

The  last  evening  of  the  year  is  devoted  to  mumming,  or 
disguising,  but  its  devotees  claim  a  few  nights  before  and  after 
the  chief  night.  Boys,  and  even  young  men  and  women,  dis- 
guise themselves,  blacken  their  faces,  or  wear  grotesque  masks, 
dress  in  the  costume  of  the  opposite  sex,  and  obtain  admittance 
to  houses  mostly  by  deception.  Having  entered,  they  *  play  the 
nigger,'  sing  and  dance ;  but  formerly  they  cleaned  the  fireirons 
and  fender.  The  fire  must  be  kept  in,  particularly  through  the 
last  night  of  the  year.  "  Letting  the  New  Year  in,"  or  the 
"first  foot,"  as  the  Scotch  term  it,  is  of  more  importance  than 
Christmas  day  with  many  old  ladies.  It  has  become  common 
at  some  chapels  to  hold  a  *  watch  night/  or  prayer  meeting,  at 
12  p.m.,  December  81st.  The  old  people  have  long  been  ac- 
customed to  sit  up  and  see  the  New  Year  in. 

New  Year's  Day  is  the  proper  day  for  the  Wassailers,  chiefly 
girls,  who  sing  the  ancient  ballad — 

44  Here  we  come  a-wassailing 
Among  the  leaves  so  green," 
or  as  some  say,  4  amongst  the  Lucy  Green ! '  They,  like  the 
mummers,  see  the  disadvantage  of  coming  last  for  the  money ; 
bo  they  have  recently  begun  on  Christmas  Day,  and  had  a  week's 
carolling.  The  decorated  holly-bush  has  degenerated  into  a 
decorated  herring  box. 

Motheb  Shipton. — "  Carriages  shall  go  without  horses,"  was 
quoted  as  an  old  prophecy  of  Mother  Shipton's  when  I  was  a 
child,  long  before  the  Brighton  Bookseller  published  his  fabri- 
cation ;  and  even  then  it  was  a  prophecy  after  the  fact,  the 
Manchester  and  Liverpool  railway  having  just  been  .opened.    I 


32  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

have  had  a  copy  made  of  the  prophecy  preserved  in  the  Percy 
family,  and  referred  to  as  by  Mother  S.  but  it  neither  bears  her 
name,  nor  has  any  connection  with  her.  I.B. 

MOTHER    ShIPTON'8   LlFE    AND    CURIOUS    PROPHECIES. — VarioUS 

have  been  the  conjectures  of  mankind  in  this  part  of  the  world 
concerning  our  famous  prophetess.  Some  have  reported  her 
father  was  a  famous  necromancer,  and  her  mother  a  witch,  so 
she  had  the  Black  Art  by  succession ;  others,  of  a  more  exalted 
turn,  pretend  that  her  mother,  being  left  an  orphan  about  the 
age  of  sixteen,  took  a  walk  into  the  fields,  and  sitting  down 
upon  a  green  bank,  under  a  shade,  to  soothe  her  melancholy,  & 
Demon,  in  the  shape  of  a  handsome  young  man,  appeared  before 
her,  and  enquired  the  cause  of  her  distress  ;  she  answered  him 
her  parents  and  friends  were  dead,  and  she  despaired  of  a  live- 
lihood, upon  which,  under  a  pretence  of  being  a  person  of  figure 
and  fortune,  he  gave  her  to  understand,  if  she  would  comply 
with  his  desires,  he  would  preserve  her  above  the  reach  of  want 
as  long  as  she  lived ;  she  readily  consented,  received  him 
into  her  apartment,  and  entertained  him  as  a  gallant ;  in  return, 
he  bid  her  sweep  the  floor  once  every  day  after  his  departure ; 
she  punctually  observed  his  directions ;  and  nover  failed  finding 
a  quantity  of  ninepences,  three  pences,  and  other  odd  kind  of 
pieces  sufficient  for  all  her  occasions.  At  length  the  embraces 
of  her  infernal  gallant  produced  a  pregnancy,  and  at  the  time  of 
her  delivery,  such  a  terrible  storm  of  thunder  and  lightning  ap- 
peared, that  houses  were  beat  down,  trees  shattered,  and  the 
very  features  of  the  child  were  so  warped  and  distorted,  that  it 
appeared  the  very  masterpiece  of  deformity. 

But  these,  and  many  other  reports  of  the  like  nature,  are  as 
romantic  as  the  fabulous  intrigues  of  the  Heathen  Gods  and 
Goddesses.  The  genuine  account  is,  she  was  born  in  July,  1488, 
in  the  reign  of  King  Henry  7th,  near  Enaresborough  in  the 
County  of  York ;  she  was,  like  the  rest  of  female  infants,  her 
mother's  daughter  by  a  man ;  and  was  baptized  by  the  Abbott 
of  Beverley  by  the  name  of  Ursula  Sonthiel ;  her  stature  was 
larger  than  common,  her  body  crooked,  her  face  frightful,  but 
her  understanding  extraordinary.  The  vulgar  relations  of  her 
life  and  actions  are  equally  extravagant  with  those  of  her  birth 
before-mentioned,  but  as  those  legends  are  so  ridiculous  and 
trifling,  the  ingenious  reader  will  excuse  us  if  we  pass  'em  by, 
and  proceed  to  more  probable  and  authentic  information. 

'Tis  generally  held  by  most  of  the  first  quality  and  best  judg- 
ment in  the  County,  that  she  was  a  person  of  an  ordinary 
education,  but  great  piety;  and  that  she  was  supernaturally 
endowed  with  an  uncommon  penetration  into  things,  for  which 
she  became  so  famous,  in  time,  that  great  numbers  of  all  ranks 
and  degrees  resorted  to  her  habitation  to  hear  her  wonderful 
discoveries. 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  88 

We  find  nothing  particularly  remarkable  of  her  until  she  ar- 
rived at  the  age  of  twenty  four  years,  when  she  was  courted  by 
one  Toby  Shipton,  a  Builder,  of  Skiptan,  a  village  situate  four 
miles  north  of  the  City  of  York,  who  soon  after  married  her ; 
and  from  this  match  she  afterwards  derived  the  name  of  Mother 
Shipton.  After  her  marriage  her  fame  increased  more  than 
ever ;  the  events  proved  the  truth  of  her  Predictions,  and  many 
began  to  commit  them  to  writing. 

The  first  remarkable  Prophecy  recorded  of  her's  is  that  upon 
Cardinal  WoUey ;  the  story  runs  as  follows. .  She  was  told  the 
Cardinal  intended  to  remove  his  residence  to  York  (that  being 
his  Archbishoprick),  upon  which  she  publickly  gave  out  "he 
should  never  reach  the  city/1  This  report  coming  to  the  Cardi- 
nal's ear,  he  sent  three  gentlemen,  or  lords  of  his  retinue  to  her 
to  enquire  the  truth  of  it,  and  to  menace  her  if  she  persisted  in 
it.  These  three  came  disguised  to  a  village,  a  mile  west  of  the 
eity,  called  Dring  Houses,  and  leaving  their  horses  they  took  a 


From  an  old  Mother  Shipton  Chap-book, 
guide  to  direct  them  to  her  house ;  upon  their  knocking  at  the 
door  'tis  said  she  called  out  from  within,  "  Come  in  Mr.  Beasly 
(that  being  the  name  of  the  guide)  and  the  three  noble  Lords 
with  you."  This  discovery  very  much  surprised  them;  but 
when  they  were  enter'd  she  called  each  by  his  name,  and  pre* 
sented  'em  with  cake  and  ale.  They  signified  to  her,  if  she  knew 
their  errand  she  would  hardly  treat  'em  so  handsomely.  "  You 
gave  out,"  say  they,  "  the  Cardinal  should  never  see  York." 
"No,"  she  replies,  "I  said  he  might  see  it,  but  never  come  to  it." 
They  return,  "  When  he  does  come  he'll  certainly  burn  thee." 
Then,  taking  her  linen  handkerchief  off  her  head,  "  If  this  burn," 
says  she,  '<  so  shall  I ;"  and  casting  it  into  the  fire  before  'em, 
she  let  it  lie  in  the  flames  a  quarter  of  an  hour  and  taking  it 
out  again  it  was  not  so  much  as  singed ;  which  very  much 
astonished  'em.  One  of  them  asked  her  what  she  thought  of 
him;  she  answered  " The  time  will  come,  my  Lord,  when  you 

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84  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

shall  be  as  low  as  I  am,  and  that  is  low  indeed."  This  was 
judged  to  be  verified  when  Thomas  Lord  Cromwell  was  beheaded. 

The  Cardinal  coming  to  C  a  wood,  ascended  the  Castle  Tower, 
and  taking  a  prospect  of  the  city  of  York,  at  eight  miles 
distance,  he  vowed,  when  he  came  there  he  would  burn  the 
Witch;  but  e'er  he  descended  the  stairs,  a  message  arrived 
from  the  King  to  demand  his  presence  forthwith;  so  he  was 
obliged  to  return  directly,  and  being  taken  with  a  violent  loose- 
ness at  Leicester,  he  gave  up  the  ghost  in  his  journey,  which 
verified  the  prophecy. 

Several  others  she  delivered  to  different  persons,  one  of 
which  was : — 

"Before  *Ouze-Bridge  and  Trinity  Church  meet,  what  is  built 
in  the  day  shall  fall  in  the  night,  till  the  highest  stone  in  the 
Church  be  the  lowest  stone  of  the  Bridge." 

This  came  to  pass ;  for  the  Steeple  was  blown  down  by  a 
tempest,  and  the  Bridge  broke  down  by  a  flood  occasioned  by 
the  storm ;  and  how  it  came  to  pass  we  can't  learn,  that  what 
they  built  in  the  day  fell  down  in  the  night ;  but  'tis  generally 
asserted  it  was  so ;  and  it  is  certain  that  the  top-stone  of  the 
former  Steeple  is  the  foundation  stone  of  that  part  of  the 
Bridge  then  rebuilt.  The  second  of  this  kind  runs  thus:  "Time 
shall  happen ;  a  ship  shall  sail  upon  the  river  Thames,  till  it 
reach  the  city  of  London,  the  master  shall  weep  and  cry  out, 
Ah !  what  a  flourishing  city  was  this  when  I  left  it,  unequalled 
through  the  world !  but  now  scarce  a  house  is  left  to  entertain 
us  with  a  Flaggon."  This  was  terribly  verified  when  the  city 
was  burnt,  September,  1666,  there  being  not  one  house  left 
from  the  Tower  to  the  Temple. 

We  now  come  to  the  prophecies  that  occasioned  this  publi- 
cation, and  which  appear  far  to  exceed  everything  of  the  like 
nature  extant. 

A  copy  of  them  was  lately  found  amongst  other  valuable 
manuscripts  the  property  of  a  gentleman  deceased,  with  this 
title — "  A  copy  of  a  collection  of  prophecies  delivered  to  the 
Abbot  of  Beverley,  etc." 

The  greatest  part  of  what  has  been  hitherto  published  under 
the  title  of  "  Mother  Shipton's  Prophecies,"  plainly  appears  to 
be  no  more  than  imperfect  bits  and  scraps  of  this  collection, 
carried  away,  perhaps,  in  the  memory  of  such,  as  might  some- 
time have  the  opportunity  of  seeing  it  in  the  noble  family  where 
it  was  deposited.  The  whole  seems  entirely  to  point  at  the 
great  events  that  already  have  happened  and  yet  may  happen 
to  both  Church  and  State  in  this  and  the  neighbouring  nations. 

Explanation  of  the  different  prophecies — 

The  first  thirty  verses  seem  to  relate  to  the  disasters  thai 
should  befal  great  part  of  Europe,  during  the  time  of  King 

*  A  large  stone  Bridge  over  the  River  Ouse,  within  the  city  of  York. 


Y0RE8HIRE    FOLK  LORE.  35 

Henry  8th,  for  the  29th  and  80th  verses  terminate  in  his  reign, 
and  are  the  last  wherein  that  reign  can  be  understood  to  be 
hinted  at. 
Verse  29. — "  And  when  the  cow  shall  ride  the  bull." 
This  seems  to  have  been  fulfilled  when  Henry  8th  married 
Lady  Anna  Bullen  ;  for  he,  as  Duke  of  Richmond,  placed  the 
cow  in  his  arms,  and  the  crest  of  her  family  was  a  black  bull's 
head. 
Verse  80. — "  Then  motley  priest  beware  thy  skull." 
Presently  after  the  king's  marriage,  the  seizure  of  Abbey 
Lands,  etc.,  and  the  dissolution  of  monasteries  ensued ;  where- 
by the  skull  or  head-piece  of  the  priesthood  (i.  e.  gain)  was 
miserably  broken. 
Verse  81. — "  For  a  sweet  pious  prince  make  room." 
By  this,  doubtless,  is  meant  King  Edward  VI.,  a  part  of 
whose  character  is  thus  given  by  the  learned  Dean  Echard,  in 
his  History  of  England ;  "  He  was  truly  just  and  merciful  in 
his  disposition ;  and  took  special  care  of  the  petitions  that  were 
given  him  by  the  poor  and  oppressed.    But  his  zeal  for  religion 
crowned  all  .the  rest;  which  did  not  proceed  from  an  angry 
heat,  but  from  a  real  tenderness  of  conscience,  founded  on  the 
love  of  God,  and  his  fellow  creatures." 
Verse  82. — "And  for  the  *Kirk  prepare  a  broom." 
This  alludes  to  the  beginning  of  the  reformation;   when 
many  superstitions  were  swept  out  of  the  Church. 
Verse  88. — "  Alecto  next  shall  seize  the  crown." 
Alecto  was  one  of  the  fabulous  furies  of  the  heathen  ;  whose 
employment  was  to  kindle  war  and  distress  mankind.     She  is 
here  placed  for  Queen  Mary  I.,  in  whose  reign,  as  alluded 
to  in  the   84th  verse,  the  blood  of  the  glorious  Protestant 
Martyrs  was  plentifully  shed  in  Smithfield. 
Verses  85  &  86. — "A  maiden  Queen,  full  many  a  year, 

Shall  England's  warlike  scepter  bear." 
By  these  are  meant  Queen  Elizabeth,  who  reigned  44  years, 
4  months  and  6  days,  upon  whom  Andrew  Marvel  has  left  the 
following  lines : — 

"  The  other  day,  said  Spencer,  I  did  bring, 
In  lofty  notes  Tudor's  bless'd  race  to  sing ; 
How  Spain's  proud  powers  her  Virgin  Arms  controulTd, 
And  golden  days  in  peaceful  order  rolTd ; 
How  like  ripe  fruit,  she  dropp'd  from  off  her  throne, 
Full  of  grey  hairs,  good  deeds,  and  great  renown." 
Verses  87  &  88.—"  The  Western  Monarch's  Wooden  Horses 
shall  be  destroyed  by  a  Drake's  forces." 

The  Western  Monarch  is  supposed  to  mean  the  King  of 
Spain,  whose  country  lies  on  the  west-side  of  the  Continent, 
and   his  Wooden   Horses,   his    fleet    of   ships,    or  Armada, 

#  A  North-country  word  for  Church 


86  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

vanquished  by  the  brave  Admiral  Drake  and  the  rest  of  the 
Queen's  forces,  in  the  year  1588. 
Verses  89  &  40. — "  The  Northern  Lion  over  Tweed, 

The  Maiden  Queen  shall  next  succeed." 
The  Northern  Lion ;  i.  e.,  King  James  I.,  born  in  Scotland. 
A  Lion  is  the  principal  figure  in  the  British  Arms;  whence 
the  King,  as  the  principal  person  in  the  realm,  metaphorically 
takes  the  name. 

Verses  41  &  42. — "  And  join  in  one,  two  mighty  states, 

Then  shall  Janus  shut  his  gates." 
The  first  bears  an  allusion  to  the  uniting  of  the  two  Crowns 
of  England  and  Scotland  in  one,  in  the  person  of  King  James. 
And  the  second  points  out  the  peaceful  reign  of  that  Monarch, 
by  shutting  the  gates  of  Janus ;  who  was  one  of  the  Hehthen 
Gods,  and  the  gates  of  whose  temple  were  never  shut  but  in 
time  of  peace. 

Verses  43  and  44  seem  to  hint  at  some  great  calamities  that 
should  befall  this  nation  before  the  deposition  of  Episcopacy,  in 
the  reign  of  the  Republican  Anarchy,  under  the  usurper  Oliver 
Cromwell. 
Verses  46  &  46. — "  False  Ireland  contrives  our  woe, 

But  zealous  Scotland  .doth  not  so." 
Doubtless  these  intended  the  execrable  massacre  in  Ireland 
in  the  reign  of  King  Charles  I,  and  the  loyalty  of  the  Scotch  in 
not  joining  the  Irish  rebels  but  suffering  with  the  English. 
Verses  47,  48,  49  and  50— 

"  Bough  Mars  shall  rage  as  he  were  *woo'd, 
And  earth  shall  dark'ned  be  with  blood. 
Then  will  be  sacrificed,  C 
And  not  a  King  in  England  be." 
This  was  verified  in  the  time  of  the  grand  rebellion,  and 
most  unnatural  civil  war,   when  the  nation    was   torn  and 
pillag'd,  the  laws  broken,  the  constitution  overturned,  the  king 
and  monarchy  most  execrably  slain  together. 
Verses  51,  52,  58  and  54— 

"  But  death  shall  snatch  the  Wolf  away, 
Confusion  shall  give  up  the  sway, 
And  fate  to  England  shall  restore 
A  King  to  reign  as  heretofore." 
If  we  can  guess  right,  the  first  of  these  verses  alludes  to  the 
death  of  the  usurper  Oliver  Cromwell,  who  is  very  properly 
depicted  as  a  Wolf,  and  the  other  three  to  the  restoration  of 
King  Charles  the  Second. 
Verses  55  <fe  56. — "  Triumphant  death  rides  London  thro*, 

And  men  on  tops  of  houses  go." 
The  first,  in  all  appearance,  points  out  the  terrible  plague 
that  raged  in  London,  a.d.  1665.     The  second  circumstantially 

*Mnd. 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  87 

alludes  to  the  fire  in  the  year  following ;  signifying  that  people 
should  be  obliged  to  run  from  one  house  to  another,  over  the 
tops  of  the  houses,  to  save  themselves,  and  all  their  effects. 

Verse  57. — "  J.  R.  shall  into  saddle  slide." 

J.  B.,  t.  «.,  James  Bex,  or  King  James  2nd,  who  ascended 
the  throne  upon  the  death  of  King  Charles  II. 

Verse  58. — "  And  furiously  to  Borne  shall  ride." 

Scarcely  was  he  seated  Upon  the  throne  before  he  went  to  Mass 
publickly;  and  by  pursuing  imprudent  and  illegal  measures, 
was  the  cause  of  the  verification  of  Verses  69  and  60 — 
"  The  Pope  shall  have  a  fatal  fall, 
And  never  more  distress  Whitehall." 

His  mis-government  led  to  his  abdication,  and  his  son-in- 
law  King  William,  and  Queen  Mary  II,  were  placed  upon  his 
throne. 

Verse  61. — "  A  Queen  shall  knit  both  north  and  south." 

This  seems  to  refer  to  the  union  of  England  and  Scotland  in 
the  reign  of  Queen  Anne. 

Verse  62.— "And  take  away  the  Luce's  tooth." 

This  likewise  seems  to  relate  to  her  extraordinary  victories 
over  Lewis  14th,  King  of  France ;  who,  we  judge,  is  intended 
here  by  the  Luce,  which  by  way  of  allusion,  might  here  be  put 
for  Fleur  de  luce ;  the  arms  of  that  monarchy. 

Verses  68  &  64. — "  A  Lion-Duce  shall  after  reign 

And  of  the  whiskers  clear  the  main. 

What  is  meant  by  the  Lion  Duce  may  be  matter  of  amuse- 
ment to  the  curious ;  but  as  the  word  Duce  sometimes  represents 
the  number  two,  so  two  in  this  ambiguous  phrase  may  intend 
the  familiar  word  second ;  and  our  present  gracious  sovereign* 
being  the  second  Lion  (or  English  Monarch)  of  his  name,  it  is 
far  from  being  unlikely  that  he  may  be  the  Prince  here  pointed 
out  who  shall  clear  the  main  of  the  whiskers,  which  is  a 
northern  term  for  mustachioes,  and  doubtless  alludes  to  the 
Spanish,  whose  fashion  it  has  been  for  many  centuries  past  to 
wear  them.  But  as  this  appears  to  relate  to  the  present  age, 
we  leave  it  to  the  skilful  and  ingenious. 

Whether  the  prophecy  of  the  Lilly  be  Mother  Shipton's  or 
no,  we  can't  certainly  determine,  but  as  it  has  been  attributed 
to  her,  and  is  writ  in  a  peculiar  sublimity  of  sense  and  style, 
we  think  it  would  be  very  improper  to  omit  it. 

It  runs  as  follows :  A  curious  Prophecy. — The  Lilly  6hall  re- 
main in  a  merry  world;  and  he  shall  be  moved  against  the 
seed  of  the  Lion  ;  and  he  shall  stand  on  one  side  of  his  country 
with  a  number  of  ships.  Then  shall  come  the  son  of  man,  having 
a  fierce  Beast  in  his  arms ;  whose  kingdom  is  the  land  of  the 
Moon,  which  is  dreaded  throughout  the  whole  world.     With  a 

*  The  explanation  of  the  above  verse  was  taken  from  an  edition  of  Mother 
Bhipton'g  Prophecies  printed  in  the  reign  of  King  George  the  Second. 


88  YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE. 

number  of  people  shall  he  pass  many  waters  and  shall  come  to 
the  Land  of  the  Lion,  looking  for  help  of  the  Beast  of  his 
country.  And  an  eagle  shall  come  out  of  the  East,  spread  with 
the  Beams  of  the  Son  of  Man,  and  shall  destroy  Castles  of  the 
Thames ;  and  there  shall  be  battles  among  many  kingdoms : 
that  year  shall  be  the  bloody  field,  and  Lilly,  F.  K.  shall  lose 
his  crown ;   and  therewith  shall  be  crowned  the  son  of  man 

K.  W.  and  the  fourth  year  shall  be  many  battles  for  the 

and  the  Son  of  Man  with  the  Eagle  shall  be  preferred,  and 
there  shall  be  an  universal  peace  over  the  whole  world,  and 
there  shall  be  plenty  of  fruits,  and  then  shall  he  go  to  the 
land  of  the  cross. 

-  Whether  the  accomplishment  of  the  above  prophecy  be  past 
or  to  come,  we  cannot  ascertain.  It  appears  to  be  very  deep  and 
mysterious;  we  therefore  leave  it  to  persons  of  profounder 
penetration  and  superior  judgment. 

We  are  informed,  the  last  prediction  of  our  famous  prophetess 
was  concerning  the  time  of  her  own  death ;  which  'tis  said,  she 
declared  to  several  who  visited  her  in  her  advanced  age  ;  and 
when  the  time  approached,  she  called  her  friends  together, 
advised  them  well,  and  took  a  solemn  leave  of  them,  and  laying 
herself  down  on  her  bed,  she  departed  with  much  serenity, 
a.  d.  1651,  being  upwards  of  seventy  years  of  age;  after  her 
death  a  monument  of  stone  was  erected  to  her  memory  in 
the  high  north-road  betwixt  the  villages  of  Clifton  and  Shipton, 
about  a  mile  distant  from  the  city  of  York.  The  monument 
represents  a  woman  upon  her  knees,  with  her  hands  closed 
before  her,  in  a  praying  posture,  and  stands  there  to  be  seen 
to  this  day.  I.  B. 

o 

Bolling  Hall  and  its  Ghost. — For  fully  five  hundred  years 
the  storm-beaten  walls  of  this  fine  old  mansion  have  withstood 
the  ravages  of  time,  and  to  day  the  ancient  fabric  is  in  a 
wonderful  state  of  good  preservation,  such  as  few  of  the  monu- 
ments of  feudal  times  in  Yorkshire  can  boast.  The  architecture 
of  the  south  part  of  the  Hall  may  be  taken  as  fairly  represent- 
ative of  the  different  periods  of  its  history.  It  would  seem  to 
have  been  the  work  of  at  least  four  separate  builders,  the  two 
ancient  wings  taking  us  back  to  the  time  of  the  Boilings, 
while  the  central  portion,  with  its  deeply  embayed  windows, 
and  large  central  window  of  three  tiers,  unmistakeably  tells  of 
the  Tudor  period— when  the  Tempests  came  in— which  brought 
with  it  a  more  luxurious  and  domesticated  order  of  things. 
The  modern  mercantile  period  is  but  too  faithfully  written  in 
that  piece  of  vandalism,  the  bay  window  next  to  the  entrance 
tower.  Our  copper-plate  illustration,*  which  shows  the  south- 
front  of  the  hall,  happily  does  not  perpetuate  this  hideous 

#  Part  2. 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 


89 


distortion.  Of  the  very  few  historic  relics  of  which  Bradford 
can  boast,  Boiling  Hall  is,  next  to  the  Parish  Church,  the 
most  interesting.  It  is  a  spot  "  familiar  with  forgotten  years/' 
and  the  history  of  "  olden  times  "  is  written  in  its  very  walls. 
The  present  owners  have  done  everything  to  render  it  con- 
venient and  comfortable  as  a  place  of  residence  without 
sacrificing  its  ancient  aspect,  and  the  hnll  is  bo  leas  fortunate 
in  its  present  occupant,  Mr.  James  M.  Tankard,  who  is  proud 
of  the  place,  and  sparea  no  pains  in  sustaining  its  ancient 
character  and  reputation. 


Boiling  Hail,— NoUk  View. 

large  central  hall  has  been  furnished  by  Mr.  Tankard 
with  curious  old  oak  furniture,  which  is  in  keeping  with  the 
old  oak  balcony  on  the  northern  side  of  the  room,  and  the 
wainscotting  and  cornice,  which  are  also  of  black  oak. 

This  noble  apartment  possesses  many  features  of  attraction, 
among  which  may  be  mentioned  its  fine  central  window  looking 
on  to  the  lawn,  its  collection  of  ancient  relic3  in  the  shape  of 
crossbows,  pikes,  helmets,  mail-shirts,  battle  axes,  and  other 
implements  of  warfare,  and  its  portraits  of  warriors  clad  in 
armour,  ladies  in  Elizabethan  costume,  feudal  lords  and 
titled  gentry.     Worthy  of  special  mention  among  these  are  the 

Srtraits  of  General  Fairfax,  Prince  Rupert,  Mary  Queen  of 
sots,  Sir  Francis  Gresham,  and  Sir  Charles  Lucas. 
The  view  from  the  top  of  the  old  western  tower  amply  repays 
thS  scramble  up  its  narrow,  winding  staircase.  Here  is 
abundant  scope  for  drawing  pretty  largely  upon  one's  imagin- 
ation, and  painting  no  end  of  fancy  pictures.  History  tells  us 
of  a  far-off  time  when  Boiling  Hall  was  surrounded  by  a  wall 


40  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

and  a  moat  for  purposes  of  defence,  when  men  loved  the 
dangers  and  excitements  of  war  rather  than  the  refining  in- 
fluences of  peace  and  civilization.  It  also  tells  of  a  more 
recent  period,  when  it  was  encompassed  by  an  extensive  park, 
well  wooded  and  stocked  with  deer.  The  wall,  the  moat  and 
the  deer  have  long  since  disappeared,  but  a  portion  of  the 
park  has  been  recently  restored,  and  set  apart  for  the  benefit 
of  a  toiling,  industrious  population,  who  resort  hither  in 
search  of  that  "  breath  of  unadulterated  air  "  which  they  can- 
not find  in  the  streets  and  workshops  where  they  spend  their 
lives. 

It  does  not  fall  within  the  scope  of  the  present  sketch  to 
trace  the  history  of  Boiling  Hall.  Indeed,  this  has  been 
already  done,  (though  not  so  fully  as  we  could  wish,)  by  Mr. 
James,  in  his  History  of  Bradford.  We  are  now  only  concerned 
with  the  traditional, — the  folk-lore  association  of  this  fine  old 
mansion,  and  fortunately  it  is  not  lacking  in  this  respect.  It 
has  its  ghost  story,  as  a  house  of  such  antiquity  and  import- 
ance ought  to  have.  Thanks  to  that  best  of  local  chroniclers, 
Joseph  Lister,  we  can  tell  the  tale  of  it  with  all  the  gravity 
and  mystery  which  every  good  ghost  story  demands. 

It  was  after  the  battle  on  Adwalton  moor,  at  which  the 
Roundheads  had  met  with  a  sad  defeat,  that  the  Earl  of  New- 
castle, the  Royalist  Commander,  turned  his  face  towards 
Bradford,  and  taking  up  his  quarters  at  Boiling  Hall,  began 
what  is  known  as  the  second  siege  of  Bradford.  The  command- 
ing position  of  this  spot  doubtless  attracted  the  military  eye  of 
the  Earl,  and  from  this  standpoint  he  at  once  set  about  invest- 
ing the  town.  He  took  three  or  five  days  in  doing  this, 
although  there  were  no  batteries  to  raise,  as  the  hills  surround- 
ing Bradford  were  near  enough  to  render  such  unnecessary. 
He  placed  his  guns  in  two  positions,  and  opened  a  heavy  fire 
which  was  returned  by  Sir  Thomas  Fairfax,  who  was  defending 
the  town,  with  volleys  of  musketry.  But  this  time  the  odds 
were  sadly  against  the  Bradfordians,  brave  fighting  men  though 
they  were.  Reduced  to  the  extremity  of  possessing  only  one 
barrel  of  powder,  but  no  match,  Sir  Thomas  saw  that  he  must 
either  cut  his  way  through  the  Royalists,  or  surrender  with  the 
town.  He  adopted  the  former  course,  and  by  this  step  all  hope 
of  saving  Bradford  from  falling  into  the  hands  of  the  enemy 
was  abandoned. 

41  Oh !  what  a  night  and  morning  was  that  in  which  Bradford 
was  taken,"  says  Joseph  Lister,  "  what  weeping  and  wringing 
of  hands — none  expecting  to  live  any  longer  than  till  the 
enemy  came  into  the  town;  the  Earl  of  Newcastle  having 
charged  his  men  to  kill  all,  man,  woman  and  child,  in  the 
town,  and  to  give  them  all  Bradford  quarter,  for  the  brave 
Earl  of  Newport's  sake,  (who  was  said  to  have  been  barbarously 


YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE. 


41 


slain  here  daring  the  first  siege.)  However,  God  so  ordered  it, 
that  before  the  town  was  taken,  the  Earl  gave  a  different  order, 
viz — "  that  quarter  should  be  given  to  all  the  townsmen." 

And  then  the 
narrative  goes  on 
to  tell  how  it 
came  about  that 
the  Earl  had  so 
suddenly  changed 
his  mind.  While 
he  was  sleeping  in 
one  of  the  rooms 
of  the  hall, (known 
as  "the  ghost 
room'1  unto  this 
day,)  on  the  eve 
of  the  day  that 
was  to  witness  the 
destruction  of  the 
town,  a  lady  in 
white  appeared, 
pulled  the  clothes 
off  his  bed  several 
times,  and  cried 
out  with  a  lament- 
able voice,  "  Pity 
poor  Bradford ! " 
on  which  he  sent 
out  his  orders 
that  neither  man, 
woman,  nor  child, 
should  be  killed  in 
the  town,  where- 
upon the  appa- 
rition which  had 
so  disturbed  his 
slumbers  left  him 
and  went  away. 

Of  course,  in 
these  days  of 
science,  lectures, 
and  Board  Schools,  a  story  like  this  has  not  the  ghost  of  a 
chance  of  gaining  credence,  hence  some  will  have  it  that  in  the 
carousals  of  the  soldiers,  in  anticipation  of  the  carnage  that  was 
to  take  place  on  the  following  day,  the  wine  had  flowed  a  little 
too  freely,  and  that  the  Earl,  in  a  restless,  broken  sleep  had 
conjured  up  some  weird,  unearthly  shape  in  his  dreams,  which 
in  a  superstitious  age,  would  readily  be  taken  as  some  spectre 


Facsimile  of  an  old  print. 


42  YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE. 

from  the  spirit  land.*  Others  again,  have  gone  the  length  of 
regarding  it  as  the  clever  performance  of  some  brave  Bradford 
lass,  who,  afraid  lest  anything  should  happen  her  relatives,  or 
perhaps  her  lover,  boldly  assumed  this  ghostly  guise  in  order 
to  frighten  the  Earl  from  his  cruel  purpose.  For  ourselves,  we 
prefer  to  take  the  legend  simply  on  its  merits,  and  without 
offering  any  apology  for  it  whatever.  It  is  enough  to  know 
that  the  Earl  gave  final  orders  that  the  good  people  of  Bradford 
should  be  spared,  and  that  he  speedily  withdrew  his  troops  from 
the  town,  to  the  no  small  joy  and  relief  of  many  who  were 
quaking  with  fear,  believing  that,  verily,  they  were  in  the  jaws 
of  death. 

I  have  recently  come  across  the  following  verses  and  quote 
them  in  full,  not  for  any  poetic  excellence  they  possess,  but 
because  they  relate  to  the  subject  of  my  contribution.  I  should 
like  to  know  when  and  by  whom  they  were  written  ?  They  are 
entitled — 

The  Earl  of  Newcastle's  Vision. 

The  shades  of  night  began  to  fall, 

Enveloping  with  sable  pall, 

The  precincts  of  Old  Boiling  Hall 

Where  proud  Newcastle  lay. 

His  angry  eye,  and  brow  of  gloom, 
Told  plainly  of  poor  Bradford's  doom, 
As  he  passed  to  his  lonely  room 
To  wait  the  coming  day. 

A  day  that  should  to  sword  and  fire 
Give  that  fine  town ;  both  son  and  sire, 
He  vow'd  should  midst  the  flame  expire 
For  arming  against  their  King. 

His  plumed  helm  a  table  graced, 
His  trusty  sword  was  near  him  placed, 
The  cuirass  that  his  bosom  braced 
Upon  the  floor  was  flung. 

Then  on  the  couch  he  threw  him  down, 
His  thoughts  were  on  tbat  doomed  town 
And  on  his  dearly-bought  renown, 
When  Fairfax  lost  the  day. 

A  day  that  saw,  'midst  seas  of  gore, 
The  Royal  standard  proudly  soar 
Triumphant  on  Adwalton  Moor — 
That  long-contested  field. 

•Was  it  the  vanishing  female  portrait,  still  dimly  traceable  on  a  panel 
over  the  fireplace. — Ed. 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  48 

The  night  was  still,  serene  and  clear, 
He  dreams,  or  surely  does  he  hear — 
When  soft,  a  yoice,  low  whispering  near, 
Said,  "  Pity  poor  Bradford." 

Upstarting  with  a  sudden  bound, 
He  oast  a  sudden  glance  around, 
And  with  astonishment  he  found 
A  female  near  him  stand. 

Mournful  she  seem'd,  tho'  young  and  fair ; 
She  clasp'd  her  hands  as  if  in  prayer, 
And,  sighing,  said,  "  In  pity  spare 
Our  poor,  devoted  town." 

Newcastle  was  as  brave  a  knight 
As  e'er  spurred  charger  into  fight ; 
But  who  can  say  that  solemn  night 
He  was  devoid  of  fear  ? 

The  ranks  of  war  he  oft  had  led — 
Had  seen  the  field  with  slaughter  spread, 
Yet  never  felt  he  so  much  dread, 
As  at  that  lonely  hour. 

To  call  for  aid  he  vainly  tries, 
His  tongue  its  wonted  use  denies, 
And  when  again  he  raised  his  eyes, 
The  visitant  had  fled. 

And  whither  fled,  no  one  could  say, 
The  guards  had  watch'd  till  dawn  of  day, 
But  no  one  ever  crossed  their  way, 
They  all  and  each  declared. 

But  changed  was  Newcastle's  vow, 
The  gloom  had  vanished  from  his  brow, 
He  spoke  in  mercy's  accents  now 

"  Let  Bradford  town  be  spared." 

W.S. 


Folk-Lobe. — The  following  superstitions  still  linger  in  York- 
shire, and  may  elicit  from  the  readers  of  "  Notes  and  Queries" 
additional  information  on  the  subject.  To  turn  away  the  first 
*' vessel-cup"  singer  without  reward,  is  to  forfeit  the  good 
fock  of  the  ensuing  year.  Query — Is  the  word  "  vessel "  a 
corruption  of  wassail  ? 

A  niece  of  the  yule-log  is  preserved  until  the  following  Christ- 
mas by  each  prudent  housewife,  to  secure  the  house  from  fire 
doting  the  year.  Query — What  i6  the  origin  of  this  superstition? 


44  YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE. 

The  yule-candle  must  on  no  account  be  snuffed  after  being 
lighted,  and  it  is  accounted  very  unlucky  to  cut  into  the  cheese 
before  supper  on  Christmas-eve.    Query — Why  ? 

No  person  must  presume  to  go  out  of  doors,  or  even  to  open 
it,  until  the  threshold  has  been  consecrated  by  the  entrance  of 
the  lucky  bird  of  New  Year's  day.  Query — What  is  the  origin 
of  the  superstition  respecting  the  complexion*  of  the  first  visitor 
on  New  Year's  morning  ? 

Those  who  have  not  the  common  materials  for  making  a  fire, 
on  New  Year's  Day,  generally  sit  without  one,  for  none  of  their 
neighbours,  although  hospitable  at  other  times,  will  allow  them 
to  light  a  candle  at  their  fires ;  nay  not  even  to  throw  out  the 
ashes,  or  sweep  out  the  dust !  If  they  do,  it  is  said  that  one  of 
the  family  will  die  within  the  year.  Query — Can  any  reader  of 
"  Notes  and  Queries  "  supply  any  additional  information  con- 
cerning this  strange  superstition  ? 

The  first  new  moon  in  the  year  is  looked  upon  by  the  fair 
sex  with  great  adoration.     Query— Why  ? 

On  Easter  Sunday,  in  Yorkshire,  females  are  seized  by  boys 
and  young  men,  who  take  off  their  shoes,  which  have  to  be 
redeemed  by  money.  On  the  following  Monday  afternoon  and 
Tuesday  morning  females  snatch  off  the  youths'  caps,  which 
have  to  be  redeemed  in  like  manner.  Query — Do  these  customs 
prevail  elsewhere,  or  any  modification  of  them  ? 

" Poor  Robin's  Almanac  "  for  1760,  contains  the  following: 
"  The  first  of  April  some  do  say, 
Is  set  apart  for  All-Fool's  day ; 
But  why  the  people  call  it  so, 
Nor  I,  nor  they  themselves  do  know." 
Query — Can  anyone,  better  informed  than  "  Poor  Robin,"  supply 
the  readers  of  "  Notes  and  Queries "  with  an  answer  to  the 
above  poetical  query  ? 

The  following  lines  respecting  the  tradition  of  St.  SwithhVfl 
Day,  is  supposed  to  be  a  Yorkshire  production : 
44  Better  it  is  to  rise  betime, 
And  to  make  hay  while  sun  doth  shine, 
Than  to  believe  in  tales  or  lies 
Which  idle  monks  or  friars  devise." 

Query — Author  wanted. 

For  a  wedding  party  to  be  in  Church  when  the  clock  strikes, 
is  said  to  be  a  sure  sign  that  either  the  bride  or  bridegroom  will 
not  long  survive.  Query — Are  there  any  authentic  coincidences 
on  record  ? 

Friday  weddings,  births,  and  baptisms  are  considered  very 
unlucky.  Query — Why  ?      J.  L.  Saywell,  f.b.hist.s.,  f.s.sc. 

*  A  red-haired  boy  is  absolutely  feared  by  many  people  as  their  4  first  foot,' 
and  a  black-haired  boy  is  frequently  bespoken  to  ( let  Christmas  and  New 
Year  in.'    Can  we  trace  antipathy  to  Scandinavian  Nationality  in  this.— £4* 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  45 

Fair  Ikogsne. — "  A  warrior  so  bold  and  a  virgin  so  bright," 
is  from  a  ballad  by  Matthew  Gregory  Lewis  (Monk  Lewis),  and 
will  be  found  probably  in  his  "Wonderful  Tales,"  or  his  "Tales 
of  Terror."  J.H.L 

'•  Alonzo  the  Brave  and  the  Fair  Imogene  "  will  be  found  in 
"Tales  of  Wonder,"  by  M.  G.  Lewis,  Esq.,  author  of  "The 
Monk,"  8  vols.,  12mo.,  Vienna,  1806.  W.C. 

I  have  it  in  an  excellent  selection  called  "The  Poetical  Com- 
mon Place  Book" ;  Edinburgh,  John  Anderson,  1822.  C.A.H. 

Fire  Wobship. — Sometime  about  the  year  1860,  when  I  lived 
in  Bradford,  there  came  to  lodge  with  me  and  my  wife,  a  young 
woman  who  had  been  born  and  brought  up  at  Cowling  Head,. 
(Cowen  Heead)  near  Skipton.  Her  purpose  in  coming  was  to 
learn  to  weave  in  the  factory.  Whenever  either  I  or  my  wife 
meddled  with  the  fire,  to  mend  it,  or  blow  it  with  the  bellows, 
she  seemed  horrified,  and  would  flee  to  the  back  of  the  house. 
She  would  tell  us  that  it  was  a  great  sin  to  blow  the  fire,  or  to 
touch  it,  by  stirring.  Was  this  a  relic  of  Fire  worship,  or 
some  kind  of  superstition.  Stobbs. 

The  Bretton  Hall  Ballad,  was  printed  first  about  fifty  years 
ago,  and  the  original  broadsheet  bears  on  it,  at  the  bottom, 
"James  Watts,  Printer,  etc.,  Heckmondwike."  He  was  the 
father  of  Mr.  J.  S.  Watts,  Postmaster  of  Shipley.  Stobbs. 
Mr.  John  Wood,  of  Penistone,  has  published  an  edition.  Ed. 
Gborge  Daniel,  of  Beswick. — I  should  be  glad  to  know  how 
or  where  I  can  find  a  poem  by  George  Daniel,  of  Beswick, 
entitled  "A  Vindication  of  Poetry."  I  have  what  I  believe  to  be 
the  first  verse  of  the  poem,  which  begins  thus, — 

"  Truth  speaks  of  old  the  power  of  Poesie ; 
Amphion,  Orpheus  stones  and  trees  could  move ; 
Men  first  by  verse  were  taught  Civilitie ; 
'Tis  known  and  granted ;  etc. 
I  think  there  is  mention  of  it  in  the  Rev.  Joseph  Hunter's 
Works,  but  I  have  not  access  to  them.  Stobbs. 

Woodbome  Hall  Ghost. — The  story,  as  given  by  the  late 
Mr.  Nowell  to  Mr.  Hobkirk,  will  be  found  in  the  «' Annals  of 
Almondbury,"  p.  184.  The  Bev.  Thomas  Lees  is  able  to  give 
a  good  account  of  it.  C.A.H. 

Hop-Scotch. — No  mention  is  made  of  this  form  of  the  Prison- 
Bars  game,  p.  22.  It  is  like  Short  Scotch,  but  a  much  rougher 
game,  for  the  combatants  can  hop  out  when  they  please,  and, 
with  folded  arms,  knock  down  any  of  the  opposite  set. 

Girls  have  a  game  called  hop-scotch,  in  which  they  hop  over 
the  joints,  or  nicks,  of  flagstones,  kicking  before  them  a  small 
stone,  or  potsherd  (spotscar,  they  pronounce  it,)  one  flag  at  a 
time.  E.B. 


46  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LOBE. 

Bbistol,  a  Game. — Bristol  is  a  very  interesting  game,  and 
not  only  keeps  us  warm  in  cold  weather,  bat  teaches  us  activity. 
Why  it  is  called  Bristol,  I  do  not  know.  We  call  out  "  first," 
"secky,"  "third,"  "fourth,"  &c,  and  then  foot  in  the  same 
order.  The  first  and  second  foot,  that  is,  stand  a  dozen  yards 
apart  and  each  puts  one  foot  before  his  other  until  they  meet, 
and  the  one  whose  foot  is  beneath  the  other's  toe  is  down.  He 
foots  next  with  number  three,  and  the  loser  foots  again  with 
number  four,  and  so  on  until  all  have  footed.  The  last  loser 
goes  between  two  dens,  and  the  rest  run  backwards  and  forwards 
past  him,  shouting,  Bristol !  He  catches  first  one  and  then 
another,  his  prisoners  helping  him,  until  all  are  caught.  The 
first  he  caught  has  then  to  start  the  game  again  by  taking  his 
place  in  the  middle.  E.B. 

— — o 

Lake  Seemebwateb. — A  Legend  of  Wensleydalb. 
Green  grows  the  fern  on  Fleetmoss  Wold, 

And  brown  the  mantling  heather, 
The  harebells  blue  and  furze-bloom  gold 

Blend  sweetly  there  together, 
And  Nature  spreads  with  flowery  pride 

The  robes  which  Peace  has  brought  her, 
Where  Bain's  untroubled  wavelets  glide 

Down  to  Lake  Seemerwater. 
The  breeze  through  ash  and  birchen  bowers 

Blows  soft  when  day  is  closing, 
And  rocks  the  lily's  waxen  flowers 

Upon  the  tide  reposing. 
Gay  with  the  blackbird's  echoing  tones 

And  calm'd  by  dusk  of  even, 
The  twilight  star  looks  down  and  owns 

'Tie  almost  fair  as  Heaven. 
Yet  legends  say  the  peaceful  scene 

Is  but  of  late  creation, — 
That  erst  these  grassy  glades  have  been 

A  waste  and  desolation ; 
They  tell  how  once  a  busy  town 

Stood  where  these  waves  are  flowing, 
The  Btreets  are  hidden  where  far  down 

The  lily  roots  are  growing. 
One  day  a  poor  and  aged  man 

Passed  through  the  thriving  city, 
And  meekly  ask'd  of  those  he  saw 
_  For  food  and  rest  in  pity ;  * 

*  This  inhospitable  spirit  seems  to  remain  still,  judging  by  the  Editor'* 
experience.  Accompanied  by  two  friends,  he  reached  the  village  overlooking 
the  lake  and  enquired  for  food  at  three  cottages  unsuccessfully,  and  had  to 
cross  to  the  other  side  before  he  came  to  the  house  of  a  Malcolm. 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  47 

Bat  all  so  cold  their  hearts  had  grown 

With  cares  and  fashions  splendid, 
The  homeless  man  pass'd  on  alone, 

Faint,  worn,  and  unbefriended. 

Outside  the  town  a  cottage  stood, 

The  house  of  shepherd  Malcolm, 
Who  took  him  in  and  gave  him  food, 

And  rest,  and  warmth,  and  welcome. 
Next  morning,  standing  at  the  door, 

He  looked  toward  the  city, 
And  raised  his  hand,  and  murmur' d  o'er 

The  words  of  this  strange  ditty : — 

"  Seemerwater  rise !     Seemerwater  sink ! 

And  bury  the  town  all  save  the  house 
Where  they  gave  me  meat  and  drink !  " 

And  straightway  then  the  water  rose, 

From  out  the  brown  earth  gushing, 
From  where  the  river  Bain  now  flows 

Came  heavy  billows  rushing, 
And  buried  all  the  stately  town, 

And  drown'd  the  helpless  people ; 
"  Full  fathoms  five  "  the  waters  flowed 

Above  the  great  church  steeple ! 

And  still,  when  boating  on  the  lake 

When  sunset  clouds  are  glowing, 
The  roof  and  spires  may  yet  be  seen 

Beneath  the  blue  waves  showing. 
But  on  the  shepherd's  house,  they  say, 

The  old  man  left  his  blessing, 
And  so  they  prosper'd  every  day, 

With  flock  and  herds  increasing. 
Nor  did  it  rest  with  them  alone, 

But  reached  to  son  and  daughter, 
Until  the  land  was  all  their  own 

About  Lake  Seemerwater. 

Can  any  reader  of  your  very  interesting  Notes  and  Queries 
tell  me  the  name  of  the  author  of  the  above  ?  A.W. 


Talismanic  Cures. — With  all  our  boasted  progress  in  know- 
ledge and  enlightenment,  we  may  yet  come  across  some  pitiable 
examples  of  credulity  and  superstition,  and  that  without  going 
into  out-of-the-way  corners,  in  search  of  the  same.  I  was 
recently  acquainted  with  a  man  at  Bradford,  whom  I  had 
always  regarded  as  possessed  of,  at  least,  an  ordinary  share  of 
common  sense.    He  was  a  tall,  well  built,  and  elderly  person, 


48  YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE. 

but  was  sadly  tormented  with  rheumatism,  often  being  obliged 
to  take  to  his  bed  before  he  could  be  "  brought  round"  again. 
I  met  him  once  after  his  immediate  recovery  from  one  of  these 
attacks,  and  he  was  in  high  spirits.  On  enquiring  the  cause  of 
his  jubilant  frame  of  mind,  he  told  me  that  he  had  at  length 
discovered  a  cure  for  his  rheumatism ;  one  that  would  rid  him 
of  his  old  enemy  "  at  once  and  for  ever."  Having  assured  him 
of  my  sincere  congratulations,  I  was  surprised  to  see  him  pro- 
duce from  each  of  his  trousers'  pockets — a  potato !  looking,  from 
their  having  been  rubbed  and  handled  so  much,  as  if  they  had 
been  black-leaded.  He  said  (and  I  am  sure  believed)  that  60 
long  as  he  carried  these  in  his  pockets  the  rheumatism  would 
never  again  come  near  him.  This  was  the  secret  of  the  poor 
man's  freedom  from  his  tortures  of  rheumatism;  this,  the 
philosopher's  stone  that  gave  him  exemption  from  one  of  the 
most  grievous  ills  that  "  flesh  is  heir  to." 

I  was  so  much  struck  by  this  instance  of  present-day  super- 
stition that  I  communicated  the  fact  to  the  columns  of  a  local 
journal.  Conceive  my  surprise  when  it  called  forth  the  following 
reply  from  one  of  its  readers : — 

"Dear  Sir — I  have  read  with  great  interest  the  Article  by 
'W.S.'  in  your  journal,  but  being  unwilling  that  any  native  of 
our  loved  county  should  be  unjustly  held  up  to  ridicule,  permit 
me  to  say  that  I  have  known  several  instances  in  which  persons 
troubled  with  rheumatism  have  found  relief  and  ultimate  ex- 
emption from  its  pains  by  carrying  a  potato  in  the  trousers' 
pocket.  My  own  brother  has  carried  one  for  years  with  benefit, 
until  it  is  now  as  hard  as  a  stone,  up  to  a  short  time  ago.  I, 
like  'W.S.,'  looked  upon  this  proceeding  as  ( a  pitiable  example 
of  credulity  and  superstition,"  but  now  think  there  is  *  method 
in  this  madness,'  for  I  find  that  atropine,  a  homoeopathic 
remedy  for  rheumatism,  which  has  been  hitherto  obtained 
from  belladonna,  is  now  extracted  from  the  *  eyes '  of  potatoes, 
which  are  cut  out  at  a  certain  stage  of  their  growth,  and  sub- 
jected to  a  process  which  extracts  the  identical  remedy  whose 
source  has  been  previously  belladonna.  I  have  heard  of  people 
who  have  taken  the  water  in  which  potatoes  have  been  well 
boiled,  and  experienced  relief  from  rheumatic  pains.   Yours,  Ac, 

M.  M.  8. 

The  Editor's  comment  on  the  above  curious  correspondence 
will  perhaps  form  the  most  fitting  conclusion  to  the  present 
communication — 

44 Can  any  of  my  readers,"  he  asks,  "learned  in  matters 
medical,  throw  more  light,  scientific  light  I  mean,  on  this  sub- 
ject ?  I  have  not  the  slightest  doubt  that  as  excellent  curative 
properties  may  exist  in  the  potato  as  in  the  roots  of  other  plants 
more  usually  connected  with  the  druggist's  shop.  But  that  the 
mere  carrying  in  one's  pocket  of  a  couple  of  tubers  will  impart 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  49 

their  medicinal  virtues  into  tbe  person  who  hugs  them  along 
with  him  seems  to  me  a  very  different  matter.  However  the 
subject  is  worth  ventilating."  W.S, 


||0rh  Jffiinsta:  %tmn: 

A  Specimen  of  the  Yorkshire  Dialect  as  spoken  in  the  North 
Riding.  [Such  is  the  title  of  a  pamphlet  just  published  by  Mr. 
W.  H.  Allen,  18,  Waterloo  Place,  London,  and  which  Yorkshire 
Bibliophiles  will  be  anxious  to  secure.  A  peculiar  mystery  as 
to  the  origin  and  authorship  is  shrouded  in  the  Epistle  Dedica- 
tory, and  we  are  informed  in  the  same  Epistle  that  the  profits 
will  be  given  to  a  Yorkshire  family  needing  help.  It  is  said  to 
have  been  put  in  type  fifty  years  ago,  and  "was  probably 
written  at  Nunnington  Rectory.1 '  At  the  suggestion  of  a  Lady, 
and  by  leave  of  "  the  Great  Unknown,"  we  present  our  readers 
with  this  tasty  piece.] 

Scene — Goodram  Gate,  York. 

"  Mike  Dobson  is  standing  still  in  the  street  leaning  on  his  stick, 
Bob  Jackson,  on  horseback,  rides  quickly  past  him." 


Mike.    Hollo,  Bob  Jackson,  owr'ta  the  plagues  thee  boon,b 
Ganging  at  sike  a  pe'ace  as  that  thruff  't  toon. — 
Stop  mun,  let's  touch  thee  flesh,o— -what  is  tha  blinnd, 
Or  wadthad  wish  te  trot  owr  an  o'ade  frinnd  ? — 
There's  nowther  sense  nor  mense  in  sike  a  pe'ace, 
It  leaks  as  thoff  thoo  dossent  show  thee  fe'ace ; 
A  gayish  nag*  that  leaks,  at  thoo's  asthrarde, 
Ah's  seer  it  diz,  is't  good  te  owt  te  rarde  ? 

Bob.      The  best  that  ivver  put  a  fe'at  on  t'  ro'ad, 

And  will  be  bet'ther,  he's  noot  twe'a  yeer  o'ad. 

Mike.    Bood,  what  brings  thee  te  York  this  tarme  o't  yeer, 
Ah's  seer  it  diz  yan  good  te  see  ye  heer ; 
Hestha*  browt  owt  to't  market,  owr's  thee  te'ame  ? 
Are  all  thee  bairns  quite  fresh  at  yam,  and  t'  de'ame  ? 
Ah  sud  ha1  thowt  you'd  all  been  thrang  at  t'  farm 
Mang  t'hay  and  coorn,  for  this  is't  thrangest  tarme. 

GLOSSARY. 
«  Where   b  bound   e  shake  hands   d  would  you    e  old    *  have  you. 

*  No  dialogue  strictly  characteristic  ever  took  place  between  Yorkshiremen, 
the  subject  of  which  did  not  begin  and  end  with  "  a  hoss  "—the  present 
therefore,  in  this  respect  at  least,  will  be  found  correct. 

T.F-L.  E 


50  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

Bob.       Wi'  some  foo'aks  it  may  be,  bood  bairn,  may  hay 

Hez  all  been  stack'd*  and  theack'db  this  monny  a  day ; 

And  as  t' wheat  weant  be  ripe  a  fotnith  yit, 

And  glooaring0  at  it  winnot  mak  it  fit, 

Ah've  coom  te  York  te  weastd  an  hoor  or  se'a,- 

Since  ah  had  nowt  partick'ler  else  te  de'a  ; 

And  man,  for  soom  tarme  past  Ah've  re' ally  been 

Just  crazed  te  knaw  aboot  this  "  Minsther  Screen" 

T'newspapers  used  te  talk  of  nothing  else, 

It  mead  mair  noise  thon  yan  o't  Minsther  bells, 

And  sea  ah've  coom'd  te  see  what  it  be  like, 

Diz  thoo  knaw  owt  at  all  aboot  it  Mike. 

Mike.     Thoo  mood  ha'  seerched  all  t'  coontry  sarde  to  see, 
A  chap  at  knaws  yah  hauf*  as  mich  as  me — 
Put  up  thee  hossf  mun  heer  i't  Minsther  Yard, 
And  then  we'll  gang  and  hey  a  leak  in  sard. 

Bob  here  gives  his  horse  to  Mr.  Moss's  hostler,  with  sundry 
directions  respecting  the  treatment  of  him,  &c. 
They  then  enter  the  Minster. 

Bob.       Bon !  its  a  strange  gre'at  pie 'ace,  and  dash  it  Mike, 
It  maks  a  chap  feel  desprit  lahtle*  like  ;* 
Ah'  feels  all  iv  a  trimmle,h  with  the  dre'ad 
Lest  ony  bad  thowt  now,  sud  fill  mah  he'ad. 
Bood,  show  us  owr  this  Screen  is  te  be  foond,1 
Is't  summat  up  o't  re'afj  or  doon  o't  groond  ?k 

Mike.    Whah'  sootha,  lootha,  leakstha,1  there  it  stands, 
The  bonniest  wark  ere  me'ad  by  mottal  hands ; 
That  thing  all  clairmedm  wi  lab  tie  dolls  is  't  screen, 
Aboot  which  all  this  noise  and  wark  hez  been, 
And  if  thoo'l  whist  a  minnit  mun  or  se'a, 
Ah'l  sean  insenstha11  into  t'  yal  te  de'a.0 
Thoo  sees  when  Martin  wiv  his  crackbrained  tricks, 
Set  fire  t'  Minsther  like  a  he'ap  o'  wicks,P 
Fooaks*  frev  all  pairts*  o't  coonthry  vary  se'an, 
Clubbed  bras8  te  pay  for  reeting*  it  age'an ; 
Se'a  Ah,  mang  t'  rest  o't  quality,  put  doon 
(For  iv'ry  lahtle  helps  thoo  knaws)  a  croon. 

a  Stacked  b  thatched  c  staring  4  spend  •  half  *  horse  g  little  k  tremble 
1  found  i  roof  *  ground  1  60otha,  lootha,  leakstha ;  see,  look,  behold — these 
words  are  always  used  together,  m  Covered  over  n  explain  to  you  •  t'  yal  to 
de'  a — the  whole  to  do — the  whole  affair  p  quick  grass,  twitch,  q  folk  *  parts 
■  clubbed  brass — subscribed  money    t  repairing. 


*  Sentiments  of  the  deepest  awe  and  veneration  cannot  fail  to  strike  any 
person,  however  otherwise  insensible,  on  entering  so  sublime  a  structure  as 
York  Minster,  and  it  was  no  doubt  as  much  with  a  view  to  excite  such  sensa- 
tions, as  in  honour  of  the  Deity,  that  such  magnificent  edifices  hare  been 
erected. 


YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE.  51 

Noo  se'an  as  t'  brass  was  gotten,  afore  lang, 
Prev  iv'ry  pairt  a  soort  o'  chaps  did  thrang : 
Ste'an  me'asins,*  airchitecks,  and  sike  like  straight, 
All  clusthered  roond  like  menniesb  at  a  bait, 
Boom  te  leak  on  and  give  advice,  and  Bob, 
Ne'a  doot  soom  on  em  com  te  latec  a  job. — 
Bood  when  te  leak  thruff  t'  Minsther  they  began, 
They  started  te  finnd  faut  weet  tiv'  a  man ; 
This  thing  was  ower  big,  that  ower  small, 
While  t'other  had  ne'a  business  there  at  all. — 
If  ivver  thoo  did  tiv  a  cobler  send, 
A  pair  of  sheund  he  did  not  mak,  to  mend, 
Thoo's  heerd  what  scoores  o'  fauts  he  vary  seun, 
Wad  start  to  finnd  oot  wiv  tha  poor  o'ad  sheun ; — 
"  T'  sowing  wad  be  bad,  and  se'a  wad  t'  mak,e 
And  t'  leather  goad  te  nowt  at  all  bood  crack." 
Just  se'a  the'as  chaps  foond  faut  wi'  ne'a  pretense, 
Bood  just  'at  ple'ace  was  noot  belt'  by  theirsens ; — 
Noo  when  they  com  to  t'  screen,  it  strake  em  blinnd, 
For  noot  yah  singel  faut  weet  could  they  finnd, 
Until  yah  cunning  chap  te  show  his  teaste, 
Threaped*  oot  like  mad  at  it  wur  wrangly  pleaced. 
He  said  "  it  sud  ha'  been  thrast  fodtherh  back, 
For  t'  Ne'ave*  leak  ower  lahtle  it  did  mak, 
And  that  it  se'a  confarned  his  view  o'  t'  ple'ace, 
Te  let  it  bardJ  wad  be  a  sair  disgre'ace." 

Bob.      Wha  sike  a  feal  as  that  sud  nivver  stop 

Doon  heer  beloe,  but  gang  and  gloore  fre'  t'  top ; 
Ah  mood  as  weel  dingk  mah  back  deer1  of  t'  creaks,™ 
And  then  tell  t'  wife  at  it  confarned  mah  leaks ; 
Mah  wod !  she'd  se'an  confarn  mah  leaks  for  me, 
Wiv  what  Ah  weel  sud  merit,  a  black  ee.n 

Mike.    "  Yah  feal  maks  mony,"  is  a  thing  weel  knawn, 
And  t'  truth  of  it  was  heer  me'ast  truly  shown ; 
A  soort  o'  chaps,  at  scarcely  could  desarn, 
The  dif  rence  twixt  an  oad  chetch0  and  a  barn,* 
Fre' t'  coonthry  sarde  all  roond  aboot  did  thrang, 
And  aware  it  sud  be  shifted  reet  or  wrang ; 
Noo  de'ant  thoo  think  that  Ah  had  nowt  te  say, 

*  stonemasons  b  minnows  o  seek  a  shoes  «  make  *  built  g  insisted 
b  farther  i  the  nave  i  bide,  remain  *  thrown  off  l  door  m  hinges  n  eye 
o  church. 


*A  difference,  by  the  way,  not  so  very  easily  to  be  distinguished. — I 
myself,  with  shame  be  it  spoken 4  have  seen  many  an  antique  church  in 
Yorkshire  so  like  an  old  barn  with  a  dove  cote  on  the  top  by  way  of  a  steeple, 
that  it  would  hare  puzzled  my  namesake  himself  to  have  discovered  at  a  little 
distance—"  which  was  which."  Printer**  DeviL 


52  YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE. 

Bood  just  did  let  em  hev  their  o'an  fond  way ; 

Nay — hundhreds,  bairn,  of  foo'aks  agreed  wi  me 

That  stoored*  it  owt  noot,  and  sud  nivver  be. — 

Disputes  and  diffrences  that  had  ne'a  end 

Began  te  start,  friend  quarrelled  sean  wi  friend. — 

Mair  nonsence  te'a,  aboot  it,  bairn,  was  writ, 

Than  ivver  hez  been  fairly  read  thruff  yit ; 

For  mony  a  feal  his  help  each  way  to  lend, 

Gease  quills  and  fealscap  we' as  ted  without  end. 

Meetings  were  held,  men  spak  till  they  gat  hoo'arse, 

And  barley- seagerb  raise  in  price  of  coo' arse, 

While  soom  foo'aks  to  their  friends  said  se'a  niich  then, 

Yah  wod°  togither  they've  noot  spokken  sen.d  * 

Bood  tho'  se'a  despritly  they  talked  and  fowt,° 

Ne'an  o'  theas  meetings  ivver  come  te  owt  : 

At  last  they  did  resolve  te  call  anoother, 

Te  settle  t'  queshun'  at  yah  way  or  t'oother, 

When  efther  beals  and  shouts,  and  claps  and  gre'ans, 

Eneaf  to  wakken  t'  vary  tonpike?  ste'ans 

The  queshun  to  t'  subscribers  there  was  poot, 

Whether  it  sud  be  shifted,  or  sud  noot. — 

We  gat  it,  man,  as  se'af  as  se'af  could  be, 

For  ivry  man  o'  sense  did  vo'at  wi  me ; 

When  lo !  t'  o'ad  chairman  frev  his  pocket  beuk 

A  lot  o'  vo'atsh  lapt  up  in  paper  teuk,t 

With  which  in  spite  of  all  at  we  could  say, 

He  turned  the  queshun  clean  the  t'oother  way, 

And  thus  desarded1  it  sud  shifted  be, 

Bood  shifted  t'  nivver  was,  as  thoo  may  see. 

For  perhaps  they  thowt  in  spite  of  all  their  wits 

T*  screen  wad,  if  stoo'ared.J  ha'tummeled*  all  te  bits. — 

Nea  doot  thoo  knaws  t*  oad  riddle  of  an  egg, 

I've  knawn't  sen  Ah  was  boot  V  book1  o*  my  leg, — 

•  Stirred   b  sugar  o  word  d  since  o  fought   *  question  g  turnpike  *  votes 

i  decided    J  stirred   k  tumbled    l  bulk,  size. 

•  To  such  a  pitch  was  the  discussion  respecting  the  screen  carried  on  in 
York  about  this  time,  that  nothing  else  was  heard,  spoken,  or  thought  of.— 
Footmen  picking  up  scattered  arguments  in  the  dining  room,  debated  together 
furiously  in  the  servants'  hall ;  while  in  the  kitchen  the  cook,  house  maid, 
and  scullion,  were  all  engaged  in  the  dispute.    At  a  dinner  party,  given  by 

Mr.  G ,  a  gentleman,  who  sat  with  his  back  to  the  fire,  feeling  rather 

cold  requested  a  servant,  whose  head  was  full  of  the  argument,  to  "remove  thf 
screen  "—meaning  that  one  at  the  back  of  his  chair — John  started  from  his 
reverie  at  once,  and  quite  forgetting  where  he  was,  called  out,  ho  would  be 
d— d  if  it  should  be  stoored  for  any  man. 

f  By  "  Voats  lapt  up  in  paper " — Mike  means  votes  by  proxy.— What  a 
great  effect  the  speeches  and  arguments  at  any  meeting  must  have  upon  those 
who  have  given  their  votes  by  proxy  three  or  four  days  before  the  meeting 
takes  place  1 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  58 

Its  "  noompty  doompty  sat  upon  a  wall, 
"  And  hoompty  doompty  gat  a  desprit  fall, 
"  And  all  t'  king's  bosses  there,  and  all  t'  king's  men, 
"  Could  neer  set  hoompty  doompty  reet  agen." 
Se'a  they  consated*  if  they  rarved  this  screen 
Bood  yance  fre't  ple'ace  in  which  t'  had  awlus  been, 
Like  hoompty  doompty,  it  could  neer  age'an 
Be  set  te  reets  let  what  pains  wad  be  te'an. — 
Bood  there  thoo  sees  it  stands,  yal  and  compleat, 
And  that's  because  theyv'e  nivver  de'an  nowt  weet : 
A  bonny  thing  like  that,  is  bonny  still, 
Put  it  in  whatsumivver  ple'ace  you  will, 
And  as  t'  was  weel  while  nowt  was  at  it  dea'n, 
They've  just  de'an  weel  in  letting  weel  ale'an. 
Bood  what  did  seam  to  me  uncommon  hard, 
And  vexed  me  se'a,  Ah  knew  noot  how  te  bard,b 
Was  that  mah  money,  dash  it,  sud  be  te'an 
Te  de'a  that  with,  Ah  wished  sud  noot  be  de'an, — 
Could  Ah  hev  getten  mah  croon  back,  Ah  sware 
That  egg  or  shell  oa't  they  sud  noot  see  mair. 

Bob.      Thah  keasc  joostd  maks  me  think  o'  Jamie  Broon, 
T'  oad  dhrunken  carpenther  of  our  toon. — 
Thoo  sees  yah  day  to  Jamie's  hoose0  Ah  went, 
And  fand  he'd  getten  t*  bailiersf  *  in  for  rent, 
His  wife,  poor  thing,  was  awmeast  flay'ds  te  de'ad, 
And  rarvedh  off  t'  hair  by  neavesful1  frev  her  he'ad, 
And  tT  bairns  all  roo'red  te  see  their  moother  roore, 
Ah  niwer  i  my  life  seed  sike  a  stoore. — 
Oa'd  Jamie  he  was  set  in  t'  ingle'  neuk, 
Glooaring  at  t'  fire  wiv  a  hauf  fond  leuk ; 
Yah  hand  waz  iv  his  britches  pocket  thrast, 
While  t'other  picked  his  nooask  end  desprit  fast ;  t 
For  him  thoo  sees  Ah  cared'nt  hauf  a  pin, 
For  drink  had  browt  him  te  t'  state  he  was  in, 
Bood  mah  heart  warked1  te  see  t'  poore  bairns  and  t' 

de'ame, 
And  se'a  Ah  moontedmt'  meern  and  skelped0  off  he'ame, 
And  there  Ah  teuk  fahve?  poond,  pairt  ov  a  hoo'ard,* 

•  Conceived  b  bear  e  case  A  just  •  house  *  bailiffs  g  frightened  n  rived, 
tore  i  handsfol  J  fire  side  *  nose  l  ached  m  mounted  n  mare  o  scampered 
P  fire  q  hoard.  

*  Bailiffs. — "  The  Sheriff  being  answerable  for  the  misdemeanors  of  these 
BaffiUs,  they  are  usually  bound  in  an  obligation,  with  sureties,  for  the  due 
execution  of  their  office,  and  thence  are  called  bound  bailiffs,  which  common 
people  have  corrupted  into  a  much  more  homely  appellation."  Blackitone's 
Con.  Book  i.  p.  345. 

t  The  nose  of  an  habitual  drunkard  (haud  ignarus  loquor)  is  always  afflicted 
with  a  tickling  and  tormenting  heat — in  fact  that  member  seems  constantly 
itching  to  be  in  the  flagon. 


J 


54  YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE. 

Ah'd  feltin  t'  babble*  te  be  out  o't  ro'ardb  * 
(For  All's  yan  o'  thor  chaps  ats  ommust  se'af9 
To  spend  all  t'  bras  ats  handy  te  my  ne'af,)d 
And  sent  it  tiv  him  by  our  dowther6  Nance, 
At  he  mood  pay  off  t'  bailiers  at  yance.f 
Wad  yon  believe,  as  se'an  as  t'  brass  he  gat, 
He  off  te  t'  public  boose,  and  there  he  sat, 
And  sat  and  smeuk'd,*  and  smeuk'd  and  drank  away, 
Fra  two'alveh  o'clock,  te  two'alve  o'clock  next  day, 
Just  then  Ah  enthered  t'  hoose  as  Ah  past  by, 
Te  get  a  dhrink,  for  Ah  was  desprit  dry, 
And  there  Ah  fand  t'  oad  raggil1  te  be  seer, 
Stritched  on  his  back,  dea'd  dhrunk,  o't  palour  fleer.— 
Ah  thrast  mail  hand  intiv  his  pocket  neuk, 
And  back  agean  mah  fahve  poond  noo'ate  Ah  teuk, 
For  when  Ah  gav  him't,  it  was  mah  intent, 
That  he  sud  de'a  nowt  weet  bood  pay  his  rent. 
Just  se'a,  Ah  think  thoo  had  a  reet  to  tak 
T'  croon  thoo  subscrarbed  cud  thoo  ha*  getten't  back, 
Since  they  te  whom  t'  was  geenJ  had  ne'a  reet 
Te  de'a  owt  else,  bood  what  t'was  geen  for,  weet. 
Mike.     Thoo's  reet,  thoo's  reet,  Ah'd  seaner  had  that  croon, 
Te  we'ast  in  blash  and  dhrink  like  Jamie  Broon, 
Than  they  ha'  getten't,  for  then  mun  at  le'ast 
Ah'd  ple'ased  mah  oan,  and  not  anoother's  te'ast. 

Bob.       Pray  whe'ah  belt  Minsther  ?  for  it  se'anis  te  me 
He  kenned  far  best  ju6t  whor  this  screen  sud  be, 
What  tho*  theas  chaps  may  talk  a  he'ap  o'  blaah,k 
Ah  wad'nt  give  a  haup'ny1  for  their  trash, 
Unless  te  pre'avem  his  joodgment  good,  some  yan 
Builds  sike  a  spot  as  t'  Minsther  here,  and  than, 
And  noot  till  than  thoo  sees  a  body  may 
Be  called  upon  te  heed  what  he  may  say. 

Mike.    And  noo  Ah  thinks  Ah've  telled  thee  all  Ah'  ken, 
And  mead  thee  just  as  wise  mun  as  my  sen, 
Se'a  coom  thoo  yamn  wi  me  and  see  t'  oad  lass, 
And  get  a  bite  o'  summut  and  a  glass, 
For  Ah'se  se'a  hungered  tonned°  Ah  scarce  can  barde, 
Ah've  getten  quite  a  wemlingy  in  t'  insarde. 

•  Bible    *  road    «  sure    d  hand    •  daughter    t  once    g  smoked  b  twebe 
i  rascal  J  given  *  trash  l  halfpenny  m  prove  a  home  °  turned  pyearniag. 

*  Country  folks  hide  their  money  in  strange  places— old  jars,  bottles,  bed- 
steads, and  tea-pots  have  occasionally  been  the  emporia  of  hidden  treason)  — 
By  Bob  having  hid  his  money  in  the  bible  to  be  out  of  the  road,  we  «*J 
without  much  hesitation  imply,  that  that  worthy  character  did  not  often  make 
the  sacred  volnme  the  subject  of  his  perusal.  Sir  Walter  Scott  makes  one  of 
bis  characters  hide  bank  notes  in  a  bible,  under  the  impression  thai  it  ww 
the  most  unlikely  place  for  a  thief  to  pry  into. 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  66 

Bob.      Ah've  ne'a  objection,  boon  afore  Ah  wag 
A  single  leg,  Ah's  tied*  te  see  mah  nag. 

Mike.    Thoo  need'nt  man,  in  Moss's  yard  hes  seaf 
All's  warrant,  he'll  get  hay  and  coorn  eneaf, 
His  is'nt  t'  inn  where  rogueish  hostlers  che'at,* 
And  grease  't  boss'  mouths  te  set  'em  past  their  me'at, 
Nay,  Moss's  man  will  tak  mair  tentb  o'  t'  be'ast, 
Than  ony  moother  of  her  bairn  awme'ast. 

Bob.      Nea  doot,  neat  doot  he'll  tent  it  well,  bood  bon,° 
Ah  mood  as  well  just  see  how  he  gets  on, 
He  may  ha'  slipped  his  neither4  wiv  a  tug, 
Or  getten  yah  leg  owr  't  te  scrat  his  lug.f 

Mike.    Aweel,  leak  sharp,  and  dean't  be  owr  lang, 

Or  yam  bedoot8  thee  Ah'se  be  foorced  te  gang. 

Bob.      Yah  minnit  for  me,  bairn,  thoo  need'nt  stop, 
For  Ah'll  be  back  in  t'  cracking  ov  a  lop.*  J 

»  Obliged    b  care    °  burn    d  halter    e  without     *  flea. 

^  *  A  knavish  hostler,  in  the  presence  of  an  inexperienced  traveller,  will  give 
his  horse  a  very  large  feed  of  oats,  and  as  soon  as  the  gentleman's  back  is 
turned  he  will  subtract  from  the  manger  all  the  corn  but  a  few  handfuls, 
and  then  grease  the  horse's  teeth  with  a  candle  which  will  effectually  prevent 
the  animal,  for  some  time  at  least,  from  touching  his  food. — When  the 
traveller  returns  and  sees  some  oats  still  remaining  in  the  manger,  he  liberally 
rewards  the  hostler  for  giving  his  horse  more  than  he  can  eat !    Printer'*  Devil. 

t  Many  a  horse  has  got  a  leg  over  the  halter  in  scratching  his  ears  with 
the  hind  hoof,  and  hath  thus  hung  himself.  An  ingenious  farrier  named 
Snowden,  near  Kirbymoorside  has  invented  a  very  clever  halter  to  prevent 
Eoch  accidents. 

{  Reader !  didst  thou  ever  behold  thy  dog  Tray,  suddenly  starting  from  a 
pound  nap  on  thy  hearth  rug,  curl  himself  up  and  begin  to  sniff  and  snap 
through  his  hide  from  head  to  tail,  if  so,  thou  hast  seen  "  the  cracking  of  a 
lop." 

c— — 

YORKSHIRE  CENTENARIANS. 
The  writer  of  this  article  has  recently  heard  it  gravely 
asserted,  more  than  once,  that  the  term  of  human  life  has 
reached  its  climax  of  brevity,  and  is  now  gradually  widening 
out  the  nearer  we  approach  the  Millennium.  And  indeed, 
there  would  seem  to  be  some  degree  of  truth  in  the  statement, 
for  we  can  scarcely  take  up  a  newspaper  which  does  not  record 
the  death  of  a  centenarian.  Of  course  the  increase  of  popu- 
lation would  produce  a  relative  increase  in  the  number  of 
centenarians,  but  putting  that  on  one  side,  why  should  it  seem 
a  thing  incredible,  or  inconsistent  with  the  laws  of  nature,  that 
human  vitality  should  have  its  ebb  and  flow,  and  that  human 
degeneracy  having  reached  its  furthermost  point  of  retro- 
gression, should  now  advance  towards  that  point  of  longevity 
attained  by  the  patriarchs  ? 


56  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

A  Yorkshire  clergyman  has  expressed  his  opinion,  that  in 
every  million  of  our  countrymen,  there  are  at  least  two  living, 
who  have  passed  their  hundredth  year.  It  was  Professor 
Hufeland's  opinion  that  the  limit  of  possible  human  life  might 
be  set  at  200  years,  and  this  on  the  general  principle  that  the 
life  of  a  creature  is  eight  times  the  years  of  its  period  of  growth. 
The  Professor  backs  up  his  opinion,  by  several  authentic 
instances,  and  his  roll  of  centenarians  includes  many  remark- 
able cases  of  human  and  animal  longevity.  An  able  article  on 
centenarianism  appeared  in  the  "  Daily  Telegraph"  of  February 
12th  ult.,  in  which  Mr.  W.  J.  Thoms,  the  author  of  the  cele- 
brated brochure,  entitled  "  Human  Longsvity:  its  Fads  and 
Fictions?  (1878)  is  somewhat  severely  handled,  and  his  incre- 
dulity proved  to  be  nescience.  Sir  George  Cornewall,  Lewis 
is  another  sceptic,  and  boldly  affirms  all  cases  of  centenarianism 
to  be  hypothetical,  and  for  the  most  part  antediluvian.  The 
writer  of  the  article  in  question,  vigorously  attacks  the  casuistry 
of  Mr.  Thorn 8,  and  Sir  George,  and  quotes  M.  Kohl  on  "Russian 
Longevity  "  to  support  the  theory  of  contingent  duration. 

The  following  list  of  Yorkshire  Centenarians,  verified  in  each 
instance  from  the  registers  of  their  respective  parishes,  will  be 
of  interest  to  the  readers  of  "  Yorkshire  Notes  and  Queries,"  some 
of  whom  will  be  able  to  extend  the  list. — 

Henry  Jenkins,  of  Ellerton-on-Swale,  born  1501,  )      1AQ 
died  1670.*  Aged  J     l™ 

Elizabeth  Gkay,  a  pensioner  on  the  Wilsons  of  West- )      -M 
brook,  buried  at  Ecclesall,  December  8,  1848.     J 

Ann  Stringer  of  Northallerton,  born  1618,  died  1721.    108 

George  Lumley,  of  Northallerton,  born  1697,  married 
1788  to  Mary  Dunning,  aged  19;  (Date  of 
death  unknown.)! 

Mary  Hollindrake,  born  at  Alderscholes,  near  Brad-] 

ford,  January  5th,  1785,  died  at  Shipley,  March  -     101 
20th,  1886.  j 

Denis    Sykes,   born  February   10th,   1717,   died 
November  20th,  1819.  { 


i 


104 


102 


*  Buried  in  the  Parish  Church  of  Bolton-on-Swale.  The  parish  register 
contains  the  following  entry—"  1670,  December  9th,  Henry  Jenkins,  a  very 
aged  and  poore  man,  of  EUerton,  was  burred  here."  Besides  the  stone  monu- 
ment over  his  grave  in  the  churchyard,  there  is  another  of  black  marble  inside 
the  Church,  erected  to  the  memory  of  the  "  oldest  Yorkahireman."  Both 
monuments  boar  an  appropriate  inscription,  the  latter  written  by  Dr.  Thomas 
Chapman. 

f  Vide  "  Gentleman's  Magazine."  The  Wedding  was  performed  by  the 
Rev.  Thos.  Wilkinson,  Curate,  and  the  witnesses  were  Thomas  Robeon,  and 
W.  M.  Gibson. 

}  Mary  Sykes,  sister  of  Denis  Sykes,  died  February  11th,  1810,  aged  99 
years,  and  8  months. 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  57 

105 


Ann  Ykardley,  wife  of  Joseph,  of  Sheffield  Park/ 
died  December  25th,  1807.     Buried  in  Tankers-  • 
ley  Churchyard,  aged 
(Thomas,  their  son,  died  Jan.  22, 1841,  aged  91.) 

William  Sturdy,  of  Romanby,  near  Northallerton, 
born  1785,  died  1885. 

Elizabeth  Bulmer,  of  West  Acklam,  died  June  20th, 
1884.     Buried  at  Acklam. 

Barbara  Bbownbridoe,  buried  in  Eastrington  church- 
yard, January  16th,  1885. 

Mary  Wilson,  of  Glaisdale,  buried  at  Glaisdale, 
December  29th,  1880. 

Jane  Garbutt,  buried  at  Welbury,  December  12, 1854.     109 

Mary  Benton,  of  Yarm,  buried  at  Elton,  January  7,)      +*» 
1858.  ) 

Matthew  Law,  buried  at  Sandhutton,  nearThirsk,i     lnn 
Nov.  14,  1814,  aged  I      1UU 

According  to   statistics,   more  females  reach  the  age  of  a 
hundred  years  than  males,  and  no  one  I  think  will  doubt  it. 

J.  L.  Saywell,  f.r.h.s. 


100 
100 
100 
100 


We  have  before  us  an  ordinary  black-edged  funeral  card, 
bearing  the  following  inscription  : 

"  Death  of  a  Matriarch. 

Elizabeth,  the  wife  of  the  late  Ely  Whiteley, 

of  Ri8hworth, 

Who  died  on  the  8th  of  May,  1852,  aged  100  years. 

She  had  had  18  children,  119  grandchildren,  189  great-grand 

children,  and  28  great-great-grandchildren  ;  total,  849.     Six  of 

her  children  were  at  her  funeral,  of  whom  the  eldest  is  79  years 

of  age,  the  next  77,  and  the  third  75. 

She  married  at  21,  was  a  wife  70  years,  and  a  widow  9." 
Mrs.  Neale,  of  Bawtry,  died  on  September  12th,  1885,  aged 
100.  An  old  East  Anglian  ex-soldier,  named  Coe,  who  had 
carried  a  bullet  in  his  arm  for  many  years,  died  last  year  at 
Norristhorpe,  near  Heckmondwike,  the  residence,  of  his  daughter. 
He  had  nearly  completed  his  101st  year  when  we  saw  and  had 
a  pleasant  chat  with  him,  some  weeks  before  his  death. — Ed. 


HENRY    JENKINS. 

In  the  York$hira  Gazette  a  series  of  articles  on  Bolton-on-Swale 
is  appearing,  from  which  we  cull  the  following,  by  leave  of  the 
Editor. 

"  We  now  come  to  a  tablet  which  to  the  general  reader  will 
possess  more  interest  than  any  other  in  the  church.  This  is 
the  slab  of  black  marble  which  commemorates  the  existence  of 
the  man  who  probably  lived  more  years  than  any  Englishman 


56  YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE. 

of  whom  there  is  any  certain  record.     This  was  the  celebrated 
Henry  Jenkins,  who  undoubtedly  lived  to  the  extraordinary  age 
of  169  years.     The  inscription  runs  as  follows : — 
"  Blush  not,  marble,  to  rescue  from  oblivion  the  memory  of 
Henry  Jenkins,  a  person  obscure  in  birth,  but  of  a  life  truly 
memorable,  for  he  was  enriched  with  the  goods  of  nature 
if  not  of  fortune,  and  happy  in  the  duration  if  not  the 
variety  of  his  enjoyments :  And  though  the  partial  world 
despised  and  disregarded  his  low  and  humble  state,  the 
equal  eye  of  Providence  beheld  and  blessed  it  with  a  patri- 
arch's health  and  length  of  days,  to  teach  mistaken  man 
these  blessiugs  are  entailed  on  temperance,  a  life  of  labour, 
and  a  mind  at  ease.    He  lived  to  the  amazing  age  of  169 ; 
was  interred  here  December  6,  1670 ;  and  had  this  justice 
done  to  his  memory.     1748." 
There  is  also  in  the  churchyard  a  monument  to  the  memory 
of  Jenkins,  consisting  of  an  obelisk  of  squared  freestone  11  feet 
high,  standing  upon  a  pedestal  4  feet  6  inches  in  height  and  4 
feet  4  inches  square.     On  the  east  side  of  the  pedestal  is  the 
following  inscription : — 

41  This  monument  was  erected  by  contribution  in  ye  year  1743 
to  ye  memory  of  Henry  Jenkins." 
On  the  west  side  also  are  cut  the  name  and  age  of  the 
patriarch. 

Few  things  are  more  interesting  than  the  investigation  of 
such  a  case  as  this,  for  so  closely  does  the  question  of  life  and 
death  touch  us  all  that  we  are  to  a  man  more  or  less  attracted 
by  the  abnormal  strangeness  of  a  life  prolonged  so  enormously 
beyond  the  usual  allotted  space.  The  late  vicar  of  Bolton,  the 
Bev.  A.  Cumby,  was  at  great  pains  to  collect  and  arrange  the 
evidence  bearing  upon  the  case,  and  he  seems  to  have  exhausted 
every  possible  source  of  information. 

The  principal  evidences  that  prove  or  corroborate  the  age  as- 
signed to  Henry  Jenkins  by  the  inscription  on  his  monument 
and  by  common  report  are  given  in  various  publications,  and 
most  completely  in  Clarkson's  History  of  Richmond ;  but  no- 
where is  a  sufficient  distinction  drawn  between  those  which 
seem  to  be  merely  traditional  and  those  which  rest  on  better 
authority.  In  these  notes  the  credibility  of  the  witnesses  and 
the  possibility  of  the  fact  which  they  assert  are  examined : — 

I.  In  Clarkson's  History  of  Richmond  (note  p.  396)  we  are 
told  of  "  A  Commission  out  of  the  Court  of  Exchequer,  dated 
12  Feby.  19  Charles  II.,  authorising  George  Wright,  Joseph 
Chapman,  John  Burnett,  and  Richard  Faucett,  gents.,  to  ex- 
amine witnesses  as  well  on  the  part  of  the  plaintiff  as  defendant 
in  a  tythe  cause  between  Charles  Anthony,  vicar  of  Catterick, 
complainant,  and  Calvert  Smithson,  owner  and  occupier  of 
lands  in  Kipling,  in  the  parish  of  Catterick ; 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  69 

Depositions  taken  in  the  house  of  John  Stairman,  at  Catterick, 
co.  Ebor :  on  the  15th  April,  1667  :— 

Henry  Jenkins,  of  Ellerton-upon-Swale,  labourer,  aged  157, 
or  thereabouts,  swore  and  examined,  says,  "  that  he  has  known 
the  parties  seven  years,  that  the  tithes  of  lambs,  calves,  wool, 
colts,  chickens,  goslings,  pigs,  apples,  pears,  plums,  flax,  hemp, 
fruit,  and  multure  of  mills  were  paid  in  kind  by  one  Mr. 
Calvert,1  the  owner  of  the  lordship  or  manor  of  Kipling,  to  one 
Mr.  Thriscroft,  above  threescore  years  since  the  vicar  of  Catte- 
rick, and  were  so  paid  in  kind  during  the  time  of  his  the  said 
Mr.  Thriscroft's  continuance ;  and  after  the  tithes  of  Kipling 
were  paid  in  kind  to  one  Richard  Fawcett,  deceased,  for  many 
years  together  as  vicar  of  Catterick;  and  that  this  deponent 
never  knew  of  any  customary  tithes  paid  by  any  of  the  owners 
or  occupiers  of  the  lordship  or  manor  of  Kipling,  or  any  other 
of  the  towns  or  hamlets  within  the  said  parish  of  Catterick, 
but  all  such  particulars  named  in  the  interrogatories  were  ever 
paid  in  kind  to  the  vicar  there  for  the* time  being." 

This  document,  Mr.  Clarkson  adds,  was  copied  in  Sept.,  1819: 
II.  From  the  Philosophical  Transactions  of  the  Royal 
Society,2  (Abridgment,  vol.  iv.,  p.  92) :— "  On  the  great  age  of 
Henry  Jenkins ;  in  a  letter  from  Mrs.  Anne  Savile*  to  Dr. 
Tancred  Robinson,  F.R.S.,4  with  his  remarks  upon  it.  No. 
221,  p.  266. 

"  When  I  first  came  to  live  at  Bolton  it  was  told  me  that 
there  lived  in  that  parish  a  man  near  150  years  old ;  that  he 
had  sworn  as  a  witness  in  a  cause  at  York  to  120  years,  which 
the  judge  reproving  him  for,  he  said  he  was  butler  at  that  time 
to  Lord  Conyers,6  and  they  told  me  that  it  was  reported  his 
name  was  found  in  some  old  register  of  the  Lord  Conyers' 
menial  servants.     Being  one  day  in  my  sister's  kitchen,  Henry 

1  Geo.  Calvert,  Esq.,  of  Kiplin,  was  created  Baron  Baltimore  of  Baltimore, 
in  the  county  of  Longford,  a.d.  1624. 

Henry  Tbriscroft  was  vicar  of  Catterick  from  1594  till  1G03,  and  Richard 
Fancett  from  1603  till  1660,  when  he  was  succeeded  by  Charles  Anthony. 

a  In  the  year  1809  the  Philosophical  Transactions  of  the  Royal  Society 
from  the  year  1665  to  1800  were  abridged  and  republished  by  Drs.  Chas, 
Hntton,  Geo.  Shaw,  and  Richard  Pearson.    We  quote  from  the  Abridgement. 

3  John  Savile,  Esq.,  of  Methley,  a  direct  ancestor  of  John,  first  Earl  of 
Mexborough,  had  several  daughters,  among  whom  were  Anne,  the  author  of 
this  letter,  and  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Leonard  Wastell,  Esq.,  of  Bolton-on-Swale. 
Both  these  ladies  were  residing  with  Mr.  Wastell  at  the  time  of  his  death, 
a.d.  1665,  in  which  year  the  interview  with  Henry  Jenkirs  took  place. 

*  Tancred,  second  son  of  Thomas  Robinson,  Esq.,  and  own  brother  to  Sir 
William  Robinson,  Bart.,  (direct  ancestor  of  Thomas,  first  Lord  Grantham) ; 
he  was  M.D.  and  F.R.8.,  and  was  knighted  on  his  appointment  as  physician 
to  George  I.  A  list  of  his  works  is  given  in  Watts'  Bjbliotheca  Britannica, 
They  consist  of  seven  papers  published  in  the  Transactions  of  the  Royal 
Society,  and  show  that  he  was  the  friend  of  Ray  and  other  distinguished 
utaralists,  and  bad  visited  Italy  for  scientific  purposes. 

s  Of  Hornby  Castle,  ancestor  to  the  Duke  of  Leeds. 


60  YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE. 

Jenkins  coming  in  to  beg  an  alms,  I  had  a  mind  to  examine 
him.  I  told  him  that  he  was  an  old  man  who  must  soon  expect 
to  give  an  account  to  God  of  all  he  did  or  said,  and  I  desired 
him  to  tell  me  very  truly  how  old  he  was ;  on  which  he  paused 
a  little,  and  then  said  to  the  best  of  his  remembrance  he  was 
about  162  or  168.  I  asked  him  what  kings  he  remembered  ?  he 
said  Henry  VIII.  I  asked  him  what  public  thing  he  could 
longest  remember  ?  he  said  Flodden  field.  I  asked  whether  the 
king  was  there  ?  he  said  no,  he  was  in  France,  and  the  Earl  of 
Surrey  was  general.  I  asked  him  how  old  he  might  be  then  ? 
he  said  he  believed  between  10  or  12,  "for,"  says  he,  "I  was 
sent  to  Northallerton  with  a  horse- load  of  arrows,  but  they  sent 
a  bigger  boy  from  thence  to  the  army  with  them."  I  thought 
by  these  marks  1  might  find  something  in  histories,  and  looking 
in  an  old  chronicle  I  found  that  Flodden  Field  was  about  152 
years  before,  so  that  if  he  was  10  or  11  years  old,  ho  must  be 
162  or  163,  as  he  said  when  I  examined  him.  I  found  that 
bows  and  arrows  were  then  used,  and  that  the  earl  he  named 
was  then  general,  and  that  King  Henry  VIII.  was  then  at 
Tournay,6  so  that  I  don't  know  what  to  answer  to  the  consis- 
tencies of  these  things,  for  Henry  Jenkins  was  a  poor  man,  and 
could  neither  write  nor  read.  There  were  also  four  or  five  in 
the  same  parish7  that  were  reputed  all  of  them  to  be  100  years 
old,  or  within  2  or  3  years  of  it,  and  they  all  said  he  was  an 
elderly  man  ever  since  they  knew  him,  for  he  was  born  in 
another  parish  and  before  any  register  was  in  churches  as  it  is 
said ;  he  told  me  he  was  butler  to  the  Lord  Conyers,  and  re- 
membered  the  Abbot  of  Fountain's  Abbey  very  well,  who  used 
to  drink  a  glass8  with  his  lord  heartily,  and  that  the  dissolution 
of  the  monasteries  he  said  he  well  remembered. 

"Ann  Saytle." 
"This  Henry  Jenkins  died  Dec.  8,  1670,  at  Ellerton-on- 
Swale.     The  battle  of  Flodden  Field  was  fought  on  the  9th  of 
Sept.,  1513.     Henry  Jenkins  was  12  years  old  when  Flodden 

6  Both  Hollinshed  and  Hail  repeatedly  mention  the  siege  of  Tournay  by 
Henry  VIII.  as  contemporary  with  the  battle  of  Flodden ;  it  was  probably 
one  or  other  of  these  historians  whose  chronicle  Miss  8avile  consulted. 

7  During  the  interval  between  the  year  1664  and  1684,  the  register  of 
burials  at  Bolton-on-Swale  is  carefully  kept  and  in  the  handwriting  of  Chas. 
Anthony,  vicar  of  Catterick.  He  notices  fifty-five  persons  as  "aged"  or 
"  ancient,"  and  three  as  "  very  aged."  Among  these  is  ••  1670,  Decern,  9. 
Henry  Jenkins,  a  very  aged  and  poore  man  of  EUerton."  In  the  same  year 
fourteen  others  are  noticed  as  "  aged,"— the  exact  age  is  never  given  for  about 
a  century  afterwards.  In  1668  Jenkins  seems  to  have  lost  his  wife,  and  these 
two  entries  are  the  only  ones  where  the  name  of  Jenkins  occurs  in  the  Bolton 
registers. 

8  Jenkins  might  have  used  this  very  word,  for  drinking-glasses  though 
little  used  in  England  before  the  dissolution  of  monasteries,  were  common  in 
the  reigns  of  Elizabeth  and  James  I.  Bee  Shakesp.  2nd  part  of  E.  Hen.  IV. 
Act  II.,  8c.  1. 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  61 

Field  was  fought,  so  that  he  lived  169  years.  Old  Parr  lived 
152  years. and  9  months,  so  that  Henry  Jenkins  outlived  him 
by  computation  16  years,  and  was  the  oldest  man  born  on  the 
ruins  of  this  po6t-diluvian  world."9         % 

"  This  Henry  Jenkins,  in  the  last  century  of  his  life,  was  a 
fisherman,  and  used  to  wade  in  the  streams.  His  diet  was 
coarse  and  sour,  but  towards  the  latter  end  of  his  days  he 
begged  up  and  down.  He  has  sworn  in  Chancery  and  other 
courts  to  above  140  years'  memory,  and  was  often  at  the  Assizes 
at  York,  whither  he  generally  went  a-foot,  and  I  have  heard 
some  of  the  country  gentlemen10  affirm  that  he  frequently  swam 
in  the  rivers  after  he  was  past  the  age  of  100  years. 

IH.  Miss  Savile  sent  a  copy  of  her  statement  to  Sir  Richard 
Graham,  of  Norton  Conyers ;  a  transcript  of  this  was  afterwards 
given  to  Roger  Gale,  of  Scruton,11  by  Sir  Reginald  Graham, 
with  the  following  note  from  himself : — 

"  Sir, — I  have  sent  you  an  account  of  Henry  Jenkins  as  I 
find  it  in  my  grandfather's  Household  Book — the  time  of  his 
death  is  mentioned  under  the  letter  as  I  have  set  it  down ;  it 
seems  not  to  have  been  the  same  hand ;  he  must  have  lived 
some  time  after  Mrs.  Savile  sent  this  account  to  Sir  Richard ; 
1  have  heard13  Sir  Richard  was  sheriff  when  Jenkins  gave  evi- 
dence to  six  score  years  in  a  cause  betwixt  Mr.  How18  and  Mrs. 
Wastell14  of  Ellerton.  The  judge  asked  him  how  he  got  his 
living  ?  he  said  '  by  thatching  houses  and  fishing/ 

I  am,  sir,  your  most  humble  servant, 
Norton,  26  Aug.,  1789-40.  .  R.  Gbaham." 

9  This  sentence  seems  to  be  from  the  pen  of  Dr.  Robinson,  and  it  is  difficult 
to  say  what  he  means  1>y  it ;  the  ages  of  the  post-diluvian  patriarch  are  given 
infra. 

10  At  this  time  within  three  or  four  miles  of  Bolton,  no  less  than  eighty 
hall-houses  were  occupied  by  their  owners  or  by  wealthy  tenants,  and  at 
greater  distances  in  the  same  proportion ;  among  those  latter  we  may  mention 
Scrnton,  the  residence  of  the  most  learned  man  of  his  day,  Dr.  Thomas  Gale, 
Dean  of  York,  and  Greek  Professor  in  the  University  of  Cambridge. 

U A  very  learned  antiquary,  son  of  a  Dean  of  York.  He  received  this  letter 
in  1740,  and  the  monuments  at  Bolton  were  erected  in  1743  ;  it  is  therefore 
not  improbable  that  he  may  have  been  a  contributor  towards  them. 

13  Sir  Reginald  has  been  misinformed.  Richard,  the  first  of  the  Yorkshire 
branch  of  the  Graham  family  was  Sheriff  for  the  first  time  in  1680,  ten  years 
after  Jenkins*  death. 

13  John  Grubham  Howe,  Esq.,  brother  to  the  first  Viscount  Howe ;  he  was 
M.ft  for  Gloucestershire  in  the  reigns  of  William  and  Mary,  and  also  of 
Qneen  Anne,  who  made  him  a  Privy  Councillor ;  he  died  in  the  year  1722, 
and  his  Yorkshire  estates,  including  the  manor  of  Ellerton,  were  sold  to  Mr. 
Chr.  Crowe. 

U  Mrs.  WastelTs  husband  died  in  1671,  the  year  after  Jenkins'  death ;  but 
she  continued  to  reside  at  Ellerton  for  several  (perhaps  many)  years,  and  was 
perhaps  better  known  as  a  widow,  so  that  Sir  Reginald  calls  her  so,  though 
the  suit  must  have  been  commenced  in  her  husband's  life-time.  Her  husband 
was  one  of  the  Bolton  family,  and  Ellerton  Manor  was  a  jointure  house. 


62  YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE. 

Then  follows  a  transcript  of  the  letter  already  given,  and 
then  the  following  postscript : — 

44  This  letter  is  without  date,  but  appears  to  have  been  written 
by  Mrs.  Bavell  in  the  year  1661  or  1662  by  what  she  says  of 
the  time  when  she  examined  the  old  man  compared  with  that 
of  Flodden  Field,  and  was  eight  or  nine  years  before  he  died, 
for  I  found  his  burial  in  the  register  of  Bolton  Church  thus — 
4  December  the  9th,  1670,  Henry  Jenkins,  a  very  old  poor  man/ 

And  was  also  showed  his  grave.15 

B.  Gbaham." 

These  papers  were  sent  by  Mr.  Gale  to  Dr.  Lyttleton,  Bishop 
of  Carlisle,  who,  in  the  year  1766,  read  them  before  the  Anti- 
quarian Society,  of  which  he  was  president.  They  are  given  by 
Mr.  Clarkson,  Appendix  No.  XLV. 

IV.  Prideaux  Connection,  Book  V.,  p.  278,  of  8vo  edition, 
speaks  of  Parr,  who  lived  to  the  age  of  152,  and  Jenkinson  to 
that  of  160.  It  is  clear  that,  notwithstanding  the  misnomer, 
Henry  Jenkins  is  the  person  here  intended.  The  possibility  of 
attaining  such  an  age  somewhat  invalidates  the  Dean's  argu- 
ment respecting  an  important  prophecy  contained  in  the  Book 
of  Daniel,  and  he  meets  the  objection  on  other  grounds,  without 
questioning  the  169  years,  which  he  regards  as  an  admitted 
fact.     The  book  was  published  in  1715. 

V.  More  than  seventy  years  after  Jenkins'  death  a  subscrip- 
tion was  set  on  foot  for  the  erection  of  a  monument  to  his 
memory  in  Bolton  Church.  We  are  unable  to  say  who  proposed 
the  subscription,  what  sum  was  raised,  or  who  were  the 
subscribers. 

The  inscriptions  on  the  tablet  in  the  church  and  on  the 
monument  in  the  churchyard  we  have  already  given. 

VI.  In  the  year  1752  Thomas  Worlidge  engraved  a  head  of 
Jenkins.  It  professes  to  be  "  taken  from  an  original  painting 
done  by  Walker/'  Robert  Walker  died  in  the  year  1658.  He 
was  painter  to  the  Protector,  and  his  pictures  of  him  and  his 
generals  are  numerous  and  very  valuable.  Jenkins  seems  to 
have  been  little  known  before  the  year  1660,  and  it  might  be 
thought  unlikely  that  he  should  have  attracted  the  notice  of  a 
great  court  painter ;  but  we  have  other  proof  of  the  existence 
of  a  portrait  of  him.  M.  de  Bomare,  a  distinguished  French 
naturlist,  in  his  Dictionary  of  Natural  History,  vol.  iv.  p.  441 
(Dictionnaire  raissonne  universel  de  THistoire  Naturelle,  pay  M. 
Valmont  de  Bomare,  Paris,  8vo,  1764),  mentions  the  great  ago 
of — 1st,  Henry  Jenkins,  an  Englishman,  who  died  in  1670, 
aged  169  years ;  2nd,  John  Bovin,  born  at  Czatlova-Carants- 
Bitcher,  in  the  Bannat  of  Temeswar,  who  lived  172  years,  and 

15  Sir  Reginald  does  not  say  in  what  year  he  visited  Bolton  Churchyard, 
bat  it  was  certainly  prior  to  the  year  1740 ;  the  tomb  would  therefore  doubt- 
less be  erected  on  the  Bpot  previously  known  as  Jenkins1  grave. 


YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE.  68 

his  wife  164.  They  lived  together  147  years,  and  at  the  time 
of  Rovin's  death  their  grandson  was  99  years  old.  Also,  8rd, 
Peter  Zorten,  a  peasant  in  the  same  district,  who  died  in  the 
year  1724,  at  the  age  of  185  years.  Fall  length  portraits  of 
these  three  centenarians  are  in  the  library  of  Prince  Charles  at 
Brussels :  So  far  M.  de  Bomare.  Prince  Charles  of  Lorraine, 
brother  to  the  Emperor  Francis  I.,  was  governor  of  the  Nether- 
lands from  1745  to  1781 ;  he  was  rich  and  a  great  favourite 
with  the  Empress  Maria  Theresa,  his  sister-in-law ;  after  his 
death  in  the  year  last  named  his  library  and  pictures  were  sold 
by  auction.  Worlidge's  print  is  a  mere  head,  and  the  Prince's 
picture  is  said  to  have  been  full  length ;  but  it  appears  at  least 
that  a  portrait  of  Jenkins  did  exist  at  the  end  of  the  last  century. 

VII.  At  the  foot  of  the  engraving  is  a  copy  of  the  inscription 
on  the  monument  in  Bolton  Church,  together  with  a  short 
account  of  Jenkins,  taken  it  would  seem  from  Dr.  Robinson's 
publication,  and  adding  that  in  the  King's  Remembrancer's 
Office  in  the  Exchequer  is  a  record  of  a  deposition  made  by 
Jenkins  in  the  year  1665,  in  a  cause  between  Anthony  Clark 
and  Sniirkson,  taken  at  Kettering,  in  Yorkshire.  This  is  per- 
haps a  mistaken  account  of  the  deposition  already  mentioned 
as  taken  in  1667,  at  Catterick,  in  a  cause  between  Charles 
Anthony,  Clerk,  and  Calvert  Smithaon. 

The  records  in  the  Queen's  Remembrancer's  Office  have  been 
transferred  elsewhere,  and  though  search  has  been  made  in  their 
new  repository  we  have  not  succeeded  in  finding  either  docu- 
ment ;  but  that  mentioned  by  Mr.  Clarkson  as  copied  in  1819 
may  obviously  be  relied  on  as  being  then  in  existence. 

Records  of  the  Assize  Courts  at  York  are  said  to  be  preserved 
in  London,  but  they  merely  give  the  cause  tried  and  the  decision 
of  the  Court,  without  stating  any  particulars  of  the  evidence  or 
the  names  of  the  witnesses. 

There  seems  to  be  three  distinct  instances  mentioned  of 
Jenkins  giving  evidence  in  a  court  of  justice — (1)  That  mentioned 
by  Miss  Savile,  where  he  asserted  that  he  had  been  Lord  Con- 
yew*  butler  120  years  before ;  this  may  have  taken  place  in 
1655,  when  he  was  146  years  old ;  the  point  in  dispute  according 
to  Mr.  Clarkson  was  a  right  of  way.  (2)  The  deposition  made 
at  Catterick  in  166716  when  he  was  157  years  old.  (3)  The  trial 
at  York,  where  he  was  witness  on  the  part  of  Mrs.  Wastell,  of 
Ellerton,  (see  Sir  Reginald  Graham's  letter). 

It  is  of  this  last  trial  that  Mr.  Clarkson  gives  the  account 
that  Mrs.  WastelTs  agent  found  at  Ellerton  a  son  and  grandson 

H  Some  of  the  printed  accounts  mentioned  also  a  trial  in  the  year  1667 
between  the  vicar  of  Catterick  and  John  and  Peter  Mawbank,  in  which 
Jenkins  deposed  as  a  witness.  Clarkson  does  not  mention  it.  Two  farmers 
Peter  and  William  Wawbank  (i.e.,  Walbank)  were  living  at  Uckerby  at  that 
time. 


/ 


/ 


64  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

of  Henry  Jenkins,  both  of  whom  were  much  more  infirm  in 
memory  and  in  body  than  the  patriarch  himself;  but  the 
registers  above  cited  make  it  probable  that  no  one  of  the  name 
except  Henry  Jenkins  and  his  wife  was  buried  at  Bolton  6ince 
the  year  1658,  when  those  registers  commence. 

VIII.  The  law  suits  in  which  Jenkins1  depositions  were  ad- 
mitted show  that  the  Court  thought  he  had  no  intention  to 
deceive,  and  that  his  assertion  might  be  allowed  as  evidence  of 
ancient  usage  to  the  extent  of  eighty  or  a  hundred  years.  The 
principal  evidence  of  the  169  years  is  Miss  Savile's  examination 
and  letters ;  her  integrity  and  judgment  are  beyond  dispute ; 
her  account  tells  us  what  Jenkins'  own  assertion  and  belief 
were,  and  the  reasons  he  gave  for  them ;  the  letters  with  other 
corroborative  proofs  establish  the  fact  that  Jenkins  was  fre- 
quently talked  to  and  questioned  about  his  age,  not  by  his  own 
poor  neighbours  only,  but  by  well-informed  persons  able  to 
detect  an  anachronism  or  contradiction  of  known  historical 
facts. 

Jenkins1  fame  in  his  own  neighbourhood  would  be  kept  up 
and  maintained  by  the  paper  read  before  the  Royal  Society ;  that 
society  was  then  popular  and  fashionable,  and  Dr.  Robinson,  a 
distinguished  naturalist  and  court  physician.  The  notice  in 
Prideaux'  Connection  sufficiently  shows  how  extensively  Jenkins 
was  credited  at  the  beginning  of  the  last  century ;  some  of  the 
things  told  of  him  may  be  proved  impossible  or  false,  but  this 
does  not  invalidate  the  truth  of  what  had  already  been  com- 
mitted to  writing,  while  they  certainly  show  that  the  main  fact, 
his  great  age,  was  very  universally  admitted. 

The  publication  of  Miss  Savile's  letters  and  the  erection  of 
the  monument  in  Bolton  Church  would  be  a  sort  of  double  test 
and  challenge  to  all  who  might  be  inclined  to  dispute  the  matter. 
The  gentlemen  who  remembered  Jenkins  could  scarcely  all  of 
them  have  been  ignorant  of  Sir  Tancred  Bobinson's  publication, 
and  would  have  contradicted  it  either  publicly  or  privately  had 
they  believed  it  false  in  any  essential  point ;  yet  the  sons  of 
these  men  must  have  known  and  some  of  them  contributed  to 
the  monument  erected  in  1748.  At  that  time  the  residents  in 
the  parish  seem  to  have  been  as  numerous  and  respectable  as 
they  had  been  seventy  years  before.17  The  church  registers 
furnish  no  evidence  either  way;  and  if  the  assertion,  "my 
father  knew  and  conversed  with  Jenkins  and  believed  what  he 
said  of  himself,"  had  been  met  by  a  counter  assertion,  "  my 
father,  or  uncle,  had  conversed  with  Jenkins,  and  gave  no  credit 
to  what  he  said,"  in  this  case  the  subscription  for  a  monument 
could  never  have  succeeded — public  opinion  would  have  been 
on  the  side  of  the  doubters. 


J  7  In  the  parish  of  Bolton  were  Chr.  Crowe,  Leonard  Bower,  and  John 
Wright,  Esqa.,  and  the  Bev.  John  Noblo,  Master  of  the  Grammar  School. 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  65 

The  history  of  the  portrait  is  not  wholly  satisfactory,  and 
does  not  bear  directly  on  the  question  of  Jenkins'  age ;  we  have 
seen  that  he  attended  the  York  Assizes  in  1655  or  earlier.  A 
great  provincial  metropolis  where  many  distinguished  Yorkshire 
families  had  houses  and  resided  a  part  of  the  year,  might  well 
be  visited  by  a  portrait  painter,  and  the  remarkable  face  which 
the  engraving  exhibits  would  be  as  likely  to  attract  his  notice. 
Prince  Charles  would  scarcely  buy  an  inferior  picture  or  an 
imaginary  portrait ;  the  facts  certainly  tend  to  show  that  belief 
in  Jenkins'  great  age  was  general  and  well  founded.  The  en- 
graving was  published  ten  years  after  the  erection  of  the 
monument  at  the  price  of  2s. ;  the  publisher  must  have  reckoned 
upon  a  very  extensive  sale  to  make  such  a  price  remunerative. 

The  publication  of  the  engraving  may  serve  also  to  show  that 
the  subscription  for  the  monument  ten  years  before  was  not 
got  up  through  the  caprice  or  money  of  a  single  individual. 
Had  it  been  so,  it  would  have  been  regarded  either  with  indiffer- 
ence or  with  ridicule;  whereas  we  find  the  inscription  published 
in  the  Gentleman's  Magazine  in  1749,  and  ten  years  later 
Scott,  the  great  commentator  on  the  Bible,  seemed  to  think 
that  Jenkins  and  his  monument  had  made  Bolton  famous.  (See 
Scott's  life,  p.  6.) 

The  evidences  we  have  collected  show  clearly  that  those  who 
questioned  Jenkins  were  satisfied  of  the  truth  of  his  statements, 
that  they  were  numerous  and  some  of  them  well-informed  per- 
sons, of  judgment  and  intelligence,  able  and  willing  to  detect  a 
falsehood ;  still  the  fact  of  his  great  age  rests  primarily  on  his 
own  assertion,  nor  under  the  circumstances  could  it  easily  have 
rested  on  any  other.  But  the  improbability  of  his  passing 
successfully  examinations  to  which  he  was  subjected  is  on 
several  accounts  very  considerable.  He  had  no  access  to  any 
written  records,  and  the  old  chronicles,  consulted  by  those  who 
questioned  him,  abound  in  minute  particulars  of  time,  place, 
and  persons,  precisely  the  kind  of  things  that  would  be  likely 
to  remain  in  his  memory  if  he  really  remembered  them,  and  to 
puzzle  and  confute  him  if  he  did  not.  We  can  fancy  only  two 
ways  which  promise  any  chance  of  success  in  such  an  imposture 
—either  that  he  was  somewhat  younger,  ten  or  fifteen  years 
perhaps,  than  he  asserted  himself  to  be,  and  that  he  told  as  of 
himself  things  which  as  a  boy  he  remembered  hearing  talked  of; 
or  that  he  had  been  for  several  years  the  friend  and  associate 
of  some  intelligent  old  man  greatly  his  senior,  and  afterwards 
told  his  friend's  reminiscences  as  if  they  were  his  own  and  had 
happened  to  himself.  Let  any  person  of  education  endeavour 
on  such  data  only  and  without  the  aid  of  books  to  arrange  and 
execute  an  imposture,  and  then  let  him  imagine  how  far  a 
footman,  or  butler,  unaccustomed  to  the  study  of  history  or 
fiction  would  be  likely  to  succeed  in  the  same  attempt. 

T.F-L.  p 


66  Y0RK6SIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

The  statements  which  the  other  old  people  of  Ellerton  and 
Bolton  made  to  Miss  Savile  respecting  Jenkins  would  be  little 
to  the  purpose  unless  they  had  meant  that  he  was  an  old  man 
when  they  were  young,  ie.,  about  the  year  1600,  for  they  were 
about  100  years  of  age  in  1664,  the  time  of  which  Miss  Savik 
speaks;  they  imply  also  that  he  had  resided  in  or  near  the 
parish  of  Bolton  ever  Bince  they  knew  him ;  if  so  he  must  have 
told  his  stories  about  Flodden  and  the  reign  of  Henry  VIII. 
from  the  year  1600  to  1664  without  having  been  convicted  of 
falsehood. 

We  ought  also  to  bear  in  mind  that  he  lived  during  the 
[Reformation  and  through  the  great  Rebellion ;  whichever  party 
he  sympathised  with,  whether  Popish  or  Protestant,  Cavalier 
or  Roundhead,  he  would  have  the  importance  of  religion  and 
the  obligation  of  an  oath  strongly  brought  before  him,  and  this 
applies  especially  to  his  depositions  as  a  witness  in  trials 
respecting  property." 

o— — 

Abkenoabthdale. — As  an  illustration  of  Christian  names 
derived  from  the  Bible,  allow  me  to  mention  that  a  few  years 
ago  I  married  in  the  Church  of  this  place  a  couple  whose 
Christian  names  were  respectively  Obadiah  and  Tabitha.  Many 
of  our  Christian  names  are,  however,  derived  from  medieval 
and  other  sources,  as  Anthony,  George,  Edward,  Robert, 
Richard,  William,  Ambrose,  Sylvester,  Margaret,  Catharine, 
Ann,  Vincent,  Cuthbert,  Leonard,  Hugh,  Lancelot.  At  the 
present  time  "fancy"  names,  as  the  people  here  call  them,  seem 
to  be  in  favour ;  thus  one  boy  has  been  baptized  among  the 
Wesleyans  in  the  name  of  Oliver  Cromwell,  another  Admiral. 
With  regard  to  the  initials  C.  B.,  (p.  22,)  the  sign  of  the  chief 
inn  in  the  dale,  they  stand  for  Charles  Bathurst,  Esq.,  who  in 
the  18th  century  had  large  share  of  the  ownership  of  the  Manor, 
with  its  lead-mines.  These  mines  were  worked  in  the  reign  of 
King  John,  if  they  were  not,  as  is  very  probable,  worked  by  the 
Romans.  J.T. 


Striking  thx  Luck.— What  was  the  nature  of  the  custom  of 
dealers  in  horses  striking  the  luck  of  the  guinea  when  horses 
were  sold.  My  grandfather,  Thomas  Busby,  native  of  Holme, 
Yorkshire,  bought  a  horse  at  a  fair  at  some  Common  and  struck 
the  luck  of  a  guinea  and  lost  it.  The  next  year  he  bought 
another  horBe  at  the  same  place  and  was  asked  to  strike  the 
luck  of  a  guinea.  He  said,  "  No,  this  day  twelve  months  ago, 
I  bought  a  horse  at  this  very  place,  and  struck  the  luck  of  a 
guinea  and  lost  it,"  the  same  time  poking  with  his  stick  in  the 
ground  he  recovered  the  lost  guinea. 

M.  T.  Mobball,  Matlock. 


YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE. 


67 


INTRODUCTORY. 

One  of  the  most  in- 
teresting books  in  the 
Annals  of  Scottish  liter- 
ature is  Dean  Ramsay's 
''Reminiscences  of 
Scottish  Life  &  Charac- 
ter ," — a  work  chiefly 
composed  of  anecdotes, 
ho  arranged  as  to  throw 
a  flood  of  light 
upon  the  vari- 
ous   phases   of 
Scottish  charac- 
ter, of  which  the 
compiler  treats. 
A     similar 
work  to  thiB  is 
wanted  on  be- 
half  of   York- 
shire, a  county 
brimful       of 
humorous, 
quaint  and  ec- 
centric charac- 
ter,   and    with 
abundant    ma- 
terial scattered 
here  and  there 
in  its  folk-lore 
and   literature. 

When  the  Rev.  S.  Baring-Gould  first  contemplated  his  work  on 
"  Yorkshire  Oddities,"  a  friend  of  his  assured  him  that  he  little 
knew  the  gravity  of  the  task  he  had  undertaken,  "for,"  said  he, 
"every  other  Yorkshireman  you  meet  is  a  'character'."  The 
work,  however,  was  carried  to  a  successful  completion,  and 
although  it  only  touches  upon  some  curious  and  out-of-the-way 
phases  of  Yorkshire  Character,  yet  it  remains  an  interesting 
and  valuable  contribution  to  the  subject. 

This  is  more  than  can  be  said  of  Mrs.  GaskelTs  attempt  (in 
her  "  Life  of  Charlotte  Bronte,")  to  paint  the  Yorkshireman  as 
he  is  supposed  to  exist  in  certain  wild  and  isolated  corners  of 
the  broad  county.  The  grim  and  uncivilised  creature  that  she 
has  painted  (based  upon  a  few  extravagant  stories  she  has 


68  YORKSHIKE    FOLK-LOBE. 

picked  up)  is  no  more  the  typical  Yorkshireman  of  the  moors 
and  mountains,  than  is  the  idiotic  lampoon  depicted  upon  the 
London  stage — the  "  John  Chawbacon  "  sort  of  fellow  that  most 
Cockneys  believe  him  to  be. 

In  giving  some  illustrations  of  Yorkshire  Character  by  means 
of  Anecdote,  in  these  pages,  no  attempt  at  classification  or 
arrangement,  will  be  made.  The  compiler  will  simply  confine 
himself  to  incidents  that  come  within  his  own  knowledge  and 
for  the  truth  of  which  he  can  in  most  instances  vouch.  Were 
he  to  overstep  the  bounds  of  this  restriction,  the  resources  of 
his  portfolio  of  "  Yorkshire  Anecdote,"  might  fill  untold  pages 
of  the  Yorkshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


Some  years  ago  there  lived  in  Bradford  two  men,  respectively 
named  Hirst  and  Lister,  who  were  remarkable  for  their  size  and 
build.  To  appear  in  the  streets  in  open  day  was  quite  enough 
to  draw  a  small  crowd  about  them. 

They  were  once  sent  to  London  to  give  certain  evidence 
before  a  Committee  of  the  House  of  Commons. 

On  their  entering  the  room  where  the  gentlemen  sat,  the 
Chairman,  struck  by  their  portly  appearance,  and  wishing  to 
crack  a  joke  at  their  expense,  asked  if  he  might  take  them  as 
a  fair  sample  of  Yorkshiremen,  "0,  dear  no  I "  replied  Hirst 
very  coolly,  "we  are  mere  shrimps  compared  to  some 'of  'em." 
The  hearty  laughter  that  followed  somewhat  disconcerted  the 
Chairman,  who  felt  that  the  joke  was  not  all  on  his  side. 


I  have  heard  my  father,  who  came  from  near  York,  vouch  for 
the  truth  of  the  following  story. — 

Some  years  ago,  when  hanging  for  sheep  stealing  was  in 
vogue,  a  farmer  who  lived  within  a  few  miles  of  York,  was 
charged  with  having  committed  a  crime  of  that  sort  and  con- 
demned to  be  hanged.  On  the  day  previous  to  his  execution 
his  wife  came  to  see  him  and,  with  an  eye  to  the  progress  of 
business  matters  at  home,  asked  him  where  the  beans  were  to 
be  sown  in  the  coming  spring.  After  a  moment's  reflection  the 
poor  man  exclaimed,  "  I  really  don't  know,  lass,  sow  'em  where 
tha'  likes,  I  never  was  so  grieved  in  my  life." 


How  delightfully  innocent  was  the  mistake  made  by  an  old 
woman  in  Wensleydale,  when  entering  a  Church  for  the  first 
time  in  her  life.  Even  then  she  somehow  contrived  to  be  late, 
and  the  people  were  just  rising  to  sing.  Struck  by  this  mark 
of  respect  (as  she  took  it)  to  her,  she  exclaimed,  holding  up  her 
hands,  "Neay,  neay,  sit  ye  down  agean;  its  nobbut  Betty 
Bates  aat  o'  Swaledale ;  sit  deown,  preya ! " 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  69 

I  have  heard  another  story  hailing  from  Wensleydale,  of  a 
certain  old  lady,  who,  on  hearing  one  of  two  benighted  travellers 
whom  she  had  taken  in  for  the  night  from  stress  of  weather, 
read  aloud  from  his  pocket  Shakespeare,  exclaimed  "  Ay,  well, 
it  fair  does  one's  heart  gooid  to  hear  t'  Scripter  read  so  nicely." 

The  Bradford  and  Wakefield  Chronicle  of  October  15,  1825, 
records  a  wonderful  instance  of  fortitude  in  the  case  of  a  boy, 
who  was  then  working  in  the  coal  mines  at  Bowling,  near 
Bradford.  The  poor  lad  had  the  misfortune  to  have  one  of  his 
toes  cut  off  by  the  fall  of  a  large  stone.  He,  however,  managed 
to  stop  the  bleeding,  and,  wrapping  up  the  toe  in  a  bit  of  brown 
paper,  pursued  his  work  till  night.  He  then  came  down  to 
Bradford  and  applied  to  a  Surgeon  to  have  it  set  on  again, 
coolly  producing  it  out  of  his  waistcoat  pocket  where  it  had 
been  for  nearly  eight  hours.  Bravo,  Son  of  Iron  1  Here  was 
Bowling  metal  of  the  genuine  ring.  W.S. 
o 

I  was  waiting  at  a  junction  near  Leeds  to  day  for  a  train, 
when  a  working  man  amused  the  score  of  people  that  were 
present  by  affirming  that  he  knew  a  man  with  a  wooden  leg, 
who  was  in  the  habit  of  poking  the  shod-end  into  the  fire  to 
warm  his  toes, — the  toes  that  he  had  lost  some  years  before ; 
and  this  not  as  a  mere  habit  or  sentiment  but  to  quell  the 
'Imaging'  in  his  thigh.  Disrelishing  the  laugh  that  followed 
this  narration,  our  entertainer  affirmed  further  that  a  woman 
in  their  village  had  her  foot  amputated,  and  at  certain  seasons 
felt  the  pangs  of  a  horrid,  old  corn  that  was  buried  with  her 
lost  member.  He  seemed  not  only  to  believe  it  himself,  but  to 
gain  credence  with  some  of  the  rustics.  On  my  expostulation, 
he  suited  me  by  saying  he  would  rather  believe  it  than 
experience  it.  *  *  * 


Two  Oxford  scholars  meeting  on  the  road  with  a  Yorkshire 
ostler,  they  fell  to  bantering  him,  and  told  the  fellow  that  they 
would  prove  him  to  be  either  a  horse  or  an  ass.  "Well," 
said  the  ostler,  "and  I  can  prove  your  saddle  to  be  a  mule." 
"A  mule,"  cried  one  of  them;  "  how  can  that  be?"  "Because," 
said  the  ostler,  "it  is  something  between  a  horse  and  an  ass." 

*  *  * 


The  following  appears  in  a  Liberal  newspaper  of  recent 
date:  Mr.  Robert  Leake,  sen.,  of  Pringle  House,  Normanton, 
is  dead.  Weighing  twenty-six  stone,  he  was  sketched  in  a 
London  illustrated  journal  as  "a  specimen  of  a  Yorkshire  Con- 
servative," on  the  occasion  of  a  Nostell  Priory  demonstration. 
Tory  though  he  was,  he  had  grown  fat  on  Free  Trade  bread. 

*  *  * 


70  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

Jin  (Bib  Wousb  anit  its  (Sfrast- 


Paper  Hall,  Bradford. 

Of  the  few  remaining  links  connecting  Bradford  as  a  very 
small  market  town  in  bygone  times,  with  Bradford  as  a  large 
commercial  metropolis  as  we  see  it  to  day,  the  on.ce  stately  old 
mansion  in  Barkerend,  known  as  the  Paper  Hall,  is  about  the 
last  that  is  deserving  of  notice.  But  even  this  relic  of  "  the 
olden  time  "  has  been  so  hacked  and  beaten  out  of  its  former 
shape  and  semblance,  that  it  will  cost  but  few  pangs  of  regret 
when  it  shall  become  necessary  to  remove  it  out  of  sight  al- 
together. 

The  few  traces  that  remain  of  its  original  appearance  suffice 
to  show  that  it  has  been  one  of  Bradford's  finest  mansions.  It 
was  one  of  several  old  houses  of  the  Bradford  Aristocracy  that 
once  clustered  around  the  Parish  Church.  The  long  streets  of 
cottages,  and  small  huckster's  shops  that  are  now  plentiful 
enough  in  this  locality,  were  never  so  much  as  dreamt  of  when 
the  Paper  Hall  was  built.  Green  fields  bordered  both  sides  of 
.the  road,  then  the  only  highway  to  Leeds.  In  front  of  the  hail 
lay  the  glebe  lands  of  the  church,  which  after  changing  hands 
a  great  many  times,  came  into  the  possession  of  the  late  Mr. 


YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE.  71 

Peekover,  on  a  portion  of  which  he  built  the  mansion  known  as 
Eastbrook  House. 

The  Paper  Hall  stood  then,  as  it  does  now,  with  its  retiring 
oentre  and  its  projecting  wings  to  the  east  and  west.  The 
only  entrance  to  it  was  at  the  front,  and  a  well-dressed  flower 
garden  bloomed  on  each  side  of  its  main  entrance.  All  around 
it  was  a  spacious  Court-yard,  with  all  the  a4junots  for  a  mansion 
of  such  pretensions. 

How  the  place  came  to  be  called  the  Paper  Hall,  or  the  pre- 
cise year  when  it  was  erected,  we  do  not  know,  but  we  do  know 
that  it  was  built  by  William  Bookes,  of  Boyds  Hall,  near 
Halifax,  who  died  on  the  25th  of  October,  1661.  From  the 
Bookes  it  came  by  purchase  into  the  possession  of  the  Bowers, 
one  of  the  oldest  and  most  respectable  of  Bradford  families. 

The  next  stage  in  the  history  of  the  Paper  Hall  is  as  curious 
as  it  is  interesting.  Towards  the  close  of  last  century  it  was 
occupied  by  Mr.  James  Garnett,  and  it  was  during  the  residence 
here  of  that  worthy  soul  that  the  first  spinning  machine  in 
Bradford  was  set  up.  Some  years  ago,  an  old  overlooker  named 
John  Hutton,  formerly  engaged  in  the  factory  of  Mr.  Wm. 
Garnett,  (grandson  of  the  above  named  James)  made  the 
following  statement, — "  I  am  seventy  years  of  age.  When  about 
ten  years-  old  I  went  to  school  in  Barkerend  and  remember 
spinning  machines  being  used  in  the  Paper  Hall  by  Mr.  James 
Garnett,  who  employed  in  the  work  ten  or  a  dozen  hands.  The 
machines  (spinning  mules)  were  turned  by  hand/' 

Mr.  Garnett  resided  in  one  portion  of  the  hall,  while  he  plied 
his  trade  in  the  other  portions  of  it.  In  the  early  struggles  of 
the  Independent  Church  in  Bradford,  the  engagement  of  a  room 
suitable  for  public  worship  was  a  matter  of  no  little  difficulty. 
Until  better  provision  could  be  made  James  Garnett  generously 
offered  the  use  of  one  of  the  large  rooms  in  the  Paper  Hall, 
which  was  gladly  accepted.  Among  those  who  then  composed 
the  small  Independent  community  in  Bradford,  were  the 
honoured  names  of  James  Garnett  and  Eleanor  his  wife,  worthy 
founders  of  a  family  which  in  more  recent  times  has  attained  a 
prominent  position  in  the  Worsted  trade. 

Even  in  the  days  of  James  Garnett,  the  Paper  Hall  could 
boast  of  much  of  its  ancient  splendour.  The  good  man  took  a 
pride  in  making  its  fine  old  oak  glitter  with  the  bees'  wax  and 
oil  with  which  it  was  constantly  rubbed.  To  day,  alas  I  its 
appearance  is  the  very  contrast  of  this,  the  hall  has  been  put 
to  such  "base  uses,"  and  has  been  so  mutilated  and  defaced 
that  it  is  difficult  to  form  a  conception  of  what  it  was  like  in 
bygone  days.  Such  is  its  solidity  however,  that  some  portions 
of  the  building  seem  to  defy  the  ravages  of  time  itself.  In  the 
disturbed  times  of  the  Revolution,  for  the  Paper  Hall  was  com- 
pleted during  the  Commonwealth,  an  Englishman's  home  had 


72  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

literally  to  be  his  Castle ;  hence  the  doors  of  the  hall  are  so 
constructed,  being  studded  all  over  with  nails,  and  provided 
with  huge  draw-bars  at  the  back*  as  to  be  capable  of  resisting 
any  attempt  on  the  part  of  the  enemy  to  intrude  upon  the 
privacy  of  the  owner.  All  the  floors,  both  upper  and  lower, 
are  of  solid  old  English  black  oak,  and  every  beam  and  rafter 
is  of  the  same  material,  and  so  also  are  all  the  old  mantel  pieces 
of  the  fire-grates.  What  was  once  the  principal  sitting-room  is 
panelled  from  the  floor  to  the  roof,  the  latter  having  a  carved 
black  oak  cornice  all  the  way  round. 

And  now  having  said  so  much  about  the  old  hall  and  its 
former  owners,  it  is  time  that  we  should  speak  of  its  ghost 
Without  this  its  traditional  history  would  be  quite  incomplete. 
We  have  not  seen  the  ghost  ourselves,  but  we  have  it  on  the 
authority  of  the  blacksmith,  whose  workshop  is  just  behind  the 
hall,  that  it  may  be  both  seen  and  heard.  "  A  pair  of  large 
staring  eyes,  belonging  to  a  face  of  *  gashly '  aspect,  may  often 
be  seen  looking  out  of  the  windows,'*  says  the  smith,  "  and  at 
dead  of  night  mysterious  sounds  are  heard  in  the  old  staircase, 
as  of  someone  treading  restlessly  up  and  down,"  such  sounds 
betokening  the  use  of  a  wooden  leg,  which  is  believed  to  be  that 
of  a  certain  old  admiral  who  was  murdered  here  at  some  time 
or  other,  and  whose  spirit  refuses  to  be  "laid,"  ad  all  good 
spirits  should.  It  is  not  quite  clear,  however,  whether  the  face 
that  is  seen  at  the  window  is  that  of  the  old  admiral ;  but  the 
smith  "  of  large  and  sinewy  hands,"  can  swear  to  having  dis- 
tinctly heard  the  "  dot  and  carry  one  "  tread  of  his  ghost  in  its 
nightly  perambulations.  The  thing  is  therefore  beyond  all 
question.  If  any  of  our  readers  do  not  believe  the  story,  we 
have  only  to  say  that  as  the  old  Paper  Hall  is  yet  in  existence, 
and  the  blacksmith  is  still  "  swinging  his  heavy  sledge,  with 
measured  beat  and  slow,"  in  his  "  stithy"  behind,  they  are  at 
liberty  to  investigate  the  matter  for  themselves.  They  will  find 
the  smith  to  be  a  chatty,  communicative  soul. 

We  must  not  forget  to  mention,  (on  the  blacksmith's  au- 
thority) the  existence  of  a  subterranean  passage  leading  from 
the  hall  to  the  Parish  Church,  but  for  what  purpose  such  a 
means  of  intercommunication  between  these  places  was  made 
we  cannot  very  clearly  make  out.  The  redoubtable  smith  how- 
ever assured  us  that  he  has  not  only  fathomed  its  depths,  but 
has  even  discovered  a  skeleton  in  it  with  a  rusty  sword  at  its 
side,  but  whether  it  was  the  skeleton  of  a  man  or  woman  he  is 
not  quite  clear.  He  was  much  too  frightened  to  make  necessary 
investigations  on  this  point.  W.  Sobutoh. 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  78 

A  Methodist  Preacher  at  Skipton  in  Graven  recently  prayed: 
"  0  Lord,  at  this  critical  juncture  of  events,  be  pleased  to  grant 
that  Mr.  Gladstone  and  his  supporters  may  hang  together ; " 
whereupon  a  well-known  Tory  exclaimed,  "Amen!  Amen!" 
To  remedy  matters  the  minister  continued:  "  0  Lord,  I  mean, 
may  they  in  accord  and  concord  hang  together."  "Amen! 
Amen  1 "  retorted  the  Tory,  "  any  sort  of  cord  so  long  as  they 
hang  in  it."  *  *  * 

Bomans  and  Roman  Catholics. — Tour  reference  to  the  con- 
fusion that  obtains  regarding  the  identity  of  the  two  Cromwells, 
Thomas  and  Oliver,  induces  me  to  call  attention  to  another 
popular  error,  the  confounding  of  the  Roman  occupation  and 
the  Roman  Catholic  religion.  Our  Abbeys  are  frequently  said, 
by  the  common  people,  to  have  been  built  by  the  Romans. 


Low  Countbt  Lopb-hoil. — What  is  a  Low  Country  Lipe, 
Lahpe,  or  Lope  Hoil?  A  wide  mouth  is  said  to  be  like  one.    T. 


Populab  Rhymes.  Births. 

Monday's  Bairn  is  fair  of  face, 
Tuesday's  Bairn  is  full  of  grace, 
Wednesday's  Bairn's  the  child  of  woe, 
Thursday's  Bairn  has  far  to  go, 
Friday's  Bairn  is  loving  and  giving, 
Saturday's  Bairn  works  hard  for  a  living ; 
But  the  Bairn  that's  born  on  a  Sabbath  day, 
Is  lucky  and  bonny  and  wise  and  gay. 

Marriages. 
The  Woman  that  changes  Jier  name  and  not  the  first  letter, 
ifl  all  for  the  worse  and  none  for  the  better. 

The  Children  here  play  the  game : — When  you  are  married 
be  sure  and  be  good,  and  help  your  wife  to  chop  the  wood. 

Matlock. 

Poob  Man's  Bane,  and  Antidote,  (p.  12). — We  find  this  poem 
appeared  in  the  Lonsdale  Magazine,  1820,  where  it  bears  the 
signature  "Pauper,"  Sedbusk,  8th  August,  1820.  Two  poems 
u  the  same  volume  appear  from  the  pen  of  the  Rev.  E.  Fawcett, 
8edbii8k,  near  Hawes.  They  are  entitled  "  The  Seasons,  Analo- 
gous to  Man/9  and  "  Reflections  on  Human  Life."  Ed. 


Giammab  of  Yorkshire  Dialects. — Dr. — ,  M.A.,  Professor  at 
a  German  University,  suggests  that  this  desirable  object  should 
b  at  once  attempted.    Assistance  invited. 


74  YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE. 

Militant  Barnes  Ifcmttt. 

"  Not  made  so  proper  for  singing  as  reading." 

Of  William  Darney,  alias  "  Scotch  Will,"  the  pedlar  preacher, 
nothing  is  recorded  prior  to  1742;  when  in  the  preface  to 
Hymn  162  of  his  hymn  book  he  says,  "In  the  year  of  our  Lord 
1742,  after  I  had  begun  preaching,  (sometime  when  I  was 
under  great  affliction  both  of  body  and  mind)  I  began  te 
question  my  call  to  the  ministry,  altho'  I  had  a  clear  call  in 
October  before.  The  words  were  impressed  upon  my  mind 
which  I  put  in  verse  after  as  followeth." 

1.  "  When  thus  the  second  time  that  He, 

My  loving  Ood  and  Lord, 
Was  pleased  for  to  reveal  to  me, 
That  I  should  preach  His  word. 

2.  As  a  defenced  city  He, 

Did  promise  me  to  make  ; 
And  as  an  iron  pillar  strong 
Which  never  none  could  shake." 

continued  to  ten  stanzas. 

Of  the  locality  of  his  birth,  early  life,  conversion,  and  the 
commencement  of  his  ministry,  nothing  is  known.  He  is 
traditionally  stated  to  have  preached  at  Bradford,  Manningham, 
Eeighley,  and  intermediate  places,  about  the  year  1744.  In 
1745,  the  Bev.  William  Grimshaw  went  to  hear  him  preach  at 
a  house  in  the  ginnel  nearly  opposite  the  Church  gates  at 
Haworth,  in  order  to  confute  his  arguments,  but  he  was  con- 
vinced that  Darney  was  right,  and  after  several  private  conver- 
sations with  him,  conceived  it  to  be  his  duty  to  assist  in  the 
work  in  which  he  was  engaged ;  and  shortly  after  began  to  visit 
"Darney's  Societies,"  as  learner  and  instructor.  These 
societies  were  founded  and  visited  by  Darney ;  they  were  also 
called  "  Darney's  Bound,  because  he  went  regularly  round  in 
succession  preaching  and  holding  conversational  meetings  with 
the  members. 

His  round  included  a  number  of  places  in  the  neighbour- 
hood of  Heptonstall,  Todmorden,  Rochdale,  Ooodshaw  Chapel 
in  Bossendale,  Bacup,  Padiham,  Pendleforest,  Colne,  &e.  His 
societies  were  visited  by  the  Revs.  John  and  Charles  Wesley,  in 
1747.  Darney  at  this  time  carried  his  pedlar's  pack,  sold  his 
wares,  and  preached  a  free  gospel.  In  1748,  he  was  received 
at  the  Leeds  Conference  as  an  itinerant  preacher,  and  appointed 
by  Mr.  Wesley,  at  Mr.  Grimshaw's  request,  to  the  Haworth 
round. 

The  following  entries  occur  in  the  cirouit  account  book — 
Oct.  10— Gave  Wm.  Darney  1/7. 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  75 

Jan.  10, 1749— To  Wm.  Darney'e  wife  £1  10s. 

Do.  A  pair  of  boots  for  Wm.  Darney  14/- 

April  8,  1749— To  Wm.  Darney's  wife  £2  2s. 
July  11,  1749— Do.  do.  £1  10s. 

He  several  times  receives  money  "  for  horse  shoeing.1' 
In  October  1749,  Darney  brings  the  quarterage  6/6,  from 
Menstou,  (Otley.)    The  quarterly  meetings  were  discontinued 
until  1754. 

In  1750  and  1751,  he  laboured  in  the  Leeds  and  Sheffield 
circuits. 
In  tins  latter  year  he  published 

A     COLLECTION 

OF 

HYMNS. 

By    WILLIAM    DARNEY. 

In  four  Pabts. 

Lbbdes : 
Printed  by  James  Lister,  1751. 

Each  part  has  a  separate  Title  page.  Part  II.  has  Leedes 
printed  by  James  Lister,  at  New-Street-End. 

A  large  proportion  of  the  hymns  have  passages  of  Scripture 
prefixed  indicative  of  the  subject;  some  have  special  titles — "A 
penitential  hymn;"  "Hymn  for  sanctifying  grace,"  &c;  others 
have  titles  pointing  out  the  circumstances  under  which  they 
were  written.  Hymn  7,  "  The  progress  of  the  gospel  in  divers 
parts  of  Great  Britain/'  (not  made  so  proper  for  singing  as  for 
reading.)"  Hymn  74,  "A  hymn  first  made  for  the  little 
societies  in  the  North  of  Yorkshire."  Hymns  102  and  108, 
"  Funeral  Hymns,  first  made  for  William  and  Mary  Calbert,  a 
young  couple  who  lay  sick  together,  and  died  on  one  bed,  Au- 
gust, 1750."  "Rev:  14-18."  Hymn  116,  "A  Hymn  first  made 
for  the  Bough  Lee  Society." 

In  1755,  he  published  at  Glasgow,  a  treatise  on  the  Funda- 
mental Doctrines  of  the  Holy  Scriptures. 

At  a  special  conference  of  preachers  held  by  the  Rev.  Charles 
Wesley,  at  Leeds,  in  1751,  Darney  was  examined,  and  written 
instructions  were  left  with  William  Shent,  that  unless  he — 
Darney — "would  abstain  from  railing,  begging,  and  printing 
nonsense,  he  should  not  be  allowed  to  preach  in  any  of  the 
Methodist  Societies  and  preaching  houses."  He  would  have 
been  excluded  from  the  list  of  preachers  but  for  an  appeal  on 
Kb  behalf  by  Mr.  Orimshaw.  In  1758  he  was  in  Wales,  and 
afterwards  in  Scotland,  but  appears  to  have  had  no  regular 
appointment  for  several  years.     At  the  Bristol  Conference, 


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76  YOBKSHIBE    FOLK-LOBE. 

1758,  among  other  questions  in  the  minutes  in  reference  to  the 
preachers  is  the  following:  "Can  we  receive  Wm.  Darney?" 
"  Not  till  we  are  fully  assured  that  he  does  not  rail,  print,  or 
sell  wares,  without  a  license.**  He  received  no  appointment, 
but  was  employed  by  Mr.  Grimshaw  as  an  evangelist  in  the 
neighbourhoods  of  Haworth,  Halifax,  &c.  He  remained  in  the 
Haworth  Circuit  or  Bound  until  1764,  when  he  was  stationed 
in  Cornwall.  He  continued  in  full  circuit  work  at  different 
places  until  1769,  when  he  settled  at  Barley,  near  Pendle  Hill, 
continuing  to  labour  as  a  local  preacher,  and  supporting  him- 
self by  travelling,  but  a  man  of  deep  piety,  strong  sense,  and 
burning  zeal,  with  a  courage  that  fearlessly  defied  all  opposition. 
There  was  a  rich  vein  of  evangelical  truth  in  his  preaching, 
often  delivered  with  the  quaintness  of  the  old  Puritan  preach- 
ers, which  pleased  and  profited  many.  Perhaps,  too,  his 
popularity  was  not  lessened,  by  his  frequently  at  the  close  of 
his  sermon  giving  out  an  extemporary  hymn,  adapted  to  the 
subject  upon  which  he  had  been  discoursing.  The  poetry  of 
these  extemporaneous  effusions  was  not  indeed  of  the  first- 
class,  but  it  interested  the  people,  and  his  preaching  was  made 
the  power  of  God  to  the  salvation  of  many." 

Darney  stands  forth  like  a  comet  in  the  religious  history  of 
Yorkshire,  and  probably  more  credit  is  due  to  him  than  has 
yet  been  recorded  in  Methodist  histories.  That  he  was  an 
illiterate  man  may  easily  be  seen,  but  his  genius  and  unflinch- 
ing boldness  and  eloquence  enabled  him  to  wield  a  powerful 
influence  amongst  the  uneducated  people. 

C.  D.  Habdcastle. 

THE    PBOGBESS    OP    THE    GOSPEL    IN    DIVEBS 
PLACES*    OP    GBEAT-BBATAIN    (Sic.) 

1.  In  mercy  guard  thy  little  Flock,  which  do  in  Hawnby  meet; 
0  build  them  up  upon  the  Book,  and  keep  them  at  thy  Feet. 

2.  When  they  were  persecuted  sore,  for  owning  thy  great  name; 
Thou  did  defend  them  by  thy  Power,  and  thou  remains  the 

same. 
8.  0  keep  them  from  the  foe  within,  (for  he  more  subtile  is) 
Their  own  besetting  Bosom  Sin,  and  we  thy  name  shall  bless 

4.  On  Silton  and  Osmotfierly,  in  mercy  Lord  look  down ; 
Bemember  likewise  Ingleby,  thou  blessed  Holt  One. 

5.  0  keep  them  from  the  Enemy,  unite  them  more  in  Love ; 
O  help  them  all  to  trust  in  Thee,  and  never  from  Thee  more. 

6.  Thou  knows  how  weak  and  frail  they  are,  and  easy  turned 

aside; 
0  guard  them  by  thy  mighty  Power,  in  Jesus  to  abide. 

7.  In  Cleveland  and  in  Stokesley  Town,  where  Satan  keeps  his 

Seat; 

•Haying  readers  "  in  divers  places  of  Great  Bratain,"  we  eopy  the  whole.  Bi. 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  77 

Come  0 !  our  God  and  oast  him  down*  for  Thou  art  very 
great. 

8.  But  in  the  midst  of  all  the  Town,  thou  know*st  a  lot  doth 

dwell; 
With  all  his  House  Him  do  thou  own,  for  He  doth  love  thee 
well. 

9.  He  loves  Thee,  for  thou  first  lov'd  him,  when  he  was  gone 

astray; 
And  brought  him  to  thy  self  again,  out  of  the  evil  Way. 

10.  0  keep  him  and  his  Family,  and  all  that  with  him  meet ; 
That  they  may  Thanks  give  unto  thee,  whose  Love  is  very 

great. 

11.  Open  a  Door  to  preach  thy  Word,  in  spite  of  Satan's  Power ; 
From  Satan's  Power  pluok  Sinners,  Lord  t  before  he  them 

devour. 

12.  In  Martain,  thou  hast  called  a  few,  who  in  thy  Name  do 

meet; 
0  Lord  do  their  Hearts  renew,  and  keep  them  at  thy  feet. 

13.  They  are  in  Danger  now  of  Pride,  that  they  shall  never  fall; 
0  keep  them  Savioub  by  thy  side,  and  then  they  never  shall. 

14.  Remember  Think,  and  Towns  around,  in  Mercy  and  in 

Love; 
Some  do  obey  the  Gospel  Sound,  0  help  them  from  Above. 

15.  Help  them  to  keep  their  garments  clean,  thy  Name  for  to 

adore; 
That  others  unto  thee  may  tufti,  and  praise  thee  evermore. 

16.  In  Holme  there  are  some  gracious  souls,  who've  tasted  of 

thy  Grace ; 
But  Satan  doth  throw  in  Gontrouls,  his  Power,  O  Lord, 
deface. 

17.  That  they  may  all  agree  in  one,  to  meet  and  serve  the 

Lord; 
In  Unity  of  Spirit  join,  according  to  thy  Word. 

18.  In  Bishopbridge  and  Stockton  Town,  the  Gospel  now  do  speed ; 
In  Barnard  Castle  up  and  down,  some  are  raised  from  the 

dead. 

19.  Newcastle,  in  Northumberland,  a  Church  there  planted  is ; 
Which  by  the  Grace  of  God  shall  stand,  his  Holy  Name  to 

praise. 

20.  Her  Branches  now  around  doth  spread,  the  Country  Towns 

all  o'er  ; 
They  reach  to  Berwick  upon  Tweed,  upon  the  Scottish  Shore. 

21.  In  Whitehaven,  we  now  do  hear,  a  glorious  Work's  begun ; 
Bide  on  thou  glorious  Conqueror,  thy  Work  there  carry  on. 

22.  Our  dear  Bedeemer  is  at  Work,  the  Country  all  around ; 
And  in  the  City  now  of  York  the  Gospel  trump  we  sound. 

28.  In  Rufforih  and  in  Accomb  Town  our  Saviour  hath  a  few ; 
Who  do  give  Glory  to  his  Name,  for  Mercies  ever  new. 


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78  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

24.  Likewise  to  Selby>we  do  go,  God's  Mercies  to  proclaim ; 
And  warn  the  people  there  also,  to  trust  in  Jesus  Name. 

25.  And  to  that  pop'lous  Place  called  Hull,  where  People  far 

and  near, 
On  the  Account  of  Ships  that  sail,  oome  to  buy  foreign  Ware. 

26.  And  now  the  Gospel- Ship  is  come,  rich  laden  from  Above ; 
The  Sailor's  (8k)  cry  in  Jesus  Name,  the  Riches  of  his  love. 

27.  Here  is  good  Ware  that  will  enrich,  all  those  who  it  receive. 
The  Poor  and  Needy,  and  all  such  are  welcome  who  believe. 

28.  Repent,  believe,  and  take,  who  will,  now  of  this  heavenly 

Store; 
Here  now  is  plenty  foryou  all,  make  Rich  for  ever  more. 

29.  But  if  you  now  our  Wares  refuse,  and  feed  on  Husks  like 

Swine; 
Towards  another  Coast  we'll  cruise,  where  they'll  receive 
our  Wine. 

80.  And  in  that  Day  when  we  sail  home,  up  to  our  Port  above; 
Our  Captain  will  bid  you  be  gone,  for  trampling  on  his 

Love. 

81.  Then  will  ye  all  repent  too  late,  his  Mercy  ne'er  shall  know, 
0  dismal  then  will  be  your  Fate,  to  burn  in  endless  Woe. 

82.  In  Leedes  and  many  Towns  around,  the  Work  goes  sweetly 

on; 
There's  many  hear  the  Gospel  Sound,  and  to  the  Bavioub 

turn. 
88.  0  may  the  Number  xnord  increase,  to  feel  the  sprinkling 

Blood ; 
Which  do  thy  People  all  refresh,  to  praise  thy  Name  O  God. 

84.  In  Birstal  and  in  Towns  that's  near,  have  long  Time  heard 

the  sound, 
Of  thy  sweet  Gospel  Savioub  dear;  let  much  Fruit  there  be 
found. 

85.  0  purge  thou  them  from  Biggotry,  likewise  from  spiritual 

Pride, 
And  make  them  simple,  set  them  free  in  Jasus  to  abide. 

86.  0  do  thou  them  restore  again,  0  God,  to  their  first  Love ; 
Then  shall  they  cheerfully  go  on,  And  never  from  thee 

move. 

87.  On  Wakefield  cast  a  pitying  Eye,  for  it  hath  long  withstood; 
And  did  thy  Messenger  defy.    O  turn  thou  them  O  God. 

88.  On  Bradford  likewise  look  thou  down,  where  Satan  keeps 

his  Seat; 
Come  by  thy  Power  Lobd  him  disthrone,  for  thou  art  very 
great. 

89.  In  Windall*  and  in  Baildon  Town,  thy  Children  simple  be: 
In  Yeadon  and  in  Menston-green,  some  truly  mourn  for  thee. 

40.  In  Ecclesall,*  they're  stiff  and  proud,  and  few  that  dwell 
therein, 

•  Windfall!,  EocleahilL 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK  LOBE.  79 

Do  shew  they've  any  fear  of  God,  or  hatred  unto  Sin. 

41.  0  let  them  feel  thy  mighty  Power,  before  that  they  do  die ; 
And  save  them  from  their  hellish  Gore,  on  Jesus  to  rely. 

42.  In  Keighley,  by  thine  own  right  Hand,  a  Church  is  planted 

there; 
0  help  them  Sayioub  all  to  stand,  thy  Goodness  to  declare. 

48.  Haworth't  a  place  that  God  doth  own,  with  many  a  sweet 

smile; 
With  Power  the  Gospel  preach'd  therein,  which  many  one 
doth  feel. 

44.  Both  far  and  near  they  hither  come,  their  hungry  souls  to 

feed: 
And  God  from  Heaven  sendeth  down,  to  them  the  living 
Bread. 

45.  There's  many  go  rejoicing  home,  in  praising  of  their  God  ; 
And  want  their  Neighbours  for  to  come,  and  taste  the 

heav'nly  Food. 

46.  But  while  the  Strangers  do  receive,  the  Blessing  from  above, 
There's  many  near  the  Church  that  starve  for  want  of 

Jksus  Love. 

47.  They  do  content  themselves  like  Swine  to  feed  on  Husks 

and  Dirt ; 
For  all  their  pleasure  is  to  Sin,  and  live  in  carnal  Sport. 
46.  At  Bradforddale,   near    Thornton   Town,   and  Places  all 
around; 
And  at  Lingbob  sometimes  at  Noon,  the  Gospel  trump  we 
sound. 

49.  There  are  some  few  that  do  obey,  our  dear  Redeemer's  call ; 
And  by  his  Grace  they  daily  pray,  that  Christ  may  be  their  All. 

50.  In  Bradshaw  and  in  Maxinden,  our  Saviour  hath  a  few ; 
Who  sweetly  of  his  Love  can  tell,  which  doth  their  Souls 

renew. 

51.  At  Booth  and  Sowerby  here  and  there,  Christ  hath  a  little 

flock; 
0  keep  them  from  the  Wolf  and  Bear,  and  hide  them  in 
the  Bock. 

52.  In  HaUfax,  and  Sktrcoat-green,  some  precious  Souls  there  be ; 
Which  are  now  saved  by  Faith  alone,  and  bring  forth  Fruit 

to  thee. 
58.  In  Qreetland  and  at  Bradley-Hall,  and  Lamb-coat  there  axe 

some; 
SaUenden-noak  and  Gowker-hill  who  seek  to  know  the  Lamb. 
64.  In  Htptonstall,  the  Parish  flirough,  the  Gospel  fftill  doth 

spread; 
And  here  and  there,  there  are  a  few  which  on  the  Savioub 

feed. 
56.  Near  Todmorden  our  blessed  Lord,  a  Church  hath  planted 

there : 


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80  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

The  Pillars  stand  firm  to  his  Word,  his  goodness  they 
declare. 

56.  The  Gospel  of  our  Lobd  doth  spread,  likewise  in  Rottendall: 
In  NewhaU-hay  and  Oakney-wood,  Chkist  is  become  their  Ail. 

57.  In  Mercy  Lobd  t  0  look  thou  down,  on  those  about  Good- 

sIulw  ; 
For  many  of  thy  Lambs  are  torn,  by  Wolves  who  cunning 
be. 

58.  These  cunning  Wolves  the  Truth  in  part,  hold  in  un- 

righteousness ; 
But  do  not  feel  within  their  heart,  the  dear  Redeemer's 
Bliss. 

59.  For  Faith  that's  true  it  works  by  Loye,  and  doth  the  Heart 

renew ; 
It  sets  the  Mind  on  things  Above,  to  witness  God  is  true. 

60.  Our  dear  Redeemer  doth  declare,  the  Tree's  known  by  the 

Fruit : 
Of  the  true  Vine  Believers  are,  in  Jesus  they  take  Root. 

61.  The  Mind  of  Chbist  implanted  is,  in  each  Believer's  Heart; 
Which  makes  them  sing  their  Savioub's  Praise  who  is  their 

happy  Part. 

62.  0  bring  thou  back  these  wand'ring  Sheep,  thou  loving 

Savioub  dear. 
And  in  thy  Fold  them  do  thou  Keep  by  thine  Almighty 

Power. 
68.  On  Pendleforest,  from  above  0  God  do  thou  look  down ; 
Please  to  restore  to  their  first  love,  thy  People  there  again. 

64.  In  Harden,  and  in  Simons  tone,  and  Higham  there's  a  few ; 

0  that  thy  Love  may  melt  them  down,  and  all  their  Hearts 
renew. 

65.  At  Sherfanside  and  Brimincroft  the  Work  it  is  begun ; 
And  Satan's  Soldiers  they  do  fight  for  fear  we  take  Black- 
burn. 

66.  To  Chipping,  and  to  Wycoler,  we  go  each  fortnight  day : 

1  wish  we  could  see  Fruit  appear,  for  that  we  still  do  pray. 

67.  At  Deinliead  also  at  Bank- House,  and  other  places  near ; 
They  now  do  long  for  Jesus  bliss,  our  God  to  love  and  fear. 

68.  In  ShackerUy,  and  in  Bolton,  likewise  in  Harewood-Lee  ; 
Our  Savioub  his  Grace  dropt  down,  and  set  his  children  free. 

69.  And  others  he  is  calling  still,  and  many  they  do  mourn ; 
And  long  the  Savioub's  Power  to  feel,  for  to  remove  their 

Sin. 

70.  In    Manchester,    that    Populous   Place,  where  trade  hath 

flourished  long ; 
In  worldly  Riches  they  increase,  which  fills  both  Heart 
and  Tongue. 

71.  Yet  with  all  Art  and  cunning  Skill,  they  cannot  make  one 

Robe, 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  81 

To  Cloath  a  naked  troubled  Soul,  who  feels  the  Wrath  of 
God. 
72.  But  now  of  late  good  News  we  bring,  to  all  who  give  an  Ear ; 
Here  are  fine  Robes  which  make  them  sing  who  do  the 
same  now  wear. 
78.  But  if  you  ask  me  when  it  was,  that  these  fine  Robes  were 
spun; 
It  was  when  Christ  did  bear  our  Curse,  and  died  for  our  Sin. 

74.  Come  therefore  now  each  naked  Soul,  put  on  this  wedding 

Dress ; 
Believe    and    Chbist    shall  be  your  All,   the  Lobd   our 
Righteousness. 

75.  Therefore  0  Manchester!  return,  this  Call  it  is  for  you ; 
8eek  to  be  saved  by  Grace  alone,  this  Doctrine  is  for  you. 

76.  True  Grace  thro'  Faith  will  bring  good  Fruit  and  make 

your  Hearts  rejoice ; 
In  the  true  Vine  when  you  take  root  and  glorifie  his  Grace. 

77.  In  Cheshire  still  the  work  doth  spread,and  Jesus  gets  the  Day: 
0  praise  him  all  ye  faithful  Seed,  still  do  ye  watch  and  pray. 

78.  All  ye  at  Holme  likewise  Botlibank,  Warburton,  Oldjield-brow* 
Go  on  dear  Souls,  and  never  shrink  for  Jesus  pleads  for  you. 

79.  In  Cluster,  and  in  Alpraham,  there's  some  that  can  rejoice ; 
Their  Hearts  do  dance  at  Jesus  Name,  who  sav'd  them  by 

his  Grace. 

80.  How  many  places  here  and  there,  do  long  to  hear  the 

sound ; 
And  Multitudes  in  Derbyshire,  have  the  Redeemer  found. 

81.  Come  now  dear  Reader,  let  us  take  a  turn  another  where, 
As  far  as  Syke-house  and  Fishlake,  which  joins  to  Lincolnshire. 

82.  There  are  a  few  who  do  believe,  in  our  Redeeming  Lord ; 
And  in  their  Hearts  they  do  receive  the  Blessings  of  his 

Word. 
88.  There  is  Rotherham  and  Sheffield,  and  likewise  Barley -hay ; 
0  let  thy  Power  defend  and  shield,  them  from  their  foes 
alway. 

84.  There  is  Barley-liaU  and  High-green,  0  Lord  do  not  forget ; 
Help  them  to  conquer  every  Sin,  and  worship  at  thy  Feet. 

85.  In  Epwortft- Ferry,  West-wood-side,  still  let  thy  Blessings  flow ; 
The  tender  Lambs  of  Cloweth  hide,  within  thy  skirts  alway. 

86.  Preserve  all  those  in  Misterton  who  call  upon  thee  there, 

0  save  them  from  each  Bosom  Sin  and  all  their  Hearts 
Lobd!  chear. 

87.  Bless  Hainton  and  sweet  Conningsby,  and  make  their  Hearts 

rejoice ; 
And  all  that  do  with  them  draw  nigh,  unto  the  Throne  of 
Grace. 

88.  There  is  brother  Toft  and  Wrangle,  of  late  they  have  begun 
To  seek  let  them  never  strangle ;  but  thy  Work  carry  on. 

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82  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

89.  0  dearest  Saviour  oast  an  eye,  on  Ludbrough's  little  Flock; 
On  thy  pure  bosom  let  them  lye,  and  hide  them  in  the  Rock. 

90.  The  few  tender  Lambs  in  Tliorsby  O  bear  them  in  thine 

Arms; 
And  thy  precious  sheep  in  Tetney  keep  them  from  Satan's 
Charms. 

91.  Remember  Lobd  thy  tender  Vine,  which  thy  Right  Hand 

did  plant ; 
Thy  little  Church  in  Grimsby  Town,  supply  their  every  want. 

92.  On  Lasby  few,  and  KilUngholm,  still  let  thy  Mercy  flow ; 
And  at  AUcbrough  and  Winterton,  thy  paths  teach  them  to  go. 

98.  In  Bilton-Elland,  and  Garthorp,  these  Towns  within  the 
Isle; 
Dear  Jesus  carry  on  thy  work,  by  thy  own  power  and  skill. 

94.  In  Birmingham  and  Staffordshire,  Shrewsbury,  Dudley  Town : 
And  all  the  Places  joining  near,  thy  Work  still  carry  on. 

95.  In  EvWsham,  London,  and  in  Kent,  and  Essex  all  around ; 
0  keep  thy  People  who  repent,  within  thy  Gospel  sound. 

96.  Sometimes  from  Wales  good  news  we  hear,  which  makes 

our  Hearts  rejoice ; 
That  many  do  believe  and  fear,  and  sing  redeeming  Grace. 

97.  Likewise  the  Tinners  in  Cornwall,  which  did  play,  drink  and 

swear ; 
They  now  the  Saviour's  Grace  do  feel;  his  Holy  Namb  they 
fear. 

98.  In  Bristol,  Bath,  and  in  Kingswood,  Chbist  hath  been  long 

at  Work ; 
And  now  the  sound  of  Jesus  Blood,  hath  reached  unto  Cork. 

99.  The  Gospel  now  doth  spread  we  hear,  much  in  the  Irish 

Nation. 
And  many  Souls  the  Lord  do  fear,   and  in  Christ  find 
Salvation. 

100.  In  Scotland,  0  Lord,  in  Mercy,  thy  Work  do  thou  revive; 
And  purge  thou  them  from  Biggotry,  that  they  to  thee 

may  live. 

101.  There's  many  Places  up  and  down,  whereof  I  do  not  know; 
That  many  unto  God  return,  and  love  his  Will  to  do. 

102.  Gird  on  thy  Sword  upon  thy  Thigh,  0  thou  most  mighty 

God. 
In  Glory  and  in  Majesty,  with  Garments  dipt  in  Blood. 
108.  Bide  on,  ride  on,  the  Nation  thro'  and  conquer  them  all 
o'er; 
That  they  to  Jesus  Name  may  bow  and  the  Godhead  adore. 
104.  Make  all  the  Nations  fear  thy  Name,  And  Anti-Christ  to 
fall; 
Then  shall  we  ever  Praise  the  Lamb  our  God,  our  All  in 
All. 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  88 

8upbb8tition8. — Whilst  turning  over  the  pages  of  an  old 
prose  epitome  of  extracts,  published  in  1792,  I  crime  upon  a 
humorous  article  oh  the  above  subject,  by  "  A  Connoisseur ; " 
so,  thinking  it  might  be  interesting  to  readers  of  local  folk-lore, 
I  followed  Captain  Cuttle's  advice,  and  have  made  a  "note 
on't."  Here  it  is,  with  the  spelling  civilised,  [?  modernized] 
but  otherwise  verbatim : — 

"You  must  know,  Mr.  Town,  that  I  am  just  returned  from 
a  visit  of  a  fortnight  to  an  old  aunt  in  the  North,  where  I  was 
mightily  diverted  with  the  traditional  superstitions,  which  are 
most  religiously  preserved  in  the  family,  as  they  have  been 
delivered  down,  time  out  of  mind,  from  their  sagacious  grand- 
mothers. When  I  arrived  I  found  the  mistress  of  the  house 
very  busily  employed,  with  her  two  daughters,  in  nailing  a 
horse-shoe  to  the  threshhold  of  the  door.  This  they  told  me, 
was  to  guard  against  the  spiteful  designs  of  an  old  woman,  who 
was  a  witch,  and  had  threatened  to  do  the  family  a  mischief 
because  my  young  cousins  laid  two  straws  across  to  see  if  the 
old  hag  could  walk  over  them.  The  young  lady  assured  me 
that  she  had  several  times  heard  Goody  Cripple  mutter  to  her- 
self, and  to  be  sure  she  was  saying  the  Lord's  Prayer  back- 
wards. Besides,  the  old  woman  had  very  often  asked  them  for 
a  pin,  but  they  took  care  never  to  give  her  anything  that  was 
sharp,  because  she  should  not  bewitch  them.  They  afterwards 
told  me  many  other  particulars  of  this  kind,  the  same  that  are 
mentioned  with  infinite  humour  by  the  Spectator ;  and  to  con- 
firm them  they  assured  me  that  the  eldest  miss,  when  she  was 
little,  used  to  have  fits,  till  the  mother  flung  a  knife  at  another 
old  witch,  whom  the  devil  had  carried  off  in  a  high  wind,  and 
fetched  blood  from  her.  When  I  was  to  go  to  bed,-  my  aunt 
made  a  thousand  apologies  for  not  putting  me  in  the  best  room 
of  the  house,  which,  she  said,  had  never  been  lain  in  since  the 
death  of  an  old  washerwoman,  who  walked  every  night  and 
haunted  that  room  in  particular.  They  fancied  that  the  old 
woman  had  hid  money  somewhere,  and  could  not  rest  till  she 
had  told  somebody ;  and  my  cousin  assured  me  that  she  might 
have  had  it  all  to  herself,  for  the  spirit  came  to  her  bedside  one 
night,  and  wanted  to  tell  her,  but  she  had  not  courage  to  speak 
to  it.  I  learned  also  that  they  had  a  footman  once,  who 
hanged  himself  for  love ;  and  he  walked  for  a  great  while,  till 
they  got  the  parson  to  lay  him  in  the  Bed  Sea.  I  had  not  been 
here  long  when  an  accident  happened  which  very  much  alarmed 
the  whole  family.  Towzer  one  night  howled  most  terribly, 
which  was  a  sure  sign  that  somebody  belonging  to  them  would 
die.  The  youngest  miss  declared  that  she  had  heard  the  hen 
crow  that  morning,  which  was  another  fatal  prognostic.  They 
told  me  that  just  before  uncle  died  Towzer  howled  so  for 
several  nights  together  that  they  could  not  quiet  him ;  and  my 


84  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

aunt  heard  the  death-watch  tick  as  plainly  as  if  there  had  been 
a  clock  in  the  room ;  the  maid,  too,  who  sat  up  with  him,  heard 
a  bell  toll  at  the  top  of  the  stairs  the  very  moment  the  breath 
went  out  of  his  body.  Daring  this  discourse  I  overheard  one 
of  my  cousins  whisper  the  other  that  she  was  afraid  their 
mamma  would  not  live  long,  for  she  smelt  an  ugly  smell,  like 
a  dead  carcase.  They  had  a  dairymaid  who  died  the  very  week 
after  a  hearse  had  stopped  at  the  door  on  its  way  to  church ; 
and  the  eldest  miss,  when  she  was  but  thirteen,  saw  her  own 
brother's  ghost,  who  was  gone  to  the  West  Indies,  walking  in 
the  garden ;  and  to  be  sure,  nine  months  after,  they  had  an 
account  that  he  died  on  board  the  ship  the  very  same  day,  and 
hour  of  the  day,  that  miss  saw  his  apparition.  I  need  not 
mention  to  you  the  common  incidents,  which  were  accounted 
by  them  no  less  prophetic.  If  a  cinder  popped  from  the  fire 
they  were  in  haste  to  examine  whether  it  was  a  purse  or  a 
coffin.  They  were  aware  of  my  coming  long  before  I  arrived, 
because  they  had  seen  a  stranger  on  the  grate.  The  youngest 
miss  will  let  nobody  use  the  poker  but  herself,  because  when 
she  stirs  the  fire  it  always  burns  bright,  which  is  a  sign  that 
she  will  have  a  brisk  husband ;  and  sho  is  no  less  sure  of  a 
good  one,  because  she  generally  has  ill-luck  at  cards.  Nor  is 
the  candle  less  oracular  than  the  fire ;  for  the  squire  of  the 
parish  came  one  night  to  pay  them  a  visit,  when  the  tallow 
winding-sheet  pointed  towards  him,  and  he  broke  his  neck 
soon  after  in  a  fox  chase.  My  aunt  one  night  observed,  with 
great  pleasure,  a  letter  in  the  candle,  and  the  very  next  day 
one  came  from  her  son  in  London.  We  knew  when  a  spirit 
was  in  the  room,  by  the  candle  burning  blue ;  but  poor  cousin 
Nancy  was  ready  to  cry  one  time,  when  she  snuffed  it  out,  and 
could  not  blow  it  in  again  ;  though  her  sister  did  it  at  a  whiff, 
and  consequently  triumphed  in  her  superior  virtue.  We  had 
no  occasion  for  an  almanack  or  weather-glass,  to  let  us  know 
whether  it  would  rain  or  shine.  One  evening  I  proposed  to 
ride  out  with  my  cousin  the  next  day  to  see  a  gentleman's 
house  in  the  neighbourhood ;  but  my  aunt  assured  us  it  would 
be  wet,  she  knew  very  well,  from  the  shooting  of  her  corn. 
Besides,  there  was  a  great  spider  crawling  up  the  chimney,  and 
the  blackbird  in  the  kitchen  began  to  sing ;  which  were  both  of 
them  as  certain  forerunners  of  rain.  But  the  most  to  be 
depended  on  in  these  cases  is  a  tabby  cat,  which  usually  lies 
basking  on  the  parlour  hearth.  If  the  cat  turned  her  tail  to 
.the  fire,  we  were  to  have  a  hard  frost ;  if  the  cat  licked  her  tail, 
rain  would  certainly  ensue.  They  wondered  what  stranger 
they  should  see,  because  puss  washed  her  face  over  the  left  ear. 
The  old  lady  complained  of  a  cold,  and  her  eldest  daughter 
remarked  that  it  would  go  through  the  family;  for  she  observed 
that  poor  Tab  had  sneezed  several  times.    Poor  Tab,  however, 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  85 

once  flew  at  one  of  my  cousins ;  for  which  she  had  like  to  have 
been  destroyed,  as  the  whole  family  began  to  think  she  was  no 
other  than  a  witch.  It  is  impossible  to  tell  you  the  several 
tokens  by  which  they  know  whether  good  or  ill  luck  will  happen 
to  them.  Spilling  the  salt,  or  laying  knives  across,  are  every- 
where accounted  ill  omens ;  but  a  pin  with  the  head  turned 
towards  you,  or  to  be  followed  by  a  strange  dog,  I  found -were 
very  unlucky.  I  heard  one  of  my  cousins  tell  the  cook-maid 
that  she  boiled  away  all  her  sweethearts,  because  she  had  let 
her  dish-water  boil  over.  The  same  young  lady  one  morning 
came  down  to  breakfast  with  her  cap  the  wrong  side  out;  which 
the  mother  observing,  charged  her  not  to  alter  it  all  day,  for 
fear  she  should  turn  her  luck.  But  above  all  I  could  not  help 
remarking  the  various  prognostics  which  the  old  lady  and  her 
daughters  used  to  collect  from  almost  every  part  of  the  body. 
A  white  speck  upon  the  nails  made  them  as  sure  of  a  gift  as  if 
they  had  it  already  in  their  pockets.  The  eldest  sister  is  to 
have  one  husband  more  than  the  youngest,  because  she  has 
one  more  wrinkle  in  her  forehead ;  but  the  other  will  have  the 
advantage  of  her  in  the  number  of  children,  as  was  plainly 
proved  by  snapping  their  finger-joints.  It  would  take  up  too 
much  room  to  set  down  every  circumstance  which  I  observed  of 
this  sort  during  my  stay  with  them.  I  shall  therefore  conclude 
my  letter  with  the  several  remarks  on  other  parts  of  the  body, 
as  far  as  I  could  learn  them  from  this  prophetic  family ;  for,  as 
I  was  a  relation,  you  know  they  had  less  reserve.  If  the  head 
itches,  it  is  a  sign  of  rain.  If  the  head  aches,  it  is  a  profitable 
pain.  If  you  have  the  toothache,  you  don't  love  true.  If  your 
eye-brow  itches  you  will  see  a  stranger.  If  your  right  eye 
itches,  you  will  cry ;  if  your  left,  you  will  laugh ;  but  left  or 
right  is  good  at  night.  If  your  nose  itches,  you  will  shake 
bands  with  or  kiss  a  fool,  drink  a  glass  of  wine,  run  against  a 
cuckold's  door,  or  miss  them  all  four.  If  your  right  ear  or 
cheek  burns,  your  left  friends  are  talking  of  you ;  if  your  left, 
your  right  friends  are  talking  of  you.  If  your  elbow  itches, 
yon  will  change  your  bedfellow.  If  your  right  hand  itches, 
you  will  pay  away  money ;  if  your  left,  you  will  receive  some. 
If  your  stomach  itches,  you  will  eat  pudding.  If  your  back 
itches,  butter  will  be  cheap  when  grass  grows  there.  If  your 
aide  itches,  somebody  is  wishing  for  you.  If  your  gartering 
place  itches,  you  will  go  to  a  strange  place.  If  your  foot  itches, 
yon  will  tread  strange  ground.  Lastly,  if  you  shiver,  somebody 
is  walking  over  the  place  of  your  grave." 

Now  we  cannot  by  any  stretch  imagine  all  these  events  to 
have  occurred  in  one  family  during  the  space  of  a  fortnight ;  so 
that  it  must  be,  as  the  title  explains,  an  enumeration  of  the 
superstitions  then  prevalent.  Were  Mr.  Connoisseur  now 
living  he  would  find  that  the  descendants  of  his  relations  had 


86  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

not  derogated  one  tittle  from  the  customs  impressed  on  them 
by  their  "  sagacious  grandmothers.'*  There  are  many  more 
curious  sayings  and  customs  yet  existing,  which  the  Connois- 
seur doubtless  missed.  These  I  shall  not  now  detail,  but  as  to 
the  nature  and  origin  of  superstitions,  I  shall  perhaps  haye 
something  to  say  in  a  future  Note. 

Great  Horton.  Jbssb  Mitchell. 

In  the  above  enumeration,  the  Editor  can  corroborate  from 
his  own  observation  many  of  the  superstitious  notions.  In  Idel 
there  are  still  to  be  found  horse-shoes  nailed  on  cottage  doors 
(three  cases  at  least),  and  one  under  a  wooden  pig-trough. 
Most  children  have  "  crossed  the  rainbow  out "  by  placing  two 
sticks  across,  until  some  youngster  has  reproved  them  for 
"  crossing  Christ's  name  out."  In  order  to  make  assurance 
doubly  certain,  a  boy  will  say  to  his  mate— "If  thou  art  sure 
and  certain,  cross  thy  sen,"  that  is,  make  a  sign  of  the  cross 
with  the  finger  on  the  forehead  or  breast.  Several  old  people 
here  believe  that  the  Airedale  College  Students  of  sixty  years 
ago  most  effectually  laid  a  troublesome  ghost.  I  can  give  the 
man's  name,  and  a  few  of  his  personal  characteristics,  but  as 
his  spirit  is  now  quiet  I  refrain.  A  very  noted  Wiseman  lived 
here  not  long  ago,  and  his  books  are  in  the  hands  of  a  relative. 
An  old  woman  now  lives  here  who  is  greatly  feared  by  a  few 
"  believers."  Haworth  and  Southowram  have  had,  in  the 
present  century,  highly  reputed  Wisemen.  "A  whistling  woman 
and  a  crowing  hen*  are  neither  fit  for  God  nor  men,1'  is  a  com- 
mon saying.  An  old  lady  and  her  middle-aged  son  were 
greatly  alarmed  at  the  ticking  of  a  death-watch.  I  relieved 
their  anxieties  by  shewing  them  that  it  was  my  watch  that  I 
had  placed  on  a  shelf,  but  I  did  not  remove  their  belief  in 
death-watcheB.  The  death-watch,  that  is,  the  insect  so  called, 
may  be  frequently  heard  during  hot  summers  in  the  damp  old 
house  at  Idel,  made  historic  by  the  residence  of  the  Revs. 
Joseph  Dawson  and  William  Vint.  Unaccountable  knocks  are 
certain  signs  of  deaths,  and  many  who  try  to  disbelieve  other 
death-signs,  stand  mute  before  these.  The  flakes  of  soot  on 
the  bars,  the  cinders  cast  out  of  the  firegrate,  the  stalk  swimm- 
ing in  the  tea-cup  indicate,  with  more  or  less  credence,  a  visit 
from  a  stranger,  a  gift  or  coffin,  and  a  letter  by  next  post.  A 
few  greatly  fear  the  evil  result  of  blowing  or  snuffing  a  candle 
out  accidentally,  and  eagerly  puff  the  red  embers  into  a  flame 
if  possible.  I  have  learnt  by  experience  that  there  is  truth  in 
the  relationship  of  corn  shooting  and  bad  weather.  So  may 
those  who  suffer  from  chilblains  on  the  hands.  Some  greatly 
desire  the  good  luck  ensured  by  having  a  cricket  singing  on  the 
hearth,  and  the  cat  would  be  severely  punished  that  killed  this 
good  visitor.  If  puss  sits  with  her  back  to  the  fire  there  will 
be  bad  weather,  and  she  must  make  an  alteration  in  her 

*  "  Will  fetch  the  Devil  out  of  his  den." 


YORKSHIBE    FOLK-LORE.  87 

position,  or  there  will  be  discontented  minds.  If  she  runs  wild 
after  her  tail  a  great  storm  is  near.  Spilling  salt,  crossing 
knives,  a  couple  of  persons  when  shaking  hands  crossing  the 
hands  of  another  couple  doing  the  same,  thirteen  persons  at 
table,  these  bring  anxieties  to  some  who  fear  there  may  be 
truth  in  the  old  sayings.  If  your  right  ear  burns  someone  is 
praising  you;  if  the  left,  you  are  being  scolded  or  blamed. 
Perhaps  the  commonest,  and  yet  least-believed,  is  that  the 
cracks  caused  by  pulling  each  of  the  ten  fingers  indicate  the 
number  of  sweethearts.  In  conclusion,  please  to  remember 
that  if  the  ball  or  hollow  of  the  hand  tickles  you  will  have 
some  money  left. 

Wipe  Sales. — From  a  copy  of  the  Leeds  Mercury  for  June 
1st,  1889,  we  glean  the  following  items  of  local  interest: 
William  Farrar  of  Stanningley,  better  known  by  Duke  Farrar, 
took  his  wife  to  the  market  cross  in  Bradford,  on  Monday 
morning  last,  at  a  little  after  four  o'clock,  and  sold  and 
delivered  her  in  the  presence  of  a  witness,  named  Hainsworth, 
to  a  man  from  the  same  place,  called  Green,  for  the  sum  of  5s., 
2s.  6d.  of  which  was  given  to  the  witness  for  his  wages.  The 
parties  went  from  Stanningley  to  Bradford  market-cross,  under 
the  idea  that  the  transfer  would  then  be  legal. 

Amongst  the  popular  errors  which  have  existed  in  the  minds 
of  the  most  ignorant  of  the  population  may  be  classed  the 
strange  belief  that  the  marriage  tie  could  be  dissolved  by  the 
sale  of  the  wife  by  public  auction ;  and  a  good  deal  of  surprise 
was  felt  in  many  villages  of  ignorant  peasantry  at  the  result  of 
a  trial  at  the  West  Biding  Sessions,  June  28th,  1837,  where  a 
man  named  Joshua  Jackson  was  convicted  of  selling  his  wife, 
and  sentenced  to  imprisonment  for  one  month  with  hard 
labour.  In  1858,  in  a  beershop  in  Little  Horton,  Bradford,  a 
man  named  Hartley  Thompson  put  up  his  wife,  described  by 
the  local  journals  at  the  tintt  as  "  a  pretty  young  woman,"  for 
6ale ;  he  even  announced  the  sale  beforehand  by  means  of  a 
crier  or  bellman  ;  he  brought  her  in  with  a  ribbon  round  her 
neck,  by  way  of  halter.  These  two  persons  had  lived  unhappily 
together  and  both  entertained  a  belief  that  by  such  a  process 
as  this  they  could  legally  separate  for  life.  In  the  year  1815, 
a  man  held  a  regular  auction  in  the  market-place  at  Pontefract, 
offering  his  wife  at  a  minimum  bidding  of  one  shilling,  and 
u  knocking  her  down  "  for  eleven  shillings.  S.  Bayneb. 

Another  case  has  come  under  our  notice  on  the  authority  of 
old  people  of  Paddock,  near  Huddersfield.  Edward  Holt  bought 
a  woman,  and,  after  the  death  of  the  legitimate  husband,  married 
her.  Their  children  were  widely  known  and  respected  under 
the  name  Th .  Ed. 

Fuffen — Fought. — A  Birstall  woman  told  Mr.  Heald,  the 
Vicar,  that  she  and  her  husband  had  been  married  forty  years, 
and  they  had  never  "  fuffen  "  during  that  time. 


88  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

Btbanoe  Phenomena. —  On  the  18th  of  January,  1792,  a 
singular  meteoric  appearance  was  observed  near  Stockton-on* 
the-Forest,  about  four  miles  from  York,  which  resembled  a 
large  army  in  separate  divisions,  some  in  black  and  others  in 
white  uniforms.  One  of  these  divisions  formed  a  line  thai 
appeared  near  a  mile  in  extent,  in  the  midst  of  which  appeared 
a  number  of  fir  trees,  which  seemed  to  move  along  with  the 
line.  These  aerial  troops  moved  in  different  directions,  and 
sometimes  with  amazing  rapidity.  The  above  is  stated  to  have 
been  seen  by  persons  of  credit  and  respectability.  A  meteoric 
phenomenon  of  the  same  kind  was  seen  near  Harrogate,  on 
Sunday,  June  28th,  1812,  between  seven  and  eight  o'clock  in 
the  evening,  by  Anthony  Jackson,  aged  45  years,  and  Martin 
Turner,  a  young  man,  and  son  of  a  farmer  in  the  neighbour- 
hood. When  looking  after  their  cattle  they  were  suddenly 
surprised  to  see  at  some  distance  what  appeared  to  them  a 
large  body  of  armed  men,  in  white  military  uniforms,  in  the 
centre  of  which  was  a  person  of  a  commanding  aspect  dressed 
in  scarlet.  After  performing  various  evolutions  the  whole  body 
began  to  move  forward  in  perfect  order  towards  the  summit  of 
a  hill,  passing  the  spectators  at  the  distance  of  about  100 
yards.  No  sooner  had  this  body,  which  extended  four  deep 
over  an  enclosure  of  80  acres,  attained  the  hill,  than  a  second 
body,  far  more  numerous  than  the  former,  dressed  in  a  dark, 
coloured  uniform,  appeared,  and  marched  after  the  first  to  the 
top  of  the  hill,  where  they  both  joined  and  passed  down  the 
opposite  side  of  the  hill  and  disappeared,  when  a  column  of 
thick  smoke  spread  over  the  plain.  The  time  from  the  first 
appearance  of  this  strange  phenomenon  to  the  clearing  up  of 
the  smoke,  the  spectators  supposed  was  little  more  than  five 
minutes.  These  appearances  created  a  great  sensation  among 
the  superstitious,  who  considered  them  as  ominous  of  the  great 
waste  of  blood  by  Britain  in  her  wars  with  America  and  France. 
In  1748,  one  David  Stricket,  then  servant  to  John  Wren,  of 
Wilton  Hill,  a  shepherd,  was  sitting  one  evening  after  supper 
at  the  door  with  his  master,  when  they  saw  a  man  with  a  dog 
pursuing  some  horses  on  Southerfell-side,  a  place  so  steep  that 
a  horse  can  scarcely  travel  on  it  at  all,  and  they  seemed  to  run 
at  an  amazing  pace,  and  to  disappear  at  the  lower  end  of  the 
fell.  Master  and  man  resolved  to  go  next  morning  to  the  steep 
side  of  the  mountain,  on  which  they  expected  to  find  that  the 
horses  had  lost  their  shoes,  from  the  rate  at  which  they  galloped, 
and  the  man  his  life.  They  went,  but  to  their  surprise  they 
found  no  vestige  of  horses  having  passed  that  way.  They  said 
nothing  about  their  vision  for  some  time,  fearing  the  ridicule 
of  their  neighbours,  and  this  they  did  not  fail  to  receive  when 
they  at  length  ventured  to  relate  their  story.  On  the  28rd  of 
June,  the  following  year  (1744),  Stricket,  who  was  then  servant 


YORKSHIBE    FOLK-LORE.  89 

Xo  a  Mr.  Lancaster,  of  Blakehills,  the  next  house  to  Wilton 
Hill9  was  walking  a  little  above  the  house  in  the  evening,  about 
half-past  seven,  when  on  looking  towards  Southerfell,  he  saw  a 
troop  of  men  on  horse-back  riding  on  the  mountain-side  in 
pretty  close  ranks,  and  at  the  speed  of  a  brisk  walk.  He  looked 
earnestly  at  this  appearance  for  some  time  before  he  ventured 
to  acquaint  any  one  with  what  he  saw,  remembering  the 
ridicule  he  had  brought  on  himself  by  relating  his  former 
vision.  At  length,  satisfied  of  its  reality,  he  went  into  the 
house  and  told  his  master  he  had  something  curious  to  show 
him.  The  master  said  he  supposed  Stricket  wanted  him  to 
look  at  a  bon-fire,  (being  the  eve  of  St.  John,  it  was  a  custom 
for  the  shepherds  to  vie  with  each  other  for  the  largest  bon- 
fire). However,  they  went  out  together,  and  before  Stricket 
re  of  or  pointed  to  the  phenomenon,  Mr.  Lancaster  himself 
rved  it,  and  when  they  found  they  both  saw  alike  they 
summoned  the  rest  of  the  family,  who  all  came,  and  all  saw 
the  visionary  horsemen.  There  were  many  troops,  and  they 
seemed  to  come  from  the  lower  part  of  the  fell,  becoming  first 
visible  at  a  place  called  Enott.  They  then  moved  in  regular 
order  in  a  curvilinear  path  along  the  side  of  the  fell,  until  they 
came  opposite  to  Blakehills,  when  they  went  over  the  mountain 
and  disappeared.  The  last,  or  last  but  one,  in  every  troop 
galloped  to  the  front,  and  then  took  the  swift  walking  pace  of 
the  rest.  The  phenomenon  was  also  seen  by  every  person  at 
every  cottage  within  a  mile,  and  from  the  time  that  Stricket 
first  observed  it  the  appearance  lasted  two  hours  and  a  half, 
namely,  from  half-past  seven  until  night  prevented  any  further 
view.  Such  are  the  circumstances  as  related  in  Clark's  Survey 
of  the  Lakes,  1789.  Thomas  Hanley. 


A  Strange  Legend. — On  the  eastern  end  of  the  outside  of 
Batley  Church,  under  the  shade  of  the  great  eastern  window, 
there  is  a  not  common  tombstone ;  insomuch  as  on  its  centre 
there  is  a  small  brass  plate,  in  size  about  eight  inches  by  six, 
which  once  had  upon  it  an  inscription  but  can  now  only  boast 
of  a  few  unintelligible  letters.  The  centre  of  this  brass  plate  is 
worn  hollow  by  a  strange  process.  A  tradition  is  current  that 
any  one  who  will  put  his  hands  upon  this  plate,  and  at  the 
same  time  look  up  at  the  great  coloured  window — dedicated 
people  say  to  the  memory  of  a  drunken  woman — for  five 
minutes  he  will  not  be  able  to  take  his  hands  off  again.  The 
appearance  of  the  plate  testifies  to  the  popularity  as  well  as  the 
untruthfulness  of  this  popular  fit.  B. 

A  Legend  of  Purlwell  Hall,  Dewsbury. — There  is  a  pretty 
local  legend  connected  with  Purlwell  Hall,  or  farm.  It  lacks 
the  terrible  blackness  of  a  Rhenish  tradition,  is  the  pleasanter 


_J 


SO  YORKSHIBE    FOLK-LORE. 

for  it ;  and  reads  as  well  as  the  better  known  ones  of  our  York- 
shire dales.  Once  upon  a  time,  say  150  years  ago,  there  dwelt 
at  the  old  hall,  along  with  her  unole  and  aunt,  a  young  orphan 
lady,  noted  alike  for  beauty,  goodness,  and  intellect.  She 
loved,  and  was  beloved,  and  beloved  by  two,  one  honest  and 
poor,  the  other  handsome  and  rich,  and  her  choice  fell  upon  the 
former  one.  Her  choice  was  not  a  happy  one  for  all.  Her 
uncle  and  aunt,  and,  we  may  suppose  the  rejected  suitor,  felt 
annoyed ;  for  the  traditionary  story  so  informs  us,  and  further 
than  that,  the  little  square  library  was  for  the  future  her 
prison,  till  she  should  decide  in  favour  of  the  "  Captain."  The 
story,  as  we  heard  it  years  ago,  was  incomplete ;  it  did  not  say 
how  long  she  was  here  immured,  but  were  we  allowed  to  finish 
the  tale  we  should  certainly  say  that  during  the  time  she  was 
there  her  love  did  not  lessen  for  the  man  of  her  choice,  and 
that  he  was  ever  in  her  thoughts  as  she  gazed  out  upon  the 
hills  to  the  south,  then  visible  in  the  smokeless  sky,  that  in 
conclusion  her  adopted  parents  relented,  the  captain  became 
tired  of  bis  hopeless  suit,  and  "  Miss  Taylor"  became  the  wife 
of  the  one  she  loved.  It  is  the  pleasantest  ending  to  the  story. 
But  this  is  not  all.  It  cannot  be  said  to  be  "legendary" 
upon  these  few  facts,  for  the  time  is  not  far  enough  back,  or 
the  personage  of  so  exalted  rank  as  to  make  it  a  legend  of  note. 
We  must  therefore  return  to  the  windows,  the  little  square 
ones,  which  a  year  or  two  ago  were  there,  but  which  may  now 
be  replaced  by  others  of  more  modern  size. 

There  she  kept  her  reflections,  scratched  by  some  diamond; 
perhaps  one  she  boasted  of  in  a  little  keepsake  "  ring  "  of  her 
mother's,  and  the  visitor  could  read  here  a  stray  line  and  there 
a  couple,  here  a  verse  and  there  another,  but  which  most 
pleased  was  the  one  I  learnt  at  the  time,  and  which  is,  I  think, 
as  follows : — 

Come  gentle  muse,  wont  to  divert 

Corroding  cares  from  anxious  heart, 

Adjust  me  now  to  bear  the  smart 

Of  a  relenting  angry  heart. 

What,  though  no  being  I  have  on  earth, 

Tho'  near  the  place  which  gave  me  birth, 

And  kindred  less  regard  do  pay 

Than  thy  acquaintance  of  a  day. 

Enow,  what  the  best  of  men  declare, 

That  they  on  earth  but  strangers  are ; 

Nor  matters  it  a  few  years  hence 

How  fortune  did  to  thee  dispense. 

If— in  a  palace  thou  hast  dwelt ; 

Or — in  a  cell  penury  felt ; 

Ruled — as  a  prince ;  served — as  a  slave 

Six  feet  of  earth  U  all  thou' It  Juive. 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  91 

Here  give  my  thoughts  a  nobler  theme, 
Since  all  this  world  is  but  a  dream 
Of  short  continuance.  M.  Taylob,  1726. 

Of  course  the  spelling  is  rather  different  from  our  present 
method,  bnt  the  caligraphy  is  a  marvel  of  neatness,  just  as  the 
sentiments  expressed  are  noble.  There  are  other  pieces  worthy 
of  record  here,  but  they  do  not  bear  upon  or  explain  the  story 
as  this  I  have  given  does.  In  conclusion  I  should  be  glad  if 
some  reader  could  furnish  us  with  the  true  history  of  the 
antique  oak  cross*  which  surmounts  the  gable  end  of  the  old 
hall,  and  for  which  Mr.  J.  B.  Greenwood,  the  owner,  pays,  to 
this  day,  royalty  of  one  shilling  yearly. 


Curious  Custom. — Two  farms  lying  in  the  township  of  Swin- 
ton,  Yorkshire,  and  which  belong  to  Earl  Fitzwilliam,  late  in 
the  occupation  of  John  Mercer  and  Bicbard  Thompson,  every 
year  change  their  parish.  For  one  year,  from  Easter  Day  at 
twelve  at  noon  till  next  Easter  Day  at  the  same  hour,  they  lie 
in  the  parish  of  Mexborough,  and  then  till  Easter  Day  follow- 
ing, at  the  same  hour,  they  are  in  the  parish  of  Wath-upon- 
Dearne,  and  so  alternately.  These  farms  consist  of  802  acres. — 
Blount9 8  Ancient  Tenures  of  Land;  Extracted  from  the  Wath 
Magazine,  June,  1832. 

o 

A  Yorkshibeman's  Joke. — On  May  17th,  1828,  (says  "Hone's 
Year  Book"),  as  a  countrywoman,  with  her  market  basket  on 
her  arm,  was  admiring  "a  bit  of  finery"  in  a  draper's  window  at 
York,  her  partner  in  life  came  up  without  being  noticed  by  her, 
and  perceiving  her  intense  gaze  at  what  she  could  not  purchase, 
he  secretly  abstracted  a  handkerchief  from  her  basket,  and 
went  his  way  in  joyful  anticipation  of  his  wife's  vexation  upon 
her  discovering  its  absence.  Unluckily  for  the  joker,  a  gentle- 
man, to  whom  the  parties  were  strangers,  observed  the  trick,  ' 
and  directed  a  constable  to  secure  the  villain.  The  robber  was 
seized  on  the  pavement  and  instantly  carried  before  a  magis- 
trate. In  the  meantime,  the  unsuspecting  woman  was  informed 
of  her  loss,  and  hurried  away  to  identify  the  luckless  handker- 
chief. She  did  so,  it  was  her  own,  the  very  one  she  had  been 
deprived  of,  and  turning  with  honest  indignation  to  look  at  the 
thief,  she  exclaimed  with  astonishment,  '•  Oh,  lawks !  gentle- 
men, it's  my  husband  f  "  The  arm  of  law  was  paralysed.  The 
prisoner  was  the  robber  of  his  own  property.  The  magistrate 
laughed,  the  gentleman  and  the  constable  laughed,  and  the 

•Probably  the  cross  indicates  that  the  property  once  belonged  to  the 
Knights  of  St.  John  of  Jerusalem.  On  Winteredge,  Coley  Old  Parsonage, 
tod  Coley  Hall  gateway,  in  Hipperholme ;  and  on  houses  near  Harden, 
nmflar  crosses  may  still  be  seen.  Such  property  was  exempt  from  certain 
taxes.— Ed. 


92  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

charge  having  been  laughingly  dismissed,  the  liberated  husband 
and  his  artless  wife  posted  away  to  tell  the  village  neighbour* 
what  awful  things  had  happened  to  them  in  York. 

o 

Strange  Appeabance. — In  Cliambers's  Papers  for  the  People  it 
is  said : — There  is  no  period  in  the  history  of  this  country  so 
full  of  extraordinary  occurrences  as  the  seventeenth  century. 
The  death  of  Elizabeth  in  1608  put  an  end  to  the  comparative 
calm  which  had  for  some  time  existed ;  and  from  that  period 
until  the  accession  of  William  and  Mary  in  1689,  the  whole 
kingdom  was  convulsed  with  intestine  commotions.  The  re- 
bellion  in  Ireland,  the  civil  wars  of  Scotland,  the  execution  of 
Charles  I.,  the  usurpation  of  Cromwell,  the  destruction  of  the 
Monarchy,  the  establishment  of  a  Commonwealth,  the  abdi- 
cation of  James  II.,  and  again  the  rebellion  in  Ireland,  form  a 
series  of  events  only  to  be  rivalled  perhaps  by  the  history  of 
Europe  during  the  singular  year  of  1848.  Besides  events 
reaching  to  historical  dignity,  there  was  what  appears  at  first 
sight  an  extraordinary  succession  of  inferior  occurrences— as 
plagues,  tempests,  conflagrations,  marvellous  appearances  in 
the  sky,  all  of  which  the  people  believed  to  be  essentially  con- 
nected with  the  march  of  historical  events,  in  as  far  as  every 
one  of  them  was  regarded  as  a  mark  of  the  way  in  whioh 
Providence  regarded  the  doings  of  statesmen.  Many  of  the 
narrations  of  these  occurrences  are  exceedingly  curious,  both 
for  the  nature  of  the  occurrences  themselves,  and  the  terms  in 
which  they  are  set  forth  for  popular  admiration,  as  well  as  the 
comments  made  upon  them,  in  which  we  are  presented  with  a 
lively  illustration  of  the  temper  of  the  popular  mind  during  that 
age.  We  select  the  following  relating  to  Yorkshire: — "The 
true  relation  of  a  strange  and  very  wonderful  thing  that  was 
heard  in  the  air  October  12th,  1658,  by  many  hundreds  of 
people : — As  the  Lord  sees  what  a  deep  sleep  is  seized  upon  as 
as  no  low  voice  will  awaken  us,  so  he  is  pleased  to  roar  aloud 
from  heaven,  intending  thereby  (in  all  likelihood)  either  to 
rouse  us  up  out  of  our  present  security,  or  to  leave  us  the  more 
without  excuse  in  the  day  of  his  fierce  wrath.  Now  I  come  to 
relate  the  matter,  the  which  was  thus : — Upon  the  12th  day  of 
October,  in  the  afternoon,  there  was  heard  by  some  hundreds 
of  people  in  Holderness,  Hedon,  and  about  Hull,  and  several 
other  places  in  Yorkshire — first,  three  great  pieces  of  ordnance 
or  cannons  discharged  in  the  air  one  after  another,  very  terrible 
to  hear,  and  afterwards  immediately  followed  a  peal  of  muskets. 
This  shooting  off  of  muskets  continued  about  an  half-quarter 
of  an  hour,  drums  beating  all  the  while  in  the  manner  just  as 
if  two  armies  had  been  engaged.  Such  as  heard  the  aforesaid 
cannons,  muskets,  and  drums,  do  report  that  the  sound  was 
from  the  north-east  quarter,  and,  to  their  thinking  not  far  from 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  98 

the  place  where  they  stood.  Two  men  being  together  about 
six  miles  from  Hull  in  Holderness,  near  Humber-side,  supposed 
it  was  directly  over  Hull ;  whereupon  one  said  to  the  other, 
"  It  being  the  sheriff's  riding-day  at  Hull,  this  peal  of  muskets 
must  be  there;  and  see  (quoth  he)  how  the  smoke  riseth!" 
Now  the  reason  why  he  mentioned  the  smoke  was,  because  no 
sooner  was  this  noise  finished  over  Hull,  but  (as  it  happeneth 
after  the  discharge  of  gun6)  there  arose  a  very  great  smoke  or 
thick  mist  round  about  the  town,  although  immediately  before 
(the  day  being  a  very  clear  day,  and  the  sun  shining  all  the 
while  very  bright)  he  saw  the  town  very  perfectly.  One  thing 
more  was  observed  by  him  who  saw  the  smoke  over  Hull ;  that 
all  the  while  this  prodigious  noise  continued  (which  was  as  he 
supposed,  about  the  eighth  part  of  an  hour),  the  face  of  the 
sky  (as  in  the  eclipses  of  the  sun)  waxed  very  dim ;  yea,  such 
a  strange  nature  accompanied  it,  that  the  very  earth  seemed  to 
tremble  and  quake  under  him.  A  certain  gentleman,  who  had 
been  some  time  a  major  in  the  war,  as  he  was  riding  with  a 
friend  between  the  towns  of  Patterington  and  Ottringham,  was 
so  persuaded  that  some  encounter  by  soldiers  was  on  the  other 
side  of  a  small  hill  where  they  were  riding,  as  that  they  could 
not  but  mount  the  hill  to  try  the  truth,  so  plainly  did  the 
drums  beat  and  the  muskets  go  off,  and,  to  their  thinking,  so 
near  them,  as  either  it  must  be  a  sign  from  heaven  or  a  real 
battle  hard  by.  The  country  people  were  struck  with  such 
strange  wonder  and  deep  terror,  that  they  gave  over  their 
labour,  and  ran  home  with  fear;  yea,  some  poor  people  gather- 
ing coals  by  the  seaside  were  so  frightened  that  they  ran  away, 
leaving  their  sacks  behind  them.  In  conclusion :  for  the  space 
of  forty  miles  this  fearful  noise  of  cannons,  muskets,  and  drums, 
was  heard  all  the  country  over." 


Thb  Belief  in  Witches. — In  Henderson's  "Folk  Lore"  I 
find  the  following :— Through  the  dales  of  Yorkshire  we  find 
hares  still  in  mysterious  relationship  to  witches.  The  Rev.  J. 
C.  Atkinson  informs  me  that  a  new  plantation  having  been 
made  near  Eskdale,  great  havoc  was  committed  among  the 
newly-planted  trees  by  hares.  Many  of  these  depredators  were 
shot,  but  one  hare  seemed  to  bid  defiance  to  shot  and  snare 
alike,  and  returned  to  the  charge  night  after  night.  By  the 
advice  of  a  wise  man  (I  believe  of  the  wise  man  of  Stokesley) 
recourse  was  had  to  silver  shot,  which  was  obtained  by  cutting 
up  some  small  silver  coin.  The  hare  came  again  as  usual,  and 
was  shot  with  the  silver  charge.  At  that  moment  an  old  lady 
who  lived  at  some  distance,  but  had  always  been  considered 
somewhat  uncannie,  was  busy  tamming,  that  is,  roughly  card- 
ing wool  for  her  spinning.     She  suddenly  flung  up  both  her 


04  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

hands,  gave  a  wild  shriek,  and  crying  out,  "  They  have  shot 
my  familiar  spirit,"  fell  down  and  died. 

In  another  dale,  higher  up  the  course  of  the  Esk,  was  a  hare 
which  baffled  all  the  greyhounds  that  were  slipped  at  her. 
They  seemed  to  have  no  more  chance  with  her  than  if  they 
were  coursing  the  wind.  There  was  at  the  time  a  noted  witch 
residing  near,  and  her  advice  was  asked  about  this  wonderful 
hare.  She  seemed  to  have  little  to  say  about  it,  however,  only 
she  thought  they  had  better  let  it  be,  and  above  all  they  must 
take  care  how  they  slipped  a  black  dog  at  it.  Nevertheless, 
either  from  recklessness  or  from  distrust  of  their  adviser,  the 

Sarty  did  soon  after  go  out  coursing  with  a  black  dog.  The 
og  was  slipped,  and  they  perceived  at  once  that  the  hare  was 
at  a  disadvantage.  She  made  as  soon  as  possible  for  a  atone 
wall,  and  attempted  to  escape  through  a  "  smout "  or  sheep- 
hole  at  the  bottom.  Just  as  she  reached  it  the  hound  threw 
himself  upon  her  and  caught  her  in  the  haunch,  but  was  unable 
to  hold  her ;  she  got  through,  and  was  seen  no  more.  The 
sportsmen,  either  in  bravado  or  in  terror  of  the  consequences, 
went  straight  to  the  house  of  the  witch  to  tell  her  what  had 
happened.  They  found  her  in  bed,  hurt,  she  said,  by  a  fall ; 
but  the  wound  looked  very  much  as  if  it  had  been  produced  by 
the  teeth  of  a  dog,  and  it  was  on  a  part  of  the  person  corres- 
ponding to  that  by  which  the  hare  had  been  seized  before  their 
eyes  by  the  black  hound.  Whether  this  wise  woman  recovered 
of  the  wound  I  know  not,  but  the  Guisborough  Witch,  who 
died  within  the  memory  of  man,  was  lame  for  several  years,  in 
consequence,  it  was  said,  of  a  bite  she  received  from  a  dog 
while  slipping  through  the  key-hole  of  her  own  door  in  the 
shape  of  a  hare.  AJL 

Witch  Box  Found  at  Bramlet. — The  following  description 
of  a  Witch  Box  found  at  Bramley,  on  January  18th,  1878,  is 
given  as  recorded  in  the  Pudsey  and  Stanningley  News,  January 
17th,  1878.  "A  Belie  of  the  Past.— On  Monday,  in  taking 
down  some  old  buildings  at  Bramley,  a  curiosity  in  the  shape 
of  a  'witch  box*  was  found  secreted  on  the  top  of  an  oaken 
beam  in  the  roof.  The  box  is  in  a  good  state  of  preservation, 
neatly  lined,  and  contains  a  rusty  nail  wrapped  in  cotton  wick, 
and  about  half  a  dozen  pins  in  an  upright  position,  with  a  little 
sparse  cotton  wick  for  the  use  of  the  witches.  Behind  the  door 
of  the  house  was  nailed  an  old  horseshoe,  which  was  formerly 
considered  to  be  a  charm  against  witches:  The  box  is  in  the 
possession  of  Mr.  J.  Dawson,  postmaster."  8.B. 

The  Golden  Ball  :  A  Yorkshire  Tale. — There  were  once 
two  lasses,  the  daughters  of  one  mother,  an'  as  they  came  home 
thro' t'  fair,  they  saw  a  reight  bonny  young  man  standing  i'  t' 
haase  door  afore  'em.    They  niver  seed  sich  a  bonny  man  afore. 


YORKSHIEE    FOLK-LORE.  W* 

Be'd  gold  on  his  cap,  an'  gold  on  his  finger,  gold  on  his  neck, 
an*  a  red  gold  watah-chain — eh  I  but  he  had  some  brass.  He 
had  a  golden  ball  in  each  hand.  An*  he  gave  a  ball  to  each 
lass,  an'  she  was  to  keep  it,  an'  if  she  lost  it  she  was  to  be 
hanged. .  One  o'  t'  lasses,  youngest  one,  lost  her  ball.  I'll  tell 
how  she  lost  it.  She  was  by  a  park  paling,  as  she  was  tossing 
her  ball,  an'  it  went  up,  an1  up,  an'  up,  till  it  went  fair  over  t' 
paling,  an'  when  she  went  ta  leuk  for  it,  ball  ran  along  green 
grass,  an*  it  went  reight  forrud  to  t'  door  o'  t'  haase,  anv  tv  ball 
went  in  an'  she  saw  it  no  more.  So  she  were  taken  away  to  be 
hanged  be  t'  neck  becos.  she'd  lost  her  ball.  But  she  had  a 
sweetheart,  an'  he  said  he  would  get  her  ball.  So  he  went  to 
t'  park  gate,  but  it  were  shut,  so  he  climbed  a  hedge,  an'  when 
he  got  atop  o'  t'  hedge,  an  old  woman  gate  up  aat  o'  t'  dike 
afore  him,  an'  she  said  if  he  would  get  the  ball,  he  mud  sleep 
three  nights  i'  t'  haase,  so  he  said  he  would.  Then  he  went 
into  t'  haase  an'  looked  for  t'  ball,  but  couldn't  find  it.  Night 
came  on,  an'  he  heard  spirits  moving  i'  t'  courtyard,  so  he 
looked  aat  o'  t'  window,  an'  t'  yard  were  as  full  on  em'  as 
maggots  i'  rotten  meat.  Then  he  heard  steps  coming  upstairs. 
He  hid  behind  a  door,  an'  was  as  still  as  a  maase.  Then  in 
came  a  big  giant,  five  times  as  tall  as  he  were,  an'  the  giant 
looked  raand  but  didn't  see  t'  lad,  so  he  went  to  t'  window,  and 
bent  down  to  look  out ;  an'  as  he  bent  down  on  his  elbows  to 
see  t'  spirits  i'  t'  yard,  t'  lad  com  behind  him,  and  wi'  one  blow 
of  his  sword,  cut  him  in  tew,  an' t'  top  part  of  him  fell  into  t' 
yard,  an' t'  bottom  part  stood  looking  aat  o'  t'  window.  There 
was  a  great  cry  from  t'  spirits  i'  t'  yard  when  they  saw  half 
their  master  come  tumbling  down,  an'  they  called  out,  "  There 
cornea  half  our  master,  give  us  t'  other  half." 

So  the  lad  said,  "It's  no  use  o'  thee,  thou  pair  o'  legs, 
standing  aloan,  as  thou  has  no  e'en  to  see  with,  so  go  join  thy 
brother ; "  an'  he  threw  the  bottom  part  o'  t'  giant  after  t'  top 
part.  So  when  the  spirits  hed  gotten  all  their  giant,  they  were 
quiet.  Next  night  the  lad  was  at  the  haase  again,  an'  now  a 
second  giant  came  in  at  the  door,  an'  as  he  came  in  the  lad  cut 
him  i'  two ;  but  the  legs  walked  on  to  t'  chimney,  an'  went  up 
it.  "  Go  get  thee  after  thy  legs,"  said  the  lad,  to  t'  head,  an' 
he  threw  t'  head  up  t'  chimney  too.  The  third  night  the  lad 
gate  into  bed,  an'  he  heard  spirits  striving  under  the  bed,  an' 
they  had  the  ball  there,  an'  they  were  casting  here  an'  there 
under  the  bed.  NoW  one  of  them  has  his  leg  thrussen  aat  from 
under  t'  bed,  so  t'  lad  brings  his  sword  daan  an'  cuts  it  off. 
Then  another  thrusts  his  arm  aat  at  the  other  side  o'  the  bed, 
an'  V  lad  cuts  that  off.  So  at  last  he  had  maimed  'em  all,  an' 
they  all  went  crying  an'  wailing  off,  an'  forgot  the  ball,  but  he 
took  it  from  under  the  bed,  an'  went  to  seek  his  true  love. 


96  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LOBE. 

Now  t'  lass  was  taken  to  Tork  to  be  hanged,  and  she  was 
brought  oat  on  to  the  scaffold,  an'  the  hangman  said — "Naa, 
lass,  thaa  man  get  ready  to  be  hanged  be  the  neek  till  thaa 
beest  dead,"  but  she  cried  out — 

"  Stop,  stop ;  I  think  I  see  my  mother  coming. 
Oh !  mother,  have  you  got  my  golden  ball, 
An'  are  you  come  to  set  me  free  ?" 

"  I've  neither  got  tby  golden  ball. 

Nor  come  to  set  thee  free, 
Bat  I  have  come  to  see  thee  hong 

Upon  this  gallows-tree." 

Then  the  hangman  said — "  Naa,  lass,  say  thi  prayers,  witha, 
for  thaa  man  dee."    Bat  she  said — 

"  Stop,  stop ;  I  think  I  see  my  father  coming. 
Oh !  father,  hast  thou  got  my  golden  ball, 
An'  come  to  set  me  free  ?  " 

"  I've  neither  brought  thy  golden  ball, 

Nor  come  to  set  thee  free, 
But  I  have  come  to  see  thee  hung 

Upon  this  gallows-tree." 

Then  the  hangman  said — "  Hast  done  thi  prayers,  lass ;  come 
now,  put  thy  head  into  t'  noose."  But  she  said — "  Stop,  stop;" 
and  she  excused  herself  because  she  thought  she  saw  her 
brother,  and  her  sister,  and  her  uncle,  and  her  aunt,  and  then 
her  cousin,  coming  to  save  her.  Then  the  hangman  said — "  I 
wean't  stop  no  longer;  thaa's  makking  gam'  o'  ma.  Thaa  man 
be  hung  at  once."  But  now  she  saw  her  sweetheart  coming 
through  the  crowd,  and  he  held  over  his  head,  up  in  the  air, 
the  golden  ball,  so  she  said — 

"  Stop,  stop ;  I  see  my  sweetheart  coming. 

Sweetheart,  hast  thou  brought  my  golden  ball, 

An'  come  to  set  me  free  ?  " 

"  Aye,  I  have  brought  thy  golden  ball, 

And  come  to  set  thee  free  ; 
I  have  not  come  to  see  thee  hung 

Upon  the  gallows-tree." 

Suoh  were  the  tales  which  delighted,  or  frightened,  our  ances- 
tors in  Yorkshire.  A.  Holeotd. 

Sheffield  Folk-lobe. — Mr.  Charles  Beade,  in  his  Sheffield 
story,  "  Put  Yourself  in  His  Place,"  gives  a  lot  of  interesting 
folk-lore,  some  of  which  I  quote.  The  ill-luck  attendant  on,  or 
rather  proceeding  from,  the  meeting  with  a  magpie,  is  widely 
known,  but  this  following  particular  I  never  heard  of  until  I 
saw  it  in  the  above-namad  story.  The  magpie,  according  to 
Sheffield  lore,  is  "  the  only  bird  that  wouldn't  go  into  the  ark 


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YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  97 

with  Noah  and  his  folk."  "  She  "  (the  magpie)  "  liked  better 
to  perch  on  the  roof  of  th'  ark,  ana  jabber  over  the  drowning 
world.  So  ever  after  that,  when  a  magpie  flies  across,  turn  back 
or  look  to  meet  ill-lack."  Certainly  a  most  curious  reason  why 
the  magpie  is  an  unlucky  bird,  and  a  reason  which  I  fancy  was 
unknown  until  produced  in  Mr.  Beade's  book.  If  any  of  your 
readers  can  attest  from  their  own  observation  the  fact  of  this 
lore  being  current  in  Sheffield,  I  hope  they  will  do  so.  A  magpie 
rhyme  familiar  to  me  when  a  child  runs — 

One's  a  sign  o'  bad  luck, 
Two's  a  sign  o'  good, 
Three's  a  sign  o'  a  broken  leg, 
And  four  a  sign  o'  a  weddin'. 

We  spat,  and  made  the  sign  of  the  Cross  either  in  the  air  with 
our  forefinger,  or  on  the  ground  with  our  toes.  This  was  to 
drive  away  the  evil  influence  of  one  magpie.  The  following 
form  of  adjuration  is  known  in  Yorkshire  villages  a  dozen  miles 
from  Sheffield,  but  I  first  heard  it  at  Eakring,  in  Notts.  If  you 
meet  a  magpie  cross  yourself,  and  say — 

I  cross  one  magpie, 
And  one  magpie  cross  me ; 
May  the  devU  take  the  magpie, 
And  God  take  me. 

The  general  opinion  is  that  odd  numbers  of  magpies  are  bad ; 
even  numbers  are  good.  A  number  of  magpies  "  chattering  " 
is  a  bad  sign.  They  are  talking  of  a  death,  or  settling  who 
shall  die  next.  But  the  oddest  magpie  rhyme  I  ever  met  with 
was  given  by  a  North  Notts  lady : — 

One  for  sorrow, 
Two  for  mirth, 
Three  for  a  wedding, 
Four  for  a  birth ; 
Five  for  a  parson, 
Six  for  a  clerk, 
Seven  for  a  babe 
Buried  in  the  dark. 
Another  ending  is — 

Five  for  England, 
Six  for  France, 
Seven  for  a  fiddler, 
Eight  for  a  dance. 

Mr.  Beade  says : — "  If  a  girl  was  in  church  when  her  banns  were 
cried,  her  children  would  all  be  born  deaf  and  dumb."  This  is 
believed,  too,  in  Derbyshire,  where  they  say  if  a  girl  do  such 
&n  improper  thing,  "  she  is  darring  it  out ! "  To  see  a  flight  of 
birds  when  on  the  way  to  be  married  is  a  good  sign,  if  to  have 

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98  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

a  dozen  children  is  good,  for  a  flight  of  birds  going  in  your 
direction  when  on  the  way  to  matrimony  foretells  many  chil- 
dren, bnt  a  flight  of  birds  meeting  yon  is  a  sign  of  bad  lack. 
To  have  a  funeral  cross  your  path  on  the  wedding  day  foretells 
the  death  of  one  of  the  contracting  parties  within  a  year.  To 
marry  without  changing  the  name,  or  even  so  as  the  new  in* 
itials  are  the  same  as  the  old,  is  bad,  for — 

If  yon  change  the  name  and  not  the  letter, 
You  change  for  the  worse  and  not  for  the  better — 
a  rhyme  known  widely.    For  the  sun  to  emerge  suddenly  from 
a  cloud  and  shine  on  the  couple   kneeling  before  the  altar 
promises  a  life  happy  and  prosperous. 

Happy  is  the  bride  that  the  sun  shines  on. 
"  If  you  sing  before  breakfast,  you'll  cry  before  supper,"  is  a 
local1  saying,  how  true  hundreds  can  attest. 

Mr.  Beade  also  speaks  of  "Gabriel-hounds,"  called  by  one  of 
his  characters  "  Gabble-re tchet."  These,  the  local  lore  says, 
"are  not  hounds  at  all;  they  are  the  souls  of  unbaptised 
children,  wandering  in  the  air  till  the  day  of  judgment."  This 
is  a  most  curious  bit,  not,  however,  confined  to  this  locality.  I 
should  be  glad  to  hear  what  any  of  your  correspondents  ma; 
be  able  to  say  in  the  matter  of  "  Gabriel-hounds." 

Thomas  Ratcliffe. 

The  following  is  from  the  Yorlattere  Magazine : — "  It  is  some- 
what surprising  to  find  in  this,  the  nineteenth  century,  to 
what  a  large  extent  silly  superstition  prevails  in  the  every-day 
life  of  a  great  mass  of  the  people  ;  how  it  is  mixed  up  in  the 
common  daily  conversation.  For  instance,  one  has  often  heard 
"  I  would  not  go  on  Friday,  because  it  isn't  lucky."  If  going 
on  a  journey,  "  Don't  turn  back,  because  there's  no  luck  after 
it."  If  there  is  a  leafy  smut  shaking  on  your  fire-grate,  "then 
it's  a  stranger  about  to  visit  you."  Does  a  cinder  fly  out  of  the 
fire  with  a  hollow  side,  "  then  it's  a  coffin  for  you."  If  a  corpse 
retains  a  soft  fleshy  feeling  until  the  funeral,  "  then  there  will 
be  another  death  among  the  near  relatives  of  the  deceased 
before  a  long  time  elapses."  Do  you  break  a  looking-glass, 
4 'then  there  is  trouble  in  store  for  you."  (I  should  think  so, 
particularly  if  it  be  a  costly  one,  and  not  your  own.)  Have 
you  heard  the  ticking  of  a  spider,  of  course  it's  "  the  death 
watch ; "  or  the  howling  of  a  dog  during  the  night,  then  some 
one  near  you  is  going  to  die.  (Very  likely,  if  you  reside  in  a 
populous  locality.}  I  lately  heard  a  person  say,  "  They  say  be 
couldn't  die  easy  oecause  he  was  laid  on  a  feather  bed."  Some- 
times it  is  a  feather  pillow  that  is  blamed.  Sometimes  old 
people  will  say,  "  You  will  never  be  able  to  raise  that  child, 
because  it  has  a  blue  vein  on  its  nose."  Many  persons  will 
not  give  a  light  during  Christmas  time,  because  it  is  unlucky 


yorkshibe  folk-lore.  99 

to  do  so.  If  you  have  money  in  yonr  pocket  when  yon  hear 
the  cuckoo  for  the  first  time  in  the  season,  "  then  you  will  be 
lucky  daring  the  year."  To  spill  salt  is  a  sign  of  sorrow  in 
store  for  yon.  To  have  crickets  in  yonr  house  is  a  lucky  sign. 
I  have  heard  of  one  family  who  gathered  up  all  they  could  find, 
(and  they  had  a  large  lot  of  them),  and  took  them  with  them 
when  they  removed  from  ope  house  to  another.  If  you  bathe 
in  the  sea,  be  sure  and  bathe  an  odd  number  of  times,  and  also 
duck  yourselves  an  odd  number  of  times  at  each  bath,  if  you 
don't  it  is  unlucky.  S.B. 
o 

Living  in  History. — A  story  is  told  of  a  soldier,  who,  when 
entering  one  of  the  European  battles,  was  so  terrified  with  the 
rattle  of  musketry  and  the  noise  of  war,  that  he  ran  behind  a 
tree  or  some  other  hiding  place,  saying  that  "  if  they  went  on 
in  that  way  some  one  would  be  killed."  His  comrade  said  to 
him — "  Gome  on !  Be  a  hero,  and  we  shall  live  in  history."  To 
this  the  man  replied,  "  I  don't  want  to  live  in  history.  I  want 
to  live  i'  Pudsey."  S.B. 

o— — 

The  8ibter6  of  Beverley. — (In  the  south  aisle  of  the  nave 
of  Beverley  Minster  is  an  altar  tomb,  covered  with  a  slab  of 
Purbeck  marble,  placed  under  a  groined  canopy,  adorned  with 
pinnacles  and  surmounted  with  figures,  without  inscription,  or 
indeed  anything  to  lead  to  a  knowledge  of  its  occupants.  Tra- 
dition assigns  it  to  two  maiden  sisters  (daughters  of  Earl  Puch, 
of  Bishop  Burton,  and  in  whose  household  St.  John  of  Beverley 
is  said,  on  the  authority  of  Bede,  to  have  effected  a  miraculous 
cure),  who  are  said  to  have  given  two  common  pastures  to  the 
freemen  of  Beverley. — Paulson's  Beverlac.) 

The  tapers  are  blazing,  the  mass  is  sung 

In  the  chapel  of  Beverley, 
And  merrily  too  the  bells  have  rung ; 

'Tis  the  eve  of  our  Lord's  nativity ; 
And  the  holy  maids  are  kneeling  round,  [ground. 

While  the  moon  shines  bright  on  the  hallow'd 

•  Tes,  the  sky  is  clear,  and  the  stars  are  bright, 

And  the  air  is  hushed  and  mild ; 
Befitting  well  the  holy  night, 

When  o'er  Judah's  mountains  wild 
The  mystic  star  blazed  bright  and  free, 

And  sweet  rang  the  heavenly  minstrelsy. 

The  nuns  have  risen  through  the  oloister  dim, 

Each  seeks  her  lonely  cell ; 
To  pray  alone  till  the  joyful  hymn 

On  the  midnight  breeze  shall  swell ; 
And  all  are  gone  save  two  sisters  fair, 

Who  stand  in  the  moonlight  silent  there. 


100  YORK8HIRE    FOLKLORE. 

Now  hand  in  hand,  through  the  shadowy  aisle, 

Like  airy  things  they've  passed, 
With  noiseless  step,  and  with  gentle  smile, 

And  meek  eyes  heavenward  cast  ; 
Like  things  too  pure  upon  earth  to  stay, 

They  have  fled  like  a  vision  of  light  away. 

And  again  the  merry  bells  have  rung, 

So  sweet  through  the  starry  sky ; 
For  the  midnight  mass  hath  this  night  been  sung, 

And  the  chalice  is  lifted  high, 
And  the  nuns  are  kneeling  in  holiest  prayer, 

Yes,  all,  save  these  meek-eyed  sisters  fair. 

Then  up  rose  the  abbess,  she  sought  around, 
But  in  vain,  for  these  gentle  maids ; 

They  were  ever  the  first  at  the  mass  bell's  sound. 
Have  they  fled  these  holy  shades  ? 

Or  can  they  be  numbered  among  the  dead  ? 
Oh !  whither  can  these  fair  maids  be  fled  ? 

The  snows  have  melted,  the  fields  are  green, 

The  Cuckoo  singeth  loud, 
The  flowers  are  budding,  the  sunny  sheen 

Beams  bright  through  the  parted  cloud, 
And  maidens  are  gathering  the  sweet  breath'd  May, 

But  these  gentle  sisters,  oh,  where  are  they? 

The  summer  is  come  in  rosy  pride, 
'Tis  the  eve  of  the  blessed  Saint  John, 

And  the  holy  nuns  after  vespertide, 
All  forth  from  the  chapel  are  gone  ; 

While  to  taste  the  cool  of  the  evening  hour, 
s  The  abbess  hath  sought  the  topmost  tower. 

"  Gramercy  sweet  ladye  1  and  can  it  be, 

The  long  lost  sisters  fair 
On  the  threshold  lie  calm  and  silently, 

As  in  holiest  slumber  there ! 
Yet  sleep  they  not,  but  entranced  they  lie, 

With  lifted"  hands  and  heavenward  eye." 

"  0  long  lost  maidens,  arise !  arise  1 

Say  when  did  you  hither  stray  ?  "  [eves, 

They  have  turned  to  the  abbess  with  their  meek  bine 

"  Not  an  hour  has  passed  away, 
But  glorious  visions  our  eyes  have  seen ; 

Oh  sure  in  the  kingdom  of  heaven  we've  been ! " 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  101 

There  is  joy  in  the  convent  of  Beverley, 
Now  these  saintly  maidens  are  found, 

And  to  hear  their  story  right  wonderingly, 
The  nuns  have  gathered  around 

The  long  lost  maidens,  to  whom  was  given 
To  live  so  long  the  life  of  heaven. 

And  again  the  chapel  bell  is  rung, 

And  all  to  the  altar  repair, 
And  sweetly  the  midnight  lauds  are  sung, 

By  the  sainted  sisters  there  ; 
While  their  heaven-taught  voices  softly  rise 

Like  an  incense  cloud  to  the  silent  skies. 

The  maidens  have  risen,  with  noiseless  tread 

They  glide  o'er  the  marble  floor ; 
They  seek  the  abbess  with  bended  head — 

"  Thy  blessing  we  would  implore, 
Dear  mother  ?  for  ere  the  coming  day 

Shall  burst  into  light,  we  must  hence  away." 

The  abbess  hath  lifted  her  gentle  hands, 

And  the  words  of  peace  hath  said, 
0  vade  in  pacem,  aghast  she  stands, 

Have  their  innocent  spirits  fled  ? 
Yes,  side  by  side  lie  these  maidens  fair, 

Like  two  wreaths  of  snow  in  the  moonlight  there.  . 

List !  list  f  the  sweet  peal  of  the  convent  bells, 

They  are  rung  by  no  earthly  hand : 
And  hark  how  far  off  melody  swells 

Of  the  joyful  angel  band, 
Who  hover  around  surpassingly  bright, 

And  the  chapel  is  bathed  in  rosy  light. 

'Tis  o'er !  side  by  side  in  the  chapel  fair, 

Are  the  sainted  maidens  laid ; 
With  their  snowy  brow,  and  their  glossy  hair, 

They  look  not  like  the  dead ; 
Fifty  summers  have  come  and  passed  away, 

But  their  loveliness  knoweth  no  decay ! 

And  many  a  chaplet  of  flowers  is  hung, 

And  many  a  bead  told  there, 
And  many  a  hymn  of  praise  is  sung, 
And  many  a  low-breathed  prayer ; 
And  many  a  pilgrim  bends  the  knee 
At  the  shrine  of  the  sisters  of  Beverley. 
(After  considerable  trouble  I  have  failed  to  discover  the 
Author  of  the  foregoing  charming  lines,  which  first  appeared 
JO  the  Literary  Gazette.    If  any  reader  can  name  the  writer,  I 
dull  feel  greatly  obliged.    W.  Andrews.  ) 


102 


YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE. 


Ballad  of  Old  Job  Senior:  the  Hermit  of  Bombalds 
Moor. 

On  Bomilies  Moor  a  Hermit  dwells, 

Who  is  infirm  and  old ; 
His  sod-built  cot  so  poor  and  mean, 

Will  scarce  keep  out  the  cold. 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  108 

He  seems  contented  with  his  lot, 

Though  scanty  is  his  fare, 
And  health  sits  smiling  on  his  cheek, 

Fanned  by  the  mountain  air. 

He  joins  the  lark  in  cheerful  song, 

Which  8oales  the  mountains  high, 
And  floats  along  the  lonely  plain, 

And  echoes  through  the  sky. 

From  every  quarter  thousands  come, 

To  visit  where  he  dwells : 
Entranced  they  sit  upon  the  turf, 

And  list  the  tales  he  tells. 

The  moor-game  linger  on  the  broom, 

As  if  his  voice  they  knew ; 
The  pewits  whistle  round  the  spot, 

Likewise  the  wild  curlew. 

The  plovers  float  around  the  place, 

And  whirl  in  circles  light, 
The  Hermit  views  them  as  they  pass, 

And  gazes  with  delight. 

Hard  was  the  fate  of  poor  old  Job, 

They  pulled  his  cottage  down : 
I  do  not  know  the  reason  why, 

Perhaps  it  was  some  clown. 

How  hard  and  callous  was  that  heart, 

Of  adament  or  steel  1 
A  bed  of  straw  is  now  his  lot, 

And  sad  his  scanty  meal. 

All  ye  that  dwell  in  splendid  halls, 

And  rest  on  beds  of  down, 
Remember  Job  before  too  late, 

For  he  is  quite  forlorn. 

He's  hastening  fast  unto  his  grave, 

For  seventy  years  he's  past ; 
And  when  he  leaves  the  moorland  cot, 

And  when  he  breathes  his  last, 

May  some  kind  angel  guard  him  home, 

And  waft  him  through  the  sky, 
To  join  the  heavenly  choir  above, 

No  longer  here  to  sigh. 

Kind  friends  and  neighbours  round  this  place, 

Gome  read  these  verses  o'er, 
And  then  remember  poor  old  Job, 

The  Hermit  of  the  Moor. 


104  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

When  he  is  carried  to  his  tomb, 

And  storms  roll  round  the  spot, 
Many  will  gaze  and  then  exclaim, 

"  This  was  the  Hermit's  lot," 

But  like  the  seed  of  Adam's  race. 

We  all  must  pass  away ; 
Those  that  live  long,  how  short  their  time ! 

And  transient  is  their  day ! 

This  old  Hermit,  whom  I  have  seen,  lived  by  begging  in  his 
latter  years ;  but  being  taken  ill  on  one  of  his  journeys  to 
Silsden,  he  with  great  difficulty  got  back  to  Ukley,  and  took  up 
his  abode  in  the  barn  belonging  to  the  Wheat  Sheaf  Inn,  but  in 
the  course  of  a  few  days  the  landlord  was  afraid  his  end  was 
near,  so  he  had  him  removed  to  Carlton  Workhouse,  where  he 
died,  being  seventy-seven  years  of  age;  and  was  buried  in 
Burley  Churchyard,  near  Otley. 

Notices  of  Old  Job  appear  in  "Old  Yorkshire,"  "Ilklev 
Ancient  and  Modern,"  and  in  a  pamphlet  published  by  Mr.  T. 
Harrison,  Bingley,  who  kindly  lends  the  accompanying  wood- 
cut. A.H. 


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From,  at  latest,  the  times  of  the  Roman  Empire,  cities  had 
their  particular  emblems,  whioh  they  might  and  often  did  apply 
to  the  various  purposes  of  coat  of  arms  and  seal.  The  use  of 
such  emblems,  however,  by  medifflval  incorporations  is  of  com- 
paratively late  introduction  in  this  country  and  is  naturally 
coeval  with  the  successive  establishment  of  boroughs  under  the 
later  Normans,  and  followed  in  its  development  the  growth  of 
personal  coat-armour. 

The  Seals  of  the  town  of  Eingston-upon-Hull  are  numerous. 
The  earliest  mention  is  in  Richard  H's.  Charter  of  1882,  which 
grants  that  the  Burgesses  "may  have  for  ever  in  the  same 
borough  our  certain  seal,  to  be  ordained  by  us,  of  two  pieces, 
as  is  the  custom,  for  accepting  the  recognizances  of  debt  there 
according  to  the  statutes  passed  for  merchants,  and  that  the 

S eater  piece  of  the  same  shall  remain  in  the  custody  of  the 
ayor  or  Warden  of  the  Borough  for  the  time  being,  and  the 
lesser  piece  in  the  custody  of  a  certain  clerk  by  us,  etc., 
deputed." 

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Neither  this  seal,  nor  any  impression  of  it,  remains.  It  was, 
however,  merely  a  seal  of  'statute  merchant'  and  not  a  town's 
official  seal.* 

The  town's  own  official  seal  dates  from  1881,  when  the 
elective  office  of  Mayor  was  here  first  established.  This  seal 
bears  the  three  crowns  of  Hull.t 

♦Such  seals  are  for  different  reigns  very  much  alike,  and  only 
vary  essentially  in  the  names  of  the  town.  Some  Hull  records 
bear  seals  of  statute  merchant 
of  York.  The  annexed  engrav- 
ing is  of  Chester  and  shews  us 
what  the  Hull  seal  granted  in 
1882  would  be  like.  The  men- 
tion of  the  greater  piece  and 
the  less  is  explained  by  the 
fact  that  the  reverse  of  most 
seals  of  statute  merchant  bear 
a  very  small  and  simple  device. 
The  crown  of  the  King  (proba- 
bly Edward  III.)  in  this  cut 
affords  an  illustration  to  follow- 
ing paragraphs. 

Seal  of  SUttite  Merchant. 


|T he  Borough  was 
granted  a  Corporate 
Body  in  1440,  go  from 
that  year  only  can 
date  its  common  seal. 
Hull  had  also  a  pri- 
vate seal  which  like 
that  of  mofit  port- 
towns  bore  a  ship.  Its 
only  known  instance 
of  use  is  in  1348* 


Private  Seal. 


"Sigillvm  Coinvne  de  Kyngiston 
svper  Hvh." 

Common  Seal. 


106  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

Concerning  these  crowns  the  local  mind  has  been  frequently 
exercised,  and  various  attempts  have  been  made  to  dear  the 
fog  of  uncertainty  which  hung  over  them.  The  Corporation 
have  an  emblazonment  of  Arms  from  the  Herald's  College, 
affirming  the  crowns  to  be  Ducal.  I  propose  to  shew  that  this 
is  an  error.  The  only  authority  of  the  college  (by  its  Windsor 
Herald  and  Registrar,)  was  a  drawing  of  the  seal  of  the  Cor- 
poration allowed  in  the  Herald's  Visitation  of  Yorkshire  in 
1612  and  1665-6.  The  following  is  the  amount  of  information 
therein  contained — 

"This  is  the  figure  of  the  Com'on  Seale  of  the  Mayoraltie 

Of  KlNOSTON-UPON-HuiiL." 

The  remainder  of  the  record  consists  of  an  abstract  of  the 
governing  charter  of  the  town,  of  1661,  and  the  names  of  the 
Corporation  in  1665. 

The  Registrar,  in  a  letter  to  G.  C.  Roberts,  Esq.,  says— 
"  There  is  no  doubt  that  they  are  Ducal  crowns  and  not  Royal 
ones ;  the  field  of  the  arms  is  not  denoted  in  the  sketch ;  I 
observe  in  that  which  you  use  the  field  is  blue,  but  I  can  find 
no  authority  for  the  Colour."  Hence  the  emblazonment  of 
arms  supplied  by  the  College  is  of  no  value. — The  seal  is  not 
the  Common  Seal,  the  crowns  are  wrongly  described,  and  the 
colours  are  unknown.  Again,  Stephen  Tucker,  Esq.,  (Rouge 
Croix,)  upon  the  occasion  of  the  Hull  arms  being  required  for  a 
banner  used  at  the  Reception  of  the  Prince  and  Princess  of 
Wales  at  Sheffield  in  1875,  said  "  The  Coronets  are  not  strictly 
Ducal  Coronets  but  of  the  form  known  as  "Edward  Ills'." 
Thus  doctors  differ. 


" S'  officii  Majoratus  Ville  de  Kyngestoun  super  Hull." 
Mayor's  Official  Seal,  as  drawn  in  the  HeraltFs  Visitation  above-mention** 
and  met  npon  old  deeds- 
It  is,  however,  fortunately  not  necessary  to  rely  upon  the 
conflicting  and  almost  necessarily  meagre  authority  to  be  found 


YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE. 


107 


among  the  national  armorial  collection,  for  the  Record-rooms 
of  Holt  itself  supply  more  fall  and  trustworthy  particulars.  To 
ascertain  what  was  the  kind  of  coronet  or  crown  and  what  the 
colour  of  the  shield  intended,  it  is  necessary  to  refer,  as  in  the 
case  of  most  of  the  ancient  privileges  of  the  town,  to  the 
Charters.  The  Charters  of  Hull,  upwards  of  80  in  number, 
include  two  which  furnish  drawings  of  the  arms  of  the  Town. 
The  first  instance  is  perhaps  one  of  the  most  interesting 
drawings  of  the  kind  extant.  It  is  a  little  illumination  in  the 
margin  of  the  Charter  of  Henry  VI.,  of  1448,  and  coloured  ex- 
actly as  shewn  in  the  engraving.  An  angel  with  an  aureola 
bears  an  azure  shield  upon  which  are  three  crowns  of  gold 
placed  two  and  one.  The  initial  letter  of  the  Charter  is  likewise 
illuminated  and  contained  a  representation  of  the  King,  and 
which  also  is  here  engraved.  It  will* be  seen  that  the  crowns 
upon  the  shields  are  the  same  as  that  which  adorns  the  head  of 
the  king.  Crowns  are  frequent  initial  ornaments  of  the  Hull 
Charters  and  always  of  the  same  form  as  the  crowns  of  the 
shield. 

Can  anything  more  be 
asked?  If  so  first  must  be 
explained  away  the  very  evi- 
dent connection  between  the 
presence  of  the  crowns  and 
the  name  of  the  town; — 
"  King's  Town  upon  Hull," 
"  Ville  Regie,"  as  the  legend 
runs  upon  the  seal  of  the 
Admiral  of  the  Humber. 
What,  too,  does  the  quaint 
distich  mean,  which  was 
painted  up  in  the  old  Gram- 
mar School,  and  which  pro- 
bably dates  from  the  wars 
S'  Admirallitat'  ville  Regie  de  Hul.  of  the  Roses  when  Hull  was 
Seal  of  the  Admiral  of  the  Humber  bold  in  the  cause  of  Henry  VI, 
appointed  1447.  who  granted  it  7  Charters  ? 

"  0  well-built  Royal  Town,  thou  hast  three  crowns, 
Therefore  love  the  king  thy  benefactor." 
Thus  probabilty  agrees  with  fact. 

It  cannot  be  overlooked  that  the  shield  in  this  Charter  has 
the  crowns  two  and  one.  This  is  doubtless  a  liberty  taken  by 
"the  London  Artist,"  and  possibly  considered  by  him  to  be 
quite  an  allowable  deviation,  or  perhaps  the  now  recognised 
form  is  less  correct.  We  err  sometimes  in  imagining  the  me- 
diaeval herald  to  have  been  bound  by  rigid  exactness,  and  are 
apt  to  evolve  a  pretty  modern  system  out  of  a  mediaeval  chance 
medley. 


108  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

The  other  Charter  which  bears  the  arms  is  that  of  24  Henry 
Yin,  which  at  the  headline  has  a  crowned  Tudor  rose  in  the 
centre,  supported  on  one  side  by  the  lily  of  France  and  on  the 
other  by  the  three  crowns  of  Hull,  one  above  another  as  now 
used,  all  not  very  skilfully  sketched  in  a  reddish-brown  ink. 

Long  before  arms  came  to  be  painted  on  shields  the  Angles 
are  said  to  have  borne  three  crowns  upon  their  banner.  Placed 
two  and  one  they  are  the  arms  of  Sweden,  and  in  various  com- 
binations appear  on  the  shields  of  many  of  her  towns.  The 
German  towns  yield  one  or  two  examples.  In  England,  Hull 
is  not  the  only  town  bearing  them,  as  Bury  St.  Edmund's  has 
the  same,  and  Boston  also,  the  latter  by  adoption  among  her 
other  insignia  in,  it  is  said,  the  year  1568.  They  are  also  borne 
as  in  the  Hull  shield,  silver  on  black  by  the  Bishop  of  Bristol ; 
gold  on  a  blue  shield,  with  an  open  book,  by  the  University  of 
Oxford ;  and  two  and  one,  silver  on  red,  by  the  Bishop  of  Ely ; 
and  gold  on  red  upon  a  cross,  by  the  Borough  of  Nottingham. 
The  family  of  Frazer  bears  them  two  and  one. 

The  number  of  crowns  has  possibly  no  more  meaning  than  is 
usual  in  heraldry ;  the  origin  of  armory  was  intermixed  with 
religious  ideas  and  the  reason  we  find  nearly  everything  "  in 
threes"  is  that  the  first  users  wished  to  indicate  and  invoke  the 
Trinity.  The  Church  of  Hull  was  dedicated  to  the  Holy  Trinity. 
The  Town  arms  in  modern  representations  are  frequently  shewn 
with  supporters  of  rushes  (for  its  river  situation)  and  laurel 
(for  its  honour).  Sometimes  oak  leaves  take  the  place  of  the 
rushes.  There  seems,  however,  to  be  no  ancient  authority  for 
any  of  these,  and  they,  with  a  suitable  motto,  might  very  fitly 
be  adopted  by  the  Corporation.  It  can  well  be  supposed  that 
the  Lancastrian  couplet  before  quoted  was  intended  as  a  town's 
motto.  But  the  stormy  changes  of  dynasty  which  from  time  to 
time  have  taken  place,  and  the  varying  loyalty  of  the  town,  have 
shewn  it  to  be  one  not  suited  to  all  times,  and  therefore,  very 
fitly  lapsed  into  the  realms  of  oblivion. 

To  suggest  what  might  suitably  be  adopted  opens  a  wide  if 
not  very  important  question. 


„.       *  <*  »,  Aame,  three Roj»I 

Kingston-upon-Hull.  Ciowm  or. 


YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE.  109 

CoUter-Vale  tHRorbs. — (ronihuwb.) 

Cah,  cow.    Cawf,  mutty-cawf,  calf. 

Cahcummer,  cowcummer,  encumber. 

Cali-lady,  cow-lady,  the  lady-bird  beetle.    Held  in  veneration. 
"  Lady-bird,  lady-bird,  fly  away  home." 

Catting,  ailing,  weakly. 

Caise,  kecks,  boys  make  music-pipes  of  them. 

Caitiff,  sickly,  helpless. 

Cat-rigg'd,  doth  which  by  lying  too  long  in  the  fuller's  stocks, 
receives  folds  or  ridges.     (Watson.) 

Candler,  chandler. 

Candlesticks  or  castles,  a  boys'  game.  Two  piles  of  stones,  a 
score  yards  apart,  with  equal  number  of  boys  at  each  pile. 
Each  throws  a  stone  to  knock  the  opposite  castle  down, 
and  if  one  succeeds,  his  party  has  to  run  backwards  way 
as  far  as  possible,  pursued  by  the  opponents  who  have  to 
ride  their  conquerors  to  the  fallen  castle. 

Cained,  the  white  substance  on  the  top  of  bottled  ale.  (Watson.) 

Cart-gate,  road-way  for  carts. 

Cant,  nimble,  spoken  of  vigorous  old  people. 

Causey,  causeway. 

Capper,  puzzler,  chief.     Capping,  astonishing. 

Casement,  a  pane  in  a  window  that  opens  on  hinges. 

Cahrin',  cowering,  bending,  hiding,  coiled. 

Cal,  kal,  gossipper. 

Call,  to  scold.    A  call,  a  need. 

Cakes,  unites  in  a  mass,  cinders  (verb). 

Cammeril,  a  strong  notched  stick  used  by  butchers,  especially 
noted  as  the  professional  staff  of  the  old  itinerant  pig- 
butchers.  It  was  pushed  through  the  ham  strings  of  the 
animal's  hind  legs,  and  thus  hung  in  the  cottage  until  the 
next  day — the  '  cutting-up  day.' 

Can,  tin  vessel. 

Cappfl,  a  leather  patch  on  a  shoe. 

Carcass,  body  of  human  being  or  beast,  dead  or  alive. 

Cat  nut,  hairy  nut,  earth  nut.     Catstones,  steps  near  a  wood. 

Cawf-lickt,  front  hair  or  *  toppin '  which  will  not  lie  straight. 

Ceel,  keel,  cooil,  cool. 

Cestern,  cistern. 

Chez,  ches,  choose,  ches  what,  i.e.,  whatsoever  happens. 

Chavel,  chewing,  tearing  to  shreds. 

Charity  Sermon,  Sunday  School  Anniversary  Sermon. 

Childer,  children. 

Cham'er  height,  two  storey  houses,  a  grander  house  than  the 
'one-decker'  cottage. 

Cheltered,  clotted,  (Banks'  Wakefield  Words.) 

Chimley,  ohiznney. 


110  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

Chonce,  chance,  illegitimate  child. 

Chowl,  jowl,  jaw,  cheek  to  chowl,  whispering. 

Chump  heead,  stupid  person. 

Chumps,  *  prog ',  wood  for  bonfire,  Nov.  5th. 

Chuck,  throw. 

Chuck  up,  chock  full,  crammed  full. 

Claht,  clout,  cloth,  old  rags.    A  claht,  a  knock  on  the  head 

given  by  a  person.      A  claht  heead,  silly  person,  who 

deserves  a  '  claht.'    Clahted,  patched. 
Clumpst,  unhandy,  (Watson.)  Clumsy,  awkward. 
Clack,  talk,  noise. 
Claggy,  clayey,  sticky. 
Clammed,  pined.     Saxon,  '  clam.* 

Click,  catch  hold.    Saxon,  *  gelecan.'   Also  the  tick  of  a  watch. 
Clawk,  scratch  with  finger  nails. 
Clap-panie,  clap-pandies,  close  hands.    The  p  is  added  to  give 

fluency,  as  in  l  Georgy  porgie,'  '  Ridy  pidy,'  and  the  t  in 

'  a-t-il,'  (French),  and  the  n  in  '  a  norange,'  <  a  napple.' 
Clawmin,  clawing,  sometimes  means  fondling. 
Cleats,  Foal  or  colt's  foot,  from  which  a  wine  is  made  to  purify 

the  blood. 
Clew,  a  ball  of  string. 
Cletch,  a  brood  of  chickens. 
Clock,  a  beetle,  also  the  '  cluck '  or  cry  of  a  hen.    "  War  net  a 

clockin'  hen." 
Cluther,  to  crowd. 

Cobble-stones,  small  round  boulders. 
Cobblin,  large  pieces  of  coal ;   sleek  is  the  small  or  smudge, 

turlings,  the  small  pieces  between  sleek  and  cobblins. 
Cock-bo&t ;  "ride  a  cock  horse ;"  as  in  names — Wilcock,  Laycock, 

it  means  "little." 
Cockloft. — "  He  alwaies  spent  every  afternoon  in  his  chamber, 

which  was  a  cocklelo/t  over  the  common  gate  of  Trinity 

College."    1645.      "  A  museum  of  invaluable  objects  ac- 
tually thrust  into  a  dusty  cockloft,  106  steps  up."  1885.— 

Mr.  John  Holmes,  Leeds. 
Cockelty,  shaky. 
Cock-web,  cob-web,  arrand-web. 
Coddle,  taking  care,  or  overmuch  care. 
Coils,  used  in  plural  in  "  fotch  some  coils  in." 
Covered,  recovered. 
Colon,  stalks  of  furze  bushes,  which  remain  after  burning.— 

(Watson.) 
Cole,  broth.      So  called  because  pottage  was  formerly  made 

chiefly  of  the  herb  colewort.     (Watson.)     Nettle  broth  is 

called  Nettle  cole. 
Collops,  rashers  of  bacon.    Collop  Monday  is  the  day  before 

Shrove  Tuesday.     Children  go  round  begging  dices  of 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  Ill 

bacon,  saying  "Pray,  deem  a  oollop,"  or,  "Pray,  Dame, 

[give  us]  a  collop." 
Cop,  catch,  also  receive.     "  Thou'll  cop  it." 
Come  day,  gooah  day.    "  Let  the  day  come  and  go,"  that  is, 

heedless. 
Cos,  because. 
Cotteril,  a  flat  pin,  usually  split,  to  slip  into  a  bolt  hole  to 

fasten  windows,  shutters,  &c.     (Banks.) 
Cowk,  cinder,  also  the  core  of  an  apple,  and  used  in  the  words 

"  Keep  thy  cowk  up,"  to  mean  the  spirit  or  heart. 
Cowl,  to  scrape  together. 

Cowlrake,  coal-rake,  the  instrument  to  cowl  with. 
Crag,  a  rocky  place.    This  is  needlessly  given  by  Watson,  for 

it  is  known  in  all  districts  populated  by  the  Northmen. 

Creg  will  be  found  in  the  Manx  New  Testament,  Matt,  xvi, 

18,  reads— "Dy  nee  uss  Peddyr*  as  dy  nee  er  y  chreg  shoh 

trog-ym's  my  agglish :  (*Ta  shen  dy  ghra,  Creg.)"    Upon 

this  rock.    "  On  this  Creg  will  I  build  my  Church." 
Crack,  boast ;  used  thus  by  Tillotson.     '  A  Crack  shot,'  a  good 

marksman. 
Cratch,  a  wooden  frame  on  which  pigs  are  killed. 
Cratchy,  cranky,  infirm,  stiff  in  the  joints. 
Croft,  enclosed  field,  homestead  field. 
Creel,  wooden  frame  or  flake  suspended  from  the  ceiling  on 

which  the  oat-bread  (haver-cake,)  was  placed  to  dry  for 

future  use. 
Cree,  soften  by  steeping  or  soaking,  as  rice  for  puddings,  wheat 

for  "  frummety  "  ^Latin,  frumentis,  wheat.) 
Crab'd,  cross-grained,  ill-tempered. 
Cracklin,  brittle  as  ice  under  foot,  also  "  Crackling  of  thorns 

under  a  pot."    (Solomon.) 
Cransh,  crush,  cransning  cinders  under  feet. 
Crackt,  crazy,  "  a  slate  off." 
Craps,  scraps,  pig-craps,  the  skinny  meat  remaining  after  the 

fat-leaf  is  "  rendered." 
Crate,  a  hamper  for  pots,  &c. 
Creas,  measles.    (Watson.) 
Creese,  "  unnatural  fold  as  in  a  coat  that  has  been  sitten  upon." 

(Watson.)    Crumpled,  rumpled.  f 

Cresh,  cress,  watercress. 
Crow,  Craw  to  pull,  quarrel  to  adjust.    The  Townley  Mystery 

has— "  Abelle.    I  will  fayre."     [Go.]     "Cayn.    Na,  na, 

abide,  we  have  a  craw  to  pulle."    (Banks.) 
CresBmass,  Eersmiss,  Christmas. 
Cresaen,  Eersen,  christen,  baptize. 
Crick,  pain  or  twisting  the  neck.    (Wakefield.) 
Craddled,  curdled,  clotted. 
Crooidl'd  crok'd,  lying  or  sitting  doubled  up. 


112  YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE. 

Crowd,  a  fiddle,  only  used  in  the  saying  "  There's  nobody  born 
fiddlers  but  t'  Craathers,"  that  is,  the  Crowthers.  This  is 
a  saying  heard  about  Brighouse  where  the  Crowther  family 
is  numerous,  and  they  got  their  name  from  a  fiddling 
ancestor.  The  moral  is  "  Attempt  something,  for  few  are 
geniuses,  or  to  the  manner  born." 

Cuddle,  to  embrace  with  the  arms. 

Cumberly,  heavy,  lumberly. 

Curchy,  curtsey.     "  The  dame  made  a  curchy." 

Gurns,  cum  berries,  currants. 

Cushy-Cah,  Gush :  Cows  are  called  to  the  gate  by  the  latter 
word.  Children  are  taught  to  say  cushy-cow  as  if  to  a  pet 
animal. 

Oussen,  cast  iron,  a  person  in  the  dumps ;  cnssen  ground  is 
applied  to  a  filled-up  quarry ;  oussen  sky,  heavy  clouds. 

Out,  run  off,  as  "  Out  an*  run,"  "  Cut  your  sticks."  The  Cut 
is  the  canal.     Out,  castrated. 

Cute,  smart,  clever  fellow. 

Daahtalman,  day  labourer.    Wakefield  district. 

Daazd,  unconscious,  dull ;  also  bread  slowly  baked,  white. 

Dab,  a  daub,  to  daub. 

Daffy  dahn  dilly,  daffodil. 

Dafft,  daunted,  discouraged ;  also  a  semi-idiot. 

Dagger,  a  vulgar  expression  for  emphasis,—"  What  the  dagger 
do  you  mean."    (Watson.)     Still  used. 

Dahn  i't'  raahth,  dahn-hearted,  dejected. 

Dam-stakes,  dam-stuns,  mill  dam-stones. 

Dawdle,  idle,  thriftless  person ;  also  used  as  a  verb. 

Dawkin,  an  idle  slothful  person.  "  There  is  this  proverb  here— 
*  A  man  had  better  have  a  Dule  than  a  Dawkin,*  meaning 
that  a  woman  with  a  bad  tongue  is  a  less  evil  than  an  idle 
one,  or  a  slut."     (Watson.) 

Dee,  die.     "  Sud  he  not  de."    (Douglas.) 

Dee-nettles,  stingless  nettles.     (Banks.) 

Delf  case,  a  wooden  frame  containing  shelves,  with  a  lath 
nailed  above  each,  for  holding  dinner  plates  edgeways.  It 
is  so  called  from  Delft  in  Holland,  where  much  crockery 
was  made. 

Delf,  delf-hoil,  a  qnarry.    Delver,  a  quarry-man.     (Saxon.) 

Dickey,  a  *  front '  worn  over  the  shirt-breast.  Seat  for  the 
carriage-driver.    A  louse. 

Dickey-dunnock,  a  hedge  sparrow. 

Differ,  to  quarrel. 

Dilly-hoil,  a  little  play-house  for  children. 

Dike,  a  bank  of  earth  for  a  fence ;  also  a  ditch. 

Din,  talk,  noise. 

Ding  one  up,  reproach. 

Disannul,  annoy,  interfere  with.    (Banks.) 


YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE.  11& 

Dither,  tremble,  shake,     Caused  by  cold  or  fear.     Dithered 

ageean  means  dithered  much. 
Divels,  Devils,  Divlin,  a  small  cone  of  gunpowder  which,  being 

worked  up  wet,  fizzes  slowly. 
Dizzy,  giddy.     "  Dizziness  in  the  head/'  tautology. 
Doaf,  dough.    Doafy,  childish,  soft.    Doughy  breead  is  imper- 
fectly baked  bread. 
Daddy,  Welsh,  dad,  father. 
Dog-noper,  sexton,  ohapel-keeper ;  though  he  has  no  longer  to 

4  nope  '  (hit  on  the  head,)  dogs. 
Dalley,  tarry,  delay.     ?  French  origin. 
Daker  hen,  grass  drake,  corn-crake. 
Doff,  undress,  do-off;   dofft,  undressed.    Doff  it  off  thy  sen, 

take  it  off  thyself. 
Dick's  hat-band.     "  Tha'rt  as  queer  as  Dick's  hat-band,  et  went 

nine  times  rahnd  and  wouldn't  tee." 
Dockens,  docks ;  a  case  of  double  plural.    Children  when  stung 
by  a  nettle,  get  a  dock  leaf,  and,  rubbing  the  irritated 
place,  say  the  nomine  "  Docken  in,  nettle  out,"  as  fast  as 
possible,  until  the  pain  subsides. 
Door-steead,  door- way;  from  stead,  a  place.   Gate-steead,  gate- 
way. 
Door-cheeks,  upright  stones  to  which  the  door  is  fixed. 
Doorstuns,  flagstones  or  causeway  (pro.  causee,)  in  front  of  the 

house. 
Dog-daisy,  the  large  flowered,  wild  daisy.    The  leaf  is  not  like 

the  ordinary  daisy ;  it  is  jagged  like  *  lad's  love '  leaf. 
Dooetin,  dotage. 

Dollop,  a  great  mass.    Dollook  is  another  form. 
Doled,  wearied,  jaded. 
Douce,  drench.    Douoing,  drenching. 
Doy,  pet  word  for  joy  when  addressed  to  a  child. 
Dolly  legs,  the  peggy  or  swiller,  used  by  washer- women,  where, 
in  Scotland,  they  would  use  their  own  in  treading  the 
clothes  in  a  tub  of  water.    Washing  machines  are  super- 
annuating these  old  friends.    It  consists  of  a  stout  round 
piece  of  wood  about  2  feet  long,  with  a  cross  beam  about 
18  inches  at  the  top,  and  a  round  piece  at  the  bottom  (9 
inches  diameter,)  in  which  five  or  six  feet  are  placed,  abont 
a  foot  long,  and  all  smoothly  planed  to  '  swill '  the  clothes 
round  and  back  again  in  the  wash  tub. 
Donch,  dainty  of  appetite. 

Doublet,  quite  obsolete,  but  singlet  is  used  for  waist-coat. 
Dossy,  slut.    What  a  dossy ! 
Drahnded,  drowned. 
Drate,  drawling,  slow  of  speech. 

Drat,  drot,  od  rot,  a  form  of  imprecation.    "  I'll  rot  you,"  or 
make  you  tremble.    ?  from  the  Hebrew,  rod,  to  tremble. 
y.  f-l.  i 


114  YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE. 

Dredgin  box,  a  tin  flour  box  with  holes  in  the  lid,  like  a  pepper 
box  ;  for  sprinkling  flour. 

Drink,  ale,  or  home-brewed  beer. 

Drinkin  time,  tea-time,  four  to  six  o'clock  p.m.  Harvest  men 
are  allowed  wages  per  day  with  fornooin  (10  o'clock)  and 
afternoon  (4  o'clock)  drinkins. 

Drop  it,  be  quiet,  *  give  over ' ;  leave  it  (or  me)  alone. 

Drnkken,  druffen,  tipsy,  drunken. 

Drop-dry,  water  tight  roof.     (Wakefield.) 

Dree  work,  dree  way,  wearisome,  dreary. 

Draff,  malt  after  brewing.  Used  for  food  of  cows,  pigs.  Ang. 
Sax.  draff,  thrown  away. 

Dubler,  a  pewter  (pewther)  dish.     British  dtcbler. 

Durn,  a  piece  of  wood,  or  stone,  by  which  doors  and  gates 
hang.     (Watson.) 

Duck-stooan,  a  boys'  game.  Each  boy  gets  a  boulder,  and  one 
is  chosen  by  lottery,  or  footing,  to  place  his  boulder  (or 
duck)  on  a  flat  stone,  whilst  the  rest  stand  at  a  marked 
distance  and  throw  their  stones  at  the  sitting  duck.  If 
one  picks  his  boulder  up,  the  boy  who  owns  the  imprisoned 
duck  endeavours  to  touch  him  before  he  can  return  to  the 
den,  and  then  hastens  to  seize  his  own  duck  from  its  perch, 
and  run  off  to  the  den.  The  boy  thus  touched  has  to  place 
his  duck  in  prison,  but  if  he  gets  it  down  before  the  other 
is  up,  there  are  two  ducks  to  shy  (i.e.  throw)  at.  flow- 
ever,  it  often  happens  that  whilst  the  boy  in  charge  of  the 
duck  is  striving  to  touch  a  returning  boy,  his  duck  is 
knocked  off  its  perch  by  another  boy's  boulder,  and  he 
must  replace  his  duck  before  he  can  touch  any  returning 
boy.  It  is  a  very  dangerous  game,  and  seems  to  be  allied 
to  the  *  throwing  at  cocks '  on  Pancake  Tuesday,  formerly 
in  vogue. 

Dufft,  yielded.    Duffer,  a  coward,  a  yielder. 

Duberd  heead,  dull  board,  or  wooden  headed,  a  dunce,  a  numb- 
skull, thick-head. 

Dunnock,  dicky  dunnock,  a  hedge  sparrow ;  blue  eggs. 

Dule,  the  devil.  Also,  a  machine  at  woollen  mills,  with  great 
iron  teeth,  a  real  demon. 

Een  fair  fall,  equivalent  to  "  make  the  best  of  it " — that  which 
would  have  been  better  not  being  at  hand,  een  fair  fall 
(befall)  what  we  have.    (Banks.) 

Earwig,  Saxon — eorth-wigga,  earth  insect,  though  the  common 
notion  is  that  these  twinges  cause  death  by  entering  a 
person's  ear. 

Een,  Saxon — eagan,  ee,-eye.  Old  plural  for  eyes,  as  shooen, 
kine  or  cowen,  swine  or  sowen,  oxen,  &c. 

Expect,  suppose.     "  I  expect  so." 

EUiker,  ale-gar,  vin-e-gar.     Sour  beer. 


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EUiker  well,  now  written  but  never  pronounced  "Alegar" 

well,  near  Kirklees,  a  great  resort  on  Palm  Sunday  to  the 

present  time,  one  of  the  holy  wells  of  olden  times.    Helle-carr, 

holy  ridge  well.     (See  p.  120.) 

Eery,  every. 

Egg-cratch,  frame  with  holes  for  holding  eggs.     (Banks.) 

Ehs-senz,  our-selves. 

Eeah,  yes, 

Eit,  ait,  ert. 

'Eights,  heights  or  bills ;  height. 

Eivy-keivy,  (Aivy-kaivy),  trembling  in  the  balance. 

Eke,  an  addition,  or  *  make-out,'  an  additional  bottom  rim  to  a 
bee  hive.     (Banks.) 

Elbow  greeas,  polishing  a  table,  or  iron  fixtures,  with  great 
exertion. 

Elike,  the  same,  *•  Townley  Mysteries  "  has — "  They're  all 
queer  elike."     "  I  am  ever  elyke." 

Emang,  among. 

Em,  Hem.  Anglo  Saxon  dative  plural,  and  therefore  not  a 
vulgar  contraction,  for  it  is  used  by  early  writers  in  the 
old  form.  "Some  of  hem,"  (Chaucer).  "Putten  hem," 
(Piers  Plowman).  A  Southowram  man,  (Sahtharem-ur) 
uses  both  words  still. 

Elsin,  an  awl.     (Banks.) 

Enah,  soon.     "  I'll  come  en  ah." 

Enew,  plural  of  enough. 

Enkled,  entangled.     (Banks.) 

Entry,  narrow  passage  for  carts  between  houses.  A  narrower 
entry  is  called  a  ginnel,  (or,  in  Airedale,  a  snicket). 

Eah,  ash  tree.     Saxon — Esche. 

Espin,  aspin  leaf. 

Etten,  eaten. 

Ewen  hands,  even  bargain.  "  Odd  or  evven."  This  is  a 
guessing  game,  with  marbles.  A  boy  holds  a  marble  or 
marbles  in  his  clenched  hand;  if  his  opponent  guesses 
correctly,  "odd,"  or  "even,"  he  forfeits  a  marble,  but 
gains  one  if  he  happen  to  have  different  to  what  is  said. 
The  other  boy  then  takes  his  turn. 


®b*  ttfrito  in  t\)t  Wiaab ;  or,  &\)t  and  ®ttkie.* 

In  the  town  of  Beverley,  in  Yorkshire,  about  two  years  ago 
[17081 ,  there  lived  one  squire  Somers,  a  very  honest  gentleman 
of  about  three  hundred  per  aim.;  his  wife  dying,  by  whom  he 
had  one  little  daughter,  about  two  years  of  age,  he  continued 
some  months  a  sorrowful  widower;    he  could  not  well  enjoy 

*  From  a  very  rare  chapbook,  with  facsimile  wood-cut. 


116  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

himself  after  the  loss  of  his  dear  spouse.  And  it  so  happened 
that,  partly  oat  of  grief,  partly  from  a  violent  fever,  he  was 
brought  to  his  bed  of  sickness,  where  he  continued  not  long, 
for  he  died  within  a  fortnight  after  he  was  taken  by  that  fever. 
He  expressed  a  great  concern  for  his  little  girl,  and  therefore 
called  his  brother,  a  gentleman  that  lived  about  fourteen  miles 
from  him,  and  begged  him  to  take  the  care  of  his  daughter  upon 
him.  "  Brother,"  said  he,  "  I  leave  with  you  the  dearest  thing 
that  I  have  in  the  world — my  little  daughter,  and  with  her  to 
you  I  intrust  my  estate ;  manage  it  for  her  use,  and  take  care 
of  her  education  in  virtue  and  religion ;  use  her  as  if  she  were 
your  own,  and,  for  my  sake,  see  her  married  to  an  honest 
country  gentleman."  All  which  was  faithfully  promised  by  the 
brother.  Thus,  when  all  things  were  settled,  the  gentleman 
dies,  and  the  brother  takes  home  the  child  to  his  house,  and  for 
some  time  used  her  kindly.  But  at  the  last,  the  devil  of  covet- 
ousness  possessed  him ;  nothing  run  in  his  mind  so  much  as 
making  away  with  the  child,  and  so  possess  the  estate.  After 
many  ways,  he  at  last  concluded  to  take  her  with  him,  and  hide 
her  in  a  hollow  tree ;  which  one  morning  he  effected,  and  left 
the  poor  infant  with  her  mouth  stopped  that  she  might  not  cry. 
For  he  had  so  much  grace  not  actually  to  murder  her,  therefore 
he  left  her  alive  in  the  hollow  of  the  tree ;  and,  the  better  to 
hide  the  matter,  gave  out  that  the  child  was  dead,  and.  therefore 
caused  an  effigy  of  wax  to  be  made,  laid  it  in  a  coffin,  and  a 
shroud,  and  made  a  great  funeral  for  the  child.  Thus  the  effigy 
was  buried,  and  no  notice  at  all  taken  of  the  matter.  At  the 
same  time,  a  neighbouring  gentleman  dreamed  that  that  day 
he  should  see  something  that  would  sufficiently  astonish  him. 
He  told  it  to  his  lady,  who  dissuaded  him  from  going  a  hunting 
that  day ;  but  he  was  resolved,  not  giving  any  oredit  to  dreams, 
and  so  takes  horse  in  the  morning.  As  he  was  a  hunting,  he 
happened  to  be  in  the  wood  where  the  child  was,  and  as  he  was 
riding  by  the  tree  bis  horse  gave  a  great  start,  so  that  he  had 
liked  to  have  fallen  down ;  and  turning  about,  to  see  what  was 
the  matter,  he  saw  something  stir  in  a  hole,  and  being  inquisi- 
tive to  know  the  cause,  his  dream  presently  came  in  his  head, 
and  therefore  he  calls  his  man,  and  bids  him  examine  what  was 
in  the  hole ;  who,  having  searched  the  tree,  discovers  the  child 
in  the  tree.  He  took  it  out,  and  his  master  carried  it  to  his 
lady  almost  dead ;  he  told  her  his  dream  was  out,  declaring  how 
he  found  the  child,  and  begged  her  to  take  care  of  it.  The  child 
was  revived,  and  in  a  little  time  brought  to  itself  again ;  bat 
they  could  not  imagine  whose  it  was ;  till  at  last  it  happened 
that  some  woman  came  to  the  gentleman's  house,  a  singing  at 
Christmas,  and  seeing  the  child,  knew  it,  and  declared  whose  it 
was,  and  that  it  was  supposed  to  be  dead  and  buried.  The 
gentleman  goes  and  prevails  with  the  minister  of  the  parish  to 


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117 


have  the  grave  opened,  and  found  the  waxen  effigy  of  the  child 
in  the  grave.  He  went  to  the  justice  of  the  peace,  to  whom  he 
declared  the  matter;  who  sent  his  warrant  for  the  child's 
trustee,  who,  being  convicted  of  the  matter,  was  not  able  to 
deny  it,  but  confessed  all  the  business.  But  seeing  the  child 
was  alive,  it  is  supposed  he  will  not  be  tried  for  his  life,  but  it 
is  thought  a  severe  punishment  will  be  inflicted  on  him ;  and 
the  justice  appointed  the  gentleman  that  found  the  child  to  be 
its  trustee  till  the  assizes.  The  child  is  now  at  the  gentleman's 
house,  who  loves  it  as  if  it  was  his  own,  for  he  has  no*  children 
himself,  and  is  a  man  of  a  good  estate,  and  is  likely  to  augment 
very  much  the  child's  fortune. 


Tune  "  Forgive  me  if  your  looks  I  thought" 


A  wealthy  squire  in  the  north, 

Who  left  an  infant  daughter 
All  his  estate  of  mighty  worth ; 

But  mark  what  follow'd  after. 
As  he  lay  on  his  dying  bed, 

He  calTd  his  brother  to  him, 
And  unto  him  these  words  he  said : 

"  I  from  the  world  am  going ; 


118  YOBKSHIRE    FOLKLORE. 

n. 

"  Therefore,  dear  brother,  take  my  child, 

Which  is  both  young  and  tender, 
And  for  my  sake  be  kind  and  mild, 

And  faithfully  defend  her. 
Three  hundred  pounds  a  year  I  leave 

To  bring  her  up  in  fashion  ; 
1  hope  you  will  not  her  deceive, 

But  use  her  with  compassion.'* 

ni. 
To  which  the  brother  then  replied, 

"I'll  sooner  suffer  torture, 
Than  e'er  become  a  wicked  guide, 

Or  wrong  your  only  daughter." 
The  father  then  did  seem  content, 

And  like  a  lamb  expired, 
As  thinking  nothing  could  prevent 

What  he  had  thus  desir'd. 

IV, 

The  father  being  dead  and  gone, 
The  unkle  then  contrived 

To  make  the  child's  estate  his  own, 
And  of  its  life  deprive  it. 

A  wicked  thought  came  in  his  head, 
i  And  thus  concludes  to  serve  it ; 

He  takes  it  up  out  of  the  bed 
And  then  resolves  to  starve  it. 


With  wicked  mind,  into  a  wood 

He  then  the  infant  carries ; 
And  tho'  he  would  not  shed  her  blood, 

Yet  there  alive  he  buries 
Within  a  hollow  oaken  tree ; 

He  stop'd  the  mouth  from  crying, 
That  none  might  hear  and  come  to  see 

How  the  poor  child  was  dying. 

VI. 

Then  gave  he  out  the  child  was  dead, 

And  did  pretend  some  sorrow, 
And  caus'd  the  shape  in  wax  be  made, 

To  bury  on  the  morrow ; 
Some  mourning,  too,  he  bought  beside, 

All  to  avoid  suspicion, 
But  yet,  alas !  this  would  not  hide 

The  guilt  of  his  commission. 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  119 

vn. 
For  happy  fate  and  providence 

Did  keep  the  child  from  dying, 
Whose  chiefest  guard  was  innocence, 

On  which  is  best  relying ; 
For  when  the  breath  was  almost  spent, 

A  gentleman  did  spy  her, 
As  he  and  's  man  a  hunting  went 

And  so  approached  nigh  her. 

VIII. 

He  took  the  wrong'd  infant  home, 

And  to  his  lady  gave  it ; 
Quoth  he,  "  This  child  from  fatal  doom 

I  happily  did  save  it ; 
Therefore  I'll  keep  it  as  my  own, 

Since  I  have  none  beside  it ; 
Tho'  such  a  thing  is  seldom  known, 

I  will  support  and  guide  it." 

IX. 

But  as  the  lady  and  her  spouse 

Did  to  the  neighbours  show  it, 
A  woman  came  into  the  house 

That  presently  did  know  it. 
And  soon  discovered  all  the  cheat 

The  unkle  had  intended, 
To  get  the  poor  young  child's  estate 

Who  promised  to  defend  it. 

x. 

The  wicked  unkle  being  seized, 

And  charged  with  his  transgression, 
His  mind  and  conscience  was  so  teazed, 

He  made  a  full  confession. 
The  justice  sent  him  to  the  jail, 

Where  he  is  closely  guarded, 
And  next  assizes  will  not  fail 

Of  being  well  rewarded. 


The  Sisterb  of  Beverley. — Mr.  W.  Andrews,  giving,  in 
**rt  VI,  Yorkshire  Notes  and  Queries,  a  transcript  of  the 
beautiful  poem,  bearing  the  above  title,  says — "After  consider- 
able trouble,  I  have  failed  to  discover  the  author  of  the  fore- 
going charming  lines  which  first  appeared  in  the  Literary 
Gazette.  If  any  reader  can  name  the  writer  I  shall  feel  greatly 
obliged/'  In  reply  to  this  Query — Mr.  Andrews  is  in  error  in 
apposing  that  its  first  appearance  was  in  the  Literary  Gazette, 


** 


120  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

where  it  was  given  as  an  extract  from  a  new  work.  It  was 
through  that  Journal  that  it  became  more  generally  known  to 
the  reading  world  and  in  consequence  of  its  appearance  there, 
it  was  attributed  to  the  pen  of  Alaric  A.  Watts,  whose  style  of 
writing  it  resembles,  and  who  was  a  contributor  to  the  Literary 
Gazette,  and  a  much  admired  Poet  of  the  "  Annuals  "  school, 
one  of  which  "  The  Literary  Souvenir,"  he  edited.  He  was 
residing  in  Leeds  at  the  period  in  question,  from  1822  to  1826-7, 
as  Editor  of  the  "  Leeds  Intelligencer."  Mr.  Watts  however  was 
not  the  writer  of  the  Poem,  which  appeared  in  "  London  in  the 
Olden  Times:  a  series  of  Tales  from  the  12th  to  the  15th 
century,"  1st  series  p.  191.  The  work  was  published  anony- 
mously and  consists  of  a  series  of  very  graphic  pictures  of  the 
London  of  that  period,  each  one  with  an  appendant  poem  of  a 
similar  character  to  the  above.  Lowndes  in  his  Bibliographer's 
Manual  attributes  it  to  "  Miss  Lawrence,"  but  who  she  was  and 
whether  she  published  anything  else,  I  cannot  tell,  as  I  do  not 
find  her  name  in  Allibone,  Maunder,  or  any  other  collection  of 
literary  Biographies. 

London.  Fbbdk.  Boss. 

Palm  Sunday  Custom.  —  In  some  parishes  in  the  West 
Biding  of  Yorkshire  there  is  a  custom  for  the  children  to  go  on 
Palm  Sunday  to  a  particular  well  in  the  neighbourhood  and 
there  fill  bottles  with  water,  which  they  afterwards  drink, 
sweetened  with  sugarcandy,  or  flavoured  with  Spanish  juice. 
The  well  to  whioh  the  children  thus  resort  is,  in  three  in- 
stances with  which  I  am  acquainted,  known  by  the  name  of 
"  Sennaca  Well."  This  identity  of  name  seems  to  point  to 
some  common  origin  and  reason  for  the  custom,  of  which, 
together  with  the  meaning  or  derivation  of  the  name  "Sennaca/' 
I  shall  be  glad  if  any  of  your  readers  can  furnish  an  expla- 
nation. Can  "  Sennaca"  be  a  corruption  of  "  Sancta  Aqua" 
and  is  this  custom  a  survival  from  pagan  times?  or  is  "Sen- 
naca "  the  garbled  name  of  some  saint,  to  whom  the  wells  in 
question  were  once  dedicated  ?  I  am  not  sure  of  the  spelling 
of  the  word,  but  it  is  pronounced  like  the  name  of  the  Roman 
philosopher.  F.  C.  Tbiblwall. 

169,  Gloucester-road.  N.W. 
We  shall  be  glad  to  receive  any  information  from  our  readers 
which  may  help  to  throw  light  on  this  singular  custom. 

Notable  Yorkshire  Characters. — "  There  is  probably  more 
original  and  independent  thought  in  Yorkshire  brains,  than  in 
those  of  any  half  dozen  other  counties  in  England,"  was  my 
hasty  exclamation  after  perusing  Mr.  Baring-Gould's  well  known 
work,  and  further  reflection  confirms  the  view.  The  great  lack 
of  his  volumes,  is  Portraits  of  the  individuals  whom  he  graphi- 
cally desoribes — a  want  which  I  have  for  many  years  been 
endeavouring  to  supply,    though  with   but  partial  success  ; 


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YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE.  121 

knowledge  of  any  authentic  additions  will  be  thankfully  ac- 
knowledged. I  now  wish  greatly  to  complete  a  short  biographical 
notice  of  the  earliest  Bookseller,  if  not  also  Stationer,  of  Rich- 
mond town,  Isabella  Tinkler  by  name  but  colloquially  termed 
44  Tibby  Tinkler,"  the  predecessor  of  Mr.  John  Bell  who  was 
father  to  the  well  known  George  Bell,  long  head  of  the  well 
known  publishing  firm  of  the  metropolis.  In  vain  have  the 
Histories  of  Richmond  been  searched  for  any  biographical 
notice  of  the  worthy  Tibby,  but  we  are  assured  that  some  infor- 
mation will  be  found  in  the  Richmond  Pictorial  Times,  published 
and  I  presume  printed  also,  in  Bichmond.  A  complete  File  of 
this  Journal,  which  only  appeared  for  ten  years ;— (1850-60)  is 
probably  scarce ;  but  some  of  your  North  Yorkshire  readers 
may  possess,  or  know  of  one,  and  be  able  to  supply  the,  pro- 
bably short,  account  of  the  old  lady,  the  memory  of  whom  is 
by  no  means  extinct  in  her  native  town. 

H.  Eckoyd  Smith. 

Advice  to  Quarry-men  and  Stone  Breakers. — Never  break 
up  a  stone  that  has  an  artificial  hole  in  it,  or  bearing  old  tool 
marks.  Keep  it  carefully,  as,  sooner  or  later  you  will  find 
your  advantage ;  for  if  in  fair  condition  the  object  may  fetch 
money.  Many  a  pound  has  been  lost  through  allowing  children 
to  play  with  and  mutilate  ancient  articles  of  great  interest. 

H.  Eobotd  Smith. 

A  Yorkshire  Bite. — "We  have  thus  given  all  our  unsolicited 
contributors  a  thoroughly  hearty  Yorkshire  welcome ;  our  motto 
in  this  connection  being  4  a  fair  field  and  no  favour/  it  is  one 
that  naturally  brings  to  our  remembrance  an  old  and  genuine 
county  term,  which  having  become  most  scandalously  perverted 
from  its  once  honourable  signification,  has  been  twisted  into  a 
weapon  of  reproach  and  contempt.  We  allude  to  the  term  4  A 
Yorkshire  Bite.'  Every  one  who  has  thoroughly  examined  the 
subject  must  candidly  admit  that,  so  far  from  originating  in 
any  tricky,  mean,  or  dishonourable  characteristic,  the  very  reverse 
is  the  case.  In  fact,  4  A  Yorkshire  Bite '  is  in  homely  phrase 
'the  best  Vih  luniscj  or,  in  other  words,  the  best  of  the  provisions 
in  the  family  larder,  for  the  guest  or  stranger ;  and  this  as  a 
recognized  matter  of  course  and  custom.  In  our  opening  re- 
marks, we  have  dwelt  somewhat  on  the  corruption  of  proper  or 
place-names,  but,  socially  speaking,  what  is  this  in  comparison 
with  transmuting  the  sense  of  an  honourable  term  into  one  of 
scorn,  reproach  and  contumely?  In  the  name  of  the  whole 
county  we  protest  against  such  a  shamefully  defamatory  per- 
version of  this  most  creditable  and  hospitable  term,  and  trust 
every  one  of  our  readers  will  use  their  best  endeavours  to 
counteract  the  scandal  so  far  as  they  can,  by  proclaiming  the 
truth  of  the  matter  when  occasion  serves." — H.  Ecroyd  SmWi's 
History  of  Conisboroiigh  Castle. 


122  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

Can  any  of  your  readers  inform  me  of  the  earliest  known  use 
of  the  curious  appellation,  smither-eetis,  in  the  sense  of  the 
complete  smash  of  an  object ;  also  whether  the  term  is  general 
in  England,  or  merely  localised.  H.  Ecboyd  Smith. 

Some  of  us  can  remember  eccentric  Sunday  School  Teachers, 
as  well  as  local  preachers.  In  the  early  part  of  this  century 
there  were  established  in  Saddleworth  a  number  of  Sunday 
Schools  in  various  districts,  wherein  were  taught— Beading, 
Writing  and  other  matters  of  elementary  education.  The 
scholars  were  taken  in  rotation  to  the  various  Churches  and 
Chapels  in  the  parish ;  on  one  occasion  at  the  School  in  Upper 
Mill,  a  scholar  was  reading  the  Scripture  Lesson,  he  came  upon 
a  word  he  could  not  pronounce,  he  appealed  to  the  Teacher  who 
was  in  a  like  difficulty,  so  he  told  the  lad  to  "  ko  it  summat 
sharp  an  goo  on,"  the  lad  immediately  called  out  "  Bazzur." 
This  was  so  satisfactory  that  no  objection  was  made. 

G.H.A. 


©n  sonu  (Barlg  |torksljir*  Jtocai  |Jr*acIj*rs. 

When  I  was  a  young  man,  which  would  be  about  1888,  I 
used  to  take  great  pleasure  in  going  round  on  the  Sundays,  to 
one  Methodist  Chapel  or  another,  to  listen  to  the  popular 
preachers  of  the  time ;  many  of  whom  were  what  were  termed 
"Looals."  These  men  were  generally  quite  unlearned,  and 
spoke  what  they  had  to  say  in  the  broadest  of  broad  Yorkshire 
dialect.  What  they  had  to  say  was  said  in  the  strongest 
fashion,  and  had  a  telling  effect  on  the  audiences  which  they 
were  addressing.  All  their  illustrations  and  similes  were 
drawn  from  humble  life ;  and  being  homely,  the  sentences  went 
straight  to  the  feelings  of  those  whom  they  addressed. 

The  first  I  shall  name  was  Jonathan  Savile,  of  Denholme, 
who  died  in  1842,  between  eighty  and  ninety  years  of  age.  He 
was  wonderfully  popular,  although  a  very  poor  man  as  to  this 
world's  wealth.  -There  was  also  Joshua  Northrop,  of  Clayton, 
who  is  still  alive,  (1887)  at  a  good  old  age.  He  was  a  weaver 
by  trade,  and  during  a  long  life  has  been  respected  by  all. 
Dick  Throp,  and  John  Thornton,  of  Great  Horton,  were  power- 
ful for  good  in  their  time,  and  they  both  had  the  most  powerful 
voices  I  ever  heard.  I  used  to  tremble  when  they  were  speaking. 
Eli  Crowther,  who  came  from  Colne,  I  think,  into  this  part  of 
the  country,  was  a  draper  by  trade,  and  quite  untaught.  I 
remember  once  going  to  hear  him  near  White  Abbey,  Manning- 
ham,  when  he  took  for  a  text  the  words : — The  men  which  have 
turned  the  world  upside  down,  are  come  hither  also."  He  read 
this  two  or  three  times  over ;  then  he  said,  "  The  first  sarmon 
that  ever  I  preycht  in  my  life,  wor  tul  a  row  of  peat  stacks; 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  128 

an'  its  naa  seven  years  sin.  Well,  I  think  I  hear  some  on  ye 
saying,  if  I'd  preycht  as  long  as  ihaa  hes,  I  could  preych  a 
better  sarmon  nor  thaa  does.  Naa  if  ony  on  yo  think  soa,  come 
up  into  this  pooilpit,  an'  try."  With  that  he  came  down  the 
steps  to  the  bottom,  bat  as  nobody  took  up  the  challenge,  he 
quietly  walked  back  again.  But  although  he  talked  for  almost 
an  hour,  he  never  once  mentioned  his  text,  or  the  subject  of  it, 
in  all  he  said  afterwards.  Another  well-known  character  of 
the  time,  was  Esquire  Brook,  of  Huddersfield.  He  was  in  great 
demand  for  revival  meetings,  love-feasts,  and  chapel  openings. 
His  preaching  was  not  of  a  very  valuable  sort,  but  then  he  was 
reputed  to  give  largely  when  he  was  invited  out  to  minister.  I 
once  went  to  a  love  feast  with  two  companions,  and  after  we 
got  to  the  place  we  all  went  in  to  see  the  travelling  preaoher  in 
the  vestry.  We  told  him  we  had  a  great  desire  to  be  admitted, 
though  not  members  of  the  society ;  and  he  gave  us  tickets, 
along  with  a  bit  of,  I  dare  say,  good  advice.  It  was  at  Wych- 
field  Chapel,  Shelf;  and  Squire  Brook,  as  they  called  him 
occupied  the  pulpit.  He  spoke  in  quite  a  ranting  manner  for 
some  time,  when,  one  after  another,  many  of  the  congregation 
began  to  swoon  away,  and  fall  down  in  the  seats  where  they 
were.  I  at  first  thought  it  must  be  caused  by  the  heat  of  the 
chapel,  as  it  was  crowded  in  every  part.  But  I  soon  found  out 
that  the  cause  was  religious  fervour,  and  excitement.  Soon 
some  of  them  came  round,  and  began  shouting,  Glory  be  to 
God,  with  all  their  strength.  Altogether  fifty  people  were 
affected  in  this  way,  and  a  young  woman  in  our  pew  fell  upon 
one  of  my  friends  as  we  were  sitting  there.  This  lasted  for 
about  two  hours,  as  one  after  another  related  what  they  called, 
—"their  experience."  -Billy  Dawson,  of  Barnbow,  (I  think 
that  was  the  name  of  the  place  where  he  lived)  was  a  very  re- 
markable man.  He  was  a  farmer,  and  in  great  demand  for 
Chapel-opening.  Wherever  he  went  crowds  ran  after  him,  and 
there  was  often  a  large  congregation  in  the  chapel-yard,  of 
those  who  could  not  get  to  hear  him  inside.  Some  noted  man 
generally  addressed  the  disappointed  ones.  I  heard  Billy  preach 
a  sermon  when  he  opened  a  chapel  at  Great  Horton,  and  his 
sermon  was  uttered  with  great  force,  in  the  best  Yorkshire 
vernacular.  It  was  indeed  a  rare  treat.  Another  was  John 
Preston,  of  Yeadon.  All  he  said  was  spoken  in  the  purest 
dialect  of  the  place  he  hailed  from,  and  he  was  the  most  earnest 
man  of  his  day.  It  was  said  that  his  wife  always  went  with 
him  to  every  town  or  village  where  he  preached ;  to  encourage 
and  help  him ;  but  he  certainly  was  the  most  amusing  of  all  the 
local  men  who  entered  the  Wesley  an  pulpits.  The  Eccleshill 
people  adored  him,  and  I  am  only  sorry  that  I  cannot  give  any 
specimens  of  what  he  said  from  my  own  memory.  John  Nelson, 
Sammy  Hick,  and  Dicky  Burdsal,  had  all  passed  away  before 


124  YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE. 

my  time,  but  their  lives  have  been  written,  and  can  be  bought. 
Of  a  later  day,  Charles  Rhodes  must  not  be  unmentioned. 
From  being  a  poor  man,  he  accumulated  money,  and  spent  a 
•  comfortable  old  age.  It  is  related  of  him  that  once  when  he 
was  preaching,  he  undertook  to  show  his  hearers  how  easy  it 
was  to  go  to  hell,  by  sliding  down  the  rail  of  the  pulpit  stairs. 
But  wishing  afterwards  to  show  how  hard  it  is  to  climb  to 
heaven,  he  made  an  attempt  to  scramble  up  on  the  rail,  but  did 
not  suoceed.  He  had  to  go  up  the  steps  in  the  ordinary  way. 
Thus  his  illustration  broke  down,  to  the  amusement  of  the  con- 

Segation.  But  Mr.  Rhodes,  though  uncultivated  in  manner, 
,d  his  heart  in  the  right  place,  and  has  left  a  happy  memory 
behind  him. 

Fifty  years  ago  very  few  of  the  people  who  lived  in  the 
villages  of  the  West  Biding  of  Yorkshire,  could  either  read  or 
write ;  and  books  were  exceedingly  scarce  in  the  cottages  of  the 
working  people.  Hence  when  a  man  had  received  the  Gospel, 
and  was  called  to  preach,  and  exhort,  he  had  no  resources  or 
learning  to  fall  back  upon.  But  his  zeal  often  helped  him  to 
overcome  all  the  obstacles  which  crowded  his  path.  Blunders 
he  would  often  make,  many  specimens  of  which  I  oould  relate ; 
but  his  hearers  were  no  better  informed  than  he  himself  was; 
and  being  so,  they  did  not  notice  the  blunders  which  he  made. 

A  few  "locals"  of  the  old  generation  are  left.  There  are  of 
course  "locals"  yet  in  all  Dissenting  congregations,  and  it  is 
not  six  months  since  one  of  them  made  himself  famous  by  his 
flowery  language;  but  ridiculous,  also,  at  the  same  time,  by  his 
repetition  of  the  term  negative  several  times  when  he  really 
meant  the  affirmative.  He  was  a  young  man,  wishful  to  show 
his  learning,  and  did  show  it.  But  Sammy  Hick,  and  Billy 
Dawson,  and  Squire  Brooke,  and  old  Casson  are  dead  and  gone, 
and  their  peculiar  language,  their  strange  idioms,  and  their 
undecorated  dialeot  speech  are  gone  with  them.  Many  strange 
tales  are  told  of  their  eccentric  conduct  in  the  pulpit,  and  they 
all  border  upon  the  humorous,  as  much  as  the  story  of  t'Clark 
o'  Beeston,  who  said  "let's  begin  agean."  It  was  one  of  the 
four  above-mentioned  who  described  the  broad  and  the  narrow 
ways  as  follows: — "  Friends,  the  road  to  hell  is  easy  to  travel; 
as  easy  as  sliding  down  this  rail."  Then,  after  sliding  down 
the  pulpit  rail,  he  stood  at  the  bottom,  and  to  further  increase 
the  interest  of  the  subject  as  he  stood  there,  he  went  on  with 
his  discourse  to  tell  how  hard  in  comparison  the  path  of  honour 
was  to  travel.  "It  is  just  as  hard  to  get  to  heaven  as  to  get 
back  up  this  rail ;  "  and  to  further  exemplify  his  discourse  he 
began  to  scramble  up  the  rail  he  had  so  easily  come  down ;  and 
on  arriving  back  in  the  pulpit  panting,  he  went  on  with  the 
subject  he  had  explained  in  such  a  homely  way.  It  was  such 
men  who  led  the  revivals  up  and  down  the  country,  and  carried 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  125 

an  enthusiasm  with  them  that  better  men  were  unable  to  do. 
The  writer  recollects  a  veteran  "local*'  likening  men  to  ciphers, 
which,  all  added  together,  came  but  to  another  cypher,  while  God 
was  the  figure  one,  worth  so  much  in  comparison.  Not  only  did 
he  do  this,  but  on  the  top  of  the  dusty  organ,  which  reached  to 
nearly  the  top  of  the  pulpit,  he  exemplified  his  discourse  by 
making  a  row  of  ciphers  there.  It  was,  we  believe,  at  Lowmoor 
where  another  such  Christian  filled  the  pulpit,  and  when  there 
arrived  in  the  doorway  a  crowd  of  people,  who  stared  at  the 
already  filled  chapel,  and  seemed  lost  as  to  where  they  oould 
sit,  heard  him  call  out : — "  Make  way  thear  for  tf  Pudsey  chaps, 
ye  Lowmoorers,  an'  let  tf  hauf-crahners  come  forrad,"  attend- 
ing to  the  better  givers  who  had  come  from  a  distance  to  hear 
him.  It  is  well  known  that  some  of  these  "locals"  could  draw 
crowded  houses,  and  were  much  in  request  for  anniversary 
sermons  where  a  collection  followed ;  for  not  only  did  many 
come,  but  they  gave  liberally  as  well,  in  obedience  to  the  rough 
and  homely  call  from  the  pulpit  at  tlje  close  of  the  sermon. 
One  yet  Eves  who  in  his  younger  days  walked  away  a  few  miles 
into  the  country  to  give  a  morning  sermon.  He  did  not  receive 
the  usual  invitation  to  dinner,  and  had  therefore  to  walk  baok 
home  to  his  mid-day  meal.  But  he  was  revenged  upon  them 
in  his  own  way.  His  next  sermon  at  that  plaoe  was  an  evening 
one ;  before  he  began  he  hung  upon  the  corner  of  the  pulpit  an 
old  torn  handkerchief,  and  at  the  finish  of  the  sermon,  before 
the  prayer  meeting  which  was  to  follow,  he  opened  the  hand- 
kerchief and  commenced  to  eat.  "  I  came,"  he  said,  "  to  preach 
one  day  and  had  no  dinner,  so  I  thought  it  best  to  bring  some- 
thing with  me  this  time."  Old  Bammy  Senior  never  made  an 
allusion  to  Noah  but  as  Mr.  Noah;  and  many  others  as  curious 
as  he,  lived  and  moved  and  had  their  being  forty  years  ago,  and 
gave  their  little  surpluses  to  charitable  purposes. 

What  follows  appeared  recently  in  a  monthly  issue  of  the 
Wedeyan  Methodist  Magazine  and  confirms  what  has  previously 
been  said : — 

It  must  be  confessed  that,  from  the  days  of  John  Nelson 
downward,  Yorkshire  has  been  distinguished  for  its  powerful 
local  preachers.  Some  of  them  have  not  been  allowed  to  pass 
away  without  memorial,  notably  Richard  Burdsall,  Sammy 
Hick,  William  Dawson,  Squire  Brook,  and  John  Preston,  of 
Yeadon,  better  known  to  many  readers  as  Johan  Preston.  For 
two  intervals  of  more  than  a  year's  duration  he  was,  inju- 
diciously, as  we  think,  excluded  from  the  Grove  pulpit;  the 
first  time  on  account  of  his  leading  part  in  Mr.  Parker's  revival, 
the  second  because  of  the  supposed  ill-effect  of  his  rich,  though 
rough,  humour  on  the  lads.  For  ourselves,  we  never  heard  a 
syllable  from  Preston  that  tended  to  irreverence.  And  we  have 
no  hesitation  in  saying  that,  in  preaching  to  the  young  or  the 


126  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

old,  the  strong  or  even  rough  vernacular  is  far  preferable  to 
grandiloquent  inflation,  and  that  rustic  point  and  power  is 
much  better  than  a  dead  level  of  monotonous  respectability. 
Give  us  a  man  of  unlettered  genius  and  true  spiritual  force 
rather  than  such  a  one  as  Jay  so  happily  described:  "His  only 
defect  is  that  he  has  no  excellence,  and  his  only  excellence  that 
he  has  no  defect."  Preston's  strong  originality  made  him  a 
great  favourite  with  the  boys.  It  must  be  confessed  that  Joh&n 
was  not  seldom  irresistibly  amusing,  especially  at  the  earlier 
part  of  his  discourse.  Once,  before  giving  out  his  text,  be 
looked  deprecatingly  at  his  congregation,  and  said,  "  Ye  mind, 
I  hope  I  s'all  have  a  better  time  wi'  this  text  nor  I  had  t'last 
time  I  tackled  it.  It  wur  at  Casho  (Acacia)  Got ;  an'  I  had  a 
fearful  bad  time,  I  promise  (assure)  you.  T'woife  wur  wi'  ineb, 
an'  I  ses  tull  her  at  eftur,  *  It  didn't  gooah  vary  weel  to-neeght, 
lass.'  '  Gooah  mun  !  gooah! '  shoo  ses,  'it  mudn't  weel  gooah; 
thah  niver  gat  it  on  its  feet.'  "  But,  happily,  t'woife  knew  how 
to  be  encouraging  on  occasion.  Preston's  popularity  cause*! 
him  to  be  in  great  request  for  charity  sermons.  We  have  heard 
the  late  Rev.  W.  0.  Booth  tell  with  keen  relish  of  the  only  time 
he  ever  heard  Preston.  The  occasion  was  the  chapel  anniver- 
sary sermons  at  Eccleshill.  Mr.  Booth,  who  was  immensely 
popular,  especially  in  his  native  neighbourhood,  took  the 
morning  and  evening,  and  Preston  the  afternoon  service.  The 
former  hoped  to  find  some  corner  in  the  chapel  where  he  might 
hear  the  famous  local  preacher  unobserved.  But  he  found  the 
place  so  packed  that  he  was  obliged  to  plead  privilege  of  clergy 
and  go  in  through  the  vestry.  On  seeing  him  Preston  exclaimed 
"Nah,  lad,  I'se  noan  bahn  to  heh  thee  before  meh  all  t'time. 
Thah  mun  sit  behint  meh  i'  t'pulpit."  In  truth  it  was  the  only 
seat  available.  Before  Preston  gave  out  his  text,  he  said,  "  Ye 
mind,  all  t'week  t'woife  's  been  cummin'  to  me  an'  saying', 
*  Johan,  what  dus  ta  sit  luikin'  inti  t'fire  i'  that  way  for.  Its 
that  lad  Oliver  Boith  thahs  fleered  on."  '  Nah  lass,'  all  ses, 
'  ah  can  noan  preich  like  Oliver  Boith ; '  an'  shoo  ses,  ( An* 
Oliver  Boith  can't  preich  like  thee.'  However,  friends,  I'se 
nobbut  gie  it  a  bit  rough,  ye  knaw,  an'  I  sal  leave  it  for  this 
lad  here  to  snodden  it."  Then,  glancing  over  his  shoulder  at 
Mr.  Booth,  "  An'  a  bonnie  job  thah'd  hev,  lad."  We  once  saw 
and  felt  an  electric  effect  produced  by  an  irrepressible  exclama- 
tion from  Johan  Preston.  It  was  at  the  opening  service  at 
Woodhouse  Grove  Chapel,  at  Apperley  Bridge,  the  great  Bobert 
Newton  being  the  preacher.  The  place  was  so  crowded  tbat 
the  boys  were  bestowed  in  the  vestry,  and  we  happened  to  sit 
so  near  to  the  open  door  step  as  to  command  almost  the  whole 
congregation.  Bight  in  front  of  the  preacher,*  on  a  form  be- 
tween the  pews  and  the  pulpit,  sat  Johan  Preston.  The  text 
was,  "For  wheresoever  two  or  three  are  gathered  together,"  &c. 


YOBKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  127 

When  the  orator  came  to  "  There  am  I  in  the  midst  of  them," 
he  rose  to  his  highest  pitch.  Preston  sat  grasping  his  right 
knee  with  both  his  hands,  swaying  with  emotion ;  and  when 
the  preacher  in  his  grandest  tone  rolled  out,  "  Yes,  however 
humble  the  place,  however  homely  the  preacher, « There  am  1/  " 
Preston  took  fire — fire  which  his  tears  could  not  put  out,  and 
he  half  sobbed,  half  shouted,  "  Ay,  Robbard,  that's  it."  There 
was  a  momentary  shock,  as  if  too  great  a  freedom  had  been 
taken.  But  "Robbard" — himself  a  Yorkshire  villager — bent 
his  magnificent  person,  and  stretched  out  towards  Preston  the 
right  hand  of  fellowship,  and  answered,  "  Ay,  my  good  brother, 
that  is  it." 

The  Rev.  Robert  Newton,  who  is  mentioned  above  was  a  very 
remarkable  man,  and  a  Yorkshireman.  He  was  a  splendid 
orator,  and  also  well  read  in  Scripture  truths,  from  which  he 
drew  apt  illustrations.  He  died  at  Easing  wold,  Yorkshire,  on 
the  30th  of  April,  1854.  "  When  the  news  of  his  death  was 
made  known  at  a  missionary  meeting  held  the  day  after,  May 
1st,  man  and  woman,  all  over  that  vast  multitude,  bowed  under 
a  personal  sorrow,  and  youth  and  age  together  dropped  a  tear. 
That  moment  of  silence  and  grief  was  such  an  ovation  as  a 
worldly  hero  seldom  wins."  He  was  more  than  seventy  years 
of  age  when  he  passed  away,  fifty-five  of  which  he  had  been  a 
preacher  in  the  Wesleyan  Connexion.  Roger  Stobrs. 


Peace  Egg. — Some  of  us  can  well  remember  how  we  desired 
to  learn  the  "  Peace  Egg,"  and  be  enabled  to  strut  about  in  tinsel 
and  colours,  but  now  we  never  see  a  company  of  performers  at 
our  doors.  Yorkshiremen  abroad  will  have  forgotten  the 
appearance  of  the  chap-book  that  was  vended  in  those  days, 
with  its  bleared  wood-cuts  of  gallant  knights,  and  the  final 
black,  powerfully-winged  devil.  We  will  first  record  the  popular 
rhyme,  and  then  add  a  few  lines  on  its  meaning  and  antiquity. 
After  a  wood-cut  of  a  most  valiant,  armour-clad  knight,  we  have 
a  grotesque  block  representing  the  Fool. 

ACT  1. 
Enter  Actors. 

Fool. — Room,  room,  Brave  gallants,  give  us  room  to  sport, 
For  to  this  roonj  we  wish  now  to  resort, 
Resort,  and  to  repeat  to  you  our  merry  rhyme, 
For  remember,  good  sirs,  this  is  Christmas  time. 
The  time  to  cut  up  goose-pies  now  doth  appear, 
So  we  are  come  to  act  a  little  of  our  merry  Christmas  here. 
At  the  sound  of  the  trumpet,  and  the  beat  of  the  drum, 
Hake  room,  brave  gentlemen,  and  let  our  actors  come. 
We  are  the  merry  actors  that  traverse  the  street, 
We  are  the  merry  actors  that  fight  for  our  meat ; 


128  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

We  are  the  merry  actors  that  show  pleasant  play, 
Step  in,  St.  George,  thou  champion,  and  clear  the  way. 
Enter  St.  Gbobob. 
St.  George. — I  am  St.  George,  who  from  old  England  sprung; 
My  famous  name  throughout  the  world  hath  rung, 
Many  bloody  deeds  and  wonders  have  I  made  known, 
And  made  false  tyrants  tremble  on  their  throne. 
I  followed  a  fair  lady  to  a  giant's  gate, 
Confined  in  dungeon  deep  to  meet  her  fate ; 
Then  I  resolved  with  true  knight-errantry, 
To  burst  the  door,  and  set  the  prisoner  free. 
When  lo !  a  giant  almost  struck  me  dead, 
But  by  my  valour  I  cut  off  his  head. — 
I've  searched  the  world  all  round  and  round, 
But  a  man  to  equal  me  I've  never  found. 

Enter  Slasher  to  St.  Geoboe. 
Slaslier. — I  am  a  valiant  soldier,  and  Slasher  is  my  name, 
With  sword  and  buckler  by  my  side,  I  hope  to  win  more  fame ; 
And  for  to  fight  with  me  I  see  thou  art  not  able, 
So  with  my  trusty  broad-sword  I  soon  will  thee  disable. 

St.  George. — Disable ;  disable ;  it  lies  not  in  thy  power, 
For  with  my  glittering  sword  and  spear  I  soon  will  thee  devour. 
So  stand  off  Slasher ;  let  no  more  be  said, 
For  if  I  draw  my  sword  I  am  sure  to  break  thy  head. 

Slaslur. — How  can'st  thou  break  my  head  ? 
Since  it  is  made  of  iron, 
And  my  body's  made  of  steel, 
My  hands  and  feet  of  knuckle  bone, 

I  challenge  thee  to  field. — They  fight  and  Slasher  is  wounded. 
Exit  St.  George. 

Enter  Fool  to  Slasher. 
Fool. — Alas !  alas !  my  ohiefest  son  is  slain, 
What  must  I  do  to  raise  him  up  again  ? 
Here  he  lies  in  the  presence  of  you  all : 
I'll  lovingly  for  a  doctor  call — 
(aloud)  A  doctor !  a  doctor !  ten  pounds  for  a  doctor, 
I'll  go  and  fetch  a  doctor,  (going) 

Enter  Dootob. 
Doctor. — Here  am  I. 
Fool. — Are  you  the  Doctor. 

Doctor. — Yes :  that  you  may  plainly  see,  by  my  art  and  activity* 
Fool. — Well,  what's  your  fee  to  cure  this  man  ? 
Doctor. — Ten  pounds  is  my  fee ;  but  Jack,  if  thou  be  an  honest 
man,  I'll  only  take  five  off  thee. 

Fool, — You'll  be  wondrous  cunning  if  you  get  any  ( aside,  j  — 
Well,  how  far  have  you  travelled  in  dootorahip  ? 

Doctor.— From  Italy,  Titaly,  High  Germany,  France  k  Spftin* 
and  now  am  returned  to  cure  the  diseases  in  Old  England  again* 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  129 

Fool— So  far,  and  no  further  ? 

Doctor.— 0  yes !  a  great  deal  further. 

Fool.— How  far  ? 

Doctor. — From  the  fireside,  cupboard,  upstairs,  and  into  bed. 

Fool.- What  diseases  can  you  cure?  * 

Doctor. — All  sorts. 

Fool— What's  all  sorts  ? 

Doctor. — The  itch,  pitch,  the  palsy,  and  the  gout.  If  a  man 
gets  nineteen  devils  in  his  skull,  I'll  cast  twenty  of  them  out. 
I  have  in  my  pocket,  crutches  for  lame  ducks,  spectacles  for 
blind  humblebees,  paoksaddles  and  panniers  for  grasshoppers, 
and  plaisters  for  broken-backed  mice.  I  cured  Sir  Harry  of  a 
nang-nail,  almost  fifty-five  yards  long,  surely  I  can  cure  this 
poor  man.-^Here,  Jack ;  take  a  little  out  of  my  bottle,  and  let 
it  run  down  thy  throttle ;  if  thou  be  not  quite  slain,  rise,  Jack, 
and  fight  again — (Slasher  rises.) 

Slasher. — 0  my  back ! 

Fool.— What's  amiss  with  thy  back  ? 

Slather. — My  back  it  is  wounded, 

Ancl  my  heart  is  confounded, 
To  be  struck  out  of  seven  senses  into  four-score, 
The  like  was  never  seen  in  old  England  before. 
Enter  St.  George. 

Sksher.— 0  hark!  St.  George,  I  hear  the  silver  trumpet  sound, 
That  summons  us  from  off  this  bloody  ground, 
Down  yonder  is  the  way,  (pointing.) 
Farewell,  St.  George,  we  can  no  longer  stay. 

Fool— Yes,  Slasher,  thou  had'st  better  go ; 

Else  next  time  he'll  pierce  thee  through. 
Eocit  Slasher,  Doctor,  and  Fool. 


ACT  2. 

St.  George. — I  am  St.  George,  that  noble  champion  bold, 
And  with  my  trusty  sword  I  won  ten  thousand  pounds  in  gold : 
Twas  I  that  fought  the  fiery  dragon,  and  brought  him  to  the 

slaughter, 
And  by  those  means  I  won  the  King  of  Egypt's  daughter. 

EntUr  Prince  of  Paradinb.  (Palestine.) 
11  that  be  he  who  doth  stand  there 
That  slew  my  master's  son  and  heir, 
If  he  be  sprung  from  royal  blood 
I'll  make  it  run  like  Noah's  flood. 

St.  George. — Hold,  Hector  1  do  not  be  so  hot, 

For  here  thou  knowest  not  who  thou'st  got, 

Y.  F-L.  J 


380  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

For  I  can  tame  thee  of  thy  pride, 
And  lay  thine  anger,  too,  aside : 
Inch  thee,  and  cut  thee  as  small  as  flies 
And  send  thee  over  the  sea  to  make  mince  pies, 
Mince  pies  hot,  mince  pies  cold, 
I'll  send  thee  to  Black  Sam*  before  thou  art 
three  days  old. 
Hector. — How  can'st  thon  tame  me  of  my  pride, 
And  lay  mine  anger,  too,  aside ; 
Inch  me,  and  cut  me  as  small  as  flies 
And  send  me  over  the  sea  to  make  mince  pies ; 
Mince  pies  hot,  mince  pies  cold, 
How  can'st  thou  send  me  to  Black  Sam  before 

I'm  three  days  old  ? 
Since  my  head  is  made  of  iron, 
My  body's  made  of  steel, 
My  hands  and  feet  of  knuckle  bone, 
I  challenge  thee  to  field. 

They  fight  and  Hector  is  irounded. 
I  am  a  valiant  knight,  and  Hector  is  my  name, 

Many  bloody  battles  have  I  fought, 
And  always  won  the  same, 

But  from  St.  George  I  received  this  bloody  wound, 

fa  trum}>et  sound*} 
Hark !  hark !  I  hear  the  silver  trumpet  sound, 
Down  yonder  is  the  way,  (pointing) 
Farewell,  St.  George,  I  can  no  longer  stay.  (ExU.j 

Enter  Fool  to  St.  George. 

St.  George. — Here  comes  from  post,  Old  Bold  Ben. 

Fool. — Why,  master,  did  ever  I  take  you  to  be  my  friend  ? 

St.  George. — Why,  Jack,  did  I  ever  do  thee  any  harm  ? 

Fool. — Thou  proud  saucy  coxcomb,  begone ! 

St.  George. — A  coxcomb !  I  defy  that  name ! 
With  a  sword  thou  ought  to  be  stabbed  for  the  same. 

Fool. — To  be  stabbed  is  the  least  I  fear, 
Appoint  your  time  and  place,  I'll  meet  you  there. 

St.  George. — I'll  cross  the  water  at  the  hour  of  five, 
And  meet  you  there,  Sir,  if  I  be  alive.     Exit. 

Here  come  I,  Beelzebub,  and  over  my  shoulders  I  carry  my 
club,  and  in  my  hand  a  dripping  pan,  and  I  think  myself  a  jolly 
old  man,  and  if  you  don't  believe  what  I  say,  enter  in  Devil- 
doubt,  and  clear  the  way. 

Enter  Devil-doubt. 

Here  come  I,  little  Devil-doubt,  if  you  do  not  give  me  money 
I'll  sweep  you  all  out ;  money  I  want,  and  money  I  crave ;  if 
you  do  not  give  me  money,  I'll  sweep  you  all  to  the  grave. 

*  Still  used  for  "  Satan.*' 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  181 

The  Rapes  [Rapier,  or  Sword]  Dangers,  about  eight  boys, 
acted  a  version  of  the  old  drama  at  Brighouse,  on  Easter- 
Monday,*  April  11th,  1887.  They  were  dressed  in  coloured 
jackets,  and  card-board  hats,  trimmed  with  coloured  paper, 
beads,  trinkets,  artificial  roses.  Each  carried  a  sword  consist- 
ing of  a  long  strip  of  plate  iron,  with  tin  handle.  After  per- 
forming, they  begged  coppers  from  the  by-standers. 

In  the  North  of  Ireland  after  St.  George,  a  Turk,  and  the 
Doctor,  the  boys  introduce  St.  Patrick  and  Oliver  Cromwell 
into  the  drama. 

01.  Cnm. — Here  come  I,  Oliver  Cromwell,  as  you  may  sup- 
pose, I  conquered  many  nations  with  my  copper  nose ;  I  made 
my  foes  for  to  tremble  and  my  enemies  for  to  quake,  and  beat 
my  opposers  till  I  made  their  hearts  to  ache ;  and  if  you  don't 
believe  what  I  say,  enter  in  Beelzebub,  and  clear  the  way. 

Bteh. — Here  come  I,  Beelzebub,  and  over  my  shoulder  I 
carry  my  club,  and  in  my  hand  a  dripping  pan ;  I  think  myself 
a  jolly  old  man ;  and  if  you  don't  believe  what  I  say,  enter  in 
Devil-doubt  and  clear  the  way. 

Devil  Doubt. — Here  come  I,  little  Devil-doubt,  if  you  don't 
give  me  money,  I'll  sweep  you  all  out ;  money  I  want  and 
money  I  crave,  if  you  don't  give  me  money  I'll  sweep  you  all 
to  your  grave. 

Leader. — Gentlemen  and  Ladies, — Since  our  sport  is  ended, 
our  box  must  now  be  recommended ;  our  box  would  speak  if  it 
had  a  tongue,  nine  or  ten  shillings  would  do  it  no  wrong.  All 
silver  and  no  brass. 

Song  by  them  all : 

Your  cellar  doors  are  locked, 
And  we're  all  like  to  choke ; 
And  it's  all  for  the  drink 
That  we  sing,  boys,  sing. 


3J0rk5ljtrt   $p*{rks. 

44  He  couldn't  finn'd  in  his  heart,"  is  a  very  common  mode  of 
expression. 

"I  am  quite  better,"  is  a  positive  comparative,  when  answer- 
ing friends. 

"I  reckon  not,"  has  nothing  to  do  with  "  ready  reckoners." 

"  He  has  got  his  wage,"  is  never  used  but  plurally. 

"He's  fearful  poorly,"  and  a  poor  woman  told  me  that  her 
husband  was  a  "fearful  reader." 

"Fearful  fine,"  and  "  fearful  grand,"  are  quite  common. 

"There's  a  vast  o'  folks,"  means  that  there  are  a  great  many. 

•  Also  during  Christmas-week,  1886. 


182  YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE. 

"  Think  on,  then/'  is  naked  language,  but  what  of  "  I  will 
think  on  of  it  ? 

"  To  ware  money,"  is  to  spend  it,  and  "  brass  "  is  money  in 
Yorkshire;  and  it  had  once  to  endure  the  "trial  of  the  pix." 
It  is  a  pure  Saxon  word. 

When  illness  is  likely  to  be  fatal,  they  say  "  It  will  be  too 
many  for  him." 

"Do"  often  turns  up.  " I  can't  do  with  this  man."  "  This 
will  do  nothing."     "  It  is  a  good  do." 

When  a  candidate  for  favour  is  unpopular,  they  are  said  "to 
shout  him,"  for  "  hoot  him." 

If  an  unwilling  assent  is  given,  they  say  "  I  am  like."  If  a 
denial,  "  None  so,"  or  "  I  will  not  do  so,  you  mind." 

It  is  "good  to  see,"  they  say,  when  sometimes  the  very 
opposite  is  meant. 

If  a  creditor  gets  only  part  of  what  is  due,  it  is  said  "  He  has 
got  part  money."  If  a  man  is  getting  on  in  the  world,  "  He  is 
worth  part  money." 

"  It  was  all  long  of  him."  This  occurs  in  The  Life  and  Death 
of  Thomas  Lord  Cromwell.  "Into  decay  indeed,  'long  of  that 
wretch." 

This  is  good  Saxon.  "  He  is  carried  on  nicely,"  spoken  of  a 
person  who  is  getting  better  of  a  complaint. 

"  Nowt  of  the  sort,"  is  a  very  resolute  disclaimer. 

A  person,  or  neighbour,  and  even  a  prospect  or  landscape,  is 
spoken  of  as  "  decent."  This  reminds  one  of  the  remark,  the 
modesty  of  nature, 

"  He  did  call  him,"  implies  abuse. 

"  He's  rare  an'  sick,"  in  a  "rare  taking,"  in  a  "  rare  pain." 
Is  from  the  Saxon  (raran)  to  roar.  Roaring,  the  participle,  is 
now  used  in  "  He's  doing  a  roaring  trade." 

If  a  person  needs  assistance,  his  comrade  promises  to  "  give 
him  a  leg  on." 

"  To  pay  "  a  person  is  to  beat  him ;  this  is  probably  from  the 
Greek. 

"  I  will  take  up  the  bill,  if  I  nobbud  get  the  money."  The 
French  words  ne  que  are  similar.  Chaucer  says  in  his  Wife  of 
Bath, — For  mine  intent  is  not  but  to  play. 

"  He  is  better  of  himself,"  is  said  of  a  person  under  a  chronic 
disease  feeling  more  oomfortable. 

"  He  takes  sturdy,"  is  said  of  a  man  who  will  not  yield. 

"  He  is  sadly  let  down  by  his  wife." 

"  He  frets  himself  over  it,"  or  "  He  frets,"  used  as  a  neuter. 

"  To  heir  an  estate,"  is  parlance  as  prevalent  as  it  is  intoler- 
able. 

"  He  has  aged  very  much  lately,"  makes  a  person  stare  who 
is  not  used  to  it. 

"  They  regularly  sarve  him,"  is  said  of  a  person  who  receives 
alms. 


YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE.  188 

"  Gome  oat  of  that,"  is  friendly  advice  when  a  person  is  in 
danger. 

"  He  sets  great  store  by  him,"  implies  value. 

"  Nasty,  or  snasty,"  is  said  of  a  person  who  is  litigious. 

"  Happen  it  may,"  is  distinctive.   [Perhaps.'] 

"  Forth  putting,"  is  energy  of  execution. 

"  I'll  come  enow,"  that  is,  soon. 

'*  He's  a  fool  to  him."  It  is  said  when  the  superlative  excel- 
lence of  some  one  is  pleaded. 

"  What  is  that  man  after  ?"  JSfter  in  Saxon,  gives  the  sense 
of  for  and  close  to  a  thing.     Thus  the  original  sense  is  retained. 

"  What  do  they  call  him  ?"    For  what  is  his  name  ? 

"  You  have  had  your  say"  or  "  I  will  have  my  say,  as  how." 
This  is  clearly  an  outrage  both  on  the  verb  and  the  substantive. 

" 1  am  fair  puzzled,"  is  somewhat  conflicting. 

(<  He  is  safe  to  be  hung,"  is  an  undesirable  safety.  But  King 
John  says  the  same  of  Peter  of  Pomfret. 

"  He  is  a  sore  one,"  refers  to  wicked  conduct. 

"  He's  gone  to  lead  coals,"  would  appear  that  he  had  per- 
suaded the  minerals  to  follow  him. 

"  None  "  is  very  potential.  "  I  will  go  none."  "  I  will  none 
pay  his  debts."     "  It's  none  o'  mine." 

"I  shall  stop  while  such  a  day."  But  the  dialect  runs  riot  in 
prepositions.  "  I  am  richer  nor  you."  "  This  man  is  better  nor 
that."  "  Can  you  do  anything  at  it."  "  He  reads  to  him  of 
night."  "What  by  that?"  "What  do  you  think  to  such  a 
thing,  or  man?"  "He's  got  killed."  "He  is  gone  dead." 
"He  is  off  on  the  rant,"  with  which  we  will  conclude  for  the 
present.  Collated  from  "Nugjs  Literary  :  by  the  Rev.  Bichd. 
Winter  Hamilton.    Leeds :  J.  Y.  Knight,  1841." 


100 
108 


YORKSHIRE    CENTENARIANS. 

Richard   Wrightson,  of  Sherburn,  died  July  7, 

1846,  aged 
Mbs.  Todd,    of   Richmond,    Yorkshire,    died   in 

1790.     Annual  Register.  Aged 

Thos.  Clark,  of  Brook,  computed  to  bee  105  years 

ould,  Nov.  28,  1658.     Ecclesfield  Register. 
Alice  Brearley,  of  Potterhill,  Oct.  80, 1842,  Aged         108 

Ecclesfield  Register. 
1765.    A  Labouring  Man  and  his  Wife  living  in  Pontefract, 

he  108,  she  105.     Annual  Register,  1765. 
1792.    Death  of  Mrs.  Mawhood,  or  Maud,  Aged        100 

Annual  Register. 
1764.    Death  of  Geo.  Kirton,  of  Oxnop  Hall,  near  Leyburn, 

aged  124.    He  followed  the  hounds  until  the  age  of  80 ; 


184  YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE. 

went  in  a  chair  to  the  unkennelling  of  the  hounds  until 
100,  and  made  very  free  with  the  bottle  until  110. 

Annual  RegisUr. 

In  Whitby  Parish  Church  Yard,  near  the  top  of  the  steps, 
is  a  stone  bearing  the  following : — 

To  the 

Memory  of 

Esther  Lino,  who  died 

Nov.  the  2nd,  1770, 

Aged  109  years. 

The  longest  liver  to  Death's  power  must  yield ; 

Nor  ought  below  can  from  that  Tyrant  shield. 

[Copied,  April  11th,  1887.] 

Hannah,  Widow  of  Joseph  Wilkinson,  of  Idle  Workhouse, 
aged  108,  buried  at  Calverley  Church  in  1790. 

Richard  Farber,  of  Bolton,  near  Bradford,  a  native  of  Idel, 
aged  100,  buried  at  Calverley  Church  in  1657. 

Elizabeth,  Widow  of  Daniel  Farrer,  of  Owlcoates,  aged  105, 
buried  at  Calverley  Church  in  1779. 

Old  Dame  Lobley,  of  Pudsey,  aged  99,  buried  at  Calverley 
Church  in  1672. 

Agnes  Bboadley,  of  Bagley,  aged  106,  buried  at  Calverley 
Church,  May  10,  1718. 

Elizabeth  Cromack,  of  Idle,  aged  99*  buried  at  Calverley 
Church  in  1827.  Her  grandson  'long  Benjamin/  re- 
quired a  coffin  seven  feet  eleven  inches  long. 

1782.  Valentine  Cateby,  aged  116,  of  Preston,  near  Hull. 
He  went  to  sea  in  his  eighteenth  year,  and  continued  a  sailor 
for  about  86  years;  he  afterwards  became  a  farmer,  which 
calling  he  also  followed  36  years.  His  diet,  especially  for  the 
last  twenty  years  of  his  life,  was  milk  and  biscuit.  His  intel- 
lect was  perfect  and  composed  up  to  the  close  of  his  life. 

Robert  Ogleby,  commonly  known  by  the  name  of  the  "  Old 
Tinker,"  was  born  at  Bipon  on  the  16th  of  November,  1654,  as 
appears  by  the  register,  and,  to  corroborate  which,  his  own 
account  of  himself  is  that  he  was  put  apprentice  in  1668,  to 
one  Sellers,  a  brazier,  at  York,  when  he  was  fourteen  years  of 
age ;  that  he  served  seven  years  in  that  capacity,  and  two  years 
more  as  journeyman.  He  then  began  business  for  himself  at 
Bipon,  which  he  carried  on  five  years,  and  failed.  After  which 
he  went  to  Hull,  and  wrought  journey  work  there  four  years, 
when  he  entered  King  James's  service ;  was  sent  with  the  regi- 
ment to  Ireland,  where  he  changed  his  master,  and  was  among 
those  who  fought  under  King  William  at  the  battle  of  Boyne  in 
1690,  where  he  saw  the  Duke  of  Schomberg  fall.  He  served 
about  twenty-three  years  longer  in  the  army  in  different  places, 


YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE.  185 

and  was  discharged  after  the  peace  of  Utrecht,  but  having 
neither  wounds  nor  infirmities  to  plead  for  him,  he  got  no  pen- 
sion, so  he  resumed  his  old  trade,  or  rather  took  up  the  new 
one  of  travelling  brazier,  which  he  continued  till  within  four 
years  of  his  death ;  and  at  the  amazing  age  of  110  woxdd  carry 
his  budget  twenty  miles  on  a  winter's  day,  and  do  his  business 
with  as  much  alacrity  as  any  other  man  at  fifty.  (?)  But  he 
soon  after  grew  infirm,  and  was  obliged  to  give  up  the  itinerant 
trade  he  had  carried  on  for  above  fifty  years,  and  take  to  begging. 
He  died  at  Leeds  in  1768,  after  having  completed  the  114th  year 
of  his  age. 

Fannie  Cavill,  of  The  Grange,    Setterington,  formerly  of 
Hessle,  died  early  in  1887,  in  her  102nd  year. 

1616.    Died  John  Graves,  gent.,  of  Yorkshire,  aged  108,  of 
whom  there  is  an  engraving  by  Yertue. 

•   ( Nash's  Worcestershire.) 

James*  Bradford  records  the  following  list,  and  as  he  justly 
remarks,  if  ages  had  been  entered  before  1818,  the  list  would 
have  been  much  longer : 
"  1798,  Ellen  Lobley,  Bradford,  109  years. 
1805,  John  Fawthrop,  Silsbridge  Lane,  100. 
1811,  Major  Pearson,  Bradford,  104. 

( Major  was  not  uncommon  as  a  Christian  name.) 
1817,  Anthony  Wrigglesworth,  White  Abbey,  clothier,  100. 
1821,  Betty  Moor,  Allerton,  100. 

1840,  Margaret  Walker,  widow,  Little  Horton  Lane,  99  yrs. 

11  months. 

1841,  Mercy  Drake  was  living  in  Pit  Lane,  Bradford,  aged 

101  years. 

1854,  March  5th,  died   Margaret   Baxter,   widow,   George 

Street,  Bradford,  aged  99. 
1849,  Sept.  6,  died  Ruth  Wooler,  widow,  White  Abbey, 

Bradford,  aged  99. 
1861,  Feb.  22,  died  Nancy  Barning,  of  Banner  Street,  Brad- 
ford, aged  99. 
1859,  June  17,  died  Michael  Craighton,  of  Horton,  Bradford, 

aged  95,  had  children  under  12  years  of  age  when 

he  died. 
1847,  May  6,  died  Elizabeth  Myers,  widow,  of  Low  Moor, 

aged  101. 
1849,  Aug.  11,  died  Grace  Wilkinson,  widow,  Denholme, 

aged  99. 

1855,  Oct.  15,  died  Susannah  Stow,  widow,  of  Denholme 

Clough,  aged  99. 
1849,  Feb.  4,  died  James  Atkinson,  weaver,  of  Shipley  Moor- 
head,  aged  100." 


186  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

1742.  John  Phillips,  aged  117,  of  Thor&er,  near  Leeds. 
He  was  born  at  Carleton,  near  Stokesley,  on  the  patrimonial 
property  of  the  family,  in  the  year  16259  the  first  year  of  the 
reign  of  Charles  I.  He  thus  saw  24  years  under  Charles  l.t 
10  Commonwealth,  26  Charles  II.,  8  James  II.,  14  William 
and  Mary,  12  Anne,  18  George  L,  16  George  II.,  making  117. 
His  Bible  and  Copy  of  the  Will  are  in  the  possession  of  John 
H.  Phillips,  Esq.,  of  Scarborough,  to  whom  we  are  under  obliga- 
tions for  a  beautiful  portrait  of  the  Yorkshire  Worthy,  which  we 
hope  to  have  copied  for  our  readers.  He  was  a  bachelor,  the 
brother  of  Mr.  Phillips'  great-great-grandfather.  The  Centen- 
arian was  a  gentleman  of  considerable  position  in  his  day,  and 
owned  lands  at  Thorner,  which  passed  from  the  family  by  the 
delinquencies  of  an  unprincipled  lawyer.  The  stirring  events 
at  Edgehill  and  Naseby  lived  in  his  memory,  and  he  was  in 
London  at  the  time  of  the  beheading  of  Charles  I.  Mr.  Phillips 
was  a  great  favourite  with  Cromwell,  whose  insubordinate 
soldiery  he  had  placed  in  the  stocks,  for  which  the  Protector 
praised  him.  He  remembered  Old  St.  Paul's  which  perished  in 
the  great  conflagration.  He  was  present  at  the  laying  of  the 
foundation  stone  of  Greenwich  Hospital,  and  suffered  loss  from 
the  South  Sea  Bubble.  He  joined  in  the  rejoicings  at  Thorner 
when  the  Seven  Bishops  were  liberated.  He  loved  to  converse, 
when  past  his  hundredth  year,  on  the  great  events  that  had 
happened  during  his  life.  He  enjoyed  uninterrupted  good 
health  through  life,  was  moderate  in  eating  and  drinking,  and 
at  the  time  of  his  death  had  a  summons  to  attend  the  Grand 
Jury  at  York  Assizes,  and  had  a  new  suit  of  clothes  made  for 
the  occasion.  His  teeth  were  fairly  sound,  and  his  sight  good, 
and  he  was  able  to  walk  till  within  a  few  days  of  his  death.  A 
full-length  portrait  ( six  feet, )  of  him  is  in  the  picture  gallery 
at  Temple  Newsam,  painted  by  Mercier  in  his  best  style,  which 
was  afterwards  engraven,  from  which  the  photograph  is  taken. 
He  was  greatly  esteemed  by  his  neighbours,  and  his  society 
was  much  sought  after.  There  is  a  short  memoir  of  him  in 
Biographia  Curiosa,  and  we  shall  be  pleased  to  be  favoured  with 
a  copy  of  it,  if  any  of  our  readers  have  access  to  that  book. 


Woman's  Will  in  Olden  Times. —  The  following  picture  to 
the  life  is  from  Deloney*s  Thomas  of  Beading,  a  Romance  of 
1600,  in  which  Hodgekins,  the  Halifax  clothier,  and  the  Gibbet 
Law  figure  prominently. 

One  of  the  great  clothiers'  wives  said  to  her  acquaintances,- 
"  I  will  haue  my  Husband  to  buy  me  a  London  Gowne,  or  in 
faith  he  shall  haue  little  quiet.  So  said  they  all.  She  daily  lay 
at  him  for  London  apparell,  to  whom  he  said,  Good  Woman, 
be  content,  let  us  goe  according  to  our  Place  and  Ability :  what 


YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE.  187 

will  all  the  Bailiffes  thinke,  if  I  should  prancke  thee  up  like  a 
Peaoocke,  and  thou  in  thy  Attire  surpasse  their  Wines.  Beside 
that,  it  is  enough  to  raise  me  yp  in  the  Kings  Booke  (taxes,)  for 
many  times  Mens  Coffers  are  iudged  by  their  Garments :  why, 
we  are  Country  Folks,  and  must  keepe  our  semes  in  good 
Compasse :  gray  Russet,  and  good  Hempe-spun  Cloth  doth  best 
become  vs ;  I  tell  thee,  Wife,  it  were  as  vndeoent  for  vs  to  goe 
like  Londoners  as  it  is  for  Londoners  to  goe  like  Courtiers. 
What  a  Coyle  keepe  you  ?  quoth  she,  are  not  we  Gods  Creatures 
as  well  as  Londoners?  and  the  Kings  Subjects,  as  well  as  they? 
then,  finding  our  Wealth  to  be  as  good  as  theirs,  why  should  we 
not  goe  as  gay  as  Londoners  ?  No,  Husband,  no,  here  is  the 
Fault,  wee  are  kept  without  it,  onely  because  our  Husbands  be 
not  so  kind  as  Londoners :  why,  Man,  a  Cobler  there  keeps  his 
Wife  better  then  the  best  Clothier  in  this  Countrey :  nay,  I  will 
affirm  it,  that  the  London  Oyster- wiues,  and  the  very  Kitchen- 
stuffe  Cryers,  doe  exceed  vs  in  their  Sundaies  Attire :  nay,  more 
then  that,  I  did  see  the  Water-bearers  Wife,  which  belongs  to 
One  of  our  Merchants,  come  in  with  a  Tankerd  of  Water  on  her 
Shoulder,  and  yet  Half  a  Dozen  Gold  Binge  on  her  Fingers. 

But,  Wife,  you  must  consider  what  London  is,  the  chiefe  and 
capitall  City  of  all  the  Land,  a  Place  on  the  which  all  Strangers 
cast  their  Eyes,  it  is  (Wife)  the  Kings  Chamber  and  His 
Majesties  royall  Seate :  to  that  City  repaires  all  Nations  under 
Heaven.  Therefore  it  is  most  meete  and  conuenient  that  the 
Citizens  of  such  a  City  should  not  goe  in  their  Apparrell  like 
Peasants,  but  for  the  Credit  of  our  Country,  weare  such  seemely 
Habits  as  doe  carry  Grauity  and  Comelinesse  in  the  Eyes  of  all 
Beholders.  But  if  wee  of  the  Country  went  so  (quoth  she)  were 
it  not  as  great  Credit  for  the  Land  as  the  other  ?  Woman,  qd. 
her  Husband,  it  is  altogether  needlesse,  and  in  diners  Respects 
it  maymot  be.  Why  then,  I  pray  you,  quoth  she,  let  us  goe 
dwell  at  London.  A  Word  soone  spoken,  said  her  Husband, 
but  not  so  easie  to  be  performed :  therefore,  Wife,  I  pray  thee 
hold  thy  Prating,  for  thy  Talke  is  foolish  :  Yea,  yea,  Husband, 
your  old  churlish  Conditions  will  neuer  be  left,  you  keepe  me 
here  like  a  Drudge  and  a  Droile,  and  so  you  may  keepe  your 
Money  in  your  Purse,  you  care  not  for  your  Credit,  but  before 
I  will  goe  so  like  a  Shepheardesse,  I  will  first  goe  naked :  and 
I  tell  you  plaine,  I  scorne  it  greatly  that  you  should  clap  a  gray 
Gowne  on  my  Backe,  as  if  I  had  not  brought  you  Two-pence : 
before  I  was  married,  you  swore  I  should  haue  any  Thing  that 
I  requested,  but  now  all  is  forgotten.  And  in  saying  this,  she 
went  in,  and  soone  after  she  was  so  sicke,  that  needes  she  must 
goe  to  Bed :  and  when  she  was  laid,  she  draue  out  that  Night 
with  many  grieuous  Groanes,  Sighing  and  Sobbing,  and  no 
Best  she  could  take  God  wot.  And  in  the  Morning  when  she 
should  rise,  the  good  Soule  fell  downe  in  a  Swowne,  which  put 


186  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

her  Maidens  in  a  great  Fright,  who  running  downe  to  their 
Master,  cryed  out,  Alas,  alas,  our  Dame  is  dead !  our  Dame  is 
dead !  The  Good-man  hearing  this  ran  vp  in  all  Hast,  and 
there  fell  to  rubbing  and  chafing  of  her  Temples,  sending  far 
aqua  vita,  and  saying,  Ah,  my  Sweet-heart,  speake  to  me,  Good- 
wife,  alacke,  alacke!  call  in  the  Neighbours,  you  Queanes,  quoth 
he.  With  that  she  lift  vp  her  Head,  fetching  a  great  Groane, 
and  presently  swouned  againe,  and  much  adoe  ywis,  he  had  to 
keepe  Life  in  her :  but  when  she  was  come  to  her  selfe,  How 
dost  thou,  Wife  ?  qd.  he.  What  wilt  thou  haue  ?  for  Gods  sake 
tell  me  if  thou  hast  a  Mind  to  any  Thing,  thou  shalt  haue  it- 
Away,  Dissembler!  (qd.  she)  how  can  I  beleeue  thee?  thou 
hast  said  to  me  as  much  a  hundred  Times,  and  decerned  me ;  it 
is  thy  Churlishnesse  that  hath  killed  my  Heart,  neuer  was 
Woman  matcht  to  so  unkind  a  Man.  Nay,  Good- wife,  blame 
me  not  without  Cause :  God  knoweth  how  heartily  I  loue  thee. 
Loue  me  ?  no,  no,  thou  didst  neuer  carry  my  Loue  but  on  the 
Tip  of  thy  Tongue,  quoth  she ;  I  dare  sweare  thou  desirest 
Nothing  so  much  as  my  Death,  and  for  my  Part,  I  would  to 
God  thou  hadst  thy  Desire :  but  be  content,  I  shall  not  trouble 
thee  long:  and  with  that  fetching  a  Sigh,  she  swouned  and 
gaue  a  great  Groane.  The  Man  seeing  her  in  this  Case,  was 
woundrous  woe :  but  so  soone  as  they  had  recouered  her,  he 
said,  0  my  deare  Wife,  if  any  bad  Conceit  hath  ingendered  this 
Sickenesse,  let  me  know  it ;  or  if  thou  knowst  any  Thing  that 
may  procure  thy  Health,  let  me  vnderstand  thereof,  and  1 
protest  thou  shalt  haue  it,  if  it  cost  me  all  that  ever  I  haue. 
0  Husband,  quoth  she,  how  may  I  credit  your  Words,  when  for 
a  paltry  Sute  of  Apparrell  you  denyed  me  ?  Well,  Wife,  quoth 
he,  thou  shalt  haue  Apparrell  or  any  Thing  else  thou  wilt 
request,  if  God  send  thee  once  Health.  O  Husband,  if  I  may 
find  you  so  kind,  I  shall  think  my  selfe  the  happiest  Woman  in 
the  World,  thy  Words  haue  greatly  comforted  my  Heart,  mee 
thinketh  if  I  had  it,  I  could  drink  a  good  Draught  of  Banish 
Wine.  Well,  Wine  was  sent  for :  0  Lord,  said  she,  that  I  had 
a  Piece  of  a  Chicken,  I  feele  my  Stomaoke  desirous  of  some 
Meate.  Glad  am  I  of  that,  said  her  Husband ;  and  so  the 
Woman  within  a  few  Dayes  after  that  was  very  well.  But  you 
shall  vnderstand,  that  her  Husband  was  faine  to  dreBse  her 
London-like,  ere  he  could  get  her  quiet,  neither  would  it  please 
her  except  the  Stuffe  was  bought  in  Cheapside:  for  out  of 
Cheapside  nothing  would  content  her,  were  it  neuer  so  good: 
insomuch,  that  if  she  thought  a  Taylor  of  Cheapside  made  not 
her  Gowne,  she  would  sweare  it  were  quite  spoiled.  And  hauing 
thus  wonne  her  Husband  to  her  Will,  when  the  Best  of  the 
Clothiers  Wiues  heard  thereof,  they  would  be  anted  in  the  ike 
sort  too." 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  189 

Wife  Sales. — The  following  are  additional  notices,  see 
page   47: 

ATtnual  Register,  February  14,  1806 : — "  A  man  named  John 
Gorsthorpe  exposed  his  wife  for  sale  in  the  market,  at  Hull, 
about  one  o'clock;  but,  owing  to  the  crowd  which  such  an 
extraordinary  occurrence  had  gathered  together,  he  was  obliged 
to  defer  the  sale,  and  take  her  away.  About  four  o'clock,  how- 
ever, he  again  brought  her  out,  and  she  was  sold  for  20  guineas, 
and  delivered,  in  a  halter,  to  a  person  named  Houseman,  who 
had  lodged  with  them  four  or  five  years." 

Morning  Post,  October  10,  1807 : — "  One  of  those  disgraceful 
scenes,  which  have,  of  late,  become  too  common,  took  place  on 
Friday  se'night  at  Knaresborough.  Owing  to  some  jealousy, 
or  other  family  difference,  a  man  brought  his  wife,  equipped  in 
the  usual  style,  and  sold  her  at  the  market  cross  for  6d.  and  a 
quid  of  tobacco !  " 

In  the  Doncaster  Gazette  of  March  25,  1808,  a  sale  is  thus 
described: — "A  fellow  sold  his  wife,  as  a  cow,  in  Sheffield 
market  place  a  few  days  ago.  The  lady  was  put  into  the  hands 
of  a  butcher,  who  held  her  by  a  halter  fastened  round  her  waist ! 
1  What  do  you  ask  for  your  cow?'  said  a  bystander.  '  A  guinea/ 
replied  the  husband. 

" '  Done ! '  cried  the  other,  and  immediately  led  away  his 
bargain.  We  understand  that  the  purchaser  and  his  'cow'  live 
very  happily  together. 


Local  Preachers. — Sammy  Senior. — Mr.  Roger  Storrs  says 
"Old  Sammy  Senior"  the  well-known  Heckmondwike  local 
preacher  never  made  an  allusion  to  Noah  but  as  "  Mr.  Noah." 
I  have  never  heard  that  stated  before,  but  I  have  heard  a  good 
many  queer  anecdotes  about  this  worthy,  and  I  have  no  doubt 
your  readers  will  be  able  to  supply  many  more.  Sammy  was  a 
good  sample  of  an  almost  extinct  race.  Possibly  such  parsons 
would  not  be  tolerated  in  this  age  of  superfineness,  but  with  all 
their  oddities  and  eccentricities  they  were  men  who  did  much 
good,  if  they  did  it  in  a  primitive  and  rather  rough  fashion,  and 
in  the  days  before  school  boards  were  thought  of  they  took  the 
attention  of  the  uneducated  where  polished  men  failed  utterly. 
Sammy  ever  endeavoured  to  make  the  Scriptures  very  clear,  as 
when  he  explained  in  a  sermon  on  Jacob's  ladder  that  a  ladder 
was  a  "stee,"  and  it  certainly  was  not  his  fault  if  his  hearers 
did  not  understand.  It  is  said  when  preaching  on  Elijah  and 
the  prophets  of  Baal,  he  referred  to  the  exclamation  of  Elijah, 
uCry  aloud,  he  is  a  God,  Ac,"  "  Nah  this  ye  naw  was  ironical," 
he  added.  Then  suddenly  remembering  that  he  was  using  a 
word  some  of  his  audience  might  not  understand  he  hastened  to 
say  "But  happen  some  of  you  don't  know  what  ironical  means; 


140  YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE. 

let  me  see  if  I  can  make  it  plain  to  yon.  Some  of  you  women 
when  you  6end  your  bairns  for  a  pound  of  treacle  will  say 
4  Nah  mind  an'  breyk  t'pot.'  What  you  mean  is  'at  it  isn't  to 
breyk  it.  Nah  that's  ironical."  This  may  seem  to  some  a 
rather  quaint  explanation,  but  I  question  if  some  learned  man 
had  attempted  to  bring  it  home  to  the  understandings  of 
Sammy's  unlettered  audience  if  he  would  have  succeeded  half 
as  well.  Sammy's  explanation  of  the  meaning  of  "  gross  dark- 
ness," however,  caps  all  I  ever  heard  or  read.  "  Let  us  see," 
Sammy  is  reported  to  have  said,  "if  I  can  explain  to  you  what 
this  '  gross  darkness '  means.  Well,  you  know  a  gross  is  a 
hundred  and  forty  four,  so  that  this  darkness  was  a  hundred 
and  forty  four  times  darker  than  the  common  sort  1 "  Perhaps 
some  others  of  your  readers  may  be  able  to  tell  us  something 
respecting  Sammy  Senior.  I  never  heard  him  myself  but  once, 
and  I  thought  he  was  the  oddest  and  most  eccentric  parson  I 
ever  saw.  Nevertheless  Sammy  has  a  good  record.  He  was  a 
shining  light  in  his  day.  Bookworm. 

Easter  Eggs. — In  the  North  of  England,  Yorkshire,  and 
many  other  parts,  &  singular  custom  prevails  in  regard  to  these 
eggs.  On  Easter  Monday  and  Tuesday,  the  people  assemble  in 
the  meadows,  everybody  provided  with  plenty  of  hard-boiled, 
coloured  Easter  eggs.  These  they  play  with  by  tumbling  them 
about  on  the  grass — but  if  one,  or  more,  should  happen  to  get 
broken  in  the  sport,  it  must  be  instantly  eaten  by  the  breaker, 
possibly  as  a  punishment  for  his,  or  her,  apparent  clumsiness. 
These  eggs  are  generally  known  by  the  name  of  pace,  i.e.  pasche, 
or  pax,  meaning  Easter,  but  why  the  Raper*  Dancers'  Drama 
is  named  the  Peace  Egg,  I  cannot  state.  At  Whitby  and 
throughout  Cleveland,  on  Easter  Monday,  (April  11th,  1887), 
the  children  had  these  eggs,  with  shells  dyed  in  the  brightest 
colours,  whilst  the  confectioners  exposed  artificial  eggs,  of 
choicest  workmanship,  for  sale  to  those  with  a 'sweet tooth' 
who  preferred  sugar  to  real  eggs. 

Cubious  Tradition.— A  tradition  has  been  handed  down  at 
Soothill,  near  Dewsbury,  to  the  effect  that  the  master  of  an 
iron-foundry  a  long  time  back,  in  a  fit  of  passion,  threw  a  boy 
into  one  of  his  furnaces.  In  our  time  if  such  a  deed  had  been 
committed  the  perpetrator  would  probably  have  soon  made  the 
acquaintance  of  the  hangman.  The  Soothill  tradition,  how- 
ever, says  that  the  sentence  upon  the  passionate  ironfounder 
was  that  he  should  raise  the  church  a  yard  all  round,  and 
provide  a  bell  for  the  steeple.  The  old  church,  says  a  writer  in 
1820,  bore  the  marks  of  this  addition.  Can  any  reader  furnish 
further  particulars  respecting  this  strange  story  ?    Letbubh. 

*  Rapier  or  Sword  Dancers. 


YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE.  141 

Elnmus  on  forksljir*  $lnzt  fiamtz. 

The  following  doggerel  verses,  taken  from  a  rhyming 
geography,  written  by  the  Rev.  Alex.  Mackay,  LL.D.,  may  be 
worth  preserving.  The  lines  may  serve  to  call  to  mind  some 
more  ancient  bits  of  topographical  rhyme — many  such  verses 
have  been  handed  down  from  remote  times — which  might  be 
worth  recording : 

Next,  Yorkshire  comes,  our  largest  shire, 

Between  the  Tees  and  Humber, 

For  mines  and  manufactures  fam'd 

And  Ridings  three  in  number. 

The  West  is  noted  for  broadcloth, 

For  silk  and  cotton  mills ; 
The  North  a  grazing  country  is ; 

The  East  a  land  of  hills. 

The  capital  is  York,  on  Ouse, 

A  great  archbishop's  see, 
And  famous  for  its  Minster  grand : 

Here  meet  the  Sidings  three. 

For  races  Doneaster  is  known, 

At  Sheffield  knives  are  made ; 
Leeds,  Halifax,  and  Bradford  too, 

Are  fam'd  for  woollen  trade ; 

With  Hull  and  Whitby,  seaport  towns, — 

The  first  of  greater  name, — 
And  Scarboro'  and  Harrogate 

Of  mineral  water  fame.  Sempronius. 

Havebah  Pabx. — When  John  of  Gaunt  was  lord  of  the  forest 
of  Enaresborough,  a  cripple,  borne  on  crutches,  of  the  name  of 
Haverah,  petitioned'  the  kind-hearted  Prince  to  give  him  a 
piece  of  land,  from  which  he  might  contrive  to  obtain  a  sub- 
sistence, who  at  once  granted  his  request  in  the  following 
charter-like  terms — 

I,  John  o'Gaunt, 
Do  give  and  do  grant 

To  thee  Haverah, 
As  much  of  my  ground 
As  thou  canst  hop  round 
On  a  long  summer  day. 

The  stout-hearted  cripple  selected  the  longest  day  in  the  year 

iSt.  Barnabas)  for  his  exploit,  commencing  with  sunrise,  and 
teeping  hopping  all  day  until  evening,  when  just  as  the  sun 
was  setting  he  had  completed  the  circuit  of  the  park  within 
such  a  short  distance,  that  he  threw  his  crutches  over  the 
intervening  space,  to  the  point  where  he  had  started,  and  by  so 
doing  gained  the  loud  which  ever  since  has  borne  his  name.  [?] 


142  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

Here  is  another  verse  relating  to  a  place  called  Bacnp,  south 
east  of  Cleckheaton,  which  must  have  had  its  origin  in  the 
trade  carried  on  by  the  parties  named : — 

Abraham,  Isaac,  and  Jacob, 
Lived  in  a  house  aboon  Bacup ; 
Abraham  [wan]  carded,  and  Isaac  span, 
And  Jacob  fetched  oil  in  an  old  tin  can. 

Bonny  lass,  bonny  lass,  bonny  art  thou, 
I  wouldn't  part  with  my  lass  for  a  fat  cow, 
Nor  for  a  fat  bull, 
Nor  all  the  ships  on  the  sea  sailing  to  Hull. 


If  York  and  fair  London  were  mine,  little  Nanny  my  heiress 

should  be, 
To  York  and  fair  London  and  fair  Coventry, 
With  a  castle  by  the  Calder  side  and  fair  Dewsbury. 

One  which  has  come  down  to  us  through  the  hardy  Saxon, 
from  the  time  of  the  invasion  of  England  by  the  so-called 
William  the  Conqueror,  is  as  follows  : — 

William  de  Conigsby 

Came  out  of  Brittany, 

With  his  wife  Tiffany, 

And  his  maid  Manfras, 

And  his  dogge  Hardigrasse  : 

I  wish  they  were  back  again. 

Hartshead  near  Dewsbury,  has  three  unmelodious  bells : 
Hartchit  cum  Clifton, 
Two  cracked  bells  an'  a  snipt  un. 

"  There  was  an  old  woman  at  Baildon, 
Whose  door  had  a  horse-shoe  nail'd  on, 

Because  one  night 

They'd  such  a  fright 
With  a  boggart  that  was  a  horned  and  a  tail'd  'un.*' 

This  rhyme  was  noted  at  Baildon,  near  Bradford.  It  is  com- 
mon to  nail  a  horse-shoe  behind  the  door,  so  that  the  inmates 
may  not  be  bewitched.  Respecting  this  subject,  we  may  add 
one  or  two  folk  lore  notes  : — There  is  a  great  belief  in  the  anti- 
witching  propensity  of  mountain  ash,  or,  as  it  is  more  commonly 
called,  "  wicken  "  or  "  wiggen-tree,"  or  "  sip-sap."  If  a  person 
be  ill,  it  is  placed  over  his  bed  to  scare  away  the  witches,  and 
the  superstitious  farmer  will  often  place  a  small  quantity  over 
the  heads  of  his  cattle.  The  weaver  would  place  it  over  her 
loom  to  prevent  her  web  or  chain  suffering  from  the  witches' 
influence.  H. 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LOBE.  148 

The  following  is  a  well-known  Cleveland  couplet  :— 
"  When  Roseberry  Topping  wears  a  cappe, 
Let  Cleveland  then  beware  of  a  clap." 
Roseberry  Topping  is  a  lofty  conical-shaped  hill,  in  the  North 
Riding  of  Yorkshire.      The   "clap"  alluded  to  is,  in  plain 
language,  a  thunderstorm.      This  old  proverb  is  noticed  by 
Camden  two  hundred  years  ago.     He  observes  that  "  When  its 
top  begins  to  be  darkened  with  clouds,  rain  generally  follows ;" 
hence  the  ancient  distich. 

Paul  is  a  small  place  a  few  miles  from  Hull.  The  church  is 
situated  on  a  commanding  eminence,  and  standing  by  itself, 
nearly  a  quarter  of  a  mile  from  the  village,  gave  rise  to  the 
following : — 

"  High  Paul  and  low,  and  Paul  Holme, 
There  never  was  a  fair  maid  married  at  Paul  town." 

In  the  "  Popular  Rhymes  of  Scotland  "  (published  1870)  it  is 
recorded,  "  A  native  of  Edinburgh,  who  in  1825  was  seventy- 
two  years  of  age,  stated  that  when  he  was  a  boy  the  following 
prophetic  rhyme,  ascribed  to  True  Thomas,  was  in  vogue : — 
"  York  was,  London  is,  and  Edinburgh  will  be 
The  biggest  o'  tae  three." 
In  his  early  day,  Edinburgh  consisted  only  of  what  is  now 
called  the  Old  Town;  and  the  New  Town  though  projected,  was 
not  then  expected  to  ever  reach  the  extent  and  splendour  which 
it  has  now  attained.    It  is  to  be  remarked,  however,  that  there 
is  a  similar  rhyme  popular  in  England.      Stukely,   in  his 
"Itinerarium  Curiosum,"  after  expatiating  upon  the  original 
size  and  population  of  Lincoln,  quotes  as  an  old  adage : — 
"  Lincoln  teas,  London  is,  and  York  shall  be 
The  fairest  city  of  the  three." 
As  to  True  Thomas,  we  are  told  "  the  common  people  through- 
out the  whole  of  Scotland  look  with  such  veneration  to  a  seer 
of  old  times,  whom  they  variously  designate  *  True  Thomas,' 
and  '  Thomas  the  Rhymer.' "    They  preserve  a  great  number 
of  prophetic  sayings  of  this  person,  chiefly  expressed  in  rhyme; 
and  invariable  tradition  at  Earltown  represents  as  the  prophet 
True  Thomas.    If  such  be  the  case,  he  must  have  deceased  at 
the  same  period,  not  long  prior  to  1299.    The  people  of  Earls- 
town  farther  represent  his  real  name  as  Thomas  Learmont. 
They  point  to  a  ruined  tower  near  the  village,  which  they  say 
was  his  property  and  residence,  and  to  a  spot  in  the  parish 
churchyard  with  which  his  connection  is  denoted  by  an  inscrip- 
tion on  the  church  wall : — 

"  Auld  Rhymer's  race 
Lies  in  this  place." 

William  Andrews,  Hull. 


v 

144  Y0BK8HIRE    FOLK-LOBE. 

From  a  well-constructed  paper  read  to  the  Folk-lore  Society 
I  extract  the  following,  believing  that  they  will  interest  many 
of  your  readers: — Yorkshire  generally. — "Looks  as  vild  (worth- 
less) as  a  pair  of  Yorkshire  sleeves  in  a  goldsmith's  shop." — 
Notes  and  Queries,  vii.,  284. 

"A  Dent  for  a  Galloway  (This  word  should  not,  I  think,  be 
written  with  a  capital ;  galloway— pony  or  hackney)  a  Hind  for 
an  Ass." — Ibid. 

Barnsley. — "  The  town,  from  its  exposed  situation,  was  form- 
erly known  as  '  Bleak  Barnsley/  an  epithet  now  changed  to 
*  Black  Barnsley/  from  its  smoke-stained  houses  and  narrow 
dirty  streets. — Murray's  Handbook  for  Yorkshire,  p.  605. 

Barnsley. — The  people  are  called  "  Barnsley  Folks."— J* 
BairnslaFoak's  Annual  is  a  well-known  contribution  to  literature. 

Beverley.— "On  the  29th  April,  1520,  part  of  the  church  of 
St.  Mary's,  Beverley,  fell,  and  fifty-five  persons  were  killed. 
Sir  Richard  Bokeby,  knight,  and  Dame  Jane,  his  wife,  gave 
2001  towards  its  reparation,  for  which  they  were  to  be  specially 
prayed  for.  Ralph  Rokeby  says : — •  I  have  heard  that  a  bear- 
baiting  and  a  mass  being  both  at  one  time  in  Beverley,  there 
was  near  a  thousand  people  at  the  bear-baiting,  and  only  five- 
and-fifty  at  mass,  who  were  all  slain,  and  ever  since,  they  say 
there  It  is  better  to  be  at  the  baiting  of  a  bear  than  the  singing  of  a 
mass.1 " — W.  H.  Longstaffe's  Richmondshire,  pp.  125-6. 
Bowes. — 

"  When  Julius  Ccesar  was  a  king, 
Bowes  Castle  was  a  famous  thing." 

Murray's  Handbook,  p.  868 ;  Richmondshire,  p.  189. 

Cotherston. — "  On  the  south  side  of  the  road  near  Doe  Park 
(Ledger  Hall)  stands  the  pedestal  or  socket  of  a  cross  on  which, 
as  on  many  similar  remains,  coffins  were  rested.  It  is  in 
addition  reported  that  here  it  was  where  they  christened  calves. 
Some  hot-headed  fanatics  of  the  seventeenth  century  did  per- 
form such  a  profane  rite  in  contempt  of  baptism,  and  Cother- 
ston is  pointed  out  as  one  locale  of  its  enactment,  *  Cotherston, 
where  they  christen  calves,  hopple  lops,  and  kneeband  spiders/" 
— Richmondshire,  p.  188. 

Doncaster. — "  The  profits  of  the  town  mills  near  the  bridge 
over  the  Don  were  anciently  assigned  for  the  special  expenses 
of  the  Mayor,  hence  the  old  saying : — 

1  The  Doncaster  mayor  he  sits  in  his  chair, 
His  mills  they  merrily  go, 
His  nose  doth  shine  with  drinking  wine, 
And  the  gout  is  in  his  great  toe/  " 

Murray's  Handbook,  p.  8. 

Chilling  (near  Richmond.) — "  Gilling  is  commemorated  in  a 
weather  rhyme : — 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  145 

4  When  Gilling  brews, 
Durham  rues.' " 

Richmondshire,  p.  120. 
Gorndre, — 

"  When  Gormire  riggs  shall  be  covered  with  hay, 
The  white  mare  of  Whitestone  Cliffe  shall  bear  it  away." 

Ibid,  p.  240. 
This  white  mare  was  a  beast  more  or  less  mythical,  which 
sprang  over  a  cliff  with  a  young  lady  rider,  whose  body  was 
never  found. 

Kirby. — "Kirby  parsoned.  —  'In  several  rural  places  about 
York  it  is  the  oustom  to  speak  of  bottles  with  cavities  at  the 
bottom  as  being  Kirby  parsoned.  The  popular  explanation  is 
that  this  Kirby  parson  was  "  a  hollow-bottomed  fellow,"  but 
the  phrase  will  admit  of  a  kindlier  construction.  With  the 
parish,  which  must  hold  some  tradition  of  a  remarkable 
character,  we  have  no  acquaintance.1  The  above  was  a  com- 
munication to  JSoUs  and  Queries  some  years  ago.  The  writer 
has  since  heard  several  other  versions  of  the  story,  and 
attempted  explanations  of  the  above  phrase  in  connection  with 
a  village  in  the  North  Riding,  but  none  of  them  are  worth 
repeating." — Glossary  of  Words  pertaining  to  the  Dialect  of  Mid- 
Yorkshire.— (E.D.S.)     By  C.  Clough  Bobinson. 

Lartington. — The  enumeration  of  some  local  sayings  about 
Barnard  Castle  (co.  Durham)  and  its  people  ends  with  "  Lar- 
tbgton's  frogs  and  Barney  Castle's  butcher  dogs  "  point  (sic)  to 
something  like  cowardly  conduct  in  triumphing  over  the  weak. 
-Ibid,  p.  188. 

Leeds. — I  have  been  told  that  "  Leeds  Loiners,"  i.e.,  Laners, 
"  dwellers  in  lanes,"  is  the  style  and  title  of  its  inhabitants 
amongst  outsiders. 
SHpton. — "  The  old  rhyme  hardly  now  applies : — 
'  0  Skipton  in  Craven 
'Tis  never  a  haven, 
But  many  a  day  foul  weather/  " 

Murray's  Handbook,  p.  410. 
Toitton. — "  The  Lancastrian  Lord  Dacre  was  shot,  says  tradi- 
tion, in  a  field  called  the  *  Nor  (north)  Acres,'  by  a  boy  out  of  a 
'bur-tree '  (elder  tree).    Hence  the  local  rhyme : — 
<  The  Lord  of  Dacres 
Was  slain  at  the  North  Acres.' " 
—Ibid.,  p.  518 ;    H  alii  well's  Popular  Rhymes  and  Nursery  Tales, 
p.  200. 

Wakefield. — "Wakefield  chap,"  is  I  believe,  the  usual  epithet 
for  its  people. 
York. — "  The  Mayor  is  a  lord  for  a  year  and  a  day, 
But  his  wife  is  a  lady  for  ever  and  aye." 

Notes  and  Queries,  second  series,  viii.  896. 
r.  f-l.  x 


146  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

Verstegan  says,  "  The  name  or  title  of  Lady,  our  honourable 
appellation  generally  for  all  principal  women,  extended  so  farre 
as  that  it  not  only  mounteth  up  from  the  wife  of  the  Knight  to 
the  wife  of  a  King,  but  remaineth  to  some  whose  husbands  are 
no  Knights,  such  as  having  been  Lord  Mayors  are  afterwards 
only  called  masters,  as,  namely,  the  Aldermen  of  York."— 
Restitution  of  Decayed  Intelligence,  p.  817.  This  is  no  longer 
"  The  use  of  York." 

York  and  Sutton. — A  proverbial  simile,  "  As  much  as  York 
excels  foul  Sutton." — Bonn's  Handbook  of  Proveibs,  p.  191. 

There  is  a  variant  in  the  prediction  : — 

14  Lincoln  was,  London  is,  and  York  shall  be 
The  fairest  city  of  the  three." 
(quoted)  Folk-lore  Record,  i.,  160,  which  says,  "  the  greatest  city." 

Murray's  Handbook,  p.  28. 

Yorkshireman. — "  A  Yorkshireman  will  bite  after  he  is  dead." 
Heard  by  Mr.  Edward  Hailstone,  F.S.A.,  September,  1879. 

Hobnsba  Chxjech. — Its  low  square  tower  once  bore  a  tall 
spire,  on  which,  it  is  said,  the  builder  had  cut  the  inscription : 
"  Hornsea  steeple,  when  I  built  thee, 
Thou  wast  ten  miles  off  Burlington, 
Ten  miles  off  Beverley, 
And  ten  miles  off  sea." 


ftobiti  Hood  tit  Dorksljir*. 

Watson,  the  Halifax  Historian,  a  century  ago,  stated  that 
all  unaccountable  stones  and  events  were  placed  to  the  credit 
of  Robin  Hood  in  the  North,  where  King  Arthur  would  get 
the  credit  in  the  South  of  England.  So  it  is  that  Robin  Hood's 
arrows,  undressed  stone  pillars,  are  found  in  several  places  in 
Yorkshire.  The  Devil,  however,  is  a  strong  claimant  with 
bold  Robin  for  the  authorship  of  these  freaks.  Mr.  Hunter, 
no  mean  authority,  gives  Robin  Hood  a  decided  personal, 
not  a  mythical  existence;  and  we  are  disposed  to  regard 
him  as  our  personal  friend  Robin  o'  th'  wood,  leaving  the 
works  of  Bit  son,  Gutch  (1847,  2  vols.),  Halliwell  (ArchieoL 
Assoc.  Journal,  vol.  8),  Hunter's  pamphlet,  Fordun's  Sooti* 
ohronioon,  (14th  century),  Mr.  Wright,  and  others,  for  later 
consideration.  We  purpose  to  visit  Robin  Hood's  Well  in 
Barnsdale,  Fountain's  Abbey,  Robin  Hood's  Bay,  and  other 
Yorkshire  haunts  in  the  hero's  oompany,  and  to  see  him  peace- 
folly  and  actually  laid  in  the  sylvan  retreats  of  Kirklees,  near 
Brighouse.  I  have  just  returned  from  the  picturesque  fishing 
village  at  Robin  Hood'B  Bay,  and  heard  the  story  of  the  two 
upright  stones  at  Hawsker  which  marked  the  spots  where  the 
arrows  of  Robin  Hood  and  Little  John  fell,  when  to  please  the 


YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE.  147 

monks  of  Whitby,  they  shot  from  the  old  Church  tower  on  the 
East  Cliff.  I  have  spent  a  day  at  Danby  this  Easter,  where 
Robin  Hood's  Butts  (tumuli)  are  shown,  and  three  houses  on 
Danby  Moor  are  also  so  named.  He  must  have  trod  the  very 
ground,  or  people  were  foolish  to  start  such  tales. 

Here  begins  the  story  of  "  Robin  Hood  turned  Fisherman : — 

In  summer  time,  when  the  leaves  were  green,  and  the  flowers 
sweet  and  gay,  when  the  lily  appeared  with  the  primrose  and 
cowslip-buds,  Robin  Hood  grew  weary  of  the  forest  and  woods, 
and  left  off  to  chase  the  fat  deer. 

"I  will  hasten  to  Scarborough  now,"  said  he,  "  and  become 
a  fisherman,  for  a  fisherman's  trade  is  good,  and  their  harvest 
is  in  the  sea." 

And  when  Robin  came  to  Scarborough,  he  took  up  his  inn  at 
a  widow's  house,  not  far  from  the  wide  ocean. 

"  Tell  me,  my  bold  young  fellow,"  said  the  widow,  "  where 
thou  wast  born,  and  what  is  thy  means  of  support." 

"I  am  a  poor  fisherman,"  he  replied,  "  and  want  to  be  em- 
ployed." 

"  Then  what  is  thy  name,"  asked  she. 

"In  mine  own  country,"  said  Robin,  "I  am  called  Simon 
Wise." 

" Simon  Wise,  Simon  Wise,"  said  the  good  dame,  "I  am 
afraid  thou  hast  got  an  unfit  name,  that  may  make  thee  the 
jest  of  thy  fellows;  however  Simon,  if  thou  wilt  serve  me,  I 
will  give  thee  good  wages,  for  I  have  as  good  a  ship  of  my  own 
as  any  that  sails  in  the  sea." 

So  Robin  consented  to  serve  this  good  widow,  and  went  by 
the  name  of  poor  Simon.  After  a  time  the  ship  went  to  sea, 
and  they  sailed  along  for  several  days  in  hopes  to  take  plenty 
of  fish,  but  when  others  oast  their  baited  hooks  into  the  sea, 
Simon  only  cast  in  his  bare  lines. 

"It  will  be  a  long  while,"  said  the  master,  "  ere  this  lubber 
will  learn  to  thrive  upon  the  sea.  Let  him  do  as  he  will,  he 
shall  have  none  of  our  fish,  for  in  truth  he  is  worthy  of  none." 

"  What  a  hard  fate  is  mine,"  said  poor  Simon,  "  since  I  set 
up  for  a  fisherman  before  I  had  learnt  my  trade ;  now  every 
clownish  fisherman  laughs  me  to  scorn,  but  if  I  had  them  in 
Sherwood  groves,  and  was  chasing  the  fat  fallow  deer,  I  would 
set  as  little  by  them  as  they  do  now  by  me." 

Away  they  sailed,  and  steered  their  course  towards  home, 
but  the  next  day  they  espied  a  French  ship  of  war,  that  sailed 
vigorously  after  them. 

"0  we  are  now  lost,"  said  the  master,  "  unhappy  the  day 
that  I  was  born,  for  our  ship  and  our  cargo  will  be  taken  from 
us,  and  these  Frenohmen  will  carry  us  to  the  coast  of  France, 
and  lay  us  fast  in  prison." 


148  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

But  Simon  said,  "  Fear  them  not,  master,  only  give  me  my 
bow  in  my  hand,  and  never  a  Frenchman  shall  live  to  board  us." 

"Hold  thy  peace,  thou  great  lubber,"  said  the  master,  "for 
thou  art  nothing  but  brags  and  boasts,  and  if  I  should  throw 
thee  into  the  sea,  there  would  only  be  a  piece  of  lumber  lost." 

Simon  was  grievously  vexed  at  these  words,  and  taking  his 
bow,  he  went  towards  the  ship's  hatch. 

"  Master,  tie  me  to  the  mast,"  cried  he,  "  and  let  me  stand 
fair  at  the  mark,  then  give  me  my  bow  in  my  hand,  and  if  I 
spare  a  single  Frenchman  may  they  shoot  their  arrows  through 
my  breast." 

Then  Simon  drew  his  arrow  to  the  head,  and  shot  with  such 
boldness  and  skill,  that,  in  the  twinkling  of  an  eye,  he  pierced 
the  first  Frenchman's  heart. 

He  took  such  good  aim,  and  shot  so  hastily  that  not  a 
Frenchman  could  be  seen,  for  they  all  fell  down  dead  through 
the  hatches  below. 

"  Now,  master,  untie  me  from  the  mast,"  cried  he,  "  that  I 
may  go  and  board  the  French  ship." 

And  when  they  came  thither,  they  found  all  their  enemies 
slain,  and  discovered  on  board,  twelve  thousand  pounds  in 
glittering  gold. 

Then  said  Simon,  "  One  half  of  the  ship  I  will  give  to  our 
good  mistress  and  her  three  little  ohildren,  and  the  other  half 
I  will  divide  among  you,  who  are  my  comrades,  to  make  yon 
think  well  of  poor  Simon." 

"  Not  so,"  said  the  master,  "for  that  would  be  a  shame,  if  we 
should  receive  that  which  you  have  won  so  gallantly ;  'tis  all 
your  own  right,  and  you  shall  have  the  whole." 

"If  so,"  answered  Simon,  "with  this  glittering  gold  I  will 
buy  an  habitation  for  the  oppressed,  where  they  may  live  in 
peace  and  rest." 

Poor  simple  Simon  though  despis'd, 
Soon  made  his  skill  and  valour  pris'd, 

And  prov'd  bold  Eobin  Hood ; 
The  Frenchman's  gold  when  he  possessed, 
He  rais'd  a  dwelling  for  th'  oppress'd, 

And  made  his  promise  good. 


The  Noble  Fisherman,  or  Robin  Hood's  Preferment. 
Black  letter  copies  in  the  British  Museum,  Ac. 

In  summer  time,  when  leaves  grow  green, 
When  they  doe  grow  both  green  and  long, — 

Of  a  bold  outlaw,  call'd  Robin  Hood, 
It  is  of  him  I  sing  this  song. 


YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE.  149 

When  the  lily  leafe,  and  the  elephant,* 
Doth  bud  and  spring  with  a  merry  cheere, 

This  outlaw  was  weary  of  the  wood  side, 
And  chasing  of  the  fallow  deere. 

The  fishermen  brave,  more  mony  have 

Than  any  merchants  two  or  three ; 
Therefore  I  will  to  Scarborough  go, 

That  I  a  fisherman  brave  may  be. 

This  outlaw  called  his  merry  men  all, 
As  they  sat  them  under  the  green-wood  tree : 

If  any  of  you  have  gold  to  spend, 
I  pray  you  heartily  spend  it  with  me. 

Now,  quoth  Kobin  Hood,  He  to  Scarborough  go, 

It  seems  to  be  a  very  faire  day. 
He  took  up  his  inn  at  a  widdow  woman's  house, 

Hard  by  upon  the  water  gray, 

Who  asked  of  him,  where  wert  thou  born  ? 

Or  tell  to  me  where  dost  thou  fare  ? 
I  am  a  poor  fisherman,  6aid  he  then, 

This  day  entrapped  all  in  care. 

What  is  thy  name,  thou  fine  fellow, 

I  pray  thee  heartily  tell  it  to  mee  ? 
In  my  own  country,  where  I  was  born, 

Men  call  me  Simon  over  the  Lee. 

Simon,  Simon,  said  the  good  wife, 
I  wish  thou  mayest  well  brook  thy  name. 

The  out-law  was  aware  of  her  courtesie, 
And  rejoyced  he  had  got  such  a  dame. 

Simon,  wilt  thou  be  my  man  ? 

And  good  round  wages  He  give  thee ; 
I  have  as  good  a  ship  of  my  own, 

As  any  sails  upon  the  sea. 

Anchors  and  planks  thou  shalt  not  want, 

Masts  and  ropes  that  are  so  long. 
And  if  you  thus  do  furnish  me, 

Said  Simon  nothing  shall  goe  wrong. 

They  pluckt  up  anchor,  and  away  did  sayle, 

More  of  a  day  then  two  or  three  :t 
When  others  cast  in  their  baited  hooks, 

The  bare  lines  into  the  6ea  cast  he. 

*  de-plant. 

t  Then  is  still  the  common  pronunciation  of.  than.  The  reference  to 
Hompton  Park,  near  Knaresborongh,  the  yerb  "  ligge,"  Ac,  indicate  a  York- 
shire author  for  this  ballad.— Ed. 


150  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

It  will  be  long,  said  the  master  then, 

Ere  this  great  lubber  do  thrive  on  the  sea ; 

I'll  assure  you  he  shall  have  no  part  of  our  fish, 
For  in  truth  he  is  no  part  worthy, 

0  woe  is  me  1  said  Simon  then, 
This  day  that  ever  I  came  here  1 

1  wish  I  were  in  Plompton  park, 
In  chasing  of  the  fallow  deere. 

For  every  clown  laughs  me  to  scorne, 
And  they  by  me  set  nought  at  all ; 

If  I  had  them  in  Plompton  park, 
I  would  set  as  little  by  them  all. 

They  pluckt  up  anchor,  and  away  did  sayle, 
More  of  a  day  then  two  or  three, 

But  Simon  spied  a  ship  of  warre,* 
That  sayled  towards  them  most  valorously. 

0  woe  is  me !  said  the  master  then, 
This  day  that  ever  I  was  born ! 

For  all  our  fish  we  have  got  to-day, 
Is  every  bit  lost  and  forlorn. 

For  your  French  robbers  on  the  sea, 
They  will  not  6pare  of  us  one  man, 

But  carry  us  to  the  coast  of  France, 
And  ligge  [lay]  us  in  the  prison  strong. 

But  Simon  said,  doe  not  feare  them, 
Neither,  master,  take  you  no  care : 

Give  me  my  bent  bow  in  my  hand, 
And  never  a  Frenchman  will  I  spare. 

Hold  thy  peace,  thou  long*  lubber, 
For  thou  art  nought  but  brag  and  boast ; 

If  I  should  cast  thee  over-board, 
There's  but  a  simple  lubber  lost. 

Simon  grew  angry  at  these  words, 

And  so  angry  then  was  he, 
That  he  took  his  bent  bow  in  his  hand, 

And  in  the  ship  hatch  goe  doth  he. 

Master,  tye  me  to  the  mast,  saith  he, 
That  at  my  mark  I  may  stand  fair, 

And  give  me  my  bent  bow  in  my  hand, 
And  never  a  Frenchman  will  I  spare. 

He  drew  his  arrow  to  the  very  head, 
And  drew  it  with  all  might  and  maine, 

And  straightway,  in  the  twinkling  of  an  eye, 
To  the  Frenchman's  heart  the  arrow's  gane. 

'  rTiand~ 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  151 

The  Frenchman  fell  down  on  the  ship  hatch, 

And  under  the  hatches  «  there '  below ; 
Another  Frenchman,  that  him  espied, 

The  dead  corpse  into  the  sea  doth  throw. 

0  master,  loose  me  from  the  mast,  he  said, 

And  for  them  all  take  you  no  care  ; 
For  give  me  my  bent  bow  in  my  hand, 

And  never  a  Frenchman  will  I  spare. 

Then  straight  they  boarded  the  French  ship, 

They  lyeing  all  dead  in  their  sight ; 
They  found  within  that  ship  of  war, 

Twelve  thousand  pound  of  mony  bright. 

The  one  halfe  of  the  ship,  said  Simon  then, 
I'll  give  to  my  dame  and  her  children  small ; 

The  other  halfe  of  the  ship  I'll  bestow 
On  you  that  are  my  fellows  all. 

But  now  bespake  the  master  then, 

For  so,  Simon,  it  shall  not  be, 
For  you  have  won  it  with  your  own  hand, 

And  the  owner  of  it  you  shall  be. 

It  shall  be  so  as  I  have  said, 

And,  with  this  gold,  for  the  opprest 
An  habitation  I  will  build, 

Where  they  shall  live  in  peace  and  rest. 


®b*  Iftsfro:  %ab  of  tSEbitljs- 

My  lover  was  a  fisher  lad,  and  when  he  came  ashore 

He  always  steer'd  straight  home  to  me,  to  greet  me  at  the  door, 

For  well  he  knew  that  I  loved  him,  as  any  one  could  see, 

And  few  can  judge  how  fain  was  I,  when  he  came  courting  me. 

It  was  a  lovely,  genial  morn,  in  th'  early  part  of  May, 

He  took  me  in  his  little  boat  to  sail  upon  the  bay ; 

He  told  me  of  his  ardent  love,  as  he  sat  by  my  side, 

And  said  that  ere  a  month  had  flown,  he'd  take  me  for  his  bride. 

A  Man-of-War  that  afternoon  swooped  down  upon  the  bay, 
The  cruel  Press-gang  came  and  took  my  fisher  lad  away ; 
Strong  chains  upon  his  hands  they  placed,  and  irons  on  his  feet, 
They  carried  him  abroad  that  day  to  fight  among  the  fleet. 

My  father  often  talks  about  the  perils  of  the  Main, 
My  mother  often  says  she  hopes  he  will  come  back  again, 
Alas  I  I  know  he  never  will,  for  in  my  dreams  I  see 
His  body  lying  low  beneath  the  surging  of  the  sea. 


152  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

I  watch  the  ships  come  sailing  in,  I  watch  them  sail  away, 
I  hear  the  sailors'  merry  songs  resound  across  the  bay ; 
For  me ;  my  heart  is  breaking,  and  I  only  wish  to  be 
A-lying  with  my  lover  low,  deep  down  in  yonder  sea. 

When  all  the  house  is  dark  and  still,  and  every  one  asleep, 
I  sit  for  hours  npon  my  bed  and  bitterly  I  weep, 
And  think  of  my  dear  fisher  lad,  away  down  in  the  sea, 
Who  never,  never,  never  more,  will  come  again  to  me. 

Shipley,  April  12th,  1887.  H. 


<&n  some  of  out  Cngltsfr  Itumrg  fUjgnus: 

Their  origin  and  meaning.  A  paper  read  before  the  Leeds 
&  District  Teachers'  Association,  by  Alfonzo  Gardiner,  Head 
Master  of  the  Little  Holbeck  Board  Schools,  Leeds,  October 
28rd,  1886. 

"  I  am  afraid  the  magnitude  of  this  subject  has  almost  over- 
whelmed me.  To  take  only  a  very  small  number  of  our  popular 
nursery  rhymes  and  trace  their  origin  and  meaning,  entering 
fully  into  the  circumstances  which  brought  them  into  being, 
and  which  have  caused  them  to  be  passed  on  from  father  to  son, 
with  scarcely  the  variation  of  a  word,  and  with  no  variation  in 
meaning,  through  hundreds  of  years,  in  many  cases,  would  be 
the  task  of  a  life-time. 

The  study  of  these  popular  sayings  is  but  a  sub-section  of 
that  immense  department  of  antiquities  or  archaeology  called 
folk-lore — a  word  invented  by  the  late  Mr.  Thorns— which  is  used 
to  designate  all  that  which  relates  to  ancient  observances  and 
customs,  and  to  those  ideas,  prejudices,  superstitions,  legends 
and  sayings,  which  are  the  common  property  of  English  people 
—especially  among  the  lower  orders,  but  to  a  less  extent,  and 
in  varying  degrees,  permeating  all  society.  In  illustrating 
particular  periods  of  history,  folk-lore  is  sometimes  a  most 
valuable  adjunct.  Many  of  our  nursery  rhymes  have  a  strictly 
historical  origin  (as  I  hope  to  show  more  fully  in  a  few 
moments,)  and  well  illustrate  the  popular  feeling  of  the  day. 
But  it  is  to  be  observed  that  whilst  folk-lore  has  now  for  some 
years  been  engaging  the  attention  of  literary  men,  and  has 
been  put  beyond  the  risk  of  oblivion  by  appearing  in  books,  it 
is  everywhere  declining  among  the  people  themselves.  Any 
careful  student  of  children's  literature — I  mean  original  litera- 
ture, such  as  is  found  in  «•  Little  Folks,"  "  St.  Nicholas,"  "The 
Infant's  Magazine,"  and  a  number  of  other  excellent  periodicals 
for  the  nursery  and  the  school-room — will  be  struck  by  two 
great  facts.  (1)  That  pithy  sayings,  funny  stories,  and  side- 
splitting verses  are  produced  in  great  abundance,  many  of  them 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LOBE.  158 

showing  high  literary  skill  and  ability,  but  that  (2)  very  few  of 
them  become  popular— i.e.  the  common  property  of  the  whole 
people,  except  to  a  very  limited  extent.  I  cannot  myself  call 
to  mind  a  single  instance  of  any  of  these  marvellous  produc- 
tions, born  within  the  last  50  years,  obtaining  and  retaining  a 
permanent  footing  either  amongst  old  or  young.  The  reason 
of  this  is  not  perhaps  far  to  seek.  Our  habits  and  customs 
change  as  do  the  fashions  of  our  dress,  and  the  same  causes 
which  have  produced  a  decline  in  folk-lore  in  one  direction  pre- 
vent its  growth  in  another  one.  Printing  and  the  multiplication 
of  books  has  not  been  an  unmixed  good.  It  is  somewhat  foreign 
to  our  subject  to  trace  the  causes  which  have  altered  the  habits 
of  our  forefathers,  who  without  books  handed  down  from  sire  to 
son,  the  popular  sayings,  legends,  and  rhymes,  which  are  now 
considered  only  suitable  for  the  nursery,  but  we  may  point  out 
one  or  two  circumstances  which  have  conduced  to  this  effect. 
The  diffusion  of  scientific  ideas ;  the  gradual  enlightenment  of 
the  common  mind  (which  has  banished  fairies,  witches,  and  all 
the  host  of  supernatural  beings  to  the  realms  of  fancy),  the 
disfavour  of  the  clergy  for  everything  connected  with  the  super- 
natural, except  Religion  itself,  and  the  great  industrial  changes 
and  improvements  of  the  last  half  century,  including  a  greatly 
increased  shifting  of  the  people  from  one  district  to  another, 
have  all  given  a  death  blow  to  vulgar  errors  and  rustic  sayings. 
Equally  interesting  would  it  be  to  trace  a  few  of  our  popular 
rhymes,  legends  and  sayings  from  their  original  home  in  India, 
Egypt,  and  Scandinavia,  through  all  civilised  Europe,  and  to 
show  that  the  same  story,  often  with  only  slight  modifications, 
is  the  common  property  of  the  Negro  and  the  Kaffir,  the  low 
caste  Hindoo  of  the  Panjab  and  the  Bed  Indian  of  North 
America,  the  Samoyed  of  the  icy  Tundras  of  Siberia  and  the 
cannibal  Fijian.  But  this  entrancing  and  alluring  branch  of 
the  subject  is  also  foreign  to  our  purpose  to-day. 

We  will  first  glance  at  a  few  historical  rhymes,  and  commence 
with  what  is  undoubtedly*  the  oldest  of  all  our  children's  tales," 

Old  Kino  Cole. 
"  Old  King  Cole 
Was  a  merry  old  soul, 
And  a  merry  old  soul  was  he, 
lie  called  for  his  pipe, 
And  he  called  for  his  bowl, 
And  he  called  for  his  fiddlers* three. 
Every  fiddler,  he  had  a  fine  fiddle, 
And  a  very  fine  fiddle  had  he ; 
Twee  tweedle  dee,  tweedle  dee, 
went  the  fiddlers. 

*  ?,  especially  if  pipe  does  not  mean  a  musical  instrument. 


154  YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE. 

Oh,  there's  none  so  rare 
As  can  oompare 

With  King  Cole  and  his  fiddlers  three." 
"  The  venerable  king  would  find  few  subjects  here  to-day  to 
acknowledge  his  monarchy  of  mirth,  and  this  legend  is  a  satire 
on  one  of  the  most  mythical  kings  of  Britain,  who  reigned  (if 
he  did  reign,)  in  the  third  century  after  Christ.  He  appears  to 
have  been  a  brave  and  popular  man  in  his  day.  According  to 
Robert  of  Gloucester  (who  flourished  in  the  reign  of  Ed.  I.)  he 
was  the  father  of  the  celebrated  St.  Helena,  a  York  worthy,  the 
mother  of  Constantino  the  Great,  who,  at  the  age  of  80,  is  said 
to  have  assisted  at  the  discovery  of  the  holy  cross. 

There  are  several  popular  ballads  about  King  Arthur  (who  is 
said  to  have  died  at  Glastonbury  in  the  year  542  from  wounds 
reoeived  at  the  fatal  battle  of  Camlan,)  but  they  have  scarcely 
become  such  a  part  of  our  children's  literature  as  to  be  included 
amongst  Nursery  Rhymes. 

The  famous  outlaw  Robin  Hood  occupies  however  a  large 
space  in  our  popular  literature,  but  probably  the  following  is 
the  only  rhyme  which  has  filtered  down  until  it  has  become  the 
common  property  of  our  children." 

"  Robin  Hood,  Robin  Hood, 
Is  in  the  mickle  wood ! 
Little  John,  Little  John, 
He  to  the  town  is  gone. 
Robin  Hood,  Robin  Hood, 
Is  telling  his  beads,* 
All  in  the  green  wood, 
Among  the  green  weeds. 
Little  John,  Little  John, 
If  he  comes  no  more, 
Robin  Hood,  Robin  Hood, 
He  shall  fret  full  sore !  " 

"  Of  R.  H's.  actual  existence  little  or  no  evidence  can  be 
discovered.  Various  periods,  ranging  from  the  time  of  Rd.  II. 
to  near  the  end  of  Ed.  I.'s.  reign,  have  been  assigned  as  the 
age  in  which  he  lived.  He  is  usually  described  as  a  yeoman, 
and  his  chief  residence  is  said  to  have  been  the  forest  of 
Sherwood,  in  Notts  and  South  Yorks.  He  is  also  to  us,  in  the 
West  Riding  of  Yorkshire,  a  local  celebrity,  as  his  burial  place, 
marked  by  an  old  tomb- stone,  is  still  shown  at  Eirklees  Hall, 
about  8  miles  from  Huddersfield.  According  to  the  most 
authentic  version  of  the  inscription,  which  was  formerly  on  this 
tomb-stone,  he  died  in  1247.  Whether  or  not  his  existence  is 
only  legendary,  all  the  popular  tales,  stories,  and  rhymes,  extol 
his  personal  courage,  his  generosity,  his  humanity,  and  his  skill 

*  Saying  his  prayers. 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  155 

in  archery.  He  is  first  mentioned  by  the  Scottish  historian 
Fordun,  (who  died  in  1886,  just  500  years  ago).  He  was  an 
immense  favourite  with  the  common  people,  for,  says  Fordun, 
"  he  suffered  no  woman  to  be  oppressed,  violated  or  molested : 
poor  men's  goods  he  spared,  abundantly  relieving  them  with 
that  which  by  theft  he  got  from  Abbeys  and  the  houses  of  rich 
Earles."  According  to  one  tradition,  R.  H.  and  his  follower, 
Little  John,  were  two  heroes  defeated,  with  Simon  de  Montfort, 
at  the  battle  of  Evesham,  in  1265.  His  chaplain  Friar  Tuck, 
and  his  paramour,  Maid  Marian,  are  also  immortalised  in 
numberless  rhymes  and  ballads.  * 

Another  oft  repeated  rhyme  is  the  following,  which  probably 
refers  to  the  visit  of  Joanna  of  Castile  to  the  court  of  Henry  VIL 
in  the  year  1506." 

"  I  had  a  little  nut-tree,  nothing  would  it  bear 
"  But  a  silver  nutmeg  and  a  golden  pear ; 
"  The  King  of  Spain's  daughter  came  to  visit  me 
"  And  all  was  because  of  my  little  nut-tree. 
"  I  skipped  over  water,  I  danced  over  sea, 
"  And  all  the  birds  in  the  air  couldn't  catch  me." 
"The  satire  is  very  fine,  and  is  another  exemplification  of  the 
proverb,  "  There  is  nothing  new  under  the  sun."     As  Joanna's 
visit  was  apparently  for  what  she  could  get  from  rich  England, 
so,  according  to  radical  prints,  do  German  princes,  and  other 
foreigners,  come  here,  not  for  the  "  silver  nutmegs  and  golden 
pears,"  but  for  the  tax-payer's  sovereigns  through  the  hands  of 
our  lovely  princesses. 

The  reign  of  good   Queen  Bess  furnishes  several  popular 
rhymes  of  which  the  following  is  the  best  known." 
"  Good  Queen  Bess  was  a  glorious  dame, 
When  bonny  King  Jemmy  from  Scotland  came ; 
We'll  pepper  their  bodies, 
Their  peaceable  noddies, 
And  give  them  a  crack  of  the  crown." 
"Here  the  hatred  between  the  English  and  Scotch  shows  itself 
very  strongly.     We  now  come  to  a  less  known  rhyme,  but  one 
which  has  had  in  its  origin  a  most  important  effect  upon  our 
national  life." 

"  Ho  I  Master  Teague,  what  is  your  story  ? 
I  went  to  the  wood  and  killed  a  Tory ; 

*  At  Castleton  in  Cleveland  the  Editor  saw  a  public-house  sign,  Easter, 
1887,  with  the  following  inscription  under  a  rude  painting  of  Hohin  Hood  and 
little  John,  armed  with  long  bows : 

"  Blind  gentleman  and  yeoman  good, 
Come  take  a  glass  with  Robin  Hood ; 
If  Robin  Hood  be  not  at  home, 
Then  take  a  glasB  with  Little  John." 

John licensed  retailer,  Ac. 

A  similar  sign  exists  at  Brighonse,  near  which  is  Robin  Hood's  Mill. 


156  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

I  went  to  the  wood  and  killed  another 
Was  it  the  same,  or  was  it  his  brother  ? 
I  hunted  him  in,  and  I  hunted  him  out, 
Three  times  through  the  bog  about  and  about ; 
When  out  of  a  bush  I  saw  his  head, 
So  I  fired  my  gun,  and  shot  him  dead." 
11  Not  very  pleasant  this  for  Mr.' Tory,  but  probably  Mr.  Tory 
might  now  retaliate  and  sing :  " 

"  What  is  your  story,  oh !  Mr.  Teague  ? 
I  went  to  the  wood  and  killed  a  whig." 
&c,  Ac. 
"  The  word  Tory,  says  De  Foe,  is  the  Irish  toruigh,  and  was 
used  in  the  reign  of  Queen  Elizabeth  to  signify  a  band  of  Irish 
Bobbers,  from  the  verb  toruighim,   to    make    sudden    raids. 
Orolius  says  "  whatever  inhabits  mountains  and  forests  is  a 
Tory."     According  to  Lord  Macaulay  it  was  first  used  in  a 
political  sense  in  1680.    He  says,  "  The  name  Tory,  was  first 
given  to  those  who  refused  to  concur  in  excluding  James  from 
the  throne,"  and  he  further  explains  that  "  The  bogs  of  Ireland 
afforded  a  refuge  to  popish  outlaws,  called  Torys,"  and  Tory 
hunting  was  long  a  favourite  pastime." 

[It  may  be  mentioned  incidentally  that  there  are  other 
derivations  of  the  word  tory.*  One  is  from  the  Celtic  taobh-righ, 
i.e.  the  "  King's  party ; "  or  from  tuath-righ,  i.e.  "  partisans  of 
the  King."  Another  derivation  is  from  tar-a  n,  "  Come  0  King" 
and  still  another  suggestion  is  the  highwayman's  demand  torn, 
toree,  "  Give !  your  money  or  your  life  I "  Well  may  we  say 
"  See  from  what  small  beginnings  do  great  causes  spring."] 

Another  popular  rhyme  explains  itself — 
"  Please  to  remember, 
The  Fifth  of  November, 
Gunpowder  treason  and  plot ; 
I  know  no  reason 
Why  gunpowder  treason 
Should  ever  be  forgot." 
"The  unworthy  favourite  of  James  I.,  Geo.  Villiers,  Duke  of 
Buckingham  is  satirised  in  the  following  lines.     They  were 
written  in  1626.    It  will  be  remembered  that  B.  was  assassin- 
ated at  Portsmouth  by  Felton,  a  lieutenant,  in  1628." 
"  There  was  a  monkey  climbed  up  a  tree, 
When  he  fell  down,  then  down  fell  he, 
There  was  a  crow  sat  on  a  stone 
When  he  was  gone,  then  there  was  none. 
There  was  an  old  wife  did  eat  an  apple, 
When  she  had  eat  two,  she  had  eat  a  couple. 

•See  Oliver  Heywood's  Dairies,— Tory,  in  index.    Ed.  by  J.  Horefall  Tnxotf* 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  157 

There  was  a  horse  going  to  the  mill, 
When  he  went  on  he  stood  not  still. 
There  was  a  butcher  cut  his  thumb, 
When  it  did  bleed,  then  blood  did  come. 
There  was  a  cobbler  clouting  shoon, 
When  they  were  mended,  they  were  done. 
There  was  a  chandler  making  candle, 
When  he  them  stripped,  he  did  them  handle. 
There  was  a  navy  went  into  Spain, 
When  it  returned,  it  came  again." 
"  In  a  popular  riddle  of  the  17th  century  the  allusion  to 
Oliver  Cromwell  explains  itself.    It  runs  thus — " 
"  Purple,  yellow,  red  and  green, 
The  King  cannot  reach  it  nor  the  Queen, 
Nor  can  old  Noll  whose  power's  so  great : 
Tell  me  this  riddle  while  I  count  eight." 
"  The  answer  is  "a  rainbow."    I  may  bring  this  division  of  my 
subject,  viz.  strictly  historical  rhymes,   to  a  conclusion  by 
referring  to  the  famous  song  of  the  Lion  and  Unicobn — " 
"  The  lion  and  the  unicorn 
Were  fighting  for  the  crown ; 
The  lion  beat  the  unicorn 
All  round  about  the  town, 
Some  gave  them  white  bread, 
Some  gave  them  brown ; 
Some  gave  them  plum  cake, 
And  sent  them  out  of  town." 
"The  animosity  still  existing  between  England  and  Scotland 
is  well  represented  in  these  few  lines.    Ever  since  1608  the 
royal  arms  have  been  supported  by  the  English  lion  and  the 
Scotch  unicorn,  James  I.  substituting  this  mythical  animal  for 
the  red  dragon  of  Wales,  introduced  by  Henry  VH." 

[It  is  interesting  to  note  the  various  supporters  used  by  our 
sovereigns.  Ed.  III.  (with  whom  supporters  began)  had  a  lion 
and  an  eagle ;  Ey.  IV.  an  antelope  and  a  swan ;  Hy.  V.  a  liQn 
and  an  antelope ;  Ed.  IV.  a  lion  and  a  bull ;  Bd.  III.  a  lion 
and  a  boar ;  Hy.  VII.  a  lion  and  a  red  dragon ;  Eliz.,  Mary, 
and  Henry  Yin.  a  lion  and  a  greyhound.] 

"Amongst  miscellaneous  rhymes  the  number  of  popular  ones 
ia  exceedingly  numerous,  and  a  selection  of  a  few  amongst 
those  best  known  is  all  I  shall  have  time  for.  Taking  them 
almost  at  random  the  first  that  occurs  to  me  is  the  famous 

Taffy  was  a  Welshman." 

"  Taffy  was  a  Welshman,  Taffy  was  a  thief; 
Taffy  came  to  my  house  and  stole  a  piece  of  beef; 
I  went  to  Taffy's  house,  Taffy  was  not  at  home ; 
Taffy  came  to  my  house  and  stole  a  marrow  bone. 


158  YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE. 

I  went  to  Taffy's  house,  Taffy  was  not  in ; 
Taffy  came  to  my  house  and  stole  a  silver  pin ; 
I  went  to  Taffy's  house,  Taffy  was  in  bed, 
I  took  up  a  poker  and  flung  it  at  his  head." 
"  Taffy  of  course  is  a  corruption  of  David,  one  of  the  most 
common  of  Welsh  names,  familiarly,  David  becomes  Davy, 
and  in  Welsh  Taffid,  and  then  our  Taffy.    Properly  this  rhyme 
has  a  historical  origin,  and  graphically  describes  the  raids  of 
the  English  and  the  Welsh  on  the  borders  of  the  two  countries 
with  national  pride  giving  our  own  countrymen  the  advantage. 
Again,  history,  and  the  social  condition  of  the  people  as 
affected  by  religious  influences,  enables  us  to  give  the  origin 
and  meaning  of  the  famous  Little  Jack  Hornbb.  " 
"  Little  Jack  Horner  sat  in  a  corner, 
Eating  a  Christmas  pie ; 
He  put  in  his  thumb,  and  he  pulled  out  a  plum, 
And  said  *  What  a  good  boy  am  I ! ' " 
"The  rhyme  of  Jack  Horner  has  been  stated  to  be  a  satire  on 
the  Puritanical  aversion  to  Christmas  pies  and  such  like  abom- 
inations.  It  forms  part  of  a  metrical  chap-book  history,  founded 
on  the  same  story  as  the  Friar  and  the  Boy,  entitled  "The 
pleasant  history  of  Jack  Horner,  containing  his  witty  tricks 
and  pleasant  pranks,  which  he  played  from  his  youth  to  his 
riper  years:    right  pleasant  and  delightful  for  winter  and 
summer's  recreation;"    embellished  with  frightful  woodcuts, 
which  have  not  much  connection  with  the  tale.    Another  ex- 
planation goes  back  to  the  dissolution  of  the  monasteries,  and 
gives  S.  W.  England  as  the  scene. 

Little  Jack  Horner  is  often  spoken  of  as  a  sample  of  a  shrewd 
fellow,  how  different  from  Tom,  the  Piper's  Son — " 
"  Tom,  Tom  the  piper's  son, 
Stole  a  pig,  and  away  he  ran, 
The  pig  was  eat,  and  Tom  was  beat, 
And  Tom  went  roaring  down  the  street." 
"  Here  we  have  a  poor  stupid  thief  who  being  caught,  got  well 
bdsted,  and  blubbered  like  a  booby.     Many  of  our  nursery 
rhymes  turn  the  table  upon  the  foolish  and  the  simple,  making 
them  a  common  butt,  and  holding  them  up  to  ridicule.    Ai 
further  examples  we  may  mention — " 

"  Simple  Simon  met  a  pieman 
Going  to  the  fair :  &o. 
"  The  wise  men  op  Gotham,  who  under  the  title  of  the  "fools 
of  Gotham  "  are  mentioned  in  the  15th  century  in  the  Townley 
mysteries,  is  another  example. 

Another  similar  example  is  the  following,  the  original  of 
many  rhymes,  all  having  the  same  meaning." 

"  My  father  he  died,  but  I  can't  tell  you  how, 
He  left  me  six  horses  to  drive  in  my  plough ; 


YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE.  159 

With  my  wing  wang  waddle  oh, 
Jack  sings  saddle  oh, 
Blowsey  boys  babble  oh, 
Under  the  broom. 

I  sold  my  six  horses,  and  bought  me  a  cow, 
I'd  fain  have  made  a  fortune,  bnt  did  not  know  how. 
With  my,  &c. 

I  sold  my  cow,  and  I  bought  me  a  calf, 
I'd  fain  have  made  a  fortune,  but  lost  the  best  half. 
With  my,  &c. 

I  sold  my  calf,  and  I  bought  me  a  cat ; 
A  pretty  thing  she  was,  in  my  chimney  corner  sat : 
With  my,  Ac. 

I  sold  my  cat,  and  bought  me  a  mouse ; 
He  carried  fire  in  his  tail,  and  burnt  down  my  house: 
With  my,  &c." 

"I  stated  at  the  commencement  of  this  paper  that  numbers  of 
our  nursery  rhymes  have  retained  their  present  form,  in  some 
instances,  for  many  generations,  with  but  few  changes  of  words 
and  with  none  of  meanings.  It  is,  however,  especially  interest- 
ing to  take  note  of  divergent  forms,  and  to  notice  how  the 
original  and  the  derivative  still  exist,  side  by  side.  In  1587, 
there  appeared,  at  Frankfurt,  a  most  celebrated  book  entitled 
14  History  of  Dr.  Jno.  Faustus,  tht  notorious  sorcerer  and  black  artist,11 
*This  book  became  instantly  popular,  and  Dutch,  French,  and 
English  translations  speedily  followed  each  other,  the  latter  in 
1590.  From  these  Marlow  appears  to  have  obtained  the  mater- 
ials for  his  "  Dr.  Faustus  "  (which  was  first  acted  in  London  in 
1598),  and  Goethe  the  main  lines  of  the  first  part  of  his  immortal 
"Faust."  The  hero  of  these  mythical  tales  was  one  of  the  most 
celebrated  legendary  personages  at  the  period  of  the  Reformation, 
and  many  superstitions  still  cling  around  his  name  on  the  con- 
tinent. He  is  represented  as  a  student  who  is  toiling  after 
knowledge  beyond  his  studies,  and  makes  a  compact  with  the 
Devil  (Mephistophiles),  in  pursuance  of  which  he  gives  himself 
up  to  the  full  enjoyment  of  the  senses,  until  the  hour  of  his 
doom  arrives,  when  M.  re-appears  upon  the  scene,  and  carries 
off  his  victim  as  a  condemned  soul.  In  addition  to  the  numer- 
ous stories,  including  all  that  foretokens  the  terrible  abyss  of 
hell,  all  popular  wit  groups  itself  in  Germany  round  Faust,  and 
many  nursery  rhymes  recount  his  wonderful  deeds.  One  of 
these  rhymes  almost  literally  translated  found  its  way  into 
England  in  the  17th  century,  and  still  retains,  in  a  modified 
form,  its  popularity — " 

*  The  only  complete  copy  of  the  original  now  known  is  in  the  Imperial 
Library  at  Vienna. 


160  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

"  Doctor  Faustus  was  a  good  man, 
He  whipped  his  scholars  now  and  then  ; 
When  he  whipped  them  he  made  them  dance 
Ont  of  Scotland  into  France, 
Out  of  France  into  Spain, 
And  then  he  whipped  them  back  again." 
"  Without  being  personal,  I  may  remind  you  that  the  version 
of  to-day  runs  thns,  and  those  who  have  resided  in  various  parts 
of  England  will  remember  that  the  actual  phraseology  is  the 
same  throughout  the  length  and  breadth  of  the  land — " 
"  Mr.  (Blank)  is  a  very  good  man, 
He  learns  his  scholars  all  he  can 
Beading,  Writing,  'Bithmetio, 
But  he  doesn't  forget  to  use  his  stick.** 
"  It  is  but  right  to  say  that  it  appears  this  affectionate  summing 
up  of  the  many  virtues  of  their  masters  was  for  long  the  special 
property  of  the  Public  Schools,  the  youths  of  the  Grammar 
Schools  next  lisped  in  similar  numbers,  and  finally  our  own 
beloved  pupils  lovingly  tell  their  fellows  in  exactly  the  same 
form  of  words,  of  our  tender  care  for  their  welfare. 

In  the  year  1589  appeared  a  cookery  book  chiefly  consisting 
of  foreign  receipts,  called  Epulario,  or  the  Italian  bouquet. 
Numerous  quaint  conceits  and  surprises  are  there  explained, 
and  amongst  them  is  a  receipt  "  to  make  pies,  so  that  the  birds 
may  be  alive  in  them  and  fly  out  when  it  is  cut  up.*'  Of  course 
this  was  a  mere  device,  live  birds  being  introduced  under  the 
crust  after  the  pie  is  cooked.  It  is  highly  probable  that  this 
was  the  original  of 

"  Sing  a  song  of  sixpence, 
A  bag  full  of  rye ;  "  &c. 
It  is  exceedingly  probable  that  Sir  Toby  Belch  in  Twelfth  Night 
(Act II.,  Scene 8)  refers  to  this  song  when  he  says  to  the  clown 
"  Come  on,  here's  sixpence  for  you,  lets  have  a  song,"  and  the 
first  line  is  accurately  quoted  in  Beaumont  and  Fletcher's 
"  Bonduca."  As  to  the  other  references  it  is  impossible  to  trace 
them,  but  the  use  of  the  term  "  counting-house"  for  what  we 
now  call  a  study,  or  private  room,  is  somewhat  curious,  and  rye 
bread  and  honey  are  yet  country  fare.  Songs  of  sixpence,  like 
songs  about  London  Bridge,  seem  to  have  been  great  favourites 
with  our  forefathers.  Here  is  a  charming  little  love-song,  not 
so  well  known  as  to  be  called  popular,  but  full  of  sweet  simpli- 
city— 

"  I  love  sixpence,  pretty  little  sixpence, 
I  love  sixpence,  better  than  my  life."  Ac. 
Another  old  favourite  has  suffered  alteration,  with  consider- 
able advantage  as  regards  poetical  feeling,  but  with  less  regard 
to  historical  accuracy.    Little  Bo-peep  is  now  generally  repre- 
sented as  a  girl,  but  the  original  runs  thus — " 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  161 

44  Little  Bo-peep  has  lost  his  sheep, 
And  can't  tell  where  to  find  them ;  "  &c. 
The  present  century  has  made  the  change  from  male  to 
female,  and  since  the  appropriation  of  the  tale  as  the  subject  of 
Christmas  pantoniimo,  viz.  the  loss  of  the  sheep  by  the  wicked 
machinations  of  evil  genii,  and  their  rescue  and  return  by  the 
aid  of  the  good  fairy,  Bo-peep  has  become,  and  is  likely  to 
remain,  the  heroine  rather  than  the  hero,  of  the  touching  tale. 
The  story  has  a  good  moral,  for  the  loss  of  the  tails  (when  the 
sheep  were  frightened  away  by  the  injudicious  sheep-watcher, 
Bo-peep  meaning  f tightener)  is  intended  to  show  that  an  evil 
coarse  (the  running  away)  always  results  in  disaster. 

Supercilious  critics  have  for  many  years  been  in  the  habit  of 
telling  us  that  we  are  an  unmusical  nation,  and  that,  in  the 
matter  of  popular  music,  we  have  sadly  degenerated  since  the 
days  of  good  Queen  Bess,  when  every  lady  and  gentleman  was 
able  to  take  a  proper  part  in  rounds,  madrigals,  and  part  songs. 
Many  of  these  old  songs  have  been  handed  down  to  us,  and 
now  please  the  children  in  the  nursery  as  they  formerly  minis- 
tered to  the  pleasure  of  adults.  The  ever  fresh  Three  Blind 
Mice  is  a  well  known  example ;  and  the  following,  which  is  the 
original  from  which  the  tale  of  the  Frog  who  would  a  wooing 
go  is  borrowed,  was  formerly  a  great  favourite — 
"  A  Frog  he  would  a- wooing  go, 

Heigho,  says  Rowley,  &c." 
It  appears  with  music  in  Melismata,  a  collection  of  popular 
songs,  published  in  1611.  It  also  appears  in  the  celebrated 
Pills  to  Purge  Melancholy,  published  in  1719.  The  Stationer's 
Company,  in  1580,  licensed  a  little  book  called  A  most  strange 
wedding  of  Hie  frog  and  the  mouse. 

In  the  book  just  mentioned,  "  Pills  to  Purge  Melancholy," 
we  also  find  the  story  of  Tom  the  Piper's  Son,  who  charmed 
every  one  with  his  playing.  It  forms  part  of  a  much  longer 
song  called,  The  Jockey's  Lamentation. 

"  Tom  he  was  a  piper's  son, 
He  learned  to  play  when  he  was  young ; 
But  all  the  tunes  that  he  could  play 
Was  "  Over  the  hills  and  far  away."* 

[A  Galderdale  jingle  runs— 

"  Hokey  Pokey  had  a  lad, 

He  bought  a  fiddle  to  make  him  mad,  (vexed) 

But  all  the  tunes  (i.e.  the  only  tune)  that  he  could  play, 

Was  Hokey  Pokey  fiddle  away." 
We  have  seen  it  stated  that  the  saying  of  the  priest  Hoc  est 
corpus  (This  is  the  body)  is  parodied  by  these  lines.    Now  a 
sort  of  toffy  is  known  as  Hokey  Pokey. — Ed.] 

*  A  popular  country  dance. 
y.f-l.  l 


162  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

The  old  Greek  story  of  Orpheus  and  the  magical  lyre  pre- 
sented to  him  by  Apollo,  at  once  presents  itself  to  our  mind. 
It  will  be  remembered  that  Orpheus  accompanied  the  Argonauts 
on  their  expedition  for  the  golden  fleece.  He  was  instructed 
by  the  Muses  in  the  use  of  the  Lyre,  and  with  its  music  be 
enchanted  not  only  the  wild  beasts,  but  the  trees  and  rocks 
upon  Olyinpus,  so  that  ihey  moved  from  their  places  to  follow 
the  sound  of  his  golden  harp.  The  rhyme  is  further  interesting 
as  containing  a  reference  to  another  popular  story,  that  of 
Dame  Teot  and  hee  Comical  Cat. 

I  have  already  given  an  example  of  a  riddle,  an  old  nursery 
rhyme   of  historical  origin.      Another  one,   which  is  vastly 
popular,  merits  a  few  words  of  explanation. 
Humpty  Duinpty  sat  on  a  wall, 
Humpty  Dumpty  had  a  great  fall, 
Threescore  men  and  threescore  more, 
Cannot  place  Humpty  Dumpty  as  he  was  before. 

Of  course  we  all  know  the  answer  an  egg ;  but  how  came  it 
about  that  this  should  be  the.  answer.  Humpty  means  having  <i 
hump  and  dumpty  is  a  corruption  of  dumpy %  short  and  thick,  the 
two  together  have  the  meaning  of  short,  thick  and  round,  hence 
an  egg. 

Of  short  rhymes  recounting  some  sad  disaster,  none  is  better 
known  than  the  touching  story  of  Jack  and  Jill.  This  appears 
to  be  one  of  the  most  ancient. of  our  nursery  rhymes,  and 
represents,  in  the  two  names,  the  complete  amalgamation  of 
the  Saxon  and  Norman  stock  in  the  nation.  Jack  of  course  is 
the  8axon  cbrruption  of  the  French  Jacque,  the  Jacobus  f  or 
James ;  Jill  is  a  corruption  of  Julienne,  which  was  in  vogue 
among  the  Norman  families  and  long  prevailed  in  England 
under  the  spelling  Julyan,  becoming  at  last  so  common  as 
Gillian  that  Jill  was  the  regular  companion  of  Jack  as  in  the 
rhyme.  One  more  example  and  I  will  bring  these  desultory 
remarks  to  a  close.  In  Sir  B.  F.  Burton's  translation  of  the 
"  Thousand  Nights  and  a  Night,1'  just  issued  at  Benares,  is  a 
tragical  tale  called  The  Dbop  op  Honey,  which  has  a  curious 
resemblance  .to  the  accumulative  nursery  rhymes  such  as  The 
House  that  Jack  Built,  and  which  find  their  indirect  original 
in  an  allegorical  Talmudic  Hymn.  The  story  of  the  Dbop  of 
Honey  narrates  how  a  hunter  found  a  hollow  tree  full  of  bees' 
honey  some  of  which  he  took  home  in  a  water-skin.  In  the 
city  he  sold  the  honey  to  an  oilman,  but  in  emptying  out  the 
skin  a  drop  fell  to  the  gronnd,  whereupon  the  flies  flocked  to 
it;  and  a  bird  swoops  down  upon  the  flies.  Then  the  oilman's 
cat  springs  upon  the  bird,  and  the  huntsman's  dog  flies  at  the 
cat,  and  the  oilman  kills  the  dog,  and  the  huntsman  kills  the 
oilman,  and  lastly  the  men  of  their  respective  villages  take  up 
the  quarrel  and  fight  "  till  there  died  of  them  much  people* 


YORKSHIBE    FOLK-LORE.  18$ 

none  knoweth  their  number  save  Almighty  Allah."  The  story 
is  only  curious  as  showing  how  far  and  away  is  possibly  the 
source  of  our  nursery  tales.  Traced  to  their  home  they  become 
veracious  and  characteristic  anecdotes,  for  in  the  present  case 
nothing  can  be  truer  to  the  life  than  the  above  account  of  the 
origin  of  a  desolating  war,  and  Arab  history  is  full  of  petty  but 
sanguinary  campaigns  caused  by  the  most  ridiculous  of  trifles. 
But  the  source  of  both  these  tales  is  a  Talmudic  hymn  of 
which  a  translation  was  first  given  in  1781  by  Professor 
Lebrecht  of  Leipsic.  The  original  from  which  the  Hebrew 
version  was  translated  is  in  the  Chaldee  language,  this  I  will 
now  read  you  and  then  give  the  interpretation. 

1.  A  kid,  a  kid  my  father  bought 
For  two  pieces  of  money. 

2.  Then  came  the  cat  and  ate  the  kid, 
That  my  father  bought, 

For  two  pieces  of  money,  &c. 
This  is  the  interpretation — 

1.  The  kid  which  was  one  of  the  pure  animals  denotes  the 
Hebrews.  The  father,  by  whom  it  was  purchased,  is  Jehovah, 
who  represents  Himself  as  sustaining  this  relation  to  the 
Hebrew  nation.  The  two  pieces  of  money  signify  Moses  and 
Aaron,  through  whose  mediation  the  Hebrews  were  brought 
out  of  Egypt. 

2.  The  cat  denotes  the  Assyrians  by  whom  the  ten  tribes 
were  carried  into  captivity. 

8.  The  dog  is  symbolical  of  the  Babylonians. 

4.  The  staff  signifies  the  Persians. 

5.  The  fires  indicates  the  Grecian  Empire  under  Alexander 
the  Great. 

6.  The  ftater  betokens  the  Romans,  or  the  fourth  of  the 
great  monarchies,  to  whose  dominion  the  Jews  were  subjected. 

7.  The  ox  is  a  symbol  of  the  Saracens,  who  subdued  Pales- 
tine and  brought  it  under  the  Caliphate. 

8.  The  butcher  that  killed  the  ox  denotes  the  Crusaders,  by 
whom  the  Holy  Land  was  wrested  out  of  the  hand  of  the 
Saracens. 

9.  The  angel  of  death  signifies  the  Turkish  power,  by  which 
the  land  of  Palestine  was  taken  from  the  Franks,  and  to  which 
it  is  still  subject. 

10.  The  commencement  of  the  tenth  stanza  is  designed  to 
show  that  God  will  take  signal  vengeance  on  the  Turks,  im- 
mediately after  whose  overthrow  the  Jews  are  to  be  restored  to 
their  own  land  and  live  under  the  government  of  their  long 
expected  Messiah. 

Along  with  much  that  appears  to  be  very  nonsensical  and 
almost  devoid  of  meaning  I  have  endeavoured  to  show  that 
either  in  their  origin,  or  in  their  explanation,  there  is  much 


164  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

that  is  carious,  beautiful  and  true.  I  may  appropriately  con- 
clude with  the  Quaker's  commentary  upon  one  of  the  greatest 
favourites — Hey  !  diddle  diddle. 

"  Hey !  diddle  diddle, 

The  cat  and  the  fiddle — 
["Yes,  thee  may  say  that,  for  that  is  nonsense."] 

The  cow  jumped  over  the  moon — 
["  Oh  no  I  Mary,  thee  mus'n't  say  that,  for  that  is  a  falsehood; 
thee  knows  a  cow  could  never  jump  over  the  moon ;  but  a  cow 
may  jump  under  it ;  so  thee  ought  to  say — ( The  cow  jumped 
under  the  moon.'  "    Yes—] 

The  cow  jumped  under  the  moon ; 

The  little  dog.  laughed — 
["Oh,  Mary,  stop.    How  can  a  little  dog  laugh  ?  thee  knows  a 
little  dog  can't  laugh.     Thee  ought  to  say — '  The  little  dog 
barked.1 "— ] 

To  see  the  sport, 

And  the  dish  ran  after  the  spoon." 
["  Stop,  Mary,  stop,  a  dish  could  never  run  after  a  spoon ; 
thee  ought  to  know  that.     Thee  had  better  say — 'And  the  cat 
ran  after  the  spoon.'  "] 


fjtarhsbir*  ^ntljologg. 

The  YorksMre  Weekly  Post  is  now  engaged  in  the  very  laud- 
able undertaking  of  "rescuing  from  oblivion"  such  fugitive 
pieces  of  poetry  of  Yorkshire  writers  as  deserve  preservation. 
But  I  fear  the  columns  of  a  newspaper  will  not  prove  to  be  a 
very  safe  repository  for  the  literary  gems  it  may  be  the  means 
of  rescuing  from  oblivion.  Few  newspapers  survive  their  fiery 
doom,  and  if  by  chance  a  few  of  such  fugitive  pieces  find  their 
way  into  the  scrap-books  of  enthusiastic  collectors,  they  are  as 
good  as  lost,  for  a  scrap-book  is  soon  discarded,  and  generally 
turns  up  in  a  miscellaneous  lot  at  an  auction,  if  indeed  it  does 
not  share  a  more  ignominious  fate. 

I  therefore  with  all  humility  venture  to  follow  the  excellent 
example  set  by  the  Yorkshire  Weekly  Post  feeling  sure  that  the 
columns  of  Yorkshire  Notes  and  Queries  will  be  a  safer  repository 
for  the  preservation  of  the  choice  specimens  of  obscure  or 
forgotten  Yorkshire  writers,  than  either  the  columns  of  a  news- 
paper or  the  pages  of  a  scrap-book. 

In  a  work  entitled  "  The  Old-Church  Clock,"*  published  seven 
years  ago,  I  found  the  following  exquisite  lines,  said  to  haye 
been  written  by  a  youth  named  Herbert  Knowles,  at  night  in 
Richmond  churchyard,  Yorkshire,  a  few  weeks  before  he  died. 

•  The  Old-Church  Clock,  by  Richard  Parkinson,  D.D.,  F.S.A.,  Canon  of 
Manchester.    (Heywood  &  Bon,  Manchester,)  1880. 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  165 

As  the  work  referred  to  was  published  by  subscription,  only  a 
few  ardent  anthologists  will  have  the  pleasure  of  possessing 
the  poem :  * 

Lines  wbitten  in  the  chubchtard  of  Bichmond,  Yorkshire, 
bt  Herbert  Knowles. 

•  It  is  good  for  its  to  be  here:  if  Thou  tcilt  let  us  make  Iiere  three 
tabernacles,  one  for  Thee,  and  one  for  Moses,  and  one  for  Klias. — 
Matthew  xvii.  4. 

"  Methinks  it  is  good  to  be  here ; 
If  thou  wilt,  let  us  build :  but  for  whom  ? 

Nor  Elias  nor  Moses  appear, 
But  the  shadows  of  eve  that  encompass  the  gloom, 
The  abode  of  the  dead,  and  the  place  of  the  tomb. 

Shall  we  build  to  Ambition  ?  Oh,  no ! 
Affrighted  he  shrinketh  away  : 

For  see,  they  would  pin  him  below 
In  a  small  narrow  cave,  and  begirt  with  cold  clay, 
To  the  meanest  of  reptiles  a  peer  and  a  prey. 

To  Beauty  ?  Ah,  no !  she  forgets 

The  charms  which  she  wielded  before ; 

Nor  knows  the  foul  worm  that  he  frets 
The  skin  which  but  yesterday  fools  could  adore 
For  the  smoothness  it  held,  or  the  tint  which  it  wore. 

Shall  we  build  to  the  purple  of  Pride, 
The  trappings  which  dizen  the  proud  ? 

Alas  !  they  are  all  laid  aside ; 
And  here's  neither  dress  nor  adornment  allow 'd, 
But  the  long  winding-sheet,  and  the  fringe  of  the  shroud. 

To  Riches  ?  alas !  'tis  in  vain ; 

Who  hid,  in  their  turns  have  been  hid  : 

The  treasures  are  squander'd  again, 
And  here,  in  the  grave,  are  all  metals  forbid, 
But  the  tinsel  that  shone  on  the  dark  coffin  lid. 

To  the  pleasures  which  Mirth  can  afford  ? 
The  revel,  the  laugh,  and  the  jeer  ? 

Ah !  here  is  a  plentiful  board, 
But  the  guests  are  all  mute  at  their  pitiful  cheer, 
And  none  but  the  worm  is  a  reveller  here. 

Shall  we  build  to  Affection  and  Love  ? 
Ah,  no  I  they  have  wither'd  and  died, 
Or  fled  with  the  spirit  above : 
Friends,  brothers,  and  sisters  are  laid  side  by  side, 
Yet  none  have  saluted,  and  none  have  replied. 

#  [The  poem  is  found  in  several  collections,  and  a  notice  of  Knowles  shall 
appear  in  the  next  part. —Ed.] 


160  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

Unto  Sorrow  ?  the  dead  cannot  grieve ; 
Not  a  sob,  not  a  sigh  meets  mine  ear, 

Which  compassion  itself  would  relieve : 
Ah !  sweetly  they  slumber,  nor  hope,  love,  nor  fear ; 
Peace,  peace,  is  the  watchword,  the  only  one  here. 

Unto  Death,  to  whom  monarchs  must  bow  ? 
Ah,  no !  for  his  empire  is  known ; 

And  here  there  are  trophies  enow : 
Beneath,  the  cold  dead,  and  around,  the  dark  stone, 
Are  the  signs  of  a  sceptre  that  none  may  disown. 

The  first  Tabernacle  to  Hope  we  will  build, 

And  look  for  the  sleepers  around  us  to  rise ; 
The  second  to  Faith,  which  insures  it  fulfilTd ; 
And  the  third  to  the  Lamb  of  the  great  sacrifice, 
Who  bequeath'd  us  them  both  when  He  rose  to  the 

skies." 

Can  any  reader  of  "  Yorkshire  Notes  and  Queries"  give  me 
further  particulars  of  this  embryo  poet,  so  early  removed  by 
the  hand  of-  death  ?  J.  L.  Satwell. 

Ancient  Hospitality. — In  ancient  times  there  stood  a  cross 
at  Sprotborough,  near  Doncaster,  containing  the  following  in- 
scription on  a  brass  plate : — 

Whoso  is  hungry,  and  lists  well  to  eat, 
Let  him  come  to  Sprotborough  for  his  meat, 
And  for  a  night  and  for  a  day 
His  horse  shall  have  both  corn  and  hay, 
And  none  shall  ask  him  when  he  goes  away. 

York  Minster. — The  popular  notion  respecting  the  constant 
repairing  of  York  Minster  is  that  if  ever  the  building  be  com- 
pleted it  returns  to  the  .Roman  Catholics ;  or,  according  to 
another  version,  it  becomes  the  property  of  the  Crown  ("Croon, 
the  York  dames  say).   Whence  arose  this  idea  ?        J.  W.  M. 

Yorkshire  Bite. — I  think  Mr.  H.  Ecroyd  Smith  has  been 
somewhat  misled  in  regard  to  the  Richmond  Pictorial  Timts. 
I  am  not  aware  that  any  paper  with  this  title  has  been  printed 
at  Richmond ;  there  was  a  paper  published  at  Richmond,  two- 
thirds  of  which  was  printed  in  London,  by  John  Bell,  called 
The  North  Bidiny  Pictorial  Journal,  but  I  have  a  faint  recollec- 
tion that  it  only  ran  for  about  two  years  before  it  collapsed. 
Number  one  lies  before  me  bearing  date  January,  1857,  and 
the  following  is  a  copy  of  title :— "  The  North  Biding  Pictorial 
Journal ;  a  repository  of  local  and  general  Literature,  History, 
Biography,  Archaeology,  Science,  Inventions  and  Improve- 
ments, published  monthly."  In  looking  over  several  of  the 
earlier  numbers  I  find  no  mention  of  the  Tibby  Tinkler  enquired 
about  by  Mr.  H.  Ecroyd  Smith.     In  number  1  is  commenced 


YOBKSH^RE    FOLK-LOBE.  167 

a  serial  story,—"  A  Legend}  of  the  Dales."  It  also  contains  a 
poem  entitled,  "  A  Chronicle  of  Richmond  Castle/'  "  A  Bio- 
graphical Sketch  of  Wycliffe,"  &c.  Number  8  contains  an 
interesting  poem — "  The  Return  of  the  Dalesmen  from  Flod- 
den,"  with  woodcut  views  of  Richmond  and  Bolton  Castles,  and 
a  paragraph  ona"  Yorkshireman's  coat  of  arms,  to  wit :  a  fly, 
a  flea,  a  magpie,  and  a  flitch  of  bacon,"  (applicable  to  Mr.  H. 
E.  Smith's  Yorkshire  Bite),  a  cockney  fling  at  the  natives  of 
the  north  conn  trie  (and  with  cockneys  all  northerners  are  either 
Scots  or  Yorkshiremen.)  The  cockneydom  explanation  is  thai 
a  fly  will  drink  with  any  man,  so  will  a  Yorkshireman ;  a  flea 
will  bite  any  man,  so  will  a  Yorkshireman, ;  a  magpie  will 
chatter  with  anyone,  so  will  a  Yorkshireman ,  and  as  for  a 
flitch  of  bacon  it  is  of  no  worth  until  it  is  hung,  ho  more  is  a 
Yorkshireman.  The  chronicler  of  this  cutting  saw  begs  leave 
to  say  that  although  he  is  not  a  native  of  broad  Yorkshire, 
should  the  Londoners  ever  see  proper  to  alter  or  make  any 
addition  to  the  heraldic  bearings  of  Yorkshire,  they  must  not 
omit  to  give  a  fighting  cock  as  the  Yorkshireman's  crest,  for  a 
Yorkshire  game  cock  of  the  true  breed  will  turn  his  tail  upon 
none  of  his  species ;  and  as  for  a  Yorkshire  Tyke,  I  feel  con- 
fident that  he  would  not  only  face  three  cockneys,  but  would 
give  them  all  one  after  another  what  iu  his  own  country  phrase 
he  would  call  a  reet  good  benzilling.  Jno.  Routh,  Hawes. 

Gross  Dakkness. — Sammy  Senior's  definition  of  gross  dark- 
ness (page  140)  reminds  me  of  Daniel  Empsall,  of  Nab  End, 
Lightcliffe,  an  eccentric  old  bachelor  who  had  a  run  of  about 
fifty-two  churches  every  year  to  visit,  one  for  each  Sunday,  and 
necessitating  very  long  walks  in  some  instances.  He  was  a 
compendium  of  quaint  sayings  and  old  proverbs.  When  con- 
gratulated on  being  at  his  work  (wool  combing)  early,  he  would 
say,  "  The  early  bird  gets  the  worm,"  but  if  taunted  for  being 
late  he  calmly  replied,  "  It  is  not  early  rising,  but  well-spending 
of  the  day  you  should  strive  after."  Mr.  Holland's  carter  had 
backed  the  cart  against  Danny's  window  at  Slead  Syke,  where- 
upon Danny  calmly  went  out  and  called  aloud,  with  the 
utmost  gravity,  "Darkness  covereth  the  earth,  but  gross  dark- 
ness the  people." 

He  is  said  to  have  invited  himself  to  dinner  at  various  clerical 
houses  by  the  peculiar  request — "  May  I  put  my  knees  under 
your  table  to-day";  but,  as  a  rule,  the  clergymen  spared  him 
the  asking  by  inviting  him  to  a  feast  in  the  kitchens,  fiis 
brother  Jerry,  also  an  old  bachelor,  wf0^e  love-letters  in 
doggerel  rhyme  to  the  Misses  Holland,  and  other  grand  ladies". 
A  beautiful  water  colour  portrait  of  old  Jerry,  painted  by  the 
Lightcliffe  worthy,  Lumb  Stocks,  R.A.,  was  treasured  by  the 
Holland  family  until  recently. 


168  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

YORKSHIRE     CENTENARIANS. 

I  send  you,  as  a  supplement  to  the  lists  of  Yorkshire  Cente- 
narians, the  following  obituaries,  which  I  have  gathered  from 
the  Gentleman's  Mag.,  The  Annual  Register,  The  Hull  Advertiser, 
and  Hull  Packet,  hoping  they  will  be  interesting  to  your  readers. 

77,  Spring  St.,  Hull.  W.  G.  B.  Page. 

"On  November  18th,  1760,  died  Elizabeth  Hodgson  of 
Scampston,  near  York,  aged  110  years." — Annual  Register, 
1760,  p.  [146]. 

[Jan.  7th,  1820.]  "At  West  End,  in  the  parish  of  Fewston, 
Yorkshire,  in  his  110th  year,  [died],  Mr.  John  Demaine.  The 
chief  amusement  of  his  life  was  hunting,  which  he  always  pur- 
sued on  foot,  and  which  he  continued  until  within  the  last  five 
years  of  his  life.  He  was  never  known  to  exchange  his  clothes, 
however  wet,  and  never  experienced  a  day's  confinement  from 
illness  in  his  life.  After  he  had  attained  his  100th  year,  he 
complained  that  he  was  grown  old,  and  could  not  leap  over  a 
style  or  a  ditch  with  his  customary  agility. — Gent.  Mag.,  YoL 
xc.  (Jan.',  1820)  p.  98. 

"  On  the  16th  inst.  at  Hal  ton,  near  Leeds,  after  only  a  few 
days'  illness,  Thomas  Rollinson,  gardener.  He  completed  his 
hundreth  year  on  the  27th  January  last,  and  with  the  exception 
of  a  recent  loss  of  eyesight,  had  enjoyed  uninterrupted  good 
health."— TJie  Hull  Packet,  May  24,  1881. 

"  Feb.  2,  [1882].  At  Gasthwaite,  Mr.  Bernard  Smith,  aged 
105.  He  was  for  many  years  blacksmith  and  farrier  to  Elliott's 
Light  Dragoons,  into  which  he  enlisted  at  Northallerton,  in 
1758  (the  year  in  which  it  was  first  raised),  and  is  supposed  to 
[have]  be[en]  the  last  survivor  of  the  regiment  as  when  first 
formed,  with  the  exception  of  one  still  living  at  Winslow, 
Bucks."— Gent.  Mag.,  (Feb.,  1882),  p.  189. 

[June]  11  [1888].  "  At  Whitby,  aged  104,  Mr.  Philip  Daw- 
son, leaving  three  surviving  children  (out  of  seven),  seventeen 
grandchildren,  and  forty-six  great-grandchildren.  —  Annual 
Register,  1838,  p.  225. 

[October]  21,  [1838].  "  At  the  Workhouse,  Soarboro',  aged 
108,  Margaret  Screeton.*  Until  very  recently,  she  was  able 
to  walk  ten  miles  a  day.  She  remembered  being  at  Carlisle 
with  her  mother,  during  the  rebellion  in  1745." — Annual 
Register,  1888,  p.  247. 

"  Lately.  At  Karesborough,  aged  101 ,  Edward  Day,  one  of 
the  constables  who  arrested  Eugene  Aram,  eighty  years  ago." 
Gents.  Mag.,  (June,  1886,)  p.  677. 

"At  Beverley  [East  Yorkshire,]  on  Monday  last,  [November 
28th,  died]  Mr.  Thomas  Hotham,  baker,  aged  102.     He  was  a 

•  Local  pronunciation  of  "  Scraton." 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  169 

livery-man  of  the  city  of  London,  and  could  relate  several  cir- 
cumstances that  occurred  during  the  reign  of  George  the 
Second."— Hull  Advertiser,  Friday,  Dec.  2,  1886. 

"  There  is  now  living  in  the  immediate  vicinity  of  Sharrow 
Mills,  near  Sheffield,  a  female,  named  Elizabeth  Grey,  in  the 
107th  year  of  her  Age"— Hull  Advertiser,  Friday,  Sept.  15, 1848. 

"On  Thursday,  the  10th  inst.,  [Nov.,  1886,  died]  at  Hatfield 
Woodhouse,  near  Thome,  in  her  100th  year,  Mrs.  Betty  Smith. 
This  remarkable  woman  retained  all  her  faculties  nearly  to  the 
last,  and  having  resided  all  her  life-time  in  the  above  neigh- 
bourhood, could  relate  several  curious  facts  connected  with  its 
bye-gone  times;  one  incident  she  remembered  was  that  of 
butter  being  sold,  in  her  youth,  at  Epworth  Market,  for  two- 
pence per  pound.  Had  she  lived  until  the  21st  December,  she 
would  have  entered  upon  her  101st  year,  being  born  at  Wroot, 
in  1786."— Hull  Advertiser,  Friday,  Nov.  25,  1886. 

On  a  small  funeral  card,  which  came  under  my  notice,  some 
time  ago,  was  the  following : — 

In  affectionate  Remembrance  of 

MARY, 

Relict  of  Samuel  Slingsby, 

Farmer,  of  Owston, 

Who  departed  this  life  the  4th  December,  1870, 

Aged  100  years. 

"Aged  107  [years],  Michael  Bailey,  a  native  of  Sherbourn, 
co.  York,  and  the  person  who  sat  for  the  painting  called  "  The 
Woodman."  He  was  a  very  regular  man,  and  from  the  age  of 
fifty,  when  he  first  came  to  London,  till  he  attained  his  100th 
year,  he  was  a  day  labourer." — GenVs.  Mag.,  Vol.  85,  (pt.  1,) 
p.  644. 


Henby  Jenkins. — In  the  early  part  of  the  present  century  a 
London  bookseller  printed  on  very  poor  paper  a  small  book  of 
about  120  pages  on  Henry  Jenkins,  with  a  list  of  Yorkshire 
centenarians,  but  the  bulk  of  the  book  is  a  collection  of  recipes, 
said  to  have  been  given  by  Jenkins  to  Miss  Saville !  Ed. 


Sib  Habby  Goodbicke,  Bart.,  of  Ribstone  Hall, 
.  Yorkshire. 
The  following  hunting  song,  which  was  sung  at  a  compli- 
mentary dinner  given  by  the  members  of  the  Quorn  Hunt, 
Leicestershire,  to  Sir  Harry  Ooodricke,  Bart.,  of  Ribstone  Hall, 
Yorkshire,  at  Melton  Mowbray,  and  published  in  TJie  Hull 
Packet,  Oct.  18,  1881,  will,  no  doubt,  be  interesting  to  many  of 
your  readers : — 


170  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

Hunting  Song,  sting  at  a  dinner  lately  given  to  Sir  Harry 
Goodricke,  at  Melton  Mowbray. 

That  sire  of  the  chase,  our  crack  Nimrod,  Old  Meynell, 

Once  said  to  a  true  brother-sportsman  at  Quorn, 
That  the  fame,  and  the  fun,  of  a  Leicestershire  kennel 

Should  not  cease  till  the  sun  ceased  to  gladden  the  morn : 
He's  gone,  but  each  year  proves  how  true  the  prediction — 

Unmarr'd  is  our  sport,  undiminished  our  fame — 
He's  gone ;  and  this  day  shows  his  words  were  no  fiction, 
For  hunting  and  Leicestershire  still  mean  the  same. 

Chorus — 
Then  round  with  the  bottle,  and  let  it  not  tarry 

While  we  hail,  while  we  honor,  the  man  of  our  choice ; 
In  a  bumper  come  pledge  me — the  gallant  Sir  Harry, 
Whom  we  love  in  our  hearts,  as  we  hail  with  our  voice* 

Other  masters  we've  had,  since  the  days  of  our  glory, 

Osbaldeston,  and  Sefton,  Tom  Smith,  and  the  Grame, 
Southampton,  the  last  not  the  least  in  the  story, 

Giving  Melton  the  main-spring,  and  Leistershire  fame 
And  if  for  a  season  our  joy  has  been  clouded, 

A  day  like  the  present's  too  happy  for  pain ; 
In  the  prospect  before  us  what  pleasures  are  crowded, 

For  oh  1  in  our  Goodricke  we've  Meynell  again. 

Then  round  with  the  bottle,  &c. 

The  Coplow  again  shall  be  famous  in  story, 

And  high  be  the  deeds  we  shall  do  from  Seg's  Hill ; 
And  Melton  once  more,  in  the  blaze  of  her  glory 

Under  Goodricke  shall  thrive,  under  Goodricke  shall  fill. 
Again  shall  our  coverts  like  courts  be  attended, 

Again  .shall  our  "  field-days  "  boast  many  a  "  star;" 
The  friends  will  return  who  have  Melton  befriended, 

Moore,  Forester,  Kinnaird,  Thynne,  Marse  and  Maher. 

Then  round  with  the  bottle,  &c 

And  Alvanley  too,  shall  Meltonian  forget  thee  ? 

Oh,  never,  while  wit  and  while  wine  have  a  charm — 
Thou  too  wilt  return,  tho'  fresh  banners  beset  thee, 

And  with  joke,  fun,  and  glee,  all  sorrow  disarm. 
And  Chesterfield  too,  and  our  honor'd  Be  Wilton 

Will  cheer  us,  while  Plymouth  still  comes  in  the  train, 
And  the  lord  of  the  chase  and  the  monarch  of  Melton 

Shall  be  Harry  of  UibsUm  [e]  *  success  to  his  name. 

Then  round  with  the  bottle,  &c. 

He  died  on  the  22nd  of  August,  1888,  and  in  The  Annual 
Eeyister  for  that  year  (pp.  284-285)  is  the  following  obituary 

notice  of  him  : —  

•  Ribstone  Hall,  Yorkshire,  the  family  seat  of  Sir  Q.  Goodricke. 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LOBE.  171 

"At  Baverjsdale  Park,  go,.  Louth,  in  his  86th  year,  Sir  Efarry 
James  Goodricke,  the  seventh  Baronet,  of  Rib  stone  Hall, 
Yorkshire.  This  wealthy  Nimrod  was  born  Sept.  16,  1797,  and 
was  the  only  son  of  Sir  Henry,  the  sixth  Baronet,  hy  Charlotte, 
second  daughter  of  the  Rt.  Hon.  James  Fortescuc,  of  Ravens- 
dale  Park,  co.  Louth.  He  succeeded  to  the  baronetcy  when 
only  in  the  fifth  year  of  his  age,  on  the  death  of  his  father, 
March  23,  1802 ;  and  was  educated  at  Rugby.  The  death  of 
bis  maternal  uncle,  William  Charles,  second  and  last  Viscount 
Clermont,  in  March,  1829,  left  him  possessed  of  very  large 
estates  in  Ireland ;  and  the  aggregate  of  his  income  is  said  to 
have  amounted  to  £40,000  a  year.  He  served  the  office  of 
Sheriff  of  Yorkshire  in  1881.  Sir  Harry  Goodricke  had  been 
known  in  Leicestershire  for  the  last  ten  years  as  a  leading 
member  of  the  Quorn  Hunt,  of  which  he  became  Master  on  the 
retirement  of  Lord  Southampton  two  years  ago.  He  kept  the 
whole  of  the  establishment  at  his  own  expense.  At  the  period 
of  his  death  seventy-five  capital  hunters  were  in  his  stables, 
ready  to  commence  the  next  season  with  renewed  vigour  and 
spirit.  In  the  voluntary  duties  which  he  had  thus  assumed, 
Sir  Harry  Goodricke  was  exceedingly  popular.  His  life  was 
finally  sacrificed  to  his  ardour  in  all  the  pursuits  of  the  sports- 
man. He  had  experienced  an  attack  of  influenza,  from  which 
he  had  scarcely  recovered,  when  he  sailed  in  his  yacht  to  visit 
his  Irish  estates.  He  was  there  superintending  considerable 
improvements,  and,  when  indulging  in  a  favourite  sport,  that 
of  otter  hunting,  caught  a  severe  cold,  which  proved  fatal  in 
forty-eight  hours."  W.  G.  B.  Page. 

77,  Spring  St.,  Hull. 


(Bbbitits. 

Jack  Peabsok,  the  Mendicant  Poet  and  Village  Gossip. — Can 
any  correspondent  in  or  from  the  neighbourhood  of  Stanning- 
ley,  Bramley,  or  Farsley  (where  the  above  character  lived) 
answer  any  or  all  of  the  following  questions  relative  to  him  : — 
(1)  What  family  did  Pearson  spring  from,  and  are  there  any  of 
the  family  still  living  ?  (2)  Was  he  at  all  educated — could  he 
read  or  write  ?  (8)  Are  there  any  of  his  poetic  effusions  in 
print  or  manuscript  ?  The  reason  of  my  asking  these  questions 
is  because  I  remember  Pearson  calling  at  my  father's  house 
when  I  was  quite  a  boy,  and  for  a  copper  or  other  alms  would 
"on  any  subject " — on  the  marriage  of  a  son  or  daughter,  on 
the  birth  of  a  child,  or  a  piece  of  new  furniture — quite  im- 
promptu, give  several  verses  in  rhyme  bearing  on  these  events 
or  articles,  some  of  which,  I  have  been  told  since,  were  of  no 
ordinary  merit.  My  father  told  me  the  following  story,  of 
which  he  was   a  witness: — Dr.  Laycock,   *  the  elder,'  and  a 


172  YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE. 

.  man  of  the  name  of  Spence  were  standing  talking  in  the  Town- 
gate  of  Bramley,  when  Jack  chanced  to  pass.  Says  Spence 
to  the  Doctor,  "  I'll  bet  you  anything  you  like  you  can't  say  a 
word  or  syllable  of  any  kind,  nor  make  any  sort  of  noise  or 
sound,  but  Jack  can  put  it  into  rhyme."  "  Done,"  says  the 
Doctor  "  for  a  bottle ;  "  and  as  Jack  passed  he  called  out  with 
a  long  "  o-moo,"  whereupon  Jack  wheeled  round  at  once  and 
said — 

There's  Doctor  Laycock  and  Johnnie  Spence, 

Both  of  them  are  void  of  sense ; 

They're  like  two  bulls  among  some  kye — 

For  they  call  moo — as  I  pass  by. 
Of  course  the  Doctor  lost  his  bottle,  and  good  humouredly  paid 
for  it.  "  Kye  "  is  a  word  commonly  used  in  the  Bramley  dis- 
trict for  cattle.  It  was  always  understood  that  Pearson  conld 
neither  read  nor  write ;  in  fact,  did  not  know  A  from  B.  He 
was  known  as  a  gossip,  carrying  news  from  one  place  to 
another,  sometimes  making  no  end  of  mischief,  as  some  of  the 
stories  he  conveyed  were  enlarged  and  altered. 

J.  H.  P.,  Bagby  Fields,  Leeds. 
Peahson. — Mr.  W.  Northrop,  writes  to  the  Leeds  Mercury 
Supplement : — The  parents  of  the  poet  were  residents  of  Bram- 
ley. They  had  a  rather  numerous  family,  some  of  whom  may 
be  still  living.  I  have  often  heard  old  people  say  that  Jack 
could  neither  read  nor  write,  or,  as  they  generally  put  it, 
"  could'nt  tell  a  B  from  a  bull's  foot."  I  should  think  that 
none  of  his  rhymes  ever  found  their  way  into  print.  One  or 
two  things  would  prevent  them  from  thus  gaining  publicity- 
he  could  not  write,  nor  could  he  repeat  any  lengthy  rhyme 
after  its  first  utterance ;  besides  this,  he  never  was  known  to 
think  out  a  rhyme,  it  was  given  impromptu  invariably.  His 
rhymes  were  mostly  in  homely  language,  and  sounded  best 
when  given  in  the  vernacular  of  his  own  birth-place.  Jack 
was  a  favourite  in  the  weaving  shops,  and  would  reel  his  lines 
out  on  any  desired  subject;  and  being  of  a  rambling  dis- 
position, he  was  known  all  over  the  district.  Sometimes  he 
would  leave  his  home  for  weeks  at  a  time  and  wander  among 
more  distant  patrons,  and  it  was  noticed  that  he  generally 
returned  better  clothed  and  in  good  condition,  as  if  he  had 
found  fat  pasturage  away  from  home.  The  rhyme  given  by 
"  J.  H.  P. "  in  last  week's  article  has  been  credited  to  Jack 
for  these  forty  years  or  more,  and  when  told  by  one  of  the 
older  inhabitants  it  sounds  more  piquant  than  it  appears  in 
type.  Timbs,  on  page  21  of  his  "  Notabilia,"  tells  the  same 
story  of  Burns,  and  gives  the  retort  as  follows : — Earl  Crawford 
and  Lord  Boyd  being  out  in  the  country,  observed  a  ploughman 
leaning  on  his  plough  in  deep  thought.  His  Lordship  re- 
marked what  a  lazy  fellow  the  ploughman  must  be ;  whereupon 


YOBKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  178 

Crawford  who  had  recognised  the  ploughman  as  Burns,  chal- 
lenged his  Lordship  to  shout  whatever  he  liked  to  the  man,  and 
he  would  answer  him  in  rhyme.  '  I  will  try  him,'  said  Boyd, 
and  at  once  bellowed  out '  Bough ! '  like  a  bull.  Burns  quietly 
turned  round,  took  stock  of  him  and  of  his  companion,  and 
with  becoming  courtesy  to  Lord  Crawford,  said 

'Tis  not  Lord  Crawford,  but  Lord  Boyd, 
Of  habits  rude,  and  manners  void, 
Who  like  a  bull  among  the  rye, 
Crys  "  Bough  "  at  folks  as  he  goes  by. 

I  am  afraid  that  these  two  stories  are  too  much  alike  to  be  both 
genuine.  Burns  had  so  many  rare  bits  to  his  credit,  that  I 
think  he  might  have  lost  this  without  being  much  the  poorer, 
whilst  our  poor  Jack  is  poor  indeed  when  robbed  of  this,  his 
brightest  utterance. 

It  is  very  hard  to  put  a  dialect  rhyme  into  type  without  de- 
stroying the  metre,  but  there  is  one  example  of  Jack's  impromptu 
efforts  which  I  venture  to  give.  The  dinner  was  in  prepara- 
tion in  one  of  the  weavers'  cottages,  and  the  busy  clack  of  the 
shuttle  had  just  ceased,  whilst  the  weaver  called  out,  "  Mother, 
what  clock  is  it  ?  "  This  happened  just  as  Jack  Pearson  en- 
tered the  house,  and  he  at  once  answered  the  question  by 
calling  out — 

There's  t'meit  hung  down  before  t'fire  to  roist, 
There's  pudding  on  t'brandree  before  it  to  toist, 
Forates  atop  o'  t'hob,  they'll  be  enif  soin, 
But,  I  think  tha  can  weive  a  few  more  bobbins  by  noin. 

Mr.  C.  Benfield,  Stanningley,  contributes  the  following  on 
the  same  subject : — 

Jack  Pearson  always  went  by  the  cognomen  of  "Bramley 
Jack,"  and  was  bred  and  born  in  that  village.  I  know  nothing 
of  his  family,  but  I  have  heard  him  say  he  had  a  brother  living 
at  Kirkstall.  He  was  totally  uneducated,  could  neither  read 
nor  write,  in  fact,  appeared  to  be  incapable  of  learning.  The 
only  poetical  effusion  of  his  in  print  that  I  know  of  appeared 
in  the  "  Bramley  Almanac  "  (I  think  for  1888)  and  is  entitled 
"Bramley  Old  Hall  Ghost."  I  do  not  know  who  wrote  the 
words  down,  but  it  is  most  certainly  a  faithful  production  of 
Jack's  style  and  peculiarity  of  expression.  Mr.  J.  Dawson, 
Bramley,  could  probably  supply  this.  My  wife  used  to  en- 
courage Jack,  for  a  few  coppers,  to  recite  his  impromptu 
rhymes,  and  for  several  years  he  seldom  missed  calling  once  or 
twice  a  week.  On  one  occasion,  after  he  had  been  reciting,  she 
Mud,  "  Jack,  I  wonder  where  you  get  your  talent  from."  The 
effect  this  question  produced  was  truly  wonderful.  His  poor, 
decrepit,  attenuated  form  seemed  to  expand,  and  his  thin, 
wizened  face  to  light  up  with  sudden  inspiration,  and  stretching 


174  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

forth  his  arm  towards  a  cage  containing  a  thrush,  he  com- 
menced with  a  fire  and  energy  quite  startling — 

You  ask  me  whence  my  talent  springs — 
I  ask  you  why  that  throstle  sings  ? 
These  two  lines  are  all  I  can  give  in  his  own  words,  but  for  a 
quarter  of  an  hour  he  poured  forth  a  stream  of  poetry  of  no 
mean  order,  and  used  similes  and  comparisons  of  which,  in  his 
ordinary  state,  he  could  neither  comprehend  nor  understand 
the  application.  He  spoke  of  the  beauty  of  the  trees  and 
flowers  and  the  various  instincts  of  birds,  animals  and  insects ; 
and  the  sense  of  his  concluding  lines  was  that  the  God  who  had 
lavished  such  beauty  on  the  flowers  and  endowed  His  creatures 
with  such  wonderful  instincts  had  given  him  his  talent.  I 
wished  to  write  it  down,  and  asked  him  if  he  could  repeat  it, 
but  he  had  relapsed  into  his  usual  condition,  and  could  not  re- 
peat a  single  line  of  it.  Before  reciting  he  usually  asked  for  a 
bit  of  paper  to  hold  in  his  hand ;  a  bit  of  coloured  sugar -paper 
would  do  as  well  as  any  other.  Jack,  if  feeble-minded,  was  not 
devoid  of  wit,  and  was  often  quick  at  repartee.  He  used  to 
visit  Tong  Hall  once  a  quarter,  and  Colonel  Tempest  always 
gave  him  half-a-crown.  On  one  occasion  the  old  Colonel 
showed  him  half  a  sovereign  and  half  a  crown,  and  asked  him 
which  he  would  have.  "  I'll  not  be  greedy,"  Jack  replied, 
"  I'll  take  the  little  one.'*  I  was  much  amused  with  the  advice 
I  heard  him  give  to  a  workman  who  had  a  bald  head  and  was 
of  drunken  habits.  After  telling  him  (iu  rhyme)  how  foolish 
he  was  to  spend  his  money  to  provide  fine  caps  for  landladies, 
while  his  own  wife  and  children  went  barefoot,  and  to  drink 
fiery  spirits  till  he  had  burnt  all  the  hair  from  the  top  of  his 
head,  he  concluded  with 

I  could  put  you  up  to  a  better  rig, 

You  should  save  your  money  and  buy  a  wig. 


The  Hal  of  Kibklees.  Hal  Pierson  was  an  idiot,  or  an 
"  innocent,"  as  weak  persons  are  called  in  Yorkshire,  who  was 
benevolently  reared  and  protected  by  the  family  of  Sir  George 
Armytage,  about  120  years  ago.*  Hal,  though  weak  of  intellect, 
was  extremely  shrewd,  and  even  witty  at  times.  He  loved 
money,  as  all  fools  and  some  wise  men  do.  A  casual  visitor  to 
the  family  had  given  him  half-a-crown.     Hal  was  delighted; 

#  The  gentleman  mentioned  would  be  Sir  George  Armytage,  the  third 
Baronet,  who  died  in  1738,  leaving  his  estates  to  his  cousin,  Samuel  Army- 
tage, who  was  created  a  baronet  July  4th,  1738.  After  the  Rawaons  ceased 
to  occupy  the  Manor  House  in  Kirkgate,  Bradford,  it  was  occupied  by  John 
Hardy,  a  partner  in  the  Low  Moor  ironworks,  and  it  was  in  that  house  the 
present  Lord  Cranbrook  was  born.  On  the  purchase  of  the  manorial  rights 
for  the  sum  of  five  thousand  pounds,  to  be  paid  yearly  to  the  hein  of  the 
Bawson  family,  the  building  was  destroyed,  and  the  present  covered  market 
in  Eirkgate  was  erected. 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LOR£.  175 

but  he  had  heard  in  the  servants'  hall  that  money  makes  money, 
and  a  vague  wish  arose  in  his  mind  to  multiply,  if  possible,  the 
coin  of  which  he  had  become  possessed.  There  was  a  young 
carpenter,  named  Robby,  who  worked  by  the  year  in  the  family, 
and  who,  hearing  Hal  inquire  how  he  might  increase  his 
treasure,  told  him  to  put  it  in  a  hole  in  the  wall,  which  Hal 
immediately  did.  It  is  to  be  premised  that  this  poor  innocent 
knew  not  the  comparative  value  of  silver  or  copper.  Robby 
taking  advantage  of  his  ignorance,  and  eager  to  play  a  trick 
upon  him,  changed  the  coin  for  a  few  coppers,  with  which  Hal 
was  at  first  much  pleased ;  but  by  and  by,  one  of  the  under - 
servants  explained  the  matter,  and  Hal  vowed  vengeance  against 
the  carpenter.  Whether  he  executed  it  or  not  the  reader  will 
presently  see.  Hal  was  always  ready  to  do  errands,  and  some- 
times did  them  well.  At  all  events  he  was  no  niggard  of  his 
time  or  trouble,  when  he  liked  his  employer.  His  will  was  good 
but  his  power  weak.  At  one  time  a  young  lady,  Miss  Jenny 
Ayrton,  being  on  a  visit  at  Sir  George  Armytage's,  to  her  great 
vexation  discovered  that  she  had  forgotten  a  rich  pair  of  ruffles 
and  lappets.  Everybody  was  busy ;  much  company  was  ex- 
pected, and  a  splendid  toilet  was  necessary.  Poor  Miss  Jenny, 
in  all  her  sorrows  of  beauty  and  eighteen,  addressed  herself  in 
vain  to  the  servants  for  a  trusty  messenger  to  despatch  four 
miles  for  these  important  articles.  Not  one  could  be  spared, 
until  a  good  natured  little  dairymaid,  a  little  cowslip  of  the 
north,  suggested  an  application  to  Hal  Pierson.  He  could  take 
a  message ;  was  very  fond  of  Miss  Jenny ;  it  was  a  fine  day  and 
only  four  miles.  But  Hal  had  a  dislike  to  carrying  a  note  or 
letter,  ever  since  a  celebrated  humorist,  in  the  practical  joke 
line,  had  given  him  a  note  desiring  the  bearer  might  be  re- 
warded for  his  pains  with  a  tumbler  of  hot  salt  and  water.  No 
— Hal  would  have  nothing  to  say  to  a  note,  but  cheerfully 
undertook  to  go  and  fetch  the  ruffles  and  lappets.  It  was  ex- 
plained to  him  by  Cowslip  what  they  were,  and  he  sapiently 
replied,  "I  naw,  Jinny  Ayrton  wants  her  handy-cuffs  and 
pinniers:"  As  his  habit  was  never  to  walk,  but  to  dance  along, 
clapping  his  hands  as  he  went,  this  formed  the  burden  of  his 
song,  which  helped  him  on  the  way.  Arrived  at  the  house,  he 
repeated  his  lesson,  but  no  one  knew  what  it  meant,  and  to  his 
evident  distress,  he  had  to  go  back  without  his  errand.  On  his 
return  he  explained  that  they  would  not  give  him  any  "handy- 
cuffs  or  pinniers," 

Miss  Ayrton  then  tried  again  to  make  him  understand  by 
showing  him  her  every-day  ruffles,  but  said  that,  being  in  the 
country,  she  wished  her  best  to  be  sent.  He  then  willingly 
undertook  to  return,  though  he  had  already  walked  or  danced 
eight  miles  in  her  service.  This  time  he  tried  hard,  and  said 
"ruffles  and  lappets'1  all  the  way;  but  he  chanced  to  get  a  fall, 


176  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

which  completed  the  before  muddled  state  of  his  brains,  and 
when  he  rose  he  had  only  a  vague  recollection  of  cuffs  and  that 
they  should  be  smarter  than  usual  in  the  country.  So  he  ar- 
rived at  Miss  Ayrton's  home  shouting  out  "Buff  cuffs  and 
country  cuffs."  More  puzzled  than  ever,  the  servants  stood  in 
dismay,  until,  out  of  breath  and  patience  with  his  now  twelve 
miles  walk,  Hal  insisted  upon  having  various  articles  of  female 
wardrobe  exhibited  to  him,  when  his  desire  being  complied 
with,  he  quickly  pounced  upon  the  commodity  wanted.  Having 
been  allowed  to  take  a  pair  of  ruffles  and  lappets  of  rich  point 
lace,  which  he  triumphantly  attached  to  his  walking  staff,  he 
set  out  puffing  and  blowing  upon  his  second  return  to  Sir 
George  Armytage's,  where  he  presented  himself  to  the  anxiously 
expecting  young  lady,  just  in  time  to  decorate  her  fair  person 
with  the  result  of  his  sixteen  miles  labour.  But  he  had  his 
reward,  for  Miss  Ayrton  smiled,  and  her  smile  was  at  that 
period  of  her  life  witchcraft  itself,  even  to  such  a  being  as  Hal 
Pierson.  Hal  wore  Sir  George  Armytage's  livery  when  he 
chose,  for  he  never  was  constrained  by  his  kind  benefactor, 
whose  motive  for  keeping  him  in  his  household  was  pure 
benevolence. 

Sauntering,  as  was  his  custom,  one  day  by  the  river  side,  he 
saw  a  young  gallant  riding  on  the  other  bank.  Hal  owed  him 
a  grudge  for  once  having  given  him  a  pinch  of  very  strong  snuff. 
The  young  man  had  no  remembrance  of  the  joke,  or  the  person 
of  the  fool ;  and  he  asked  him  if  the  river  was  fordable  there. 
Hal  replied  "  Yes."  "  Are  you  sure  ?  Have  you  seen  anyone 
pass  it  to-day?"  " Troth,  I  have— a  most  respectable  family, 
father,  mother,  and  young  ones,"  replied  Hal;  "they  came  over 
right  merrily  this  morn's  morning."  Upon  this  assurance  the 
young  man  put  his  horse  to  the  stream,  and  though  the  animal 
with  instinctive  sagacity,  hesitated,  whip  and  spur  soon  com- 
pelled him  to  go  in.  It  was  wonderful  that  both  were  not 
drowned.  After  a  hard  struggle,  horse  and  rider  gained  the 
bank,  which  Hal  no  sooner  saw  than  he  ran  off,  to  avoid  a  re* 
sentment  expressed  by  menaces  both  loud  and  deep.  The 
cavalier  made  the  best  of  his  way  to  the  great  house,  to  prefer 
his  complaint  against  one  bearing  the  Armytage  livery,  having 
endangered  his  life.  All  the  servants  were  summoned.  He 
could  not  identify  the  mischievous  one,  until  someone  suggested 
the  possibility  of  its  being  Hal  Pierson.  Hal  was  sought  for 
and  brought  into  his  presence ;  but  all  he  could  be  got  to  say 
in  answer  to  his  master's  queries  and  reproaches  was  that  be 
had  seen  a  very  respectable  family  pass  that  morning — the  grey 
drake,  his  duck,  and  ducklings,  and  therefore  he  guessed  a  goose 
might  do  the  same.    Here  was  the  pinch  of  snuff  revenged. 

Hal  had  hitherto  never  done  anything  dangerous;  but  Bobby 
was  yet  to  reap  his  reward  for  the  dishonest  tricks  played  upon 


YOBKSHIEE    FOLK-LOBE.  177 

poor  Hal's  half-crown,  as  well  as  for  a  long  course  of  minor 
tarings  and  annoyances.    For  some  time  Hal  had  contented 
himself  with  hiding  the  young  carpenter's  tools,  or  telling  tales 
to  his  sweetheart,  the  pretty  young  housemaid;  but  Bobby  at 
last  provoked  him  beyond  what  was  safe  with  a  being  of  his 
order.   Watching  his  opportunity  one  day,  when,  as  usual  after 
dinner,  he  took  a  short  nap  in  his  workshop,  Hal  entered  un- 
perceived,  and  accomplished  his  purpose.    He  then  returned  to 
the  servants'  hall.  By  his  exulting  looks  the  servants  concluded 
he  had  been  in  mischief,  but  thought  no  more  about  the  matter. 
Supper  time  came,  and  as  Bobby  was  a  merry  fellow,  and  the 
life  of  the  party,  his  absence  was  remarked.    At  length  Hal 
observed,  "  I've  played  him  a  bonny  trick  this  time."     "  Why, 
what  have  you  done  now  ?  "  cried  the  otherB,  crowding  round 
him;  "what  have  you  hid  now?"    -"Ob,  I've  hid  his  head 
under  the  shavings,  and  when  he  wakes  he'll  be  troubled  to  find 
it."    Misgivings  arose  from  this  declaration,  and  they  went  in 
body  to  the  workshop  to  see  what  he  had  really  done,  when, 
horrible  to  relate,  it  was  found  that  the  idiot  had  cut  off  the 
unfortunate  man's  head  while  he  slept,  and  hid  it  under  the 
shavings.    Hal,  who  had  accompanied  them,   seemed  quite 
astonished  to  find  Bobby  dead.    He  tried  to  put  the  head  on 
again,  and,  on  finding  the  effort  was  of  no  use,  burst  into  tears. 
His.  delinquency  of  course  subjected  him  to  a  trial,  which  took 
place  at  York,  when,  his  imbecility  being  clearly  proved,  instead 
of  committing  him  for  the  remainder  of  his  life  to  prison,  the 
judge  gave  him  over  to  his  humane  protector,   Sir  George 
Armytage,  in  whose  family  he  remained  well  watched,  but  his 
spirits  never  afterwards  rallied.    He  was  often  found  sitting  by 
a  brook,  mingling  his  tears  with  the  stream.    He  never  spoke 
a  word  respecting  the  melancholy  event,  bat  no  power  could 
induce  him  to  approach  the  workshop,  or  to  take  in  his  hand 
any  edged  tool.    He  pined,  and  his  weak  intellect  becoming 
more  and  more  feeble,  his  health  suffered,  and  he  died  a  pre- 
mature old  man,  grey  headed  under  thirty  years  of  age.    The 
remembrance  of  Hal  Pierson's  balf-crown  survived  him,  and 
has  become  a  bye-word  to  express  any  futile  or  wild  scheme  for 
increasing  money.    Miss  Jane  Ayrton  lived  to  nearly  eighty 
years  of  age,  and,  near  the  end  of  her  days,  communicated 
these  anecdotes  to  a  descendant,  the  individual  who  now  gives 
them  to  the  world. — Copied  from  an  early  number  of  Chamber*' 
Edinburgh  Journal, 

As  a  gentleman  with  a  very  prominent  nose  was  about  to 
visit  Kirklees,  the  Hal  was  forewarned  by  Sir  George  not  to 
pass  any  remarks  upon  the  peculiar  proboscis.  The  visitor  and 
Hal  never  passed  each  other  without  the  latter  remarking 
aloud — "  What  a  nose !  if  anybody  dare  mention  one."  This 
has  passed  into  a  saying  in  the  vicinity. 

T.F-L.  M 


J76  YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE. 

A   GhBISTKAS  OABOL  WHICH   FORMERLY  U8B1>  TO  BE   SuHO 
IN   MlRFIELD, 

Gome  all  ye  jolly  gentlemen,  and  hearken  what  I  say, 
Jesus  Our  Saviour  was  born  on  Christmas  Day. 

Here's  to  your  Wassail,  to  your  jovial  Wassail, 

Highest  joy  come  to  you,  and  to  your  Wassail. 
■God  bless  the  Master  of  this  house,  likewise  the  Mistress  too, 
And  all  the  little  children  that  round  the  table  go. 

Here's  to  your  Wassail,  &c. 
We  have  not  been  a  wand'ring  among  the  leaves  so  green, 
But  we  are  come  a  Wassailing,  so  fairly  to  be  seen. 

Here's  to  your  Wassail.  &c. 
We  are  not  come  to  your  door  to  beg  or  to  borrow, 
But  we  are  come  to  your  door  to  drive  away  all  sorrow. 

Here's  to  your  Wassail,  &c. 
Tour  Wassail  cup  is  made  of  Rosemary  tree, 
And  so  is  your  beer  of  the  best  barley. 

Here's  to  your  Wassail,  &c. 
Bring  us  out  a  table,  spread  thereon  a  cloth, 
And  bring  us  out  a  mouldy  cheese,  likewise  a  Christmas  loaf. 

Here's  to  your  Wassail,  &c. 
Good  Master  and  good  Mistress,  sitting  by  the  fire, 
Bemember  us  poor  children  who  are  travelling  in  the  mire. 

Here's  to  your  Wassail,  &c. 
We  have  a  little  purse,  made  of  ratching  leather  skin, 
Good  Master  and  good  Mistress,  come  line  it  well  within. 

Here's  to  your  Wassail,  &c. 
You  keep  no  Maid  about  this  house,  or  we  suppose  you've  none, 
Or  else  you  would  not  let  us  stand  so  long  on  this  cold  stone. 

Here's  to  your  Wassail,  &c. 


FOLK-LORE    OF   EOBIN    HOOD. 

I  do  not  think  there  is  any  country  so  rich  in  proverbs,  wise 
sayings,  and  folk-lore  as  England  is.  In  former  days,  when 
books  were  scarce,  proverbs  were  stored  up  in  the  memory  and 
used  by  the  common  people  on  all  occasions.  An  enumeration 
of  these  sayings  would  fill  a  volume.  The  name  of  Robin  Hood 
will  be  familiar  to  all  my  readers ;  I  will,  therefore,  give  a  few 
with  which  his  name  is  connected : — 

1. — "As  crooked  as  Robin  Hood's  bow,"  i.e.,  when  bent  or 
strung.     Thus,  in  a  modern  Irish  song  occurs — 

The  next  with  whom  they  did  engage, 

It  was  an  old  woman  worn  with  age ; 

Her  teeth  were  like  tobacco  pegs ; 

Besides,  she  had  two  bandy  legs, 

Her  back  more  crooked  than  Robin  Hood's  bow,  Ac. 


Y0RK8HIBE    FOLK-LORE.  179 

2.— ■"  Many  talk  of  Robin  Hood  that  never  shot  in  his  bow; 
And  many  talk  of  Little  John  that  never  did  him  know."  Bay 
gives  it  as  above,  Fuller  mentions  it  in  his  "Worthies,"  as  also 
does  Sir  Edward  Coke,  in  his  "  Institutes." 

8. — "Robin  Hood's  choice— this  or  nothing,"  is  used  in  the 
same  sense  as  "  Hobson's  Choice." 

4. — "  Come,  turn  about,  Robin  Hood,"  signifies  that  it  re- 
quired a  large  amount  of  "  muscular  Christianity  "  to  challenge 
this  hero. 

5. — "To  go  round  by  Robin  Hood's  barn,"  to  go  a  short 
distance,  by  a  long  road. 

6. — "  Good  even,  good  Robin  Hood."  This  is  an  allusion  to 
civility,  extorted  by  fear,  and  Skelton  uses  it  as  such,  in  "Why 
come  ye  not  to  court." 

7. — "To  sell  Robin  Hood's  pennyworth,"  is  spoken,  says 
Fuller,  of  things  sold  under  half  their  value,  or,  if  you  will, 
half  sold — half  given.  Robin  Hood  came  lightly  by  his  ware, 
and  lightly  parted  therewith ;  so  that  he  could  allow  the  length 
of  his  bow  for  a  yard  of  velvet.  This  was  indeed  discount  for 
cash,  at  the  rate  of  about  50  per  cent.,  as  his  bow  would  be,  at 
least,  six  feet  from  tip  to  tip. 

8.—"  Tales  of  Robin  Hood  are  good  for  fools,"  is  one  of  the 
proverbs  in  Camden's  "  Remains,"  but  Ray  has  it,  "  Tales  of 
Robin  Hood  are  good  enough  for  fools."  Camden's  version  is, 
of  course,  the  oldest.  The  enough  may  have  been  an  interpo- 
lation between  the  time  of  Camden  and  Ray. 

9.— "To  overshoot  Robin  Hood"  is  quoted  by  Sir  Philip 
Sydney  in  his  "  Defence  of  Poesie."  It  probably  meant  mak- 
ing irrational  conclusions. 

There  are  no  fewer  than  a  dozen  lanes  and  alleys  in  London 
alone  called  after  him.     Sometimes  a  rural  publican  whose 
name  is  John  hangs  over  his  door  the  following  lines : — 
You  gentlemen  and  yeomen  good, 
Come  in  and  drink  with  Robin  Hood ; 
If  Robin  Hood  be  not  at  home, 
Come  in  and  drink  with  Little  John. 
This  is  the  case  on  Epping  Forest  which  was  recently  opened 
by  the  Queen,  and  dedicated  to  the  use  of  the  people  of  London 
for  ever.    There  is  a  public-house  about  a  couple  of  miles  from 
the  terminus  of  the  Great  Eastern  Branch  Railway  to  Epping, 
and  this  verse  is  painted  oh  the  sign.     It  is  related   of  a 
publican,  who  rejoiced  in  the  patronymic  of  Webster,  adopting 
these  lines,  with  what  he  thought  a  necessary  emendation, 
changing  the  closing  line  to 

"  Come  in  and  drink  with  Simon  Webster."  . 
He  was  not  aware  of  the  violation  of  poetic  rules.     Our  older 
poets  furnish  us  with  another  instance  of  the  widespread  fame 


f  180  YOBKSHIBE    FOLK-LORE. 

of  this  redoubtable  freeson,  in  the  practice  of  swearing  by  him. 
Thus  in  Borde's  Certayne  Merrie  Tales  of  the  Madde  Menne  of 
Gottom,  published  in  the  reign  of  Henry  Vlll.,  one  of  the 
characters  introduced  exclaims,  "By  Robin  Hood,  but  thou 
shalt  not."  Shakspere,  in  The  Two  Gentlemen  of  Verona,  makes 
one  of  the  outlaws  swear,  "  By  the  bare  scalp  of  Robin  Hood's 
fat  friar.  Antiquary. 

The  Heckmondwike  Herald  gives  the  following  note  on  Robin 
Hood's  Wind. 

"  I  heard  one  of  my  neighbours  the  other  day,  in  speaking 
about  the  weather,  say  that  Robin  Hood  was  right  when  he 
said  that  a  thaw  wind  was  the  coldest  of  all  winds.  Now,  if  it 
is  not  colder  when  the  frost  is  on  how  could  it  thaw,  and  if  it 
is  so  warm  that  it  thaws  how  can  Robin  Hood  have  been  right? 

T.  J.  8.  (Healey). 

T.  J.  S.  (Healey)  no  doubt  thinks  he  has  put  a  poser  when 
he  asks  how  it  can  thaw  if  the  cold  is  more  intense  than  when 
it  freezes  ?  The  reason  why  it  is  colder  in  a  thaw  than  in  a 
frost  is  because  when  frozen  water  is  thawed  it  absorbs  heat 
from  the  air,  &c,  to  melt  the  ice  ;  in  consequence  of  which  the 
heat  of  the  air  is  greatly  reduced.  There  is  no  doubt  that  if 
Robin  Hood  made  the  observation  he  is  credited  with  respecting 
a  thaw  wind  he  was  perfectly  correct  and  doubtless  gave  the 
result  of  his  own  experience.  It  would  take  up  too  much  room 
to  explain  what  is  meant  by  latent  heat,  but  strange  as  it  may 
sound  all  bodies  contain  it,  the  coldest  ice  as  well  as  the  hottest 
fire.  Heat  is  always  evolved  when  a  fluid  is  converted  into  a 
solid  form,  and  on  the  contrary  heat  is  always  absorbed  when  a 
solid  is  changed  into  a  liquid  state. 

Chkmicus  (Heckmondwike.) 


Hebbebt  Enowles.  In  reply  to  the  Rev.  J.  L.  Saywell,  I 
forward  the  following  brief  notice  of  Enowles.  Through  a 
mistaken  idea,  on  the  part  of  Southey,  it  has  gone  forth  to  the 
world,  that  this  youthful  poet  was  little  better  than  a  pauper, 
and  depended  upon  sympathisers  for  his  maintenance  at  school, 
which  is  altogether  erroneous.  He  was  born  at  Gomersal,  near 
Leeds,  in  1798,  and  died  in  1817.  James  Enowles,  his  father, 
was  a  well-to-do  woollen  merchant,  and  well  able  to  educate 
his  sons,  one  of  whom,  James,  he  articled  to  the  Law,  who 
became  an  eminent  Barrister  and  Q.  0.,  and  died  in  1868. 

Herbert  was  intended  by  his  father,  to  follow  commercial 
pursuits,  and  succeed  him  in  the  woollen  business ;  but  he 
wished  to  enter  the  Church,  and  trade  was  so  distasteful  to  him 
that  on  the  subjeot  being  urged  upon  him,  he  left  home  and 


YORKSHIEE    FOLK-LORE.  181 

enlisted  in  the  artillery,  upon  which,  his  father  perceiving  that 
he  would  never  make  a  tradesman,  bought  him  off,  and  sent 
him  to  the  Grammar  School  at  Richmond,  then  under  the 
superintendence  of  Dr.  Tate. 

Very  early  in  life,  he  commenced  writing  poetry,  and  sub- 
mitted a  poem  to  Southey  as  a  specimen  of  a  volume  he  pro- 
posed publishing,  who  appears  to  have  conjectured  that  he  was 
an  orphan  lacking  the  means  of  going  to  college,  and  that  he 
was  hoping  to  make  money  by  the  publication  of  his  volume, 
to  enable  him  to  go  thither.  In  reply,  he  earnestly  dissuaded 
him  from  doing  so,  although  the  "poem  waB  brimful  of  promise 
and  power,"  offering  instead,  to  send  him  £10  and  to  get  the 
same  sum  each  from  Earl  Spencer  and  Samuel  Rogers.  On 
receiving  the  news  of  his  good  fortune,  young  Enowles  wrote  to 
his  protector  a  letter,  remarkable  for  much  more  than  the 
gratitude  which  pervaded  every  line.  He  remembered  that 
Kirke  White  had  gone  to  the  university  countenanced  and 
supported  by  patrons,  and  that  to  pay  back  the  debt  he  owed 
them  he  wrought  day  and  night,  until  his  delicate  frame  gave 
way,  and  his  life  became  the  penalty  of  his  devotion.  Herbert 
Snowies  felt  that  he  could  not  make  the  same  desperate  efforts, 
and  he  deemed  it  his  first  duty  to  say  so.  He  promised  to  do 
what  he  could ;  assured  his  friends  that  he  would  not  be  idle ; 
and  that,  if  he  could  not  reflect  upon  them  any  extraordinary 
credit,  he  would  certainly  do  them  no  disgrace.  He  then  wrote 
"  The  Three  Tabernacles,"  which  has  immortalised  his  name. 
8onthey  was  the  first  to  give  it  to  the  world,  in  an  article  in 
the  Quarterly  Review,  No.  xxi.,  897,  saying — "  The  reader  will 
remember  that  they  are  the  verses  of  a  school-boy,  who  had  not 
long  been  taken  from  one  of  the  lowest  stations  in  life,  and  he 
will  then  judge  what  might  have  been  expected,  from  one  who 
was  capable  of  writing  with  such  strength  and  originality  upon 
the  tritest  of  all  subjects." 

He  left  behind  him  a  MS.  vol.  of  poems,  some  of  which  were 
published,  posthumously  in  the  "  Literary  Gazette."  They 
were  much  lauded  by  James  Montgomery  in  the  "  Christian 
Life,"  who  said  that  he  would  have  given  a  great  deal  to  have 
been  the  author  of  "The  Three  Tabernacles."  His  superior 
genius  engaged  for  him  the  patronage  of  many  men,  eminent 
for  rank,  talent  or  learning,  but  the  ardour  of  his  mind  de- 
stroyed its  earthly  tenement,  and  he  fell  a  victim  to  con- 
sumption at  the  age  of  19  years.  He  was  buried  in  the 
Chapel-yard  of  the  Upper  Chapel,  Heckmondwike,  under  a 
tombstone,  inscribed — "Sacred  to  the  memory  of  Herbert 
Knowles,  who  departed  this  life  February  17th,  1817/' 

The  Poem  was  dated — "  Written  in  Richmond  Church-yard, 
Oct.  7th,  1816. 

London.  Fredk.  Boss. 


&£  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

The  Cleckheaton  Guardian  publishes  the  following  particulars : 

"  Herbert  Knowlea  was  the  son  of  a  Mr.  James  Knowles,  a 
merchant  in  London.  James  Knowles  was  the  brother  of  Mr. 
Lionel  Knowles,  sen.,  the  father  of  the  late  Lionel  and  Hartley 
Knowles,  of  Gomersal.  This  James  Knowles,  Herbert's  father, 
married  a  Miss  Philips,  sister  of  the  Mrs.  Philips  who,  some 
fifty  years  ago,  occupied  the  handsome  residence,  with  garden 
in  front,  situate  in  what  is  now  known  as  the  Old  Market  Place, 
Cleckheaton,  the  same  house  being  now  tenanted  by  Mr.  Navey 
and  Mr.  Scott.  Herbert's  father  and  mother  both  dying  when 
their  children  were  young,  he  with  his  two  brothers  and  sister, 
were  taken  charge  of  by  their  relatives.  It  may  here  be  inter- 
esting to  state  that  Mr.  Lister,  a  respectable  solicitor  who 
practised  in  Cleckheaton  some  thirty-five  years  ago,  married 
Herberts  sister,  and  from  personal  recollection  we  may  state 
that  a  more  amiable  lady  never  graced  the  town.  She  and  her 
husband,  however,  both  died  within  a  very  few  years  of  their 
marriage,  and  their  mortal  remains  rest  in  the  old  Bed  Chapel 
ourying-ground.  The  late  James  Knowles,  Q.C.,  who  for  so 
long  a  period  was  connected  with  the  Northern  Circuit,  was 
Herbert's  brother,  so  it  is  clearly  evident  that  the  family  was 
gifted  with  rare  talents.  Of  the  third  brother  we  unfortunately 
know  nothing.  On  the  death  of  his  parents,  the  subject  of 
these  remarks— Herbert — was  taken  by  his  relatives  at  Gomer- 
sal and  sent  to  Mr.  HorsfalTa  school  there,  where  he  was  a 
boarder.  There  being  no  Independent  chapel  at  Gomersal  in 
those  days,  Mr.  Horsfall,  his  boarders,  and  many  others  from 
that  village  regularly  attended  at  the  Red  Chapel ;  some,  like 
Mr.  Horsfall's  pupils,  bringing  their  dinners  along  with  them, 
and  partaking  thereof  in  the  vestry.  During  the  interval  be- 
tween the  services,  we  are  told,  it  was  no  uncommon  event  for 
Herbert,  who  was  then  religiously  disposed,  to  deliver  a  short 
address  to  those  present,  and  the  ability  he  displayed  did  not 
go  unobserved.  It  was  previously  stated  that  it  was  intended 
that  he  should  enter  into  a  merchant's  counting-house  in  Liver- 
pool, but  his  talents  becoming  manifest,  he  was  placed  at  the 
Grammar  School,   Richmond,   Yorkshire,    where   he  evinced 

EDwers  of  no  ordinary  kind.  Through  the  kind  assistance  of 
outhey,  Rogers  and  Lord  Spencer,  he  was  enabled  to  pursue 
his  studies  for  a  time,  but  too  soon  the  hopes  which  he  had 
excited  were  extinguished  by  his  severe  illness  and  sudden 
death,  which  took  place  at  Gomersal,  February  17th,  1817, 
when  he  was  only  nineteen  years  of  age. 


YORKSHIRE    #OLtf-LORE.  &# 

(Bib  gorhsbtr*  Ballais. 

A  Ballad  on  Mat:  bt  T.  Pebrson,  1578. 

The  fragraunt  flowers,  moBt  freshe  to  viewe, 

In  May  most  pleasaunt  ys, 
Doth  yield  to  man  their  bewtifull  hewe 

That  God  hath  framed  sertis. 
Then,  man,  consyder  thine  estate, 

.  Compared  a  flower  to  be ; 
For  come  thou  early,  come  thou  late, 

Be  sure  that  thou  shalt  dye. 

So  pleasauntly  doth  florish  Maye 

In  his  appointed  tyme  ; 
When  June  appears,  then  slydes  away, 

And  wither'd  ys  in  fynne ; 
Lykewysse  shall  man,  so  freshe  of  hewe, 

With  valiant  youthe  decaye, 
Consume  to  earthe  this  ys  most  trewe, 

As  flowers  that  faide  in  Maye. 

And  as  the  man  greatly  delight 

To  viewe  thie  collowres  strange, 
With  fragraunt  smelle  both  daye  and  night, 

Which  sodaynlye  doth  chaunge : 
Even  so  shall  mau,  with  bewties  brave, 

His  pompe  and  coradge  stute, 
Shall  ohaunge  as  flowers  which  wither'd  stave, 

Which  of  the  earthe  toke  roote. 

No  flower  so  freshe  or  fragraunt  smelle, 

But  yt  haith  lost  his  vewe, 
No  man  so  freshe,  in  youthe  so  well, 

But  he  heith  chaunged  his  hewe ; 
Sence  now  thus  man,  compared  yB, 

Most  lyke  the  flower  that  hye 
Themselves  into  the  earthe  sertis, 

Doth  shewe  that  man  shall  dye. 

Then  let  us  counte  our  lyffe  the  flower, 

And  youthe  as  lustye  Maye, 
Which  shall  be  chaunged  in  short  houre, 

As  Scripture  playn  doth  saye ; 
And  call  on  God,  our  heavenly  King, 

Our  soules  to  mortifie, 
That  afther  dethe  He  will  us  bringe 

To  His  eternitie. 


18*  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

A  Ballad  by  Pireson: 
Another  Song,  T.  Pereson  doing.    (From  the  Cottonian  MBS.) 

Oman,  refraine  thie  vile  desyre, 

Subdewe  thie  lust  inordinate ; 
Fere  lesse  thow  kindlest  a  flamyng  fyre 

Of  Gode's  wrath,  envy,  or  hate. 

Thow  knowest  not  what  a  poyson  strange 
Thow  heapest  upp  within  thie  brest ; 

When  that  thow  dost  a  poore  man  wronge, 
The  Lord  wyll  revenge  the  poore  request. 

For  lyke  as  the  asse  is  lyons  preye, 
So  ys  the  poore  the  riche  man's  meate ; 

As  in  experiens  everye  daye 

How  that  the  riohe  the  poore  doth  eate. 

And  as  the  woalffe  devoure  the  lambe, 
Which  of  the  fleshe  and  blode  do  feede, 

So  doth  the  riehe  and  covetous  man 
Oppresse  the  poore  or  causse  do  neede. 

Bnt  as  the  tre  that  bereth  frute, 

After  the  leaffe  yet  dothe  decaye ; 
So  man  shall  leave  his  minde  and  vaine  snte, 

And  turne  in  th'  ende  to  clothe  of  claye. 

But  lett  not  covetousness  the  tome, 

For  to  releve  and  helpe  the  poore ; 
Feare  lease  in  hell  therein  thow  bourne, 

And  bide  in  torments  evermore. 
.  Example  of  Dives  we  maye  reede  certaine, 

As  Scripture  plainly  dothe  hus  tell ; 
For  denyed  of  Lazarus  his  hunger  to  sustaine, 

In  perpetual  torments  in  hell  he  doth  dwell. 

Therefore  gyve  unto  the  poore  some  parte 

Of  that  which  God  hath  given  to  the, 
And  with  fre  will  and  faithfull  barte, 

Gyve  that  thow  maist,  let  no  man  se. 
Then  shalt  thow  be  exalted  hie, 

In  crowdes  of  heaven  celestiall, 
Where  ever  ys  joye  of  melodye ; 
God  graunt  to  hus  that  plaice  eternall. 
ffinis. 
These  two  ancient  songs,   I  have  copied  from   HalliwelTa 
Yorkshire  Anthology,  and  it  is  very  desirable  that  something 
should  be  known  of  the  author.    Surely  some  one  of  our  mod- 
ern antiquarians  must  be  equal  to  the  task.    Sometimes  the 
name  is  spelt  Pierson,  but  the  most  modern  way  is  Pearson. 
There  was  a  family  of  Piersons  lived  at  and  near  Stokesley  in 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  18* 

the  time  of  Charles  the  2nd,  and  they  were  Soman  Catholics. 
In  the  insurrection  of  1715,  they  sided  with  the  Jacobites,  and 
were  fined.  William  Pierson  valued  his  income  at  £154  2s.  4d. 
per  annum.  Bradshaw  Pierson,  of  Greys  Inn,  returned  £889 
lis.  6d.  Francis  Pierson,  yeoman,  of  Mythorpe,  £1 10s.  These 
may  have  been  the  descendants  of  our  author,  who  was  evi- 
dently from  the  tone  of  the  poems,  or  songs,  also  a  Roman 
Catholic.  Piersons  are  found  around  Whitby,  and  also  in 
Halifax  and  Bradford  districts.  Roger  Stores. 


All-Fool's  Day,  (ante  p.  44).  "Ab  oriente  lux"  is  true  of 
a  very  great  many  things  beside  sunlight,  and  the  origin  of 
many  of  our  popular  customs,  as  well  as  our  myths  and  super- 
stitions, is  to  be  looked  for  in  the  east.  Perhaps  the  *  Asiatic 
Researches'  is  the  last  book  in  the  world  that  one  would 
naturally  consult  on  the  question  of  Mr.  Saywell  ;  yet  it  is  in 
a  dusty  old  copy  of  Vol.  II.  (English  edition,  London,  1799), 
that  I  find  the  best  reply.  It  ocours  in  a  paper  by  Colonel 
Pearse,  (dated  May  12,  1785),  "  On  Two  Hindu  Festivals,  and 
the  Indian  Sphinx,"  at  p.  884  of  the  volume  referred  to,  and 
runs  as  follows : — 

"During  the  Hull,  when  mirth  and  festivity  reign  among 
Hindus  of  every  cla9s,  one  subject  of  diversion  is  to  send  people 
on  errands  and  expeditions  that  are  to  end  in  disappointment, 
and  raise  a  laugh  at  the  expense  of  the  person  sent.  The  Huli 
is  always  in  March,  and  the  last  day  is  the  greatest  holiday. 
All  the  Hindus  who  are  on  that  day  at  Jagannat'h,  are  entitled 
to  certain  distinctions,  which  they  hold  to  be  of  such  importance, 
that  I  found  it  expedient  to  stay  there  till  the  end  of  the 
festival;  and  I  am  of  opinion,  and  so  are  the  rest  of  the  officers, 
that  I  saved  above  five-hundred  men  by  the  delay.  The  origin 
of  the  Huli  seems  lost  in  antiquities  :  and  I  have  not  been  able 
to  pick  up  the  smallest  account  of  it. 

"If  the  rites  of  May-day  show*  any  affinity  between  the 
religion  of  England  in  times  past,  and  that  of  the  Hindus  in 
these  times,  may  not  the  custom  of  making  April-fools  on  the 
first  of  that  month,  indicate  some  traces  of  the  Huli  1  I  have 
never  yet  heard  any  account  of  the  origin  of  the  English 
custom ;  but  it  is  unquestionably  very  ancient,  and  is  still  kept 
up  even  in  great  towns,  though  less  in  them  than  in  the 
country.  With  us  it  is  chiefly  confined  to  the  lower  classes  of 
people ;  but  in  India,  high  and  low  join  in  it ;  and  the  late 
8hujdul  Daulah,f  I  am  told  was  very  fond  of  making  Huli- 
fools,  though  he  was  a  Musselman  of  the  highest  rank.    They 

#  As  suggested  in  an  earlier  part  of  the  Colonel's  letter. 
t  Better  known  to  the  ordinary  reader  as  Snrajah  Dowlah,  the  ghoul  of 
the  'Black  Hole  of  Calcutta,  and  to  Tommy  Atkins  as  •  Sir  Roger  Dowler.' 


186  YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE. 

carry  it  here  so  far,  as  to  send  letters  making  appointments,  in 
the  names  of  persons  who,  it  is  known,  must  be  absent  from 
their  house  at  the  time  fixed  on ;  and  the  laugh  is  always  in 
proportion  to  the  trouble  given;  B.  T.  L. 

Parkin  on  November  6th. — What  is  the  origin  of  this  York- 
shire mode  of  celebrating  Gunpowder  Plot  Day  ?        R.  T.  L. 


POMFRETTE    ELECTION. 

Listeneth,  lordling  in  gode  intent 

And  I  will  telle  thee  verament 

Of  myselven,  eke  of  Pomfrette. 

Nedes  non  again  be  tolden 

That  votes  there  are  non  boughten  or  solden, 

Ne  for  riches,  drink,  nor  mette. 

For  Pomfrette  then  I  came  forward 
Owt  of  my  grete  regard 

For  a  sette  of  such  puritee. 
Where  ells  could  I  find 
One  so  much  to  my  mind, 

From  being  so  very  free. 

Befelle  it  in  London  lately, 
Lords  and  ladies  of  high  degree 

Didde  a  queen's  oourt  enliven. 
There  the  nobles  to  delight, 
As  Chaucer  I  did  wend  y-dight 

In  garnements  weel  contriven. 

A  weig  did  streme  adown  my  back, 
Locks  of  horse-heren  it  did  not  lack ; 

And  I  telle  you  in  good  certain, 
Though  Chaucer  swete  could  sing 
The  fleurs  and  charms  of  spring, 

Mine  is  a  lovelier  strain. 

Nevere  were  pipe  of  soaring  lark 
Nor  night-birds  note  in  shades  dark 

Half  so  softe  as  mine. 
My  frame  is  feeble  but  perhaps, 
Some  of  us  little  minor  chaps 

Sing  songs  the  most  divine. 

Peel  mette  me  and  fell  aback 

At  the  sight  of  a  weig  so  very  black. 

With  a  geegling  laugh,  he  cried  "Law  Sir." 
He  deemed  by  the  way, 
I  was  merely  a  monstre, 

Till  I  told  him  I  was  Chaucer.* 


•  Peel  met  Milnes  in  his  curious  wig  and  did'nt  know  him. 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  187 

*  Then  Peele  shew'd  me  due  regard 

When  he  found  out  I  was  so  great  a  bard, 
And  he  heard  me  with  muohe  delight 
My  music  raise 
Myselven  to  praise, 
As  the  wonders  of  that  night 
Nor  should  it  be  forgotten  too 
That  I  have  offerred  tribute  due 

To  the  Queen  &  her  consorte  gode  ; 
For  I  have  U9ed  my  persuasion 
To  have  my  rhimes  on  the  late  occasion 

Redde,  if  not  understoode. 
I  sent  them  to  the  Morning  Post, 
Of  all  papers  kenning  the  most 

Of  what  occurs  to  Majesty ; 
So  I  trust,  I  am  sure 
Of  wellcome  in  future 

When  such  fetes  again  there  bee. 
My  merits  from  Peel  cannot  be  hidd, 
Though  he  has  not  yet  made  me  a  bidd  ; 

Nor  mine  aid  by  breebery  sough  ten, 
Because  like  Pomfrette 
That  aunoient  sette 
I'm  too  virtuous  to  be  bough  ten. 

R.  M.  M. 
Thus  spafce  smalle  Milnee  alias  Chancer. 
One  would  like  to  know  who  wrote  the  above  effusion ;  surely 
not  R.  M.  M.  of  honoured  memory !    A  note  as  to  when  and 
where  the  lines  first  appeared  (if  they  have  been   printed 
before),  will  oblige.  R. 
o 

f§orkfibtr*  JVntbalngp. 

The  following  pieces  have  been  selected  from  the  Rev.  J.  L. 
Saywell's  MS.  collection  of  original  poems,  most  of  which  have 
appeared  from  time  to  time  in  various  Yorkshire  prints.  By 
his  contributions  to  Yorkshire  literature,  Mr.  Saywell  has 
established  a  reputation  which  entitles  him  to  a  place  amongst 
Yorkshire  writers,  and  we  deplore  his  removal  from  our  county 
to  St.  Helen's. 

The  Old  Fabm  Waggon:  ( A  Rural  Idyl.) 
The  old  farm  waggon !  what  memories  cluster  round  it, 
Of  the  days  gone  by,  when  in  the  croft  we  found  it ; 
How  the  creak  of  its  wheels  filled  my  heart  with  delight, 
As  laden  with  faggots  it  labour'd  home  at  night. 
The  old  farm  waggon  !  full  many  a  jaunty  ride 
To  the  hay-field  have  I  had,  down  by  the  river  side ; 


188  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

Or,  on  the  splashboard  mounted,  with  Bob's  approving  smile, 
I  handl'd  reins  and  whip  in  true  despotic  style. 

***** 

To  the  old  farm  waggon  I  owe  my  first *  ideer ' 

Of  what  the  world  was  like  beyond  onr  village  sphere ; 

For  when  a  boy,  with  father  I  oft  to  market  went, 

And  saw  the  sights  and  scenes,  and  there  my  half-pence  spent. 

And  then  when  father  died,  I  married  Sal,  and  she 

For  thirty  years  rode  by  my  side  most  happily. 

The  old  farm  waggon !  how  my  heart  with  honest  pride 
Expanded,  when  I  saw  the  bairm  to  market  ride, 
The  rosiest,  bonniest  youngsters,  it  cannot  be  denied, 
That  ever  grac'd  a  cottage,  or  roam'd  the  country  side. 

*  *  *  t  * 

But  now  my  locks  are  snowy,  the  waggon's  far  from  new, 
The  lads  and  lasses  all  are  wed,  and  Sally's  ailing  too ; 
I  doubt  her  days  are  number'd  by  the  Master  up  above, 
But  I'll  bide  His  time  in  patience  and  in  love. 
Altho'  no  more  to  market,  so  feeble  too  I've  grown, 
There's  one  more  journey  I'll  have  to  take  alone — 
To  the  quiet  Kirkyard  down  by  the  river  side, 
Where  the  old  farm  waggon  took  father  when  he  died ; 
And  there  I'll  wait  for  Sally,  she  wont  be  long,  I  know, 
And  then  we'll  rest  together  'neath  where  the  daisies  grow. 

1878. 
The  Two  Beacons. 
44  Thy  Word  is  a  lamp  unto  my  feet,  and  a  light  onto  my  path." 

From  a  rocky  cliff  by  the  ocean's  side, 
The  light  of  a  beacon  shone  o'er  the  tide, 
Which  ebb'd  and  fiow'd,  and  moan'd  and  sigh'd, 
By  the  strength  of  the  rock-bound  coast  defied. 
For  years  it  had  stood  a  sentinel  there, 
Dispelling  the  gloom  with  its  ruddy  glare, 
While  storm-to88'd  mariners  lost  in  despair 
Were  cheer'd  by  its  beam,  as  an  answer  to  prayer. 
Full  many  a  vessel  of  stately  mien 
Destroy'd  on  those  rocks,  the  keeper  had  seen, 
(Oft  raging  in  tempest ! — oft  calm  and  serene  1 — 
Then  cloth' d  by  the  sunset  in  golden  sheen.) 
Thue  the  beacon-light  was  the  keeper's  pride, 
With  it  he'd  liv'd,  and,  if  needful,  have  died ; 
'Twas  there  he  was  born,  'twas  there  he'd  abide 
'Till  eas'd  from  his  post  by  the  ocean's  side. 
*  *  *  *  * 

And  oft  when  the  waves  by  the  winds  were  lash'd  t 
And  the  beacon's  ray  o'er  the  waste  was  flash'd, 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  189 

The  old  man  sat  lone  by  the  lantern's  mast, 
And  thought  of  the  hope  o'er  his  future  cast. 
For  sixty  years  he'd  plough'd  life's  ocean  wave, 
'Midst  turbulent  storms  as  dark  as  the  grave, 
And  he  sigh'd  to  think,  how  he'd  tried  to  brave 
Life's  tempest  himself,  and  his  soul  to  save. 
He  remember'd  the  day  when  he  sail'd  away, 
While  earth's  treaoh'rous  smiles  around  him  did  play, 
But  the  sky  looming  dark,  he  drifted  astray, 
And  his  vessel  was  wreck'd  on  the  rocks  of  delay ! 
—  Not  totally  lost,  for  a  heavenly  light 
Ulumin'd  his  soul  and  gladden'd  his  sight ; 
'Twas  the  beacon  of  hope  that  dispell'd  the  dark  night, 
And  the  "  Lamp  of  God's  Word  "  all  his  doubts  put  to 
flight. 
*  *  *  ♦  * 

The  old  man  smil'd,  as  he  turn'd  o'er  the  page 

Which  in  youth  he  had  shunn'd,  but  now  in  old  age 

Was  a  lantern  of  peace,  his  doubts  to  assuage, 

For  to  him  it  shone  clear,  tho'  dark  to  the  sage. 

Now,  round  his  sere  forehead  with  snowy  locks  crown'd, 

A  halo  oft  sits,  for  the  hope  he  has  found ; 

And  the  beacon  celestial  sheds  its  glory  around, 

'Till  his  soul  rides  at  anchor  on  heavenly  ground. 

1878. 
o 

Whig  and  Toby. — With  reference  to  the  derivation  of  the 
word  'Tory,'  mentioned  in  Mr.  Gardiner's  paper  on  some 
English  Nursery  Rhymes,  p.  156  of  Y.  Folk-Lore,  it  may  be 
interesting  to  note  that  at  the  last  General  Election  (1886),  the 
colliers  in  the  neighbourhood  of  Handsworth  Woodhouse,  near 
Sheffield,  derisively  termed  their  political  opponents  "  Torrags," 
[toe  rags]  a  term  which  in  its  pronunciation  may  come  very 
near  the  Irish  toruigh.  J.  T.  S. 

The  following  extract  is  made  from  a  MS.  diary  of  the  Rev. 
Oliver  Heywood,  the  distinguished  Nonconformist  divine : — 

"I  being  at  Wallingwells,  Oct.  24,  1681,  they  were  discuss- 
ing about  a  new  name  lately  come  into  fashion  for  Banters, 
calling  themselves  by  the  name  of  Torys.  Mrs.  H.,  of  Chester- 
field, told  me  of  a  gentleman  who  was  at  their  house,  and  had 
a  red  ribband  in  his  hat.  She  asked  him  what  it  meant.  He 
said  it  signified  that  he  was  a  Tory.  '  What's  that  ? '  said  she. 
He  answered  '  An  Irish  Rebel ! '  Oh,  dreadful  that  any  in  Eng- 
land dare  espouse  that  interest.  I  hear  further,  since,  that  this 
is  the  distinction  they  make  instead  of  Cavalier  and  Roundhead. 
Now  they  are  called  Torys  and  Wiggs,  the  former  wearing  a 
Bed  Ribband,  the  other  a  Violet.  Thus  men  begin  to  commence 
war.    The  former  is  an  Irish  title  for  outlawed  persons,  the 


190  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORES. 

latter  a  Scotch  title  for  fanatics  or  dissenters,  and  the  Tories 
will  hector  down  and  abuse  those  they  have  named  Wiggs  in 
London  and  elsewhere  frequently.  There  is  a  book  called  "The 
Character  of  a  Tory,"  wherein  it  runs,  *  a  Tory,  a  Boary,  a 
Scory,  a  Sory,  Vidt." 

Walling  or  W aiding  Well  is  near  Tickhill,  on  the  borders  of 
Yorkshire  and  Notts,  and  where  Heywood  was  a  constant 
visitor.  Several  volumes  of  "  Hey  wood's  Diaries  "  are  in  exis- 
tence, and  were  used  by  Hunter  in  his  biography  of  Heywood. 
The  Nonconformist  Register  of  Births,  &c,  usually  called  the 
Northowram  Register,  kept  by  him  at  Northowram,  in  the 
parish  of  Halifax,  and  where  he  chiefly  ministered,  has  lately 
been  published  by  Mr.  Horsfall  Turner,  of  Idel,  near  Bradford, 
and  is  most  useful  to  those  interested  in  the  families  professing 
the  old  dissent.  Heywood  inserted  in  the  Register,  Memoranda 
of  Births,  &c,  of  families  in  various  places.  These  diaries 
intact  are  intended  to  be  published  by  Mr.  Turner. 

The  extract  above  given  is  taken  from  a  transcript  in  my 
possession,  made  by  the  late  Mr.  Hunter." 

Walton  Hall.  Edwabd  Hailstone. 

(From  N.  &  Q.,  November,  1881.) 

John  A.  Maciver,  Edinburgh,  writes — It  is  affirmed  by  certain 
writers  that  the  distinction  between  Whigs  and  Tories,  as 
political  parties,  was  not  known  before  1678,  in  the  reign  of 
Charles  II.  It  is  certain,  however,  that  the  terms  were  in  use 
about  that  date,  for  Dry  den  in  his  epilogue  of  the  "  Duke  of 
Guise,"  (1682),  has  the  following:— 

Damned  neuters,  in  their  middle  way  of  steering. 

Are  neither  fish  nor  flesh,  nor  good  red  herring ; 

Nor  Whigs  nor  Tories  they. 
An  anonymous  author  says,  that  the  word  "  Whig  "  was  given 
to  the  Liberal  party  in  England  by  the  Royalists  in  Cromwell's 
days,  from  the  initials  of  their  motto — •«  We  hope  in  God." 
Mr.  Borrow,  author  of  the  "  Bible  in  Spain,"  suggests  that 
"  Tory  "  may  be  traced  to  the  Irish  adherents  of  Charles  I., 
during  the  Cromwellian  era,  when  the  words  Tar-a-ry  (pro- 
nounced Tory),  and  meaning  "Come,  O  King!"  were  so  con- 
stantly in  the  mouths  of  the  Royalists  as  to  become  a  by-word. 
The  origin  of  the  terms  has,  however,  been  traced  to  various 
other  sources.  "  Liberals "  and  "  Conservatives  "  are  the 
modern  forms  of  "  Whig  "  and  "  Tory."  It  is  not  clear  how 
the  former  name  arose,  but  the  latter,  applied  as  a  politioal 
party  name,  came  into  use  in  January,  1880.  In  the  Edinburek 
Review  of  that  date  there  occurs  the  following  sentence : — "  We 
despise  and  abominate  the  details  of  partizan  warfare,  but  we 
now  are,  as  we  always  have  been,  decidedly  and  conscientiously 
attached  to  what  is  called  the  Tory,  and  which  might  with 
more  propriety  be  called  the   Conservative  party."     Broadly 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  191 

stated,  the  distinguishing  features  of  the  two  parties  are  these : 
The  Conservative  leans  towards  Church  and  State ;  supports  the 
regal,  ecclesiastical,  and  aristocratic  institutions  of  the  country, 
and  is  jealous  of  the  extension  of  popular  power ;  while  the 
Liberal  advocates  progressive  reforms  of  abuses  in  the  State,  is 
jea^us  of  the  encroachments  of  the  Crown  and  privileged 
classes,  and  seeks  to  increase  the  power  of  the  people. 


Legends  and  Traditions  of  Wells,  &c. — Springs  and  Wells 
of  water  have,  in  all  lands  and  in  all  ages,  been  greatly  valued, 
and  in  some  regards  with  a  feeling  of  veneration  little,  if  at  all, 
short  of  worship.  They  have  yielded  their  treasure  to  the 
sustenance  and  refreshment  of  man  and  beast,  as  age  after  age 
of  the  world's  history  has  passed  along,  and  have  been  centres 
around  which  village  story  and  gossip  have  gathered  for  gener- 
ation after  generation.  Little  wonder,  therefore  is  it,  that 
legends  and  traditions  abound  concerning  them.  These  are 
often  extremely  local,  and  therefore  little  known.  The  names 
alone,  however,  suggest  much.  The  memory  of  the  mythical 
gods,  satyrs,  and  nymphs  of  the  ancient  heathen  times  lingers 
in  a  few,  as  in  Thors-kil  or  Thors-Well  in  the  parish  of  Burn- 
sail,  and  in  the  almost  universal  declaration,  by  which  not 
overwise  parents  seek  to  deter  children  from  playing  in  danger- 
ous proximity  to  a  Well — that  at  the  bottom,  under  the  water, 
dwells  a  mysterious  being,  usually  named  Jenny  Greenteeth 
Blooidy  Tongue,  or  Peg-o'-the-Well,  who  will  certainly  drag 
into  the  water  any  child  who  approaches  too  near  it. 

The  tokens  of  mediaeval  reverence  are  abundant  in  the  names 
of  the  saints  still  clinging  to  them,  to  whom  the  Wells  were 
dedicated.  "  There  is  scarcely  a  Well  of  consequence  in  the 
United  Kingdom,"  says  the  editor  of  Lancashire  Folk-lore, 
"  which  has  not  been  solemnly  dedicated  to  some  saint  in  the 
Roman  calendar."  Thus  in  Yorkshire,  we  have  Our  Lady's 
Well  or  Lady  Well,  St.  Helen's  Well  (very  numerous),  St. 
Margaret's  Well  at  Burnsall,  St.  Bridget's  Well  near  Bipon, 
St.  Mungo's  Well  at  Copgrove,  St.  John's  Well  at  Beverley, 
8t.  Alkelda's  Well  at  Middleham,  &c.  Br.  Whitaker  remarks 
that  the  Wells  of  Craven,  which  bear  the  names  of  saints,  are 
invariably  presided  over  by  females,  as  was  the  case  with  Wells 
under  the  Pagan  ritual,  in  which  nymphs,  exclusively,  enjoyed 
the  same  honour. 

Bemnants  of  Well-worship  existed  in  Craven  about  the  mid- 
dle of  the  last  century,  when  it  was  the  custom,  on  Sunday 
evenings,  for  the  young  people  to  assemble  and  drink  the  waters 
mingled  with  sugar.  This  custom  was  particularly  observed 
at  St,  Helen's  Well  at  Eshton,  and  at  Bouland  Well,  betwixt 
Bilatoh  and  Hetton.  "  These  harmless  and  pleasing  observ- 
ances, "  says  the  doctor,  are  now  lost, -and  nothing  better  has 


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YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 


been  introduced  into  their  place.  It*  is  perhaps  as  innocent  at 
such  hours  of  relaxation  to  drink  water,  even  from  a  consecrated 
spring,  as  to  swallow  the  poison  of  British  distilleries  at  a 
public-house.  "  To  be  continued. 


YORKSHIRE     CENTENARIANS. 


John  Phillips,  gent. 

The  above  portrait  is  an  exact  copy  of  the  painting  bj  P. 
Mercier,  (J.  Faber,  fecit.),  and  bears  the  subscription  : — 


YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE.  198 

John  Phillips,  gent.,  aged  117,  of  Thorner,  near  Bramham 
Park,  in  Yorkshire.  Born  in  Cleveland,  1625.  Dyed  Jan.  ye 
4th,  1741-2.  (See  p.  186.  See  also  p.  197  Y.  N.  &  Q.,  where 
Mr.  Phillips'  age  is  given  at  100.) 


The  following  are  extracts  from  one  of  my  books  of  News- 
paper Cuttings,  to  which  I  should  like  to  add  queries.    Is  it 
possible  to  discover  the  particular  place  in  Yorkshire  in  which 
Ann  Ingram  was  born  ?  Also  the  birth  place  of  Mrs.  Hobson  ? 
C.  H.  Stephenson,  Coventry  Club,  London. 

A  Leeds  Centenabun. — At  the  meeting  of  the  Leeds  Board 
of  Guardians  on  Wednesday,  a  letter  was  read  from  the  Clerk 
to  the  Chorlton-upon-Medlook  Union,  which  stated  that  Eliza- 
beth Jennings,  aged  108  years,  was  then  living  at  Gorton,  and 
had  applied  for  further  relief  to  the  Chorlton  Union  ;  and  the 
pauper  being  chargeable  to  the  Leeds  Union,  authority  to  grant 
relief  was  asked  for.  She  had  been  in  receipt  of  8s.  per  week 
for  some  time,  and  6d.  was  added  to  that  amount,  as  the  pauper 
was  beyond  the  age  of  100  years. — North  British  Advertiser,  Oct. 
14th,  1876. 

The  Sheffield  Telegraph  records  the  death  of  Mrs.  Hobson, 
widow  of  the  Be  v.  Leonard  Jasper  Hobson,  incumbent  of  Mex- 
bro\  Mrs.  Hobson  was  born  in  February,  1778,  and  died  on 
the  22nd  inst.,  having  thus  nearly  completed  her  hundredth 
year.  She  retained  her  faculties  to  the  last,  and  leaves  behind 
her  a  great-grandchild,  with  numerous  children  and  grand- 
children.—The  Standard,  Oct.  25th,  1872. 

Yesterday,  Ann  Ingram,  of  Earls  Barton,  Northampton, 
attained  her  hundredth  year.  She  was  born  on  the  29th  of 
May,  1776,  and  has  102  descendants,  five  generations.  She 
was  born  in  Yorkshire,  and  lived  in  the  same  house  70  years. 
Her  eldest  girl,  aged  72  years,  died  six  years  ago;  and  her 
grand-daughter,  60  years  old,  is  grandmother  to  12  children. 
"  Old  Ann  "  did  six  days'  washing  a  week  until  she  was  54. — 
Manchester  Evening  Mail,  May  80th,  1876. 

Thomas  Nicholson,  a  gentleman  well  known  and  highly  re- 
spected in  the  district,  died  at  the  village  of  Hawks  we  II,  near 
Richmond,  on  Monday,  having  reached  the  advanced  age  of 
101  years.  Deceased,  who  will  be  interred  to-morrow,  was 
born  in  1777.  The  annexed  is  a  copy  of  the  engravings  on  a 
copper  plate  to  be  put  on  his  tombstone :— "  Here  rest  the 
mortal  remains  of  Thomas  Nicholson,  second  son  of  the  Bev. 
Thomas  Nicholson  and  Elizabeth  Fairer,  his  wife ;  many  years 
town  clerk  of  the  ancient  borough  of  Hertford,  afterwards  a 
commissioner  for  investigating  claims  to  grants  of  land  in  Tas- 
mania, and  a  barrister  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  that  Colony. 

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104  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

Born  at  East  Hawkswell,  12th  March,  1777 ;  departed  this  life 
the  9th  September,  1878"— Bedale  and  Northallerton  Times  and 
Gazette,  Sept.  14th,  1878. 


Margaret  'Winn,  a  Quakeress  of  Millthrop,  Sedbergh,  died 
November  5th,  1747,  aged  100  years  and  8  months. 

The  above  Margaret  (Thompson)  married  Christopher  Winn, 
Feb.  22nd,  1686.     Christopher  Winn  died  Feb.,  1782. 


The  Burial  Register  of  the  Parish  of  Glaisdale  near  Whitby, 
records  the  following: — December  29th,  1880,  was  buried  in 
Glaisdale  Churchyard,  Mary  Wilson  aged  100  years.  She  had 
been  an  inmate  of  the  Poor  House  then  standing  at  Lealhohn 
in  this  Parish.  A.  W.  Hedges. 


Legends  and  Traditions  of  Wells,  &c. — Continued  from  p.  192. 

Other  Wells  there  are  whose  designations  preserve  the  names 
of  owners  or  historical  personages,  in  olden  times,  as  Ketel's  (a 
Saxon  nobleman)  Well  (Kettlewell),  and  the  many  Robin 
Hood's  Wells  ;  while  the  names  of  many  others,  as  Beggar's- 
gill-well,  in  Grass  wood,  near  Kettlewell,  the  Drumming  Well 
at  Harpham,  the  Tailor's  Well  at  Beverley,  &c,  preserve  some 
topographical  peculiarity,  or  local  story  of  more  or  less  interest 
in  local  history,  tradition,  or  folk-lore. 

Wells  Possessing  Medicinal  Virtues. — The  Hkley  Wells 
have  long  been  famous  for  their  medicinal  virtues,  as  well  as 
the  well  known  sulphur  springs  of  Harrogate ;  both  places  have 
sprung  to  fame  as  watering  places  and  health  resorts.  In 
the  Magna  Britannica,  a  work  published  in  1788,  it  is  stated 
that  there  are  in  Leeds  the  following  Springs;  St.  Peter's 
Spring,  intensely  cold,  but  beneficial  to  such  as  are  troubled 
with  rheumatism,  rickets,  &c. ;  Eyebright  Well,  near  the  Monk- 
pits,  celebrated  as  a  cure  for  sore  eyes ;  a  spring  at  the  High 
Dam,  '  whose  water,  by  the  powder  of  galls,  will  turn  into  a 
purple  colour ' ;  and  the  Spaw  on  Quarry-hill,  which  surpasses 
all  the  rest,  '  being  a  Pannacea,'  and  the  Ducking  Stool  for  the 
cure  of  scolds,  being  near  it.  In  all  ironstone  and  coal  districts 
are  Canker  Wells,  which  are  reputed  to  cure  sore  eyes. 

Pin  Wells  and  the  Fairies. — In  several  counties  are  Pin 
Welle,  but  we  are  not  sure  of  any  so  named  in  Yorkshire.  In 
Westmoreland  there  is  a  famous  Pin  Well,  into  the  waters  of 
which  both  rich  and  poor  drop  a  pin  when  passing.  The  super- 
stition in  both  cases,  consists  in  a  belief  that  the  well  is  under 
the  charge  of  a  fairy,  and  that  it  is  best  to  propitiate  the  little 
lady  by  a  present  of  some  sort,  and  a  pin  is  often  most  conve- 
nient.   The  crooked  pin  is  explained  in  folk-lore,  that  crooked 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  195 

things  are  lucky  things,  as  a  crooked  sixpence,  which  many 
elderly  ladies  never  allow  themselves  to  be  without,  lest  ill-luck 
should  befall  them.  There  are  many  interesting  superstitions 
connected  with  springs  and  wells,  and  like  most  of  superstitions, 
there  is  a  basis  of  truth  in  them  when  understood.  There  is  a 
spring  about  five  miles  from  Alnwick,  in  Northumberland, 
known  as  Senna  Well,  on  account  of  its  medicinal  effects.  At 
Wavertree,  near  Liverpool,  there  is  a  well  bearing  the  following 
inscription :  "  Qui  non  dat  quod  habet,  Daemon  infra  videt, 
1414."  Tradition  says  there  was  at  one  period  a  cross  above 
it,  inscribed,  "  Deus  dedit,  homo  bibit,"  and  that  all  travellers 
gave  alms  when  drinking.  If  they  did  not  do  so,  a  devil  who 
was  chained  at  the  bottom  laughed.  The  monks  who  lived  near 
got  the  contributions.     See  Notes  and  Queries,  vol.  6,  page  804. 

The  Ebbing  and  Flowing  Well  at  Giggleswick. — About  a 
mile  from  Settle,  on  the  road  leading  towards  Glapham,  and  at 
the  foot  of  the  high  limestone  cliff  known  as  Giggleswick  Scar, 
is  the  famous  Ebbing  and  Flowing  Well.  The  water  in  this 
well  periodically  ebbs  and  flows,  at  longer  or  shorter  intervals, 
according  to  the  quantity  running  at  the  time.  Sometimes  the 
phenomenon  takes  place  several  times  in  the  course  of  an  hour, 
the  water  rising  and  sinking  over  a  depth  of  several  inches — 
and  sometimes  only  once  in  the  course  of  a  few  hours.  At  one 
time  it  was  thought  there  was  some  subterranean  connection 
between  the  waters  of  this  well  and  those  of  the  ocean,  and  that 
the  ebbing  and  flowing  of  the  tides  led  to  the  rise  and  fall  of 
the  waters  of  the  well.  This  is  improbable  and  unsatisfactory, 
and  the  true  explanation  is  probably  to  be  found  in  a  system  of 
natural  syphons  in  the  limestone  rock.  The  theory  that  such 
is  the  case  has  been  well  worked  out  by  a  gentleman  of  the 
locality,  whose  name  the  writer  is  sorry  he  does  not  remember. 
Legend,  however,  has  its  own  explanation,  and  this  was  admir- 
ably given  by  quaint  Michael  Drayton,  in  his  "  Polyolbion," 
nearly  800  years  ago  (1578-1681). 

"  In  all  my  spacious  tract,  let  them,  so  wise,  survey 
My  Kibble's  rising  banks,  their  worst,  and  let  them  say, 
At  Giggleswick,  where  I  a  fountain  can  you  show, 
That  eight  times  a  day  is  said  to  ebb  and  flow. 
Who  sometimes  was  a  nymph,  and  in  the  mountains  high 
Of  Graven,  whose  blue  heads  for  caps,  put  on  the  sky, 
Amongst  th'  Oreads  there,  and  Sylvans  made  abode, 
(It  was  ere  human  foot  upon  those  hills  had  trod) 
Of  all  the  mountain  kind,  and,  since  she  was  most  fair, 
It  was  a  Satyr's  chance  to  see  her  silver  hair 
Flow  loosely  at  her  back,  as  up  a  cliffe  she  dame. 
Her  beauties  noting  well,  her  features,  and  her  frame, 
And  after  her  he  goes ;  which  when  she  did  espy, 


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Before  him  like  the  wind  the  nimble  sylph  doth  fly, 
They  hurry  down  the  rocks,  o'er  hill  and  dale  they  drive ; 
To  take  her  he  doth  strain,  t'outstrip  him  she  doth  strive, 
As  one  his  kind  that  knew,  and  greatly  feared  his  rape, 
And  to  the  topick  gods  by  praying  to  escape. 
They  turned  her  to  a  spring,  which  as  she  then  did  pant, 
When  wearied  with  her  course  her  breath  grew  wondrous 

scant. 
Even  as  the  fearful  nymph,  then  thick  and  short  did  blow, 
Now  made  by  them  a  spring,  so  doth  she  ebb  and  flow." 

Richard  Braithwaite  ("Drunken  Barnaby")  writes  thus  of 
Giggleswick  and  the  well : — 

"  Thence  to  Giggleswick  most  steril, 
Hemm'd  with  shelves  and  rocks  of  peril, 
Near  to  the  way,  as  the  traveller  goes, 
A  fine  spring  both  ebbs  and  flows  : 
Neither  know  the  learned  that  travel 
What  procures  it,  salt  or  gravel." 

At  page  206  "Yorkshire  Bibliographer,' '  will  be  found  a 
picture  of  the  well  as  it  exists  to-day,  and  at  p.  169  a  facsimile 
of  an  old  engraving  depicting  the  district  in  which  it  is  found. 
On  leaving  the  well,  two  streams  are  formed  by  the  waters 
and  these  fall  into  the  bed  of  the  dried- up  Giggleswick  Tarn. 

Btainland  Holywell,  (p.  168,  Y.  N.  Q.)  and  Alegar  Well  at 
Kirklees,  have  been  previously  referred  to  in  our  pages.  At 
Helliwell  Syke,  near  Coley  Church,  is  another. 

RADFORD.— Spink  Well,  and  Helly 
|  Well  (Holy  Well),  near  Bradford,  were 
'long  ago  famous  wells.  It  was  near 
Spink  Well  where  the  famous  wild  boar 
is  said  to  have  been  killed.  Being  near 
Cliffe  Wood,  the  name  of  the  former 
must,  I  suppose,  have  been  derived  from 
the  song  birds  so  plentifully  there  former- 
ly, such  as  the  bull-spink,  the  gold-spink, 
&c.  The  Holy  Well,  not  far  from  Mann- 
ingham-lane,  probably  derived  its  name 
from  having  at  some  time  been  dedicated 
to  some  saint.  It  is  well  known  that  our 
forefathers  were  wont  to  dedicate  wells  to 
their  favourite  saints,  and  to  attribute  to 
the  wells  uncommon  virtues.  Mr.  John 
James  says : — "I  have  observed  that  un- 
common virtues  were  supposed  to  be  in 
the  water,  and  the  wells  of  this  description  which  I  have  seen 
are  naturally  of  an  extremely  fine  kind.  The  inhabitants  of 
Bradford  were  wont  in  ancient  times  to  resort  on  Sundays  to 


YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE.  197 

these  wells  as  a  common  place  of  meeting,  to  drink  of  the 
waters,  and  partake  of  their  preternatural  virtues.  In  the  sur- 
rounding locality  there  are  several  of  these  sainted,  or  holy 
wells.  The  Lady's  Well,  in  the  *  Boughs/  on  the  west  side  of 
Dudley  Hill,  within  late  years,  was  in  greut  repute  for  its 
waters."  And  near  every  old  town  and  village  in  Yorkshire 
such  wells  may  be  found. 

St.  Simon's  Well. — On  the  banks  of  the  Cover  (this  name  is 
pronounced  as  if  spelt  Cov-ver.    It  is  derived  from  v,  water, 
with  c  prefixed,  and  signifies  the  shallow  stream,  in  contradis- 
tinction to  the  deep  and  rapid  Yore)  we  find  St.  Simon's 
Well,  a  spring  formerly  used  as  a  path,  but  now  choked  up. 
The  country  people  assert  that  St.  Simon  the  Apostle  is  buried 
there ;  an  evident  mistake.    It  is,  however,  possible  that  some 
holy  martyr  of  that  name,  forgotten,  like  St.  Alkelda,  of  Mid- 
dleham  and  Giggleswick,  may  have  suffered  during  the  Danish 
persecution.  The  place  is  thus  noticed  in  some  verses  descriptive 
of  Coverdale,  written  fifty  years  ago  by  a  clever  but  eccentric 
character,  the  Rev.  James  Law,  curate  of  Goverham,  a  collater- 
al descendant  of  the  Ellenborough  family : — 
The  ruins  of  St.  Simon's  are  forgot, 
That  deep,  sequester'd  wood,  o'ershadowed  spot. 
(Suppose  in  truth,  what  records  old  declare 
The  holy  Canaanite  was  buried  there  ?) 
Near  Coverside,  where  from  a  rocky  dell 
The  streams  rush  out  and  fill  the  ancient  well. 
*  *  *  * 

And  still  one  day  in  honour  of  the  saint 
In  feasting  yearly,  through  the  dale  is  spent. 

On  page  189  "  Yorkshire  Bibliographer,"  will  be  found  an 
accurate  drawing  of  St.  Hilda's  Well,  at  Hinderwell,  which 
supplies  the  people  of  a  large  district  with  excellent  water, 
though  situated  at  the  foot  of  the  grave  yard. 

St.  John's  Well  at  Harpham. — At  Harpham-on-the-Wolds, 
between  Driffield  and  Bridlington,  there  is  a  noted  well  dedica- 
ted to  St.  John  of  Beverley,  who  was  really  the  patron  saint  of 
all  this  part  of  Yorkshire.  In  medieval  times  many  miracles 
are  said  to  have  been  wrought  through  the  virtue  of  its  waters, 
blessed  by  the  saint.  It  is  a  circular  well  or  trough,  with  an 
opening  in  the  side,  and  covered  by  a  dome,  and  situated  on  the 
roadside  by  the  churchyard.  Among  other  virtues  it  possessed 
that  of  taming  wild  animals,  and  subduing  and  calming  the 
fiercest  brutes.  William  of  Malmesbury  relates  that  the  most 
rabid  bull  when  brought  before  it  became  as  gentle  as  a  lamb. 
If  this  supposed  supernatural  power  be  departed  in  these  de- 
generate times,  the  natural  power  of  allaying  the  sufferings  of 
many  a  poor  animal,  maddened  by  thirst,  may  not  be  less 
valuable  or  less  effectual. 


198  YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE. 

The  Drumming  Well  at  Habpham. — At  Harpham,  in  the  East 
Biding  (the  same  village  as  is  mentioned  before  in  connection 
with  St.  John's  Well)  there  is  in  a  field  near  the  church  another 
well  called  the  Drumming  Well,  to  which  appertains  the  fol- 
lowing legend : — 

About  the  time  of  the  second  or  third  Edward,  when  all  the 
young  men  of  the  country  were  required  to  be  practised  in  the 
use  of  the  bow,  and  for  that  purpose  public  " butts"  were  found 
connected  with  almost  every  village,  and  occasionally  "  field- 
days"  for  the  display  of  archery  were  held,  attended  by  gentry 
and  peasant  alike—the  old  manor  house  near  this  well  at 
Harpham  was  the  residence  of  the  family  of  St.  Quintin.  In 
the  village  lived  a  widow,  reputed  to  be  somewhat  "  uncanny," 
named  Molly  Hewson.  She  had  an  only  son,  Tom  Hewson, 
who  had  been  taken  into  the  family  at  the  manor;  and  the 
Squire,  struck  with  his  soldierly  qualities,  had  appointed  him 
trainer  and  drummer  to  the  village  band  of  archers. 

A  grand  field  day  of  these  took  place  in  the  Well- field  in  front 
of  the  manor  house.  A  large  company  was  assembled,  and  the 
sports  were  held  at  their  height,  the  squire  and  his  lady  looking 
with  the  rest.  But  one  young  rustic  proving  more  than  usually 
stupid  in  the  use  of  his  bow,  the  squire  made  a  rush  forward 
to  chastise  him.  Tom,  the  drummer,  happening  to  be  standing 
in  his  way,  and  near  the  Well,  St.  Quintin  accidentally  ran 
against  him  and  sent  him  staggering  backward,  and  tripping, 
he  fell  head  foremost  down  the  Well.  Some  time  elapsed 
before  he  could  be  extricated,  and  when  that  was  effected  the 
youth  was  dead.  Soon  his  mother  appeared  upon  the  scene. 
At  first  she  was  frantic,  casting  herself  upon  his  body.  Sud- 
denly she  rose  up  and  stood,  with  upright  mien,  out-stretched 
arm,  and  stern  composure  before  the  Squire.  She  remained 
silent  awhile,  glaring  upon  him  with  dilated  eyes,  while  the 
awe-stricken  bystanders  gazed  upon  her  as  if  she  were  some 
supernatural  being.  At  length  she  broke  the  silence,  and, 
in  a  sepulchral  tone  of  voice,  exclaimed — "  Squire  St.  Quintin, 
you  were  the  friend  of  my  boy,  and  would  still  have  been  his 
friend  but  for  this  calamitous  mishap.  You  intended  not  his 
death,  but  from  your  hand  his  death  has  come.  Enow,  then, 
that  through  all  future  ages,  that  when  ever  a  St.  Quintin, 
Lord  of  Harpham,  is  about  to  pass  from  life,  my  poor  boy  shall 
beat  his  drum  at  the  bottom  of  that  fatal  Well.  It  is  I — the 
wise  woman — the  seer  of  the  future — that  say  it." 

The  body  was  removed  and  buried ;  and  from  that  time,  so 
long  as  the  old  race  of  St.  Quintin  lasted,  on  the  evening  pre- 
ceding the  death  of  the  head  of  the  house,  the  rat-tat  of  Tom's 
drum  was  heard  in  the  Well  by  those  who  listened  for  it. 

For  this  legend  the  writer  is  indebted  to  the  J^eeds  Mercury, 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  199 

Habt  Leap  Well. — This  well  is  situated  near  the  road  which 
leads  from  Richmond,  in  Swaledale,  to  the  town  of  Askrigg,  in 
Weneleydale ;  and  is  about  five  miles  from  the  former  town. 
The  Poet  Wordsworth  has  immortalised  this  Well  in  his  version 
of  the  old  legend : — 

"  There's  neither  dog  nor  heifer,  horse  nor  sheep. 
Will  wet  their  lips  within  that  oup  of  stone ; 
And  oftentimes,  when  all  are  fast  asleep, 
This  water  doth  send  forth  a  dolorous  groan." 

Lady  Wells. — "  Our  Lady  Wells,"  that  is,  wells  dedicated 
to  the  Virgin,  are  numerous  in  this  country. 

One  at  Threshfield,  near  Linton,  in  Craven,  has  the  attribute 
of  being  a  place  of  safe  refuge  from  all  supernatural  visitants, 
hobgoblins,  and  the  like. 

Dr.  Dixon  (Stories  of  Craven  Dales)  relates  the  story  of  a 
native  on  his  way  home,  late  at  night  from  the  public-house, 
being  a  spectator  of  some  performances  of  Pam,  the  Threshfield 
Ghost,  and  his  imps.  Unfortunately  the  secret  spectator 
sneezed,  and  then,  in  homely  phrase,  "  he  had  to  run  for  it," 
and  only  escaped  condign  punishment  at  the  hands  of  the 
spirits  by  taking  refuge  in  the  very  middle  of  "  Our  Lady's 
Well,"  which  they  durst  not  approach.  They,  however,  waited 
at  such  a  distance  as  was  permitted  them,  and  kept  their  victim, 
nearly  up  to  his  neck,  in  the  cold  water,  until  the  crowing  of 
the  cock  announced  that  the  hour  for  their  departure  had 
arrived,  when  they  fled,  but  not  without  vowing  how  severely 
they  would  punish  him  if  he  ever  again  was  caught  eavesdropp- 
ing at  their  parties. 

At  Thirsk,  again,  is  a  Lady  Well.  An  old  historian  of  the 
town  says,  "  In  the  marsh  near  the  church  flows  a  spring  of 
pure  and  excellent  water,  commonly  called  Lady  Well,  doubt- 
less a  name  of  no  modern  description."  He  also  gives  the 
following  doggrel  lines : — 

Lady  Well. 
Inspired  by  Greece's  hallowed  spring, 
Blandusia's  fount  let  Horace  sing ; 
Whilst  favour'd  by  no  muse  I  tell 
How  much  I  love  sweet  Lady  Well. 

Amidst  the  willow  shades  obscure, 
From  age  to  age  her  stream  runs  pure ; 
Yet  has  no  seer  aris'n  to  tell 
The  bliss  that  flows  from  Lady  Well. 

Save  that  in  those  dark  distant  days, 
When  superstition  dimm'd  truth's  rays, 
The  monk  promulgated  from  his  cell 
That  virtue  dwelt  in  Lady  Well. 


200  YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE. 

St.  Helen's  Well. — There  are  more  St.  Helens  than  one, 
but  the  one  to  whom  the  many  Yorkshire  wells  are  supposed  to 
be  dedicated  was  Helen,  or  Helena,  the  mother  of  Constantino 
the  Great,  who  was  by  birth  a  Yorkshire  lady,  or  rather  a 
British  lady  from  the  neighbourhood  of  Eboracum.  The 
waters  of  many  of  these  wells  bearing  her  name  seem  to  have 
been  deemed  a  specific  for  sore  and  weak  eyes.  This  was  the 
case  with  the  one  near  Gargrave.  Whitaker  states  that  in  his 
time  votive  offerings,  such  as  ribbons  and  other  decorative 
articles,  were  commonly  to  be  seen  tied  to  the  bushes  near 
these  wells.  Roger  Stores. 


Well  Wobship. 

Folks  came  from  the  east  and  came  from  the  west, 

To  take  at  that  fountain  health  and  rest ; 

From  the  north  and  the  south  they  came  to  dwell. 

By  the  far-famed  stream  of  the  "  Holy  well." 

Eliza  Cook. 
Perhaps  no  ancient  superstition  has  had  a  more  enduring 
existence  than  "  well- worship."  This  may  have  arisen  to  some 
extent,  from  the  fact  that  water,  under  certain  conditions,  pos- 
sesses undoubted  "medical  virtues."  The  necessity  of  personal 
cleanliness  to  ensure  ordinary  comfort,  and  the  value  of  aqueous 
agency  in  its  achievement,  would  doubtless  exercise  some  in- 
fluence, even  in  remote  times.  Add  to  this  the  horrors  of  a 
"  water  famine,"  the  intense  suffering  resulting  from  prolonged 
thirst,  and  we  can  well  imagine  that  the  early  tribes  of  men 
who  worshipped  fire  would  feel  a  corresponding  reverence  for 
what  may  be  termed  its  natural  complement — water.  The  sun's 
heat  was  powerless  for  good,  nay,  it  was  potent  for  evil,  unless 
in  close  alliance  with  the  "gentle  rain  from  heaven."  From 
their  union  springs  the  warm  moisture  essential  to  vegetable 
growth.  Water,  too,  in  more  modern  times,  has  heen  largely 
employed  as  a  symbol  of  purity ;  and,  in  the  Roman  Catholic 
Church,  especially,  has  been  consecrated  to  religious  purposes, 
and  rendered  "  holy."  It  is,  indeed,  employed  by  all  Christian 
sects,  in  the  rite  of  baptism,  as  symbolising  purity.  Hence  it 
is  not  surprising  that  many  springs,  and  especially  in  the 
neighbourhood  of  religious  houses,  should  in  the  middle  ages 
have  been  invested  with  a  sacred  character,  or  that  superstition 
of  a  more  ancient  and  a  heathen  origin  should  yet,  as  it  were, 
haunt  their  precincts.  C.  Hardwick. 

Spectre  Huntsman  and  Hounds. 
"  He  the  seven  birds  hath  seen  that  never  part, 

Seen  the  seven  whistlers  on  their  mighty  rounds, 
And  counted  them  !  And  oftentimes  will  start, 


YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE.  201 

For  overliead  are  sweeping  Gabriels  hounds, 
Doomed  with  their  impious  lord,  the  flying  hart 
To  chase  for  ever  on  aerial  grounds." 

Wordsworth. 

"Amongst  the  most  prominent  of  the  demon  superstitions 
prevalent  in  Lancashire,"  says  Mr.  T.  T.  Wilkinson,  "we  may 
first  instance  that  of  the  Spectre  Huntsman,  which  occupies  so 
conspicuous  a  place  in  the  folk-lore  of  Germany  and  the  north. 
This  superstition  is  still  extant  in  the  gorge  of  Cliviger,  where 
he  is  believed  to  hunt  a  milk  white  doe  round  the  Eagle's  Crag, 
in  the  vale  of  Todmorden,  on  All  Hallows  Eve.  His  hounds 
are  said  to  fly  yelping  through  the  air  on  many  other  occasions, 
and,  under  the  local  name  of  '  Qabriel  Hatchets,'  are  supposed 
to  predict  death  or  misfortune  to  all  who  hear  the  sounds." 

This  superstition  is  known  about  Leeds,  and  other  places  in 
Yorkshire,  as  4  Gabble  Betchet,'  and  refers  more  especially  to  the 
belief  that  the  souls  of  unbaptised  children  are  doomed  to 
wander  in  this  stormy  fashion  about  the  homes  of  their  parents. 

These  peculiar  superstitions  appear  to  have  nearly  died  out, 
or  to  have  become  merged  into  some  other  legends  based  on 
the  actions  of  the  Aryan  storm  gods,  Indra,  Budra,  and  their 
attendant  Maruts  or  Winds,  both  in  Great  Britain  and  Ireland. 
According  to  a  writer  in  the  Quarterly  Review,  of  July,  1886, 
the  wild  huntsman  still  lingers  in  Devonshire.  He  says,  "  the 
spectre  pack  which  hunts  over  Dartmoor  is  called  the  'wish 
hounds/  and  the  black  *  master '  who  follows  the  chase  is  no 
doubt  the  same  who  has  left  his  mark  on  Wistman's  Wood,"  a 
neighbouring  forest  of  dwarf  oaks. 

The  late  Mr.  Holland,  of  Sheffield,  referring  to  this  supersti- 
tion, in  1861,  says,  "I  can  never  forget  the  impression  made 
upon  my  own  mind  when  once  arrested  by  the  cry  of  these 
Gabriel  hounds  as  I  passed  the  parish  church  of  Sheffield,  one 
densely  dark  and  very  still  night.  The  sound  was  exactly  like 
the  greeting  of  a  dozen  beagles  on  the  foot  of  a  race,  but  not  so 
loud,  and  highly  suggestive  of  ideas  of  the  supernatural."  Mr. 
Holland  has  embodied  the  local  feeling  on  this  subject  in  the 
following  sonnet : — 

Oft  have  I  heard  my  honoured  mother  say, 

How  she  has  listened  to  the  Gabriel  hounds* — 
Those  strange  unearthly  and  mysterious  sounds, 
Which  on  the  ear  through  murkiest  darkness  fell ; 
And  how,  entranced  by  superstitious  spell, 
The  trembling  villager  not  seldom  heard, 
In  the  quaint  noise  of  the  nocturnal  bird 

*  In  Oliver  Heywood's  Diaries  will  be  found  an  account  of  Gabble  Batches, 
*nd  Whistlers.  A  noisy  child  is  sometimes  called  a  Gabble-ratch,  or  is  told 
to' stop  thi  gabble!' 


YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE. 

Of  death  premonished,  some  sick  neighbour's  knell. 

I,  too,  remember  once  at  midnight  dark, 

How  these  sky-yelpers  startled  me  and  stirred 
My  fancy  so,  I  could  have  then  averred 

A  mimic  pack  of  beagles  low  did  bark. 

Nor  wondered  I  that  rustic  fear  should  trace 
A  spectral  huntsman  doomed  to  that  long  moonless  chase. 

In  classic  mythology  this  wild  hunt  myth  is  paralleled  by  the 
career  of  Orion,  the  "  mighty  hunter,  the  cloud  raging  in  wild 
freedom  over  hills  and  dales.*'  Seeking  to  make  the  beautiful 
Aero  his  bride,  he  is  blinded  by  her  father,  who  caught  him 
asleep.  After  recovering  his  sight  by  a  journey  towards  the 
rising  sun,  he  vainly  endeavours  to  seize  upon  and  punish  his 
enemy.  In  his  wanderings  he  meets  with  and  is  beloved  by 
Artemis  (Diana),  one  of  the  dawn  godesses.  The  Rev.  G.  W. 
Cox  says,  "It  is  but  the  story  of  the  beautiful  cloud  left  in 
darkness  when  the  sun  goes  down,  bat  recovering  its  brilliance 
when  he  rises  again  in  the  east."  After  his  death,  being  so 
nearly  akin  to  the  powers  of  light,  Asklepios  "  seeks  to  raise 
him  from  the  dead  and  thus  brings  on  his  own  doom  from  the 
thunderbolts  of  Zeus — a  myth  which  points  to  the  blotting  out 
of  the  sun  from  the  sky  by  the  thundercloud,  just  as  he  was  re- 
kindling the  faded  vapours  which  lie  motionless  on  the  horizon." 
Orion's  hound  afterwards  became  the  dog-star,  Sirius.  Hence 
our  name  dog  days  for  parching  weather. 

This  chasing  of  the  white  doe  or  the  white  hart  by  the  spectre 
huntsman  has  assumed  various  forms.  According  to  Aristotle 
a  white  hart  was  killed  by  Agathocles,  king  of  Sicily,  which  a 
thousand  years  beforehand  had  been  consecrated  to  Diana  by 
Diomedes.  Alexander  the  Great  is  said  by  Pliny  to  have  caught 
a  white  stag,  placed  a  collar  of  gold  about  its  neck,  and  after- 
wards set  it  free.  Succeeding  heroes  have,  in  after  days,  been 
announced  as  the  capturers  of  this  famous  white  hart.  Julias 
Caesar  took  the  place  of  Alexander,  and  Charlemagne  caught  a 
white  hart  at  both  Magdebourg,  and  in  the  Holstein  woods.  In 
1172,  William  the  Lion  is  reported  to  have  accomplished  a 
similar  feat,  according  to  a  Latin  inscription  on  the  walls  of 
Lubeck  Cathedral.  Tradition  says  the  white  hart  has  been 
caught  on  Rothwell  Haigh  Common,  in  Yorkshire. 

The  spectre  huntsman,  so  very  popular  in  Scandinavian  and 
German  tradition,  is  the  Teutonic  deity  Odin  or  Woden,  from 
whence  our  Wednesday.  Woden  is  claimed  by  the  early  Angle 
and  Saxon  kings  of  the  heptarchy  as  their  common  ancestor. 
This  god  had  many  names,  each  descriptive  of  some  special 
quality  or  attribute.  Amongst  others  he  was  styled  Wunsch, 
from  which  we  have  the  Anglo-Saxon  wisk,  and  the  modern 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  208 

English  wish,*  in  the  sense  in  which  it  is  used  in  the  divining 
or  wish  rod  (German  wiinschelruthe). 

The  appearance  of  Old  Trash  is  considered  a  certain  death- 
sign,  and  has  obtained  the  local  names  of '  Trash  'f  or  '  Skriker.' 
He  generally  appears  to  one  of  the  family  from  which  death  is 
about  to  select  his  victim,  and  is  more  or  less  visible  according 
to  the  distance  of  the  event.  I  have  met  with  persons  to  whom 
the  barghaist  has  assumed  the  form  of  a  white  cow  or  a  horse ; 
bat  on  most  occasions  '  Trash '  is  described  as  having  the  ap- 
pearance of  a  large  dog,  with  very  broad  feet,  shaggy  hair, 
drooping  ears,  and  '  eyes  as  large  as  saucers.'  When  walking, 
his  feet  make  a  loud  splashing  noise,  like  old  shoes  in  a  miry 
road,  and  hence  the  name  of  '  Trash.1  The  appellation,  'Skri- 
ker,' has  reference  to  the  screams  uttered  by  the  sprite,  which 
are  frequently  heard  when  the  animal  is  invisible.  When 
followed  by  any  individual,  he  begins  to  walk  backwards,  with 
his  eyes  fixed  full  on  his  pursuer,  and  vanishes  on  the  slightest 
momentary  inattention.  Occasionally  he  plunges  into  a  pool 
of  water,  and  at  other  times  he  sinks  at  the  feet  of  the  person 
to  whom  he  appears  with  a  loud  splashing  noise,  as  if  a  heavy 
stone  was  thrown  into  the  miry  road.  Some  are  reported  to 
have  attempted  to  strike  him  with  any  weapon  they  had  at 
hand,  but  there  was  no  substance  present  to  receive  the  blows, 
although  the  Skriker  kept  his  ground." 

In  the  "  Merry  Devil  of  Edmonton  "  (1681)  is  the  following 
reference  to  this  superstition : — 

I  know  thee  well ;  I  heare  the  watchfull  dogs, 
With  hollow  howling,  tell  of  thy  approach ; 
The  lights  burn  dim,  affrighted  with  thy  presence ; 
And  this  distempered  and  tempestuous  night 
Tells  me  the  ayre  is  troubled  with  some  devill. 

The  superstition  that  the  howling  of  a  dog,  especially  in  the 
night  time,  portends  the  death  of  some  person  in  the  immediate 
neighbourhood,  is  yet,  at  the  present  day,  firmly  believed  in, 
even  by  the  middle,  and  by  no  means  uneducated,  classes  in 
Lancashire  and  Yorkshire.  I  listened,  not  very  long  ago,  to 
the  serious  recital  of  a  story  by  one  who  heard  the  howling  and 
knew  well  the  party  whose  death  immediately  followed.  He 
himself,  being  sick  at  the  time,  deemed  his  own  end  approach- 
ing, but  was  relieved  of  his  terror  on  being  informed  that  a 
well-known  neighbour  had  just  expired. 

It  is  a  common  superstition  yet  that  the  ghosts  of  persons, 
murdered  or  otherwise,  not  buried  in  consecrated  ground, 
cannot  rest,  but  must  wander  about  in  search  of  the  means  of 
Christian  sepulture.     This  superstition  obtained  amongst  the 

*  Wight,  in  Yorkshire,  is  an  order  for  quietness. 

t  Guy  trash  in  West  Yorkshire.    Boys  have  a  game — Old  trash. 


204  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

Greeks  and  Latins.  The  ghosts  of  unburied  bodies,  not  pos- 
sessing the  obolm  or  fee  due  to  Charon,  the  ferryman  of  the 
Styx  or  Acheron,  were  unable  to  obtain  a  lodging  or  place  of 
rest.  They  were,  therefore,  compelled  to  wander  about  the 
banks  of  the  river  for  a  hundred  years,  when  the  Portitor  or 
"  ferryman  of  hell "  passed  them  over,  in  forma  pauperis.  Hence 
the  sacred  nature  of  the  duty  of  surviving  relatives  and  Mends 
under  the  most  trying  circumstances.  The  celebrated  tragedy 
of  Antigone,  by  Sophocles,  owes  its  chief  interest  and  pathos  to 
the  popular  faith  on  this  subject. 

Brand  on  the  authority  of  Aubrey,  states  that,  amongst  the 
vulgar  in  Yorkshire,  it  was  believed,  "and,  perhaps,  is  in  part 
still,"  that,  after  a  person's  death,  the  soul  went  over  Whinney 
Moor ;  and  till  about  1624,  at  the  funeral,  a  woman  came  (like 
a  Prffifica)  and  sung  the  following  song : — 
This  ean  night,  this  ean  night, 

Every  night  and  awle, 
Fire  and  fleet  (water)  and  candle-light, 

And  Christ  receive  thy  sawle. 
When  thou  from  hence  doest  pass  away, 

Every  night  and  awle, 
To  Whinny- Moor  [silly  poor]  thou  comest  at  last, 

And  Christ  receive  thy  sawle. 
If  ever  thou  gave  hosen  or  shoon  [shoes] , 

Every  night  and  awle, 
Sit  thee  down  and  put  them  on, 
And  Christ  receive  thy  sawle. 
But  if  hosen  and  shoon  thou  never  gave  naen, 

Every  night  and  awle, 
The  whinnes  shall  prick  thee  to  the  bare  beane, 

And  Christ  receive  thy  sawle. 
From  Whinny- Moor  that  thou  mayst  pass, 

Every  night  and  awle, 
To  Brig  of  Dread  thou  comest  at  last, 

And  Christ  receive  thy  sawle. 
From  Brig  of  Dread,  na  brader  than  a  thread, 

Every  night  and  awle, 
To  purgatory  fire  thou  com'st  at  last, 

And  Christ  receive  thy  sawle. 
If  ever  thou  give  either  milke  or  drink, 

Every  night  and  awle, 
The  fire  shall  never  make  thee  shrink, 

And  Christ  receive  thy  sawle. 
But  if  milk  nor  drink  thou  never  gave  naen, 

Every  night  and  awle, 
The  fire  shall  burn  thee  to  the  bare  beane, 
And  Christ  receive  thy  sawle. 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

In  the  "Minstrelsy  of  the  Scottish  Border,"  this  song  is 
printed  with  one  or  two  slight  variations,  with  the  title  of  a 
"Lyke-Wake  Dirge."  Sir  Walter  Scott  likewise  quotes  a  pas- 
sage from  a  MS.  in  the  Cotton  Library,  descriptive  of  Cleveland 
in  the  northern  part  of  Yorkshire,  in  Elizabeth's  reign,  which 
aptly  illustrates  this  custom.    It  is  as  follows : — 

"  When  any  dieth  certaine  women  sing  a  song  to  the  dead 
bodie,  reciting  the  journey  that  the  partye  deceased  must  goe, 
and  they  are  of  beliefe  (such  is  their  fondnesse)  that  once  in 
their  lives  it  is  good  to  give  a  pair  of  new  shoes  to  a  poor  man, 
for  as  much  as  after  this  life  they  are  to  pass  barefoote  through 
a  great  launde,  full  of  thorns  and  furzen,  except  by  the  meryte 
of  the  almes  aforesaid  they  have  redemed  the  forfeyte ;  for  at 
the  edge  of  the  launde  an  olde  man  shall  meet  them  with  the 
same  shoes  that  were  given  by  the  partie  when  he  was  lyving, 
and  after  he  had  shodde  them,  dismissed  them  to  go  through 
thick  and  thin  without  scratch  or  scalle." 

According  to  Mannhardt  and  Grimm  a  pair  of  shoes  was 
deposited  in  the  grave,  in  Scandinavia  and  Germany,  for  this 
very  purpose.  In  the  Henneberg  district,  on  this  account,  the 
name  todtemchuk,  or  "  dead  shoe,"  is  applied  to  a  funeral.  In 
Scandinavia  the  shoe  is  named  hehkoy  or  "hel-shoe," [grave-shoe]. 

It  is  customary  yet  in  some  parts  of  the  North  of  England  to 
place  a  plate  filled  with  salt  on  the  stomach  of  a  corpse  soon 
after  death.  Lighted  candles  too,  are  sometimes  placed  on  or 
about  the  body.  Reginald  Scot  says,  in  his  "  Discourse  con- 
cerning Devils  and  Spirits,"  on  the  authority  of  Bodin,  that 
"the  devil  loveth  no  salt  in  his  meat,  for  that  is  a  sign  of 
eternity,  and  used  by  God's  commandment  in  all  sacrifices." 
Douce,  speaking  of  this  practice,  particularly  in  Leicestershire, 
says  it  is  done  with  the  view  of  preventing  air  from  getting  into 
the  bowels  and  swelling  the  body.  Herrick,  in  his  "  Hespe- 
rides,"  says : — 

The  Soul  is  the  Sault. 
The  body's  salt  the  soul  is,  which,  when  gone, 
The  flesh  soon  sucks  in  putrifaction. 

According  to  the  learned  Moresin  the  devil  abhorreth  salt,  it 
being  the  emblem  of  eternity  and  immortality.  It  is  not  liable 
to  corruption  itself,  and  it  preserves  other  substances  from 
decay.    Hence  its  superstitious  or  emblematical  import. 

The  screaming  of  certain  birds,  as  we  have  already  seen, 
foreboded  disaster.  In  some  districts  the  midnight  flight  of 
flocks  of  migratory  seafowl  are  believed  to  be  the  cause  of  the 
noises  in  the  atmosphere,  which  the  peasant's  imagination 
translates  into  the  rush  of  the  furious  host.  Mr.  Yarrell,  in 
"Notes  and  Queries,"  says  that  flocks  of  bean-geese,  from 
Scandinavia  and  Scotland,  when  flying  over  various  parts  of 
England,  select  very  dark  nights  for  their  migrations,  and  that 


206  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

their  flight  is  accompanied  by  a  very  loud  and  peculiar  cry. 
The  "  seven  whistlers,"  referred  to  by  Wordsworth,  and  others 
already  quoted,  in  some  instances  appear  to  be  curlews,  whom 
screams  are  believed  by  fishermen  to  announce  the  approach 
of  a  tempest. 

The  bellowing  of  cows  at  unseasonable  hours  was  likewise 
regarded  as  an  announcement  of  death,  as  well  as  the  howling 
of  the  dog.  Cows  in  the  Aryan  mythology  represented  the  rain 
clouds.  Odin  and  his  host,  nevertheless,  seem  to  have  fancied 
the  earthly  article.  They  were  said  to  carry  cows  away,  milk 
them  dry,  and,  in  about  three  days,  generally  return  them,  bat 
not  always.  It  was  idle  for  the  farmer  to  refuse  complying,  as 
when  the  furious  host  appeared,  the  fattest  animals  in  the  stalls 
became  restive,  and  on  being  let  loose  suddenly  disappeared. 

The  Lancashire  peasant,  in  some  districts,  still  believes  the 
"  Milky  Way  "  to  be  the  path  by  which  departed  souls  enter 
Heaven.  Mr.  Benjamin  Brierley,  in  one  of  his  Lancashire 
stories,  places  in  the  mouth  of  one  of  his  strongly  marked  pro- 
vincial characters,  the  following  expression, — "  When  tha  goes 
up  'th  cow  lone  (lane)  to  th'  better  place,"  and  he  assures  me 
that  he  has  often  heard  the  expression  from  the  lips  of  the 
peasantry.  The  Germans  entertain  a  similar  belief  in  the 
"  Milky  Way  "  being  the  spirit  path  to  heaven.  In  Friesland 
its  name  is  kaupat,  or  cowpath.  The  giving  of  a  cow  to  the 
poor,  while  on  earth,  was  considered  to  confer  upon  the  donor 
the  power  to  pass  with  certainty  the  fearful  Gjallar  bridge;  for, 
as  in  the  Vedic  superstition,  a  cow,  (or  cloud,)  would  be  present 
to  aid  his  soul  to  make  the  passage  in  safety.  Mannhardt  in- 
forms us*  that  "hence  it  was  of  yore  a  funeral  custom  in 
Sweden,  Denmark,  England,  Upper  and  Lower  Germany,  that 
a  cow  should  follow  the  coffin  to  the  churchyard.  This  custom 
was  partially  continued  until  recent  times,  being  accounted  for 
on  the  ground  that  the  cow  was  a  gift  to  the  clergy  for  saying 
masses  for  the  dead  man's  soul  or  preaching  his  funeral 
sermon .' 

It  is  not  improbable  that  the  "mortuary"  or  "heriot"  of  the 
olden  time,  which  rendered  the  gift  of  a  cow  to  the  church,  on 
the  death  of  a  parishioner,  as  a  oondonement  of  possibly  unpaid 
dues,  a  necessary  condition  of  clerical  favour,  was  based  on 
some  such  superstition.  It  was  customary,  in  some  places,  to 
drive  the  cow  in  the  procession  of  the  funeral  cortege  to  the  place 
of  sepulture.  Mr.  E.  Baines,  speaking  of  the  manor  of  Ashton- 
under-Lyne,  says : — "  The  obnoxious  feudal  heriot,  consisting 
of  the  best  beast  on  the  farm,  required  to  be  given  to  the  lord, 
on  the  death  of  the  farmer,  was  a  cruel  and  unmanly  exaction, 
in  illustration  of  which  there  are  many  traditionary  stories  in 
the  manor  of  Ashton,  and  no  doubt  in  other  manors.  The 
priest,  as  well  as  the  lord  of  the  manor,  claimed  his  heriot, 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  207 

called  a  mortuary  in  these  early  times,  on  the  death  of  his 
parishioners,  as  a  kind  of  expiation  for  the  personal  tithes, 
which  the  deceased  in  his  lifetime  had  neglected  to  pay." 

"  Traditions  m  by  C.  Hardwick. 


Jkbbt  Waumsley, — Hal  of  Bradford. — When  the  Bawsons, 
who  were  Lords  of  the  Manor  of  Bradford,  dwelt  in  the  old 
"Bawson  Hall,"  Kirkgate,  Bradford,  one  ef  them  kept  a  "Hal" 
named  Jerry  Waumsley.  I  heard  when  a  boy,  which  is  now 
sixty  years  since,  three  stories  about  this  Jerry,  two  of  which  I 
will  relate,  but  the  third  must  remain  untold. 

One  of  these  Bawsons,  and  the  one  who  kept  Jerry,  was  on 
intimate  terms  of  friendship  with  Mr.*  Army t age  of  Kirklees, 
and  one  day  when  on  a  visit  to  Mr.  Bawson,  he  brought  Pierson 
the  Kirklees  Hal  with  him.  As  Mr.  Armytage  was  going  to 
stay  all  night,  it  was  arranged  that  Pierson  should  sleep  with 
Jerry  in  his  attic  room  at  the  top  of  the  hall.  After  the  two 
"Hals"  had  retired  to  rest,  the  company  remaining  up,  a  dread- 
ful noise  was  heard  in  the  upper  part  of  the  house,  and  on  Mr. 
Bawson  and  Mr.  Armytage  going  up  to  Jerry's  room,  they 
found  the  two  fighting  on  the  floor,  and  engaged  in  what  ap- 
peared to  be  a  deadly  conflict.  After  the  combatants  had  been 
separated,  Mr.  Bawson  asked  Jerry  what  the  row  was  about. 
Jerry  replied,  "Well,  he  wants  to  sleep  in  the  middle,  and  I 
think  I  have  the  best  right  to  sleep  in  the  middle,  because  it  is 
my  bed,  and  we  could  not  agree  about  it,  and  we  were  going  to 
fight  it  out."  "Oh,"  said  Mr.  Bawson,  "Til  soon  settle  the 
matter."  He  then  sent  one  of  the  servants  to  fetch  the  big  ling 
yard  broom,  and  putting  it  in  the  middle  of  the  bed,  he  bid 
them  get  in,  one  on  each  side ;  and  so  the  dispute  was  ended, 
and  a  peace  concluded. 

N.B.  In  our  British  House  of  Commons,  there  are  two  parties 
and  they  often  have  rows  similar  to  the  above ;  because  they 
both  want  to  rest  in  the  middle. 

The  other  story  about  Jerry  was  this.  In  the  garden  of  the 
Manor  House,  in  Kirkgate,  there  was  in  the  last  century  a  very 
fine  apricot  tree,  but  one  year  there  was  only  one  specimen  of 
fruit  upon  it,  and  Mr.  Bawson  was  very  desirous  that  it  should 
be  allowed  to  ripen  if  possible.  But  one  morning  the  apricot 
was  missing,  and  every  one  denied  having  seen  it,  Jerry  amongst 
the  number.  Mr.  Bawson  suspected  Jerry  of  having  stolen  it, 
but  knowing  his  man,  he  said  no  more  at  the  time.  But  a  day 
or  two  afterwards,  he  said  to  Jerry,  "  Now  Jerry,  we  shall  be 
sure  to  find  out  who  stole  the  apricot,  when  we  find  the  stone." 
Jerry  replied,  "  Nay,  you  never  will,  for  I  swallowed  it ! " 

Bogeb  Stores. 
*  ?  Baronet. 


208  YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE. 

Jonathan  Pybah,  the  Prophet  of  Lowmoor. — It  was  some 
time  during  the  year  1878  that  I  had  the  pleasure  of  an  intro- 
duction to  the  late  Mr.  Charles  Bice,  the  successful  lessee  of 
the  Theatre  Boyal,  Bradford,  with  whom  I  spent,  at  his  invita- 
tion, two  evenings,  for  the  purpose  of  hearing  him  tell  his 
reminiscences  of  the  early  drama  in  Bradford,  when  the  good 
people  of  the  town  regarded  the  "play-house"  as  no  fit  place 
for  decent  folks  to  he  seen  at,  and  when  Puritanical  prejudice 
against  the  theatre  was  bo  strong  that  church  and  chapel  going 
people  spoke  of  it  as  the  "devil's  church,"  and  of  actors  as  men 
and  women  to  be  shunned  and  avoided  as  if  they  had  the  leprosy. 
Very  enjoyable  to  me  were  these  evenings  with  Mr.  Bice,  not 
only  because  he  was  himself  a  racy  story  teller,  but  chiefly  be- 
cause the  narrative  of  his  early  struggles  as  an  actor,  and  the 
whole  story  of  his  career,  were  of  the  profoundest  interest.  To 
revive  his  recollection  of  the  early  days  of  the  stage  in  Bradford, 
with  which  he  had  much  to  do,  I  took  with  me  a  number  of  old 
play  bill  8  relating  to  the  period  coming  within  his  own  know- 
ledge, the  perusal  of  which  not  only  freshened  his  memory  but 
also  gave  him  considerable  pleasure.  One  of  these  especially 
interested  him,  because  it  announced  the  performance  of  a  play 
which  he  had  written  himself  under  somewhat  peculiar  circum- 
stances. The  piece  to  which  he  referred  was  entitled  The  Fin 
Raiser,  or  the  Proplut  of  Low  Moor.  I  was  curiously  interested 
in  a  play  bearing  this  title,  as  I  took  it  for  granted  that  the 
"Prophet  of  Low  Moor"  was  no  other  than  the  notorious 
Jonathan  Pyrah,  who  in  his  day  was  certainly  a  prophet  of  the 
first  water.  But  as  many  of  your  readers  may  never  have  heard 
of  this  strange  mortal,  I  may  briefly  state  that  Jonathan,  while 
serving  as  a  private  soldier  abroad,  had  foretold,  among  certain 
other  great  events  of  history,  the  downfall  of  the  houses  of 
Bourbon  and  Austria.  Returning  to  England  (in  1745)  he 
spent  the  latter  years  of  his  life  at  his  native  place — Low  Moor. 
His  wonderful  prophecies  gained  him  great  popularity,  but, 
poor  fellow  he  could  not  do  with  it.  His  brain  turned  and 
eventually  he  became  stark  mad.  His  fate  was  truly  a  sad  one. 
Confined  in  a  little  hovel,  to  which  he  was  chained  like  a  dog, 
adjoining  the  old  workhouse  at  Holroyd  Hill,  Wibsey,  the 
wretch  eked  out  the  remainder  of  his  miserable  existence.  In 
one  of  his  lucid  intervals  that  sometimes  came  over  him,  it  is 
said  that  while  standing  at  Hill  Top,  he  put  his  fingers  before 
his  face  and  exclaimed,  "I  see  something  like  hell  in  Black 
Syke."  This  was  his  last  vision  or  prophesy  and  this  was  its 
fulfilment.  Twenty  years  after  its  utterance  the  mighty  fur- 
naces of  Low  Moor  were  in  full  blaze  upon  the  plain  of  Black 
Syke,  a  place  which  in  the  days  of  the  prophet,  was  nothing 
more  than  an  open  piece  of  marshy  ground.  Such,  briefly  told, 
is  the  strange  history  of  Jonathan  Pyrah.    Believing  this  to  be 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 


209 


the  story  upon  which  Mr.  Rice  had  founded  his  play,  The  Fire 
Raiser,  or  the  Propliet  of  Low  Moor,  I  asked  him  whence  he  had 
got  his  information,  and  if  he  were  in  possession  of  any  other 
facta  relating  to  Jonathan  other  than  those  I  have  stated  above. 
Conceive  my  surprise  when  he  told  me  he  had  never  heard  the 
story  before.  He  had  written  his  play  many  years  ago  when 
in  the  South  of  England,  and  its  first  production  was  in  a  barn 
before  an  audience  of  country  "  chaw  bacons  "  down  there.  The 
piece,  however,  took  so  well,  that  he  subsequently  played  it  at 
nearly  every  place  he  visited.  In  order  to  give  it  the  charms 
of  immediate  locality,  however,  he  always  took  care  to  alter  the 
title  of  his  play,  and  fix  the  home  of  the  fire-raising  prophet  at 
some  well-known  place  near  to  where  he  happened  to  be  per- 
forming. Thus,  when  he  came  to  Bradford,  he  fixed  upon  Low 
Moor  as  the  locaU  of  the  prophet,  little  thinking  at  the  time 
that  that  place  had  actually  had  a  '*  Fire -Raising  Prophet "  of 
its  own.  It  was  indeed  a  singular  coincidence,  although  there 
was  nothing  whatever  in  common  between  the  Low  Moor  pro- 
phet and  the  one  that  Mr.  Rice  had  shaped  out  of  his  own 
imagination.  The  story  I  gave  him  of  the  former  at  any  rate 
served  to  explain,  what  to  him  was  a  surprise  at  the  time  of  the 
performance  of  the  piece  at  Bradford,  namely,  the  appearance  at 
his  theatre  of  a  very  large  number  of  people  who  came  all  the 
way  from  Low  Moor  to  hear  it.    w  ^^  ^^  BowUng 


•^        ^ ■-  £  W     N  a  number  of  "Chambers's 

W        jM   •     1      Edinburgh  Journal"  for  1848, 

^^f^     ^Bf _*,<   I       I  find  the  following : — "So  lately 

jg^  as   the    month    of    September 

(1848)    a   clothier  residing   at 

'  Holmfirth,   near    Huddersfield, 

became   the  dupe  of  a  female 

vWVvj  ft}    gipsy>  under  the  following  cir- 

^^mI  cumstances : — Having  first  per 

_Ml^  suaded  him  that  there  was  a 

large  treasure  concealed  in  his 
JB  house,  she  induced  him  to  raise 

the  sum  of  £810,  wherewith  ehe 
was  to  perform  a  charm  by  which 
to   overcome  the    influence   of 
certain  evil  spirits,  which  she 
described  as  guarding  the  de- 
sired   hoard.     When    he    had 
gathered  the  money,  one  half  of 
which  was  in  gold,  she  repaired 
to  the  house  to  work  the  charm,  for  it  had  been  understood 
that  the  money  was  never  to  go  out  of  his  possession.    A  leather 
y.p-l.  o 


210 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 


bag  was-  procured,  the  money  was  deposited  in  it ;  and  after 
some  ceremonies  had  been  performed,  it  was  placed  under  lock 
and  key  in  one  of  the  clothier's  drawers,  with  strict  injunctions 
that  it  was  not  to  be  disturbed  for  four  days,  by  which  time  the 
charm  would  be  worked,  and  the  treasure  found.  The  four  days 
elapsed,  the  gipsy  failed  of  her  appointment,  and  the  dupe  be- 
gan to  have  some  misgivings.  After  allowing  one  extra  day  to 
elapse,  he  opened  the  drawer,  where,  instead  of  any  new 
treasures,  he  found  only  the  bag,  now  containing  only  a  few 
pieces  of  lead  and  brown  paper." 

Can  anyone  tell  me  what  was  the  end  of  this  incident,  and 
whether  the  gipsy  was  caught  and  the  money  restored,  <fcc.  ? 
H.  Snowden  Ward. 

Prophet  Wroe. — I  am  much  interested 
in  John  Wroe's  very  pecu 
should  especially  like  to  1 
of  the  books  published  by  him,  or  m  con 
nection  with  his  views  ami  sect.    He  first 
and  the  trustees  of  the  Society  afterwards 
had    a   private    press 
from    which    most*  of 
these  curious  publica- 
tions originated.     The 
press  migrated  under 
force  of  circumstances 
to    different    places — 
Bradford,     Wakefield, 
Oravesend,  and  lastly 
Ash  ton  -  under  -  Lyne. 
This  list  would  make  a 
small    contribution   to 
Yorkshire  Bibliography 
if  it  can  be  drawn  up. 
Oany  ou  help  methrough 
your  numerous  corres- 
pondents ? 

W.  B. 

East  Hyde  Vicarage, 


New  Year's  Day  Marriages. — In  the  interesting  series  of 
extracts  from  the  Diary  of  Rev.  J.  Ismay,  given  in  the  last 
number  of  « Yorkshire  N.  &  Q.,*  I  am  struck  with  the  entry  (p. 
197) : — "  1748.  Dec.  11th.— (ye  shortest  day)  14  persons  were 
published  in  Mirfield  Church,  and  24  couples  in  ye  year." 
What  is  the  reason  for  nearly  one-third  of  the  whole  number  of 
marriages  being  arranged  for  the  same  day  ?  R.  T.  L. 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  211 

The  Story  op  Lake  Semebwateb. 

In  ancient  times  as  story  tells, 
The  saints  would  often  leave  their  cells, 
And  stroll  about,  but  hide  their  quality, 
To  try  good  people's  hospitality. 
It  happen'd  on  a  summer's  day, 
As  Authors  of  the  legend  say, 
A  tired  hermit — a  saint  by  trade, 
Taking  his  tour  in  masquerade 
Disguis'd  in  tatter'd  habits,  hied 
To  an  ancient  town  on  Baydalside ; 
Where  in  the  strollers  canting  strain, 
He  begg'd  from  door  to  door  in  vain, 
Tried  every  tone  might  pity  win, 
But  not  a  soul  would  let  him  in. 
Our  wandering  saint  in  woeful  state, 
Treated  at  this  ungodly  rate, 
Having  through  all  the  city  pass'd 
To  a  small  cottage  came  at  last, 
Where  dwelt  a  good  old  honest  pair 
Who  tho'  they  had  but  homely  fare 
They  kindly  did*  this  saint  invite 
To  their  poor  hut  to  pass  the  night ; 
And  then  the  hospitable  sire 
Bid  his  good  dame  to  mend  the  fire 
While  he  from  out  the  chimney  took 
A  flitch  of  bacon  from  the  hook 
And  freely  from  the  fattest  side 
Cut  out  large  slices  to  be  fried ; 
Then  stepp'd  aside  to  fetch  him  drink, 
Fill'd  a  large  jug  up  to  the  brink, 
And  saw  it  fairly  twice  drain'd  off, 
Yet  (what  was  wonderful — don't  scoff) 
T'was  still  replenish'd  to  the  top 
As  if  he  ne'er  had  touch'd  a  drop. 
The  good  old  couple  were  amaz'd 
And  often  on  each  other  gaz'd 
Then  softly  turn'd  aside  to  view 
Whether  the  lights  were  turning  blue. 
The  gentle  pilgrim  was  soon  aware 
And  told  his  mission  in  coming  there : 
"  Good  folk 8,  you  need  not  be  afraid, 
I'm  but  a  saint,"  the  hermit  said ; 
"  No  hurt  shall  come  to  you  or  yours ; 
But  for  this  pack  of  churlish  boors, 
Not  fit  to  live  on  Christian  ground 
They  and  their  cattle  shall  be  drown'd 
While  you  shall  prosper  in  the  land." 


212  YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE. 

At  this  the  saint  stretch*d  forth  his  hand — 
"  Save  this  little  house !  Semerwater  sink  I 
Where  they  gave  me  meat  and  drink." 
The  waters  rose,  the  earth  sunk  down, 
The  seething  floods  submerged  the  town, 
The  gen'rous  couple  there  did  thrive 
And  near  the  lake  aye  long  did  live, 
Until  at  good  old  age  they  died, 
And  slept  in  peace  by  Semerside. 

J.  R.,  Hawes. 

Burial  Customs. — The  closing  of  the  eyes  after  death,  which 
was  generally  done  by  the  nearest  relation,  is  of  vast  antiquity. 
Homer  thus  refers  to  it : — 

Unhappy  youth  who  hadst  not,  at  thy  dying, 
Father  or  mother  to  close  thy  eyes. 

Washing  the  dead  is  of  equal  antiquity.  Plato  makes  So- 
crates say: — "I  think  it  is  better  to  wash  before  I  drink  my 
foison  to  save  the  good  women  the  labour  of  washing  me  after 
am  dead." 

The  custom  of  carrying  the  dead  on  the  shoulders  was  prac- 
tised by  the  Jews  and  continued  by  the  Christians.  There  were 
professional  carriers  who  were  a  privileged  corporation,  but 
friends  often  performed  the  office.  Paula,  a  very  eminent  and 
pious  Roman  lady  who  founded  a  monastery,  was  carried  on 
the  shoulders  of  six  bishops. 

I  have  not  asertained  when  the  hearse  came  into  use ;  the 
Jews  had  no  such  carriage,  but  it  is  mentioned  by  a  Jewish 
writer  in  1820.  It  was  in  use  in  England  in  Shakespeare's 
time. 

Coffins  were  of  wood,  stone,  or  lead.  In  this  country  it  is 
generally  stated  that  the  first  recorded  wooden  coffin  was  that 
of  King  Arthur,  who  suppressed  paganism  and  established 
Christianity  at  York.  According  to  Camden,  he  was  buried  at 
Glastonbury  in  542,  and  his  tomb,  with  an  inscription  upon  it, 
was  found  and  examined  in  1189.  The  Romans,  as  is  well 
known,  buried  in  stone,  lead,  and  wooden  coffins.  In  1702  a 
Roman  wooden  coffin  was  found  at  York  made  from  oaken 
planks  two  inches  thick.  There  was  also  an  inner  coffin  of 
lead,  Thoresby,  who  was  at  York  at  the  time,  got  some  of  the 
nails  of  the  wooden  coffin,  and  some  of  the  bones  which  were 
entire,  though,  as  he  remarks,  probably  1600  years  old.  It  was 
formerly  considered  a  distinction  to  be  buried  in  a  coffin,  and 
the  practise  of  burying  without  a  coffin  was  continued  in  Eng- 
land down  to  late  times.  A  parish  bier  is,  or  was  not  long 
since,  preserved  at  Sprotborough  Church,  in  Yorkshire.  The 
latest  burials  on  biers  were  those  of  paupers,  but  when  such 
burials  were  discontinued  I  have  not  ascertained.    I  have  heard 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  218 

of  a  method  of  lowering  persons  into  the  grave  in  a  coffin  and 
then,  after  the  service,  drawing  it  up  again,  leaving  the  bottom 
only  in  the  grave.  The  latest  records  of  burial  in  stone  coffins 
that  I  have  seen  are  those  of  Thomas  Fen  ton,  Esq.,  of  Rothwell 
Haigh,  near  Leeds,  who  was  buried  in  1818,  in  a  large  stone 
sarcophagus  from  his  own  quarry,  and  of  Mr.  Pilkington  (alias 
Jack  Hawley),  to  be  afterwards  described. 

Torches  were  anciently  carried  by  deacons  or  other  church 
officers  at  the  funerals  of  persons  of  quality,  but  this  seems  to 
have  long  since  fallen  into  disuse.  Perpetual  lights,  however, 
in  the  Catholic  churches  were  continued. 

Pennant  states  that  it  was  a  custom  in  his  time  in  Scotland 
to  set  a  platter  of  salt  upon  the  breast  of  the  dead  body. 

The  ringing  of  the  passing  bell  is  a  custom  said  to  date  back 
to  the  seventh  century,  the  time  when  bells  were  first  hung  in 
churches.  This  practice  has  prevailed  to  the  present  day  un- 
altered except  in  the  fact  that  the  bell  should  be  rung  immediately 
before,  and  not  long  after  the  death  of  the  person  who  is 
"passing**  away.  The  passing  bell  seems  to  have  been  rung 
to  incite  friends  to  offer  prayers  for  the  dying. 

Anciently  it  was  a  common  custom  to  surround  the  body  of 
a  dead  person  with  rosemary  and  other  scented  herbs,  but  this 
might  have  been  intended  as  a  safeguard  against  infection,  as 
it  is  mentioned  somewhere  by  Dickens  that  rosemary  was  taken 
into  the  assize  courts  in  1790  as  a  disinfectant,  when  dirty 
prisoners  were  brought  before  the  judge.  The  use  of  flowers 
and  sweet  herbs  at  funerals  is  of  great  antiquity.  The  early 
Christians  at  first  ignored  the  practices  of  the  pagans  in  this 
respect,  but  afterwards  adopted  them.  Virgil,  as  translated, 
has  the  following  : — 

Full  canisters  of  fragrant  lilies  bring, 
Mixed  with  the  purple  roses  of  the  spring ; 
Let  me  with  fun'ral  flowers  his  body  strow, 
This  gift  which  parents  to  their  children  owe, 
This  unavailing  gift  at  least  I  may  bestow ! 

The  custom  of  sending  or  taking  garlands  to  be  placed  upon 
the  coffin  of  a  deceased  relative  or  friend  is  very  beautiful,  but 
of  late  years  it  has  developed  almost  into  an  abuse.  The  prac- 
tice, once  common,  of  suspending  garlands  of  cut  flowers,  ever 
greens,  or  artificial  flowers  over  the  pew  of  a  deceased  person  in 
the  church  seems  to  have  gone  out,  but  might  with  propriety 
be  revived.  A  tribute  of  this  kind  would  be  equally  as  graceful 
as  strewing  flowers  upon  the  coffin,  and  more  lasting  as  a  me- 
mento to  keep  the  merits  of  the  deceased  in  remembrance. 

Entertainments  and  feasts  have  often  been  prominent  features 
in  burial  customs;  they  are  of  Egyptian  origin.  Moderate  pro- 
vision for  friends  and  others  who  may  attend  funerals  from  a 
distance  is  necessary  and  legitimate,  but  in  many  cases  the 


214  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

feasting  and  attendant  extravagance  leads  to  abuse.  An  old  writer 
states  that  in  former  times  it  cost  less  to  "  portion  a  daughter 
than  to  bury  a  wife."  Butler,  a  tavern  keeper  in  London,  (aptly 
named),  once  said  that  a  tun  of  red  port,  besides  white  wine, 
was  drunk  at  his  wife's  funeral.  As  none  but  women  go  to 
women's  funerals,  it  happens  that  there  would  be  none  but 
women  to  drink  Butler's  wine.. 

Lately  I  saw  by  a  newspaper  paragraph  that  there  is  a  custom 
prevalent  in  some  of  the  remote  Yorkshire  dales  which  is  a  set- 
off against  extravagance ;  it  is  called  "  taking  shots."  The 
nearest  relation  bits  in  the  chamber  beside  the  open  coffin  and 
receives  a  donation  from  each  friend  or  neighbour  as  he  comes 
to  take  a  last  look  at  the  dead,  and  this  money  is  handed  over 
to  the  widow  or  other  relatives.  The  ancient  shot  or  scot  was 
a  sort  of  mortuary  often  ordered  by  will  to  be  paid  on  behalf  of 
the  deceased  on  account  of  certain  tithes  or  oblations  which 
during  life  might  have  been  neglected.  The  taking  of  shots  or 
scots  is  the  reverse  of  the  original  meaning  of  the  Saxon  word 
sooten.  What  are  called  " gathered  funerals"  are  still  common 
in  villages  round  Leeds.  A  plate  is  set  upon  a  table  so  that 
any  one  may  give  what  he  chooses  towards  the  expenses  of  the 
funeral.  A  whole  volume  might  be  collected  about  funeral 
feasts,  doles,  curious  entertainments,  and  bequests. 

6.  Roberts. 

I'll  stand  a  drop  at  York. — I'll  be  hanged. — Early  in  the 
year  1881  a  man  in  the  service  of  a  Shipley  stuff-manufacturer 
being  charged  by  his  master  with  having  refused,  at  a  warehouse 
in  Bradford,  to  carry  up  stairs  some  goods  which  he  had  been 
instructed  to  deliver  there,  stoutly  denied  doing  so,  and  said 
"  I'll  stand  a  drop  at  York,  if  I  ever  did  any  such  thing."  I 
presume  Leeds  now  takes  the  place  of  York  in  this  expression. 

Salt  aire.  Thos.  Wm.  Skevington. 

Girls'  Games.— I  saw  to  day  three  little  girls,  aged  8,  5  and 
7,  play  a  new  game,  or,  at  least,  a  new  one  to  me.     First,  all 
the  girls  take  hold  of  the  apron  of  one,  who  says  : — 
"  Oranges,  oranges,  four  a  penny 
How  do  you  think  she  gives  so  many  ? 
One,  two,  three,  four,  five,  six,  seven, 
All  good  children  go  to  heaven," 
pointing  to  each  child,  including  herself,  and  the  one  the  last 
word  comes  to  stands  aside  ;  and  so  on  until  one  only  is  left. 
That  one,  in  this  game  as  in  many  others,  as  "Hide  and  Seek," 
has  to  conduct  the  game. 

In  this  game  the  conductor  is  the  mother,  and  the  assembled 
children  commence  a  dialogue  : 

Ch.     "  Please,  mother,  may  I  go  out  to  play  ?" 

M.     "  No,  my  loves,  it  is  a  very  wet  day." 


Y0RK8HIBE    FOLK-LORE.  215 

Ch.     ••  My  grandma  says  it's  a  very  nice  day." 

M.      "  Then  get  your  hats,  and  go  and  play." 

When  the  children  run  away  they  shout  "  It's  raining,  it's 
raining." 

M.      "  Come  in." 

Ch.     "  I  sha'n't." 

M.      "  I'll  fetch  you  with  my  finger/' 

Ch.     «•  I'd  rather  linger." 

M.      "  I'll  fetch  you  with  my  thumb." 

Ch.     "  I'd  rather  come." 

(They  approach  her.) 

.1'.      V  "Where  have  you  been  ?" 

Ch.     "  Down  the  lane." 

.V.      "  What  have  you  seen  ?  " 

Ch.     •«  A  little  white  house." 

M.      "  What  was  there  in  it  ?  " 

<7».     "  A  little  black  man." 

M.      "What  did  he  say?" 

Ch.     "  Catch  me,  catch  me,  if  you  can." 

The  mother  catches  anyone  of  the  runaways  and  the  captive 
takes  the  place  of  mother,  and  the  game  goes  round  again. 

A.  H.  T. 

Anecdote. — The  Rev.  Timothy  Priestley,  of  Fieldhead,  Bir- 
stall,  brother  of  the  celebrated  Dr.  Priestley,  was  a  very  eccentric 
individual.  He  was  minister  of  a  dissenting  chapel  in  Cannon 
Street,  Manchester,  from  the  pulpit  of  which  he  made  some  odd 
deliverances  which  have  been  attributed  to  other  people.  Ob- 
serving one  of  his  congregation  asleep  he  stopped  in  his  discourse 
and  called  "Awake!  I  say,  George  Earn  say,  or  I'll  mention 
your  name."  He  had  an  unconquerable  aversion  to  candles 
which  exhibted  long  burned  wicks,  and  often  in  the  midst  of 
his  most  interesting  sermons  on  winter  evenings  would  shout 
to  the  chapel  keeper  "  Tommy !  Tommy !  top  those  candles." 
He  was  the  preacher,  though  others  have  borne  the  credit  or 
odium,  who  pulled  out  of  his  pocket  half  a-crown  and  laid  it 
down  on  the  pulpit  cushion  offering  to  bet  St.  Paul  that  the 
passage  where  he  says  "  he  could  do  all  things"  was  not  true, 
but  reading  on  "by  faith,"  put  up  his  money  saying  "Nay,  nay, 
Paul,  if  that's  the  case  I'll  not  bet  with  thee." 

Mischief  Neet. — The  last  night  in  April  is  devoted,  as  far 
as  the  peregrinations  of  the  West  Biding  Constabulary  will 
allow,  to  a  queer  custom.  Perhaps  in  another  year  or  two  that 
devotion  will  be  a  thing  of  the  past,  and  before  it  is  totally  for- 
gotten, and  while  there  yet  live  many  to  correct  me  if  I  am 
wrong,  I  will  endeavour  to  describe  what  it  is.  There  is  an  old 
saying  that  the  first  of  April  is  the  "fools'  "  day,  and  that  the 
last  day  of  that  month  is  the  "  devil's."     It  is  yet,  and  perhaps 


216  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

always  will  be,  kept  in  remembrance,  this  silly  custom  of  the 
first  day ;  and  generations  after  our  time  men  and  boys  will  be 
told  on  that  day  that  their  "  shoe  band's*  loose,"  or  women  and 
girls  that  their  "  garter  "  is  coming  down,  and  thus  be  made 
into  April  fools;   bat  we  cannot  think  that  the  "devil's"  day 
will  always  be  his  iu  the  manner  it  is  at  present.    Mischief 
night  is  a  night  supposed  by  the  imps  of  mischief  (rough  youths) 
to  be,  under  some  old  law  or  tradition,  theirs,  to  do  as  they 
wish  with.     Their  duty  and  pleasure  combined  is  to  go  round 
in  small  gangs  bent  upon  doing  all  the  mischief  they  can,  un- 
observed by  anyone  in  authority,  or  the  owners  they  assail. 
Bain  water  tubs  are  let  off,  "swillin  "  tubs  are  upset,  doors  are 
taken  from  their  "  jimmers,1'  and  carried  into  some  one's  out- 
house or  into  the  waters  of  some  mill  dam.    Donkeys  are  led 
into  some  field  at  a  distance,  and  the  pinder  informed  slily  of 
the  asinine  trespass,  or  they  are  taken  and  tied  to  the  outside  of 
some  queer-tempered  man's  "  door  sneck."     Then,  again,  some 
old  maid's  door  will  be  slily  fastened  by  tying  tightly  across  the 
door  jambs,  in  front  of  and  to  the  "  sneck,"  a  piece  of  wood  to 
prevent  her  coming  out  of  doors  till  released  by  a  kind  neighbour 
next  morning.     Another  phase  of  "  mischieving  "  is  made  in 
this  wise  : — A  thin  and  narrow  piece  of  steel  is  attached  to  a 
piece  of  band,  say  a  yard  or  two  in  length,  and  while  one  youth 
holds  tbis  under  the  outside  of  the  window  and  lets  it  fall  upon 
the  doors  tones,  a  companion  will  throw  some  peas  against  the 
panes,  and  off  both  will  scamper  to  some  dark  place  to  watch 
the  owner  come  out  and  search  for  the  pane  he  is  sure  was 
broken.    Various  other  methods  of  torment  are  and  used  to  be 
carried  out  upon  this  night,  and  pure  damage  in  some  places 
by  some  gangs  gave  place  to  defacement  by  others.    The  writer 
has  often  seen  the  records  of  the  doings  on  "  the  devil's  night" 
in  the  whitewashed  doors  and  windows  of  dozens  of  dwellings 
the  morning  after,  and  it  has  been  laughable  enough  to  witness 
the  consternation  depicted  upon  the  faces  of  some  who  have  been 
fastened  in  their  houses,  or  to  see  the  surprised  looks  of  another 
when  he  found  he  had  been  guarded  faithfully  during  the  night 
by  a  patient  jackass,  or  when  he  found  he  had  been  misled  by 
the  darkened  window  and  stayed  in  bed  till  noon,  thinking  it 
was  not  yet  light  enough  for  him  to  arise  to  commence  his  daily 
duties.     Happily,  the  good  old  times  in  this  respect  are  things 
of  the  fast  -  disappearing  present,   and  "mischief  neet"  vill 
soon  live  but  in  the  remembrance  of  a  few.  8. 

#  Bhubband. 


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YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE.  217 

^crhsljire  flrotarbs  an'  £p*ghs. 

[Collected  by  Abraham  Holroyd,  Shipley.] 

"Don't  thee  think  to  put  Yorkshire  o'  me;  I  warn'tborn  in  a 

frost." 

As  queer  as  Dick's  hatband,  'at  went  nine  times  raand  an' 
wodn't  tee. 

As  blake  (yellow)  as  a  paigle. 

As  flat  as  a  flaun  (custard). 

A  scald  heead  is  sooin  brocken. 

As  deead  as  a  doar  nail. 

A  vaunter  an'  a  liar  is  both  ya  thing. 

A  geen  horse  suddn't  be  leuked  in't  maath. 

A  careless  hussie  maks  monny  thieves. 

A  man  mud  as  weel  heyt  the  divil  as  the  broth  at  he's  boiled 
in. 

A  wool  seller  knaws  where  a  wool-buyer  lives. 

As  the  sewer  fills  the  draft  sours. 

A  woman's  tung  wegs  like  a  lamb's  tail. 

A  new  besom  sweeps  clean. 

An  ill  sarvant  will  niver  mak  a  good  maister. 

A  hired  horse  tired  niver. 

A  horse  may  stumble  on  four  feet. 

All  things  hes  a  end,  an'  a  puddin  hes  two. 

A  friend  is  not  knawn  but  in  need. 

A  Scotchman  an'  a  Newcastle  grunstone  travel  all  the  world 
over. 

As  nimble  as  a  cow  in  a  cage. 

A  chip  o'  the  old  block. 

As  they  brew  e'en  soa  let  em  bake. 

A  young  saint  an'  owd  divil. 

As  threng  (busy)  as  Thrap's  wife  when  shoo  henged  hersel  in 
her  garters. 

A  creaking  door  hings  long  o'th  hinges. 

Attorney's  haases  are  built  atop  a't  heeads  o'  fooils. 

A  hungry  dog  is  fain  of  a  dirty  puddin. 

A  reeking  haase  an'  a  scolding  wife  will  make  one  weary  of 
his  life. 

A  pair  o'  gooid  spurs  to  borrowed  horse  is  better  nor  a  peck 
o'  haver  (oats). 

As  nimble  as  a  oat  on  a  hut  backstun. 

As  good  comes  behind  as  gangs  before. 

After-wit  comes  ow're  lat. 

A  mile  an'  a  wee  bit. 

As  engry  as  if  he'd  sat  on  a  nettle. 

As  true  steel  as  Eipon  rowels. 

A  long,  lollopin  lass,  as  lazy  as  she's  long. 


218  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

"  All  of  you  masters,"  as  the  toad  said  to  the  harrow  teeth. 

A  blatin  caa  sooin  forgets  her  cauf. 

"A  sneck  before  a  snout/'  is  said  when  a  man  reckons  on 
easy  success  without  difficulty. 

A  man  had  better  have  a  Dule  than  a  Dawkin. 

Airs  well  that  ends  well. 

All  is  not  gold  that  glisters. 

A  cat  may  look  at  a  king. 

A  rolling  stone  gathers  no  moss. 

A  good  Jack  makes  a  good  Gill. 

As  long  lives  a  merry  heart  as  a  sad  one. 

A  merry  heart  goes  all  the  way. 

As  welcome  as  water  in  a  ship. 

An  old  ape  has  an  old  eye. 

A  pound  of  care  will  not  pay  an  ounce  of  debt. 

A  grunting  wife  and  a  groaning  horse  never  fail. 

Aye,  he's  a  regular  slitherpoke.     (He  lets  things  slide.) 

A  bad  hedge  is  better  than  neea  beild  (no  shelter). 

As  wick  (lively)  as  a  whin. 

Aye,  he  trails  a  light  harrow.     (Has  no  encumbrance.) 

Aye,  he's  a  rogue,  up  met  an1  daan  thrussen. 

Better  sit  idle  nor  work  for  nowt. 

Bush  natural,  mair  hair  than  wit. 

Best  is  best  cheap. 

Birds  of  a  feather  aye  flock  together. 

Beware  of  «« had  I  wist.'* 

Brawling  curs  niver  want  sore  ears. 

Better  say  here  it  is  nor  here  it  was. 

Better  have  a  mouse  in  the  pot  as  nae  flesh. 

Back  of  beyond,  where  t'  mare  foiled  t'  fiddler. 

Blood  without  groats  is  nothing. 

Bragg  was  a  good  dog,  but  he  was  hanged  for  biting. 

Better  rue  sell  as  (than)  rue  keep. 

Castleford  lasses  may  weel  be  fair, 

For  they  wesh  in  the  Galder  and  sind  (rinse)  in  the  Aire. 

Cats  eat  that  which  sluts  spare. 

Cradle  streays  are  scarce  out  of  his  breech. 

Cleveland  in  the  clay,  bring  two  schoon,  carry  yan  away. 

Cahr  quiet,  same  as  they  do  at  Birstall. 

Charity  begins  at  home. 

Change  of  pastures  makes  fat  calves. 

Don't  stretch  thi  arm  farther  nor  thi  sleeves  reyks. 

Draff  is  good  enough  for  swine. 

Don't  thee  think  to  put  Yorkshire  o1  me;  I  wan't  born  in  * 
frost. 

Every  dog  thinks  his- sen  a  lion  at  home. 

Every  herring  sud  hiug  be  its  own  gills. 

Every  man  knows  best  where  his  shoe  wrings  (pinches). 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  219 

Every  bird  mun  hetch  her  own  eggs. 

Every  body  sud  be  maister  o'  their  own  harstone. 

Every  one  knaws  their  awn  knaw.  This  reminds  us  of  the 
ancient  song,  "  I  knaw  what  I  knaw.'1 

February  fire  lang,  March  tide  to  bed  gang. 

For  they  wesh  in  the  Calder  and  sind  (rinse)  in  the  Aire. 

Fonl  words  break  noa  bones. 

Fair  words  maks  fools  fain. 

For  love  o'  the  nurse  the  bairn  gets  many  a  kuss. 

Fair  words  butter  noa  parsnips. 

Feals  maks  feasts  an*  wise  men  heyt  'em. 

Fiddlers,  dogs,  an*  flies  come  to  feasts  uncalled. 

Fitter  to  be  lenging  nor  loathing. 

Fitter  leave  pigs  lenging  nor  loathing.     Old  form. 

Gien  stuff  is  seldom  cared  for. 

God  sends  the  meat,  an*  the  Deil  sends  the  look. 

Give  loisers  leave  ta  tawk. 

God  niver  sends  maaths  but  he  sends  meyt. 

Geay  say  the  geese. 

Gaay  an'  teach  thy  granny  ta  sup  milk  aat  ath'  assridle. 

Give  a  man  luck  on1  you  may  throw  him  into  the  sea. 

He'll  foreheed  (predetermine)  nowt  bud  beelding  churches  an' 
louping  owre  'em. 

He  is  a  feall  that  is  not  melancholy  yance  a  day. 

He  carries  coils  ta  Newcastle. 

His  bread  is  buttered  o'  both  sides. 

His  breeks  maks  buttons  (said  of  a  man  in  fear). 

He  that  wrussles  wi  muck  is  sure  ta  be  dirty,  whether  he  falls 
owre  or  under. 

He'll  go  thrif  t'  wood  an  tack  a  crewked  stick  at  last. 

He  mun  ha  leave  ta  speyk  at  cannot  hod  his  tung. 

He  that  spares  to  speyk  spares  to  speed. 

He  that  speyks  what  he  sudn't  hears  what  he  wodn't. 

He  is  not  the  feall  that  the  feall  is,  bud  he  that  with  the  feall 
deals. 

He  is  a  feall  that  forgets  hisseln. 

He  mun  hev  a  long  shafted  spooin  'at  sups  porridge  wi*  the 
Deil. 

He  that  has  gowd  may  buy  land. 

Haste  makes  wastes. 

He  that  marries  a  slut  eats  mickle  (much)  dirt. 

Hame  is  hamely  ant  be  ne'er  sa  poor. 

He  that  fishes  afore  the  net,  lang  fish  or  he  fish  get. 

He  nobbud  sees  an  inch  afore  his  nose. 

He  that  gives  all  his  gear  to  his  bairns  may  tak  a  mill  an' 
knock  out  his  harnes  (brains). 

Honours  changes  manners. 

He  leuks  as  if  butter  woddn'fc  melt  in  his  maath. 


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He's  an  ill  contrived  bairn,  I  cannot  constre  (construe)  him. 

Hes  to  onny  catterills  'e  thee  pocket,  lad  ? 

He  were  rocked  in  a  stone  creddle. 

He's  as  crewse  (brisk)  as  a  new  weshen  louse. 

He's  the  dad  of  all  for  mischief. 

He  maks  ducks  an'  drakes  of  his  money. 

He  wad  flea  twa  dules  for  ya  skin.    (Craven.) 

He  maks  fish  o'  yan  an1  fowl  of  anither. 

He's  a  gift  that  God  niver  gav  him. 

He's  nayther  gut  nor  gall  in  him. 

He'll  be  laffin  a't  wreng  side  of  his  maath  sooin. 

He'll  mend  when  he  grows  better. 

He' 8  as  stiff  as  if  he'd  swallowed  a  poyt  (poker). 

He  comes  thro'  honest  Allerton,  he'll  dew. 

He's  draaned  t'  miller,  said  when  a  man  has  overdrawn  his 
account. 

He  cannot  tell  a  B  fro'  a  bull's  fooit. 

Happy  is  the  bride  that  the  sun  shines  on. 

Happy  is  the  bride  that  the  rain  rains  on. 

Hot  love  is  soon  cold. 

Hawks  winna  pick  oot  hawks  een. 

Hungry  dogs  are  fain  o'  dirty  pudding. 

Hope  well  and  hove  well. 

He  lewks  as  grue  (sullen)  as  thunder.    (Whitby.) 

If  it  does  not  rain  there  will  be  a  long  drought.  (That  is,  if 
it  never  rains  again.) 

I  think  yer  wits  are  goan  a  wool  gathering. 

I'm  as  owd  as  me  tung,  an  owder  nur  me  teeth. 

It's  a  long  loin  at's  niver  a  turnin'. 

I  see  lang  Lawrence  hes  getten  hod  on  tha. 

If  the  mare  hes  a  bald  face,  the  filly  will  hev  a  blaze  (white 
mark). 

If  Brayton  Bargh,  an*  Hamilton  Hough,  un*  Button  Bream, 
were  all  e  thi  belly,  it  wad  ne'er  be  team. 

It's  all  i't'  day's  wark. 

I'll  nut  put  off  my  doublet  afore  I  gang  to  bed. 

If  wishes  wad  bide,  beggars  wad  ride. 

If  thaa  lakes  (plays)  wi't  bull,  tha'll  sooin  feel  his  horn9. 

I  wodn't  goa  on  a  Friday,  cos'  it  isn't  lucky. 

It's  come  day,  goa  day,  God  send  Sunday. 

I've  a  craw  ta  pull  wi'  thee. 

I  wodn't  heng  a  cat  on  his  word. 

In  dock  an  out  nettle. 

Ill  weeds  wax  fast. 

Its  a  bad  bargain  when  both  sides  rue. 

Its  a  good  horse  that  never  stumbles. 

And  a  good  wife  that  never  grumbles.  . 

I've  swallowed  the  Kirk,  but  I  can't  swallow  the  steeple. 
(Whitby.) 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  221 

Jackasses  niver  can  sing  weel,  beoos  they  pitch  their  notes  too 
heigh. 

Leein*  is  neist  door  to  steyling. 

Lang  gangs  t'  pitcher  to  th'  beck,  bud  i'th  end  it  comes  home 
brokken. 

Like  a  chip  in  the  porridge  pot. 

Like  a  pig's  tail,  wegging  all  day,  bud  nowt  done  at  neet. 

Let*8  live  an'  let  live. 

Leet  gains  mak  a  heavy  purse. 

Love  me  an*  love  my  dog. 

Like  a  cobbler's  dinner,  breead  an'  breead  to  it. 

Like  Gawthorpe,  with  one  road  in  bud  noan  aat. 

Live  horse  an*  thaa  sail  hev  gerse. 

44  Lets  begin  ageaan,"  as't'  Clark  o'  Beeston  said.  (Good 
policy  when  there  has  been  a  breakdown.) 

Love  me  leetle  love  me  long. 

Lose  a  sheep  for  a  haporth  o'  tar. 

Making  pricks  into  pracks  and  pracks  into  nothing.  (That  is, 
leading  an  idle  life.) 

More  haste  warse  speed. 

Many  a  little  makes  a  mickle. 

Meat  is  mickle,  but  mense  is  mair. 

More  fowk  wed  than  keep  good  haases. 

My  belly  cries  cubbord,  it  does. 

Monny  hands  mak  leet  wark. 

Men  are  blind  i'  their  awn  cause. 

More  the  merrier,  fewer  the  better  fare. 

Meeterly,  meeterly  (indifferently),  as  maids  are  in  fairness. 

Neither  good  egg  nor  good  bird. 

Neay  butter  will  stick  on  his  beard. 

"  Na,  thank  you/'  has  lost  monny  a  gooid  butter  cake. 

Na,  doant  say,  "nay,"  when  ta  means  "yes." 

Near  is  my  sark  but  nearer  is  my  skin. 

O  he'll  niver  du,  egg  nur  bird. 

Owd  men  are  twice  barns  (children). 

Ollns  (always)  messur  a  peck  aat  o'  yer  own  bushel. 

Over  much  of  a  good  thing  is  good  for  nothing. 

Promises  an  pie  crusts  are  made  to  be  brokken. 

Penny  wise  an  paand  foolish. 

Pendlehill,  Ingleborough,  an  Peny-ghent,  ) 

Are  the  three  highest  hills  between  Scotland  and  Trent,  J 

Proffered  things  stink. 

Robin  Hood  could  stand  anything  bud  a  thaw  wind. 

"  Blips  goes  ovver,"  as't  man  said,  when  he  brake  t'  weshing 
bowl. 

Steyk  him  to  t'  bonny  side  o'  t'  dure  (outside). 

Steyk  the  stable  door  when  the  horse  is  stolen. 

Savin's  a  gooid  adlin.     (Adlin,  wages.) 


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Send  him  to  the  sea  an  he  will  nut  get  watter. 

Sike  a  man  sike  a  maister. 

Save  thi  wind  ta  cooil  thi  porridge. 

8a  miserly,  he'd  save  the  varry  dropping  of  his  nose. 

She's  going  as  fast  as  dike  watter. 

Shoo's  a  glib  tung  of  her  awn. 


Shoo's  teed  a  knot  wi  her  tung  at  shoo  cannot  loose  wi  her 
teeth. 

Sooin  owd,  lang  young. 

Some  fowks  nivver  get  the  cradle  straws  off  their  breeks. 
Thewer  nivver  a  faal  face  but  thewer  a  faal  fancy  to  match  it. 
There's  no  gettin  white  meyl  out  of  a  coil  seek. 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

They  arn't  all  thieves,  at  dogs  bark  at. 
There's  more  claat  nor  (than)  dinner. 
Tak  a  sope,  it'll  warm  t'  cockles  o'  thi  heart. 
Talk  o'th  Dale  an  he'll  put  up  his  horns. 
Them  at's  duing  nowt  are  duing  ill. 
Truth  an  sweet  oil  alius  com  to  t'  top. 


228 


They  are  as  thick  as  inkle  weyvers. 

The  beat  is  best  ta  speyk  to. 

There's  noa  fair  words  i'  flighting  (scolding). 

The  still  sow  eats  all  the  draff. 

Takkin  back  an'  givin  's  owd  lad  livin  (said  by  children). 

Tha  mud  as  weel  whisle  as  try  ta  mak  an  old  drunkard  sober. 


224  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

That  barn's  as  like  his  fadder  as  if  he'd  been  spit  aat  of  his 
maath. 

There's  more  poak  nor  pudding  there. 

There's  more  killed  wi  ower  keep  nor  under  keep. 

Twa  hungry  meals  make  the  third  a  glutton. 

This  bolt  com  nivver  aat  o'  your  bag. 

There's  rare  doings  in  the  north  when  they  bar  their  doors 
wi'  tailors. 

Three  great  ills  come  out  o'  the  north— a  cowd  wind,  a  con- 
ning knave,  and  a  shrinking  cloth. 

Th'  hedge  stinks  were  th'  hippins  hing. 

They  agree  like  bells,  they  want  naething  but  hinging. 

They  have  need  of  a  besom  that  sweep  the  house  with  a  turf. 

There's  a  hill  agean  a  slack  all  Craven  threff  (through). 

Ta  mioh  o'  owt  is  gooed  for  nowt. — Craven  Proverb. 

Thy  toppin  is  snod,  lad.  (Toppin,  the  hair  over  the  forehead; 
mod,  smooth.) 

That  flogs  dolly  (said  when  rage  is  carried  too  far.) 

The  bucket  is  in  the  well  (said  when  a  trader  has  got  as  far 
as  he  can"). 

Thaa  can  nobbut  grunt  and  growl,  same  as  t'  Wibsey  fowk. 

They're  all  queer  elike. 

The  proof  of  a  pudding  is  in  the  eating. 

That  comes  in  an  hour  sometimes,  which  comes  not  in  twenty. 

The  man  falls  low  who  never  rises. 

The  still  sow  eats  all  the  meat. 

There's  no  carrion  can  kill  a  crow. 

That  man  wod  stall  (tire)  a  toad  aat. 

Thaa's  lang  a  coming,  thaa  braads  o'  (like,  or  resembles) 
haver  malt. 

They  that  eat  till  they  sweat,  and  work  till  they're  cold ; 

Such  folks  are  fitter  to  hang  than  to  hold. 

They  that  wed  before  they're  wise,  will  die  before  they  thrive. 

There's  nowt  lost  emeng  honest  fowk. 

Who  travels  by  Donnerblfck  scars,  takes  a  bad  road. 

Wishers  and  would-ers  are  never  good  householders. 

Why,  ye  are  as  threng  as  three  in  a  bed. 

What's  sauce  for  a  gooise  sud  be  sauce  for  a  gander. 

Women  and  weal  can  nivver  agree. 

What  the  eye  never  sees  the  heart  never  lengs  for. 

What's  bred  i'th  bone  's  never  aat  o'th  flesh. 

We  man  oather  owd  be  or  young  dee. 

What's  ta  doing  there,  mumping  an  muing  ? 

Weel  an  wimin  cannot  pan,  bud  way  an  wimin  can. 

Winnow  while  the  wind's  in  the  door. 

War  nor  a  clocking  hen.     (A  grumbler.) 

When  t'ship  lands  on  t'  ass-midden. 

What  woman  but  for  hope  would  break  her  heart. 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  225 

While  the  grass  grows  the  horse  starves. 
You  can't  awlas  guess  eggs  when  yan  sees  shells. 
Yon  can  have  no  more  of  a  cat  than  the  skin. 
Ye've  nails  at  wod  scrat  yer  granny  aat  of  hur  grave. 
Yan  good  turn  desarves  another. 
Youth  an  age  will  niver  agree. 
Ye  seek  breeks  of  a  bare  man. 

Ye  brade  o'  the  miller's  dog,  ye  lick  yer  maath  'fore  t'  poke 
be  oppen. 
Ye  come  wi'  yer  five  eggs  a  penny,  and  four  of  'em  be  rotten. 


On  Yorkshire  Wit  and  Humour. — I  do  not  think  the  people 
of  Yorkshire  are  as  remarkable  for  wit,  as  they  are  for  quaint 
dry  humour ;  and  this  latter  is  generally  of  a  very  grim  sort. 

In  an  essay  on  the  Yorkshire  Dialect,  in  Nugea  Literaria,  the 
Rev.  Richard  Winter  Hamilton,  writes: — "A  week  had  scarcely 
elapsed  since  my  arrival  (in  Leeds),  before  I  determined  on  an 
excursion  to  the  Moravian  Settlement  at  Fulneck.  Ignorant 
of  the  way,  I  spoke  to  a  lad  who  was  breaking  stones  by  the 
side  of  the  road,  in  a  common  but  unmeaning  manner — "Where 
does  this  road  go  to  ?  "  With  contempt  on  his  face  at  what  he 
thought  a  foolish  question,  he,  half  with  the  air  of  a  churl,  and 
half  that  of  a  rogue,  said, — "  Go,  no  where  :  I  have  knawn  it 
for  more  nor  ten  year,  an'  it  nivver  stirred  yet."  A  little  out 
of  countenance,  but  not  out  of  temper,  I  said,  "  Whither  shall 
I  get  to,  if  I  drive  along  this  road  ?  "  "To  Pudsey,  sure,  follow 
thee  nose,  an  aws  as  plain  as  a  pikestaff."  Thinks  I  to  myself, 
if  such  be  the  cub,  what  must  they  be  who  whelped  him  ?  If 
such  be  the  eaglet,  little  more  than  callow,  what  is  the  region 
of  his  sires  ?  Later  on,  on  the  same  day,  when  Mr.  H.  sat  down  to 
his  dinner  in  a  humble  cottage,  the  worthy  dame,  wishing  him 
to  say  grace,  said : — "  We  are  all  ready,  will  ye  start  us  ?"  He 
then  received  the  difficult  direction,  to  "make  himself  agree- 
able." They  afterwards  asked  him  to  "  raach  to,  and  bide  no 
inviting.11  He  decided  that  so  far  as  he  was  concerned,  for  the 
time,  it  was  a  hopeless  case.  But  he  loved  all  this  when  he 
had  learnt  more  of  the  people. 

A  gentleman  walking  in  Sheffield,  found  a  poor  boy  crying 
most  bitterly.  "What  are  you  crying  about,"  he  enquired. 
He  replied, — "  All  my  brothers  and  sisters  can  say  what  they 
like  to  father,  bud  if  I  say  aught,  its  poison.  I  nobbud  called 
father  an  old  ewe-face,  an'  he  knocked  ma  daan  into't  ass-hoyle, 
amengt'  cowks.  Egoy !  If  me  an'  my  brothers  doant  mind, 
father  will  sooin  be  t'maister  on  us." 

Here  the  word  nobbud  occurs. — Chaucer,  in  his  "Wife  of 
Bath,"  has,— 

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YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

"  But  that  I  pray  to  all  this  company, 
If  that  I  speak  after  my  fantacy, 
As  taketh  no  a  grefe  of  that  I  say, 
For  mine  intent  is  not  but  to  pay." 
That  is,  nothing  but. 

The  following  story  was  oommonly  told  when  I  was  a  lad.  A 
certain  young  lass  in  Horton  was  very  sick,  and  supposed  likely 
to  die.  Soon  all  her  relatives  and  some  neighbours  gathered 
round  her  bed,  and  one  of  them  asked  her  if  she  had  anything 
on  her  mind,  or  anything  she  would  like  to  say  before  she  de- 
parted. Raising  herself  up  on  the  bed,  and  looking  round  on 
them  all,  she  said: — " There  is  only  one  thing  that  has  troubled 
me,  and  I  have  always  been  very  unhappy  about  it ;  and  that 
is,  that  I  did  not  eat  more  plum-pudding  that  day  that  aar  Sal 
were  wed." 

I  have  always  had  the  impression  that  she  got  better,  and 
did  not  die  at  that  time. 

In  the  village  of  Clayton,  near  Bradford,  there  formerly  dwelt 
a  man  named  Nathan  Bentley,  who  was  an  inveterate  wag.  In 
the  same  village  there  lived  an  old  Peninsula  veteran,  who  eked 
out  his  small  pension  by  hand  loom  weaving.  He  lived  in  a 
cellar  dwelling,  under  what  is  now  I  believe  the  Grown  Inn. 
This  old  man  used  to  boast  that  no  man  could  come  over  him, 
or  trap  him,  so  Nathan  resolved  to  try  what  could  be  done  to 
lower  him  down  a  peg.  Now  Nathan  went  every  morning  to 
Bradford  with  milk,  and  one  day  ho  noticed  that  there 
was  a  good  sized  pool  in  the  road,  in  front  of  the  dwelling 
of  Hainsworth,  the  old  soldier.  On  returning  about  noon  he 
stopped  the  horse  and  cart  at  the  spot ;  and  began  to  fumble  in 
his  pockets ;  and  finally  he  sent  the  horse  home  with  the  cart, 
alone.  He  then  knelt  down  by  the  side  of  the  muddy  pool,  and 
doubling  up  his  shirt  sleeves,  began  groping  in  the  mud  with 
his  right  hand.  Hainsworth  saw  this,  and  his  curiosity  was 
excited.  Then  leaving  his  loom  he  went  up  to  Nathan,  and 
asked  him  what  he  was  looking  for.  Nathan  told  him  he  was 
looking  for  a  sovereign,  and  begged  Hainsworth  to  help  him  to 
find  it.  He  then  searched  for  about  twenty  minutes  in  the 
muddy  water,  with  Nathan  on  the  other  side,  until  a  large 
crowd  had  gathered  round  them,  a  thing  easily  managed  in  a 
village.  At  length,  Hainsworth  said,  "  Nathan,  where  abaats 
did  ta  drop  thy  sovereign?"  "Nay,"  Nathan  replied,  "I've 
noan  dropt  no  sovereign,  I'm  nobbud  seeking  one."  "  Ah !  an 
all  seek  thee  lad,  some  day !  "  But  Nathan  had  run  off  home 
as  fast  as  his  legs  could  carry  him.  The  old  soldier  bragged 
no  more  after  that. 

In  a  village  not  far  from  the  one  last  mentioned,  I  knew  a 
man  called  Tootal,  and  he  used  to  give  out  the  hymns  in  the 
chief  Chapel  of  the  place.     It  was  then  the  custom,  before 


YORKSHIBE    FOLK-LORE.  227 

organs  and  harmoniums  were  used  in  places  of  religious  worship 
for  the  choir,  if  there  was  one,  to  use  the  tuning  fork,  to  get 
the  proper  pitch  for  the  tune.  On  one  occasion  when  Mr. 
Tootal  was  about  to  give  out  the  hymn,  the  proper  pitch  was 
given  to  him;  but  either  through  carelessness  or  inattention  he 
failed  to  respond  properly.  The  consequence  was,  that  after  a 
short  effort  the  choir  came  to  a  full  stop.  The  leader  then 
turned  toward  the  pulpit,  and  said,  "  John,  you  have  given  out 
the  hymn  on  the  wrong  key."  To  which  he  replied,  "  Whether 
I've  given  it  out  on  the  wrong  key  or  not,  ye've  getten  into  t' 
lock." 

On  another  occasion,  during  the  reign  of  his  late  Majesty 
George  IV.,  a  friend  of  mine  entered  a  chapel  in  the  village  of 
Allerton,  when  one  of  the  deacons  was  offering  up  the  prayer 
before  the  sermon.  After  asking  that  the  blessing  of  Heaven 
might  rest  on  the  Royal  Family,  he  exclaimed, — "Lord 
bless  his  present  Majesty  who  sits  on  the  throne  of  England. 
Prepare  him  I  pray  Thee  to  wear  a  crown  in  heaven,  for  Thaa 
knaws,  Lord,  at  he  wor  nivver  fit  ta  wear  an  earthly  one ! " 
Yorkshiremen  are  well  known  for  being  plain  in  their  language, 
and  this  was  sufficiently  so,  but  quite  characteristic  of  the 
West  Biding  people. 

In  the  same  chapel,  before  they  had  a  regular  choir  of  sin- 
gers, it  was  usual  for  some  one  in  the  congregation  to  set  the 
tune,  and  there  were  always  one  or  two  in  the  congregation 
who  could  be  relied  on  for  that  duty.  One  Sunday  morning 
the  one  who  should  have  struck  the  tune  had  a  bad  cold. 
However  he  tried  two  or  three  times  to  start  the  tune  from  his 
place  in  the  gallery,  but  failed.  He  then  shouted  across  the 
chapel  to  another  man  who  sometimes  officiated,  "  I  say,  thee, 
Jacky  Wilkinson,  thee  set  the  tune  this  morning,  I  cannot,  for 
I've  getten  a  kittlin'  e'  me  throit."  At  which  the  people 
laughed,  as  a  kittling  in  Yorkshire  means  a  kitten.  What  he 
meant  was,  a  tickling. 

Before  the  introduction  of  instrumental  music  into  the  dis- 
senting chapels  in  the  West  Biding,  there  was  great  disappoint- 
ment amongst  the  choirs  at  its  exclusion,  and  very  strange 
devices  were  resorted  to  to  master  the  opposition.  In  the 
Tetley  Street  Baptist  Chapel,  Bradford,  the  following  device 
was  hit  upon.  The  musical  portion  of  the  congregation  and 
choir  formed  themselves  into  a  band,  and  bought  all  the  instru- 
ments needed.  On  these  they  practised  until  they  were  all 
ready  for  the  attempt,  when  they  got  possession  of  the  key  of 
the  school,  where  there  was  an  entrance  into  the  chapel.  On 
the  Saturday  evening  all  the  instruments  were  hid  away  under 
the  seats  of  the  singer's  pew,  and  when  the  minister  gave  out 
the  first  hymn,  on  the  Sunday  morning,  they  were  all  dragged 
oat,  and  the  players  played,  and  the  singers  sang,  and  there 


228  YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE. 

was  an  end  of  the  matter.  The  baase  viol  won  the  battle,  and 
all  opposition  in  the  congregation  broke  down  at  once,  and  the 
enemies  of  instrumental  harmony  heartily  accepted  the  change. 

Every  one  knows  that  the  men  of  the  West  Biding  are  keen 
after  money,  when  they  take  that  way.  A  young  man  who  had 
been  for  some  time  courting  a  young  woman,  told  his  intended 
father-in-law  that  he  and  Mary  thought  of  "  getting  wed."  "I 
think  its  time  you  did,"  was  the  reply.  "  Aye,  but  how  much 
will  ye  gie  her  ?"  "  I  sal  give  her  a  thousand  pounds."  "Nay, 
bud  ye'fi  gie  her  more  nor  that."  "  No,  I  shall  not.  Her  sis- 
ters have  a  thousand  each,  an'  she'll  hev'  the  same."  "Ah 
bud,  ye  forget  that  Mary's  the  faalest  of  the  lot."  He  had 
chosen  the  plainest  of  the  family,  the  ugly  duckling,  in  expec- 
tation that  her  father  would  give  her  a  larger  dowry,  to  get  her 
off  his  hands. 

Here  is  another  similar  anecdote,  but  it  is  a  woman  this 
time.  Not  far  from  Bradford,  an  old  couple  lived  on  their  farm. 
The  good  man  had  been  ill  for  some  time,  when  the  doctor  who 
attended  him  advised  that  a  physician  should  be  called  in  from 
Bradford,  for  a  consultation.  The  physician  came,  looked  into 
the  case,  gave  his  opinion,  and  descended  from  the  room  to  the 
kitchen,  and  was  there  accosted  by  the  old  woman  with,  "Well, 
doctor,  what's  your  charge?"  "My  fee  is  a  guinea!"  "A 
guinea,  doctor,  a  guinea !  An'  if  ye  come  ageean  will  it  be 
another  guinea?"  "Yes,  but  I  shall  hardly  have  to  come 
again,  I  have  given  my  opinion,  and  I  leave  him  in  good 
hands."  "A  guinea,  doctor,  hey!"  The  old  woman  rose, 
went  upstairs  to  her  husband,  and  the  doctor  heard  her  say, 
"He  charged  a  guinea,  an'  if  he  comes  ageean  it  will  be  another 
guinea.  Now  what  do  ye  say  ?  If  I  were  ye,  I'd  say  no  like  a 
Britoner,  and  I'd  die  first."  This  from  "A  Month  in  York- 
shire," by  Walter  White,  1859. 

This,  which  follows,  is  culled  from  the  Family  Herald : — Two 
horses,  a  white  and  a  sorrel,  were  matched  for  a  race  in  York- 
shire. The  betting  was  high  on  the  white,  but  the  sorrel  had 
its  backers.  The  day  before  the  race  it  was  discovered  by  the 
friends  of  the  white  that  he  was  off  his  feed,  and  would  be  in  no 
condition  to  run.  So  they  made  up  a  purse,  and  with  it  bribed 
the  rider  of  the  sorrel  to  lose  tho  race,  and  let  white  take  the 
lead.  To  their  amazement,  however,  the  sorrel  horse  won  the 
race.  "  We  are  sold,  as  sure  as  a  gun,"  said  one  of  the  bribers 
to  the  other.  "  Did  you  pay  him  the  money  ?  M  asked  the  other. 
"  Yes,  I  did;  and  he  swore  we  should  win."  "Bless  my  soul," 
said  the  other,  "  Is  there  no  such  thing  as  an  honest  man  left 
in  the  world  ?  " — heaving  a  sigh  of  vast  proportions. 

Abbaham  Holroyd. 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

I  Cannot  Bab  the  Door  with  my  Baibn  Outside. 

[In  the  villages  of  the  West  Biding  of  Yorkshire  there  is  a 
tender  sentiment,  or  custom,  still  prevailing.  When  one  of  a 
family  has  been  buried,  or  gone  away,  the  house-door  is  left 
unlocked  for  seven  nights,*  lest  the  departed  might,  in  some 
way,  feel  that  he  was  locked  out  of  his  old  home.] 

"  Suspense  is  worse  than  bitter  grief — 

The  lad  will  come  no  more ; 
Why  should  we  longer  watch  and  wait  ? 

Turn  the  key  in  the  door. 
From  weary  days  and  lonely  nights 

The  light  of  hope  has  fled ; 
I  say  the  ship  is  lost,  good  wife, 

And  our  bairn  is  dead." 

"  Husband,  the  last  words  that  I  spoke, 

Just  as  he  left  the  shore, 
Were,  •  Come  thou  early,  come  thou  late, 

Thou'lt  find  an  open  door ; 
Open  thy  mother's  heart  and  hand, 

Whatever  else  betide.' 
And  so  I  cannot  turn  the  key 

And  my  bairn  outside. 

"  Seven  years  is  naught  to  mother  love 

And  seventy  times  the  seven ; 
A  mother  is  a  mother  still, 

On  earth  or  in  God's  heaven. 
I'll  watch  for  him,  I'll  pray  for  him — 

Prayer  as  the  world  is  wide — 
But,  Oh !  I  cannot  turn  the  key, 

And  leave  my  bairn  outside. 

"  When  winds  were  loud  and  snow  lay  white, 

And  storm-clouds  drifted  black, 
I've  heard  his  step— for  heart  can  hear; 

I  know  he's  coming  back. 
What  if  he  came  this  very  night, 

And  he  the  house-door  tried, 
And  found  that  we  had  turned  the  key, 

And  our  bairn  outside !  " 

The  good  man  trimmed  the  candle  light, 

Threw  on  another  log, 
Then  suddenly,  he  said :  "  Good  wife ! 

What  ails — what  ails  the  dog  ? 

•  I  remember  that  the  parents  of  a  boy-friend  of  mine,  in  Halifax  Parish, 
kept  their  door  unbarred  for  at  least  a  year  after  his  burial. — T. 


280  YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE. 

And  what  ails  you  ?  What  do  yon  hear  ?  " 
She  raised  her  eyes  and  cried : 

"  Wide  open  fling  the  house-door  now, 
For  my  bairn's  outside  !  " 

Scarce  said  the  words,  when  a  glad  hand 

Flung  wide  the  household  door, 
"Dear  mother !  father !  I  am  come ! 

I  need  not  leave  you  more !  " 
That  night,  the  first  in  seven  long  years, 

The  happy  mother  sighed : 
"  Father,  now  you  may  bar  the  door, 

For  my  bairn's  inside !  " 


YORKSHIRE   CENTENARIANS. 
Ann,  the  wife  of  Joseph  Yeardley,  of  Sheffield  Park,  died 
December  25th,   1807.      Buried  in  Tankersley  Churchyard. 
Aged  105.*  

The  following  cutting  from  The  Newcastle  Weekly  ChronicU, 
May  19th,  1888,  will  probably  be  thought  worthy  of  preserva- 
tion in  your  valuable  Y.  X.  &  <?.,  and  possibly  some  reader  may 
add  to  its  interest  by  supplying  Mrs.  Bruce's  maiden  name, 
together  with  the  date  of  her  marriage. 

C.  H.  Stephenson,  22,  Sefton  Street,  Southpobt. 

Death  of  a  Local  Centenabian. — We  have  to  announce  the 
death,  on  Sunday  evening,  at  her  residence,  High  Street, 
Hartlepool,  of  Mrs.  Jane  Bruce,  the  attainment  of  whose  100th 
year  took  place  on  Monday,  April  16th,  as  notified  in  these 
columns. 

Mrs.  Bruce  has  resided  in  Hartlepool  about  70  years.  Des- 
pite her  prolonged  years,  she  possessed  good  sight,  was  bat 
slightly  deaf,  retained  her  memory  fairly  well,  and  had  scarcely 
known  a  day's  illness  during  her  long  residence  in  the  ancient 
borough.  She  was  a  native  of  Grindon,  Yorkshire,  where  most 
of  her  youth  was  spent,  and  was  married  at  Marion,  whither 
she  and  her  husband  rode  on  horseback  for  the  purpose.  She 
has  had  seven  children,  of  whom  two  or  three  are  between  70 
and  80  years  of  age. 

During  her  residence  in  Hartlepool  she  was  a  member,  firstly, 
of  the  Throston  Primitive  Methodist,  and  later  of  the  Lumley 
Street  chapels,  though  of  late  years,  she  was  unable  to  attend 
the  services.  A  constant  student  of  scripture,  she  was  well 
versed  in  Biblical  lore,  and  one  of  her  chief  sources  of  delight 
was  to  repeat  chapters  from  memory,  and  to  sing  the  simple 
hymns  of  her  religious  belief.     She  was  a  great-grandmother 

*  Thomas,  son  of  the  above,  died  January  22, 1841,  aged  91.— J.L.B, 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  281 

of  a  number  of  children,  but  not  a  single  one  of  her  own  gener- 
ation survived  to  witness  her  centenarian  attainment,  and 
although  her  little  anecdotes  of  bygone  days  were  necessarily 
rather  brief  and  disjointed,  she  could  recollect  many  of  the 
stirring  events  of  the  reign  of  George  III.,  and  subsequent  eras. 
In  celebration  of  her  centenary,  a  remarkable  family  gathering 
took  place,  including  Mrs.  Clegg  (daughter),  Mrs.  Clement 
(grand-daughter),  Mrs.  Hunter  (great-granddaughter),  and  a 
great-great-grandson  (the  6on  of  the  last  named),  several  others 
of  the  family  being  also  present,  there  being  no  fewer  than  four 
grandmothers  in  the  gathering.  Four  of  her  sons  (the  eldest 
being  76)  reside  in  Hartlepool,  as  also  does  one  of  her  daugh- 
ters. Tne  venerable  lady  was  the  recipient  of  a  number  of 
presents  in  honour  of  her  remarkable  birthday. 


The  death  was  announced,  in  Sept.,  1867,  in  the  parish  of 
St.  Martin,  Colchester,  of  Mrs.  Ann  Bum6ey,  widow,  in  her 
104th  year.  It  is  an  interesting  circumstance  that  she  was  the 
daughter  of  the  celebrated  navigator,  Capt.  Cook,  who  was 
massacred  by  the  natives  of  Owhyee,  in  the  South  Sea  Islands ; 
and  that  she  was  born  only  a  few  years  after  the  accession  of 
George  III.  to*  the  throne  of  England. 


Mabt  Wilkinson,  who  lived  to  the  age  of  109  years.  She 
was  a  native  of  Lunedale,  but  when  arrived  at  the  years  of  ma- 
turity, she  changed  her  residence  to  that  of  Romald-kirk,  a 
village  in  the  north  of  Yorkshire.  When  she  was  young  and 
in  perfect  health,  she  walked  several  times  to  London ;  some 
times  in  four  days,  though  the  distance  of  290  miles.  At  the 
advanced  age  of  90,  she  was  desirous  of  visiting  the  metropolis 
again,  and,  buckling  a  keg  of  gin,  and  a  quantity  of  provisions 
on  her  back,  to  support  her  on  her  journey,  she  left  Romald- 
kirk,  and  reached  London  in  five  days  and  three  hours.  An 
instance  of  vigorous  age  not  to  be  equalled  by  the  boasting 
pedestrians  of  the  present  day.  She  lived  to  see  four  kings 
reign :  and  is  interred  in  a  stately  tomb,  erected  at  the  expense 
of  the  inhabitants  of  Romald-kirk,  who  much  esteemed  and 
reverenced  her. 


Delivering  a  Sod. — The  Priestley  litigation  involving  claims 
in  Shelf  and  Bradford  district  exceeding  £500,000,  advanced 
another  stage  (Jan.,  1888,)  by  Mr.  John  Priestley  recovering 
possession  of  the  Shelf  Hall  Farm,  under  a  judgment  in  ejec- 
tion. The  Sheriff  of  Yorkshire  attended  to  put  the  heir  at  law 
in  possession  under  an  order  of  the  High  Court  of  Justice.  This 
is  a  very  unusual  occurrence,  and  the  ceremony  of  delivering  a 
green  sod  was  gone  through.    Mr.  Ellis  received  it  on  behalf  of 


282  YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE. 

the  Priestley  Syndicate.    About  thirty  actions  are  threatened 
against  persons  holding  lands  of  the  late  James  Priestley. 

Sign  of  Bad  Weather.  —Around  Bradford  there  is  a  common 
saying  that  the  visit  of  a  German  Band  to  a  Tillage  indicates 
approaching  bad  weather. 

o 

Bunswick  is  one  of  the  most  picturesque  and  romantic  spots 
on  the  North  Yorkshire  coast.  We  saw  it  at  Easter,  1887,  and 
greatly  wished  to  see  it  again  during  the  season.  It  is  a  nice 
walk  from  Whitby.  A  great  land-slip  is  shewn,  and  the  story 
goes  that  only  one  house  was  left  standing  by  this  disaster.  In 
our  Notes  and  Queries  Section  will  be  found  a  record  of  collections 
being  made  by  briefs  to  recoup  the  inhabitants,  a  proof  that  we 
little  expected  to  meet  with  when  we  scrambled  down  the  pre- 
cipitous, alum-shaly  cliff.     The  Tillage  hangs  against  the  north 


Ruoswick. 
cliff,  and  one  has  to  wind  about  by  footpaths  from  house  to 
house.  Standing  at  one  door,  you  look  down  the  next  neigh- 
bour's chimney.  Against  the  rugged  ground,  the  houses  are 
built  like  swallows'  nests.  About  the  middle  of  the  bay  is  the 
remnant  of  Hob  Hole,  once  a  caTe  of  one  hundred  feet  deep, 
where  lived  a  sprite  named  Hob,  who  was  presumed  to  be  able 
to  cure  the  whooping-cough.  The  mothers  in  olden  times,  with 
their  suffering  babies  in  their  arms,  shouted  at  the  mouth  of 
the  caTe : — 

"  Hob  Hole  Hob, 
My  bairn's  gotten  t'  kincough, 
Tak't  off,  tak't  off. 
Mr.  Walter  White  tells  us  that  if  Hob  refused  to  be  propiti- 
ated they  tried  another  way,  and  catching  a  live  hairy  worm 


YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE. 


288 


(woolly  boy),. they  hung  it  in  a  bag  from  the  child's  neck,  and 
as  the  worm  died  and  wasted  away  so  did  the  cough.  If  this 
failed,  a  roasted  mouse,  or  a  piece  of  bread-and-butter  adminis- 
tered by  the  hands  of  a  virgin,  was  infallible;  and  if  still 
obstinate,  as  a  last  resort,  the  child  was  passed  nine  times 
under  the  belly  of  a  donkey.  The  present  generation  of  Buns- 
wickians  disclaim  such  odd  notions,  but  they  are  not  so  daring 
as  to  say  there  was  no  efficacy  in  these  old  charms  in  days  gone 
bye.  Old  Thomas  Cooper,  the  postman,  who  has  trudged  and 
trotted  his  daily  round  for  scores  of  years,  should  be  taken  in 
hand  by  the  local  antiquary  or  the  old-time  life  will  be  lost  to 
posterity.  He  is  a  genial  old  soul,  a  hearty  hale  fellow.  At 
Loftiis,  the  same  day,  we  met  with  another  village  character — 
old  William  Dobson — who  talked  as  if  he  were  going  to  live 
another  four  score  years,  and  from  a  marvellously  trustworthy 
memory  recounted  the  story  of  Boulby,  Easington,  Streethouses, 
Loftns,  Skinningrove,  Carlinhow  and  Brotton,  from  Roman 
times,  nothing  of  which  he  has  committed  to  paper,  and  shewed 
us,  besides  his  Boman  Coins,  a  Boman  encampment  west  of  the 
church  (but  quite  apart  from  the  churchyard),  now  known  as 
Cockhill  or  Cockpit.  It  is  a  small  quadrangular  earthwork. 
That  day  we  walked  from  Whitby  to  Saltburn.  Ed. 


Whitby  Arms. 

"  They  told  how  in  their  convent  cell 
A  Saxon  princess  once  did  dwell, 

The  lovely  Edelfled ; 
And  how  of  thousand  snakes,  each  one 
Was  changed  into  a  coil  of  stone 

When  holy  Hilda  pray'd ; 
Themselves,  within  their  holy  bound, 
Their  stony  folds  had  often  found. 


284  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

They  told  how  seafowls'  pinions  fail, 
As  over  Whitby's  towers  they  sail, 
And  sinking  down,  with  flutterings  faint, 
They  do  their  homage  to  the  saint." 

Thus,  in  verse,  is  enshrined  the  popular  idea  of  the  origin  of 
the  ammonites  found  so  plentifully  on  the  Whitby  coast  and 
figured  on  the  Whitby  Arms.  Saint  Hilda  was  a  noted  person- 
age as  we  mentioned  in  the  sketch  of  the  holy  well  at  Hinder- 
well,  but  she  was  not  the  only  miracle  worker  of  the  district. 
Near  Hawsker  are  the  stones  which  mark  where  the  arrows 
fell,  when  Robin  Hood  and  Little  John,  who  had  been  treated 
to  a  dinner  at  the  Abbey  of  Whitby,  (?)  went  up  on  the  roof  to 
gratify  the  monks  with  a  specimen  of  their  skill.  "  As  your 
eye  measures  the  distance,  more  than  a  mile,  your  admiration 
of  the  merry  outlaws  will  brighten  up,  unless,  like  the  incredu- 
lous antiquary,  you  consider  such  stories  are  only  fit  to  be  left 
« among  the  lyes  of  the  land '."  W. 

York  Castle. — "Whoever  is  imprisoned  at  York  shall,  on 
going  in,  pay  a  penny  for  a  cord,  although  he  be  a  true  man; 
and  so,  if  he  be  found  guilty  the  gaoler  shall  find  for  him  a 
rope;  and  if  he  be  set  free  he  loses  his  penny."  This  statement 
was  inserted  by  an  ancient  annotator  at  fol.  58a.  of  his  copy  of 
Bracton.  (See  Mr.  Horwood's  Introduction  to  the  Year  Books, 
20  and  21  Edward  I.,  p.  xvii).  Can  any  of  your  readers  say 
when,  and  how,  this  custom  originated,  and  when,  and  how,  it 
ceased  ?  Q.  V. 

The  Bradford  Waits. — Bradford  has  made  wonderful  strides 
of  progress  in  recent  years.  But  much  of  this  "  progress  "  has 
been  at  the  sacrifice  of  some  old  customs  and  institutions  that 
were  very  dear  to  old  Bradfordians.  Several  years  have  now 
passed  away  since  the  old  Christmas  Waits  were  last  heard  in 
the  streets  of  the  old  town,  and  when  a  few  more  years  have 
rolled  away  the  fact  that  they  ever  existed  at  all  will  be  spoken 
of  as  a  thing  only  of  the  "  olden  time."         * 

The  oldest  Company  of  Waits  in  Bradford  was  formed  about 
ten  years  before  the  incorporation  of  the  Borough,  or  shortly 
before  the  passing  of  the  Beform  Bill.  In  the  year  1829,  Mr. 
Ellis  Cunliffe  Lister  (father  of  the  present  Mr.  S.  C.  Lister), 
and  Mr.  Matthew  Thompson,  who  sat  as  magistrates  at  the 
"  8potted  Horse,"  Manningham  Lane,  and  at  the  Sun  Inn, 
Bradford,  gave  permission  to  one  Samuel  Smith,  otherwise 
11  Blind  Sam,"  to  form  a  company  of  Waits  for  the  town,  which 
did  not  then  number  more  than  20,000  inhabitants. 

Sam  was  not  long  in  finding  three  other  associates,  all  blind, 
who  were  willing  to  join  his  "  company,"  and  another  (who  was 
not  blind)  to  act  as  guide.  The  names  of  Sam's  blind  compan- 
ions were,  Jim  Fletcher,    Billy  Blazeby,   and  Jack  Dodge. 


YORKSHIBE    FOLKLORE. 


285 


Furnished  with  musical  instruments,  and  all  tied  to  a  pole, 
except  the  guide,  they  began  their  nightly  perambulations, 
making  music  that  could  hardly  be  called  sweet,  but  which, 
linked  with  the  festive  season  of  Christmas  and  other  interest- 
ing associations,  was  always  welcome,  especially  to  the  young 
who  liked  nothing  better  than  to  get  out  of  bed  and  have  one 
peep  at  the  odd  procession  as  it  passed  along  the  street. 


Bradford  Waits. 

But  alas  for  the  uncertainty  of  human  plans  and  schemes  t 
In  1862  a  rival  band  of  Waits,  which  had  the  presumption  to 
call  itself  "  The  New  Borough  Waits,"  sprung  into  existence, 
so  that  instead  of  one  band  the  town  could  now  boast  of  two. 
This  led  to  jealousies,  bickerings  and  retaliations,  and  the  walls 
of  Bradford  were  placarded  with  bills  headed  "Caution," 
"Notice,"  &c. ;  "all  of  which,"  says  Mr.  Abraham  Holroyd, 
our  informant,  "  was  very  foolish,  if  the  parties  concerned  had 
only  considered  that  Bradford  was  then  five  times  as  large  as 
it  was  thirty  years  previously  (when  "  Blind  Sam  "  first  began 
the  movement).  If  they  had  only  agreed  to  divide  the  Borough 
and  the  yearly  gifts  between  them,  there  was  plenty  of  room 
for  both  bands,  and  two  more  if  competition  must  come." 


286  YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 

.  Whether  it  was  that  Bradford  people  did  not  care  to  patronise 
two  sets  of  Waits,  or  that  so  oldfashioned  an  institution  could 
not  adapt  itself  to  the  new  streets  and  new  modes  of  life  that 
had  come  upon  the  town,  we  will  not  venture  to  say.  Certain 
it  is  that  the  "  Bradford  Waits,"  both  the  old  set  and  the  new, 
have  ceased  to  exist,  and  will  in  coarse  of  time  pass  into  the 
limbo  of  "  forgotten  things."  W.  Scbutoh. 


Ghosts. — Primitive  man  knew  how  to  outwit  the  ghost.  For 
example,  a  ghost  can  only  find  his  way  back  to  the  house  by 
the  way  which  he  left  it.  This  little  weakness  did  not  escape 
the  vigilance  of  our  ancestors,  and  they  took  their  measures 
accordingly.  The  coffin  was  carried  out  of  the  house,  not  by 
the  door,  but  by  a  hole  made  for  the  purpose  in  the  wall,  and 
this  hole  was  carefully  stopped  up  as  soon  as  the  body  had  been 
passed  through  it ;  so  that,  when  the  ghost  strolled  quietly 
back  from  the  grave,  he  found  to  his  surprise  that  there  was 
no  thoroughfare.  The  credit  of  this  ingenious  device  is  shared 
equally  by  Greenlanders,  Hottentots,  Bechuanas,  Samoieds, 
Ojibway6,  Algonquin8,  Laosians,  Hindoos,  Thibetans,  Siamese, 
Chinese,  and  Feejeeans.  These  special  openings,  or  "  doors  of 
the  dead,"  are  still  to  be  seen  in  a  village  near  Amsterdam,  and 
they  were  common  to  some  towns  of  central  Italy,  as  Perugia 
and  Assisi.  A  trace  of  the  same  custom  survives  in  Thuringen, 
where  it  was  thought  that  the  ghost  of  a  man  who  had  been 
hanged  would  return  to  the  house  if  the  body  be  not  taken  oat 
by  a  window  instead  of  the  door.  The  Siamese,  not  content 
with  carrying  the  dead  man  out  by  a  special  opening,  endeavour 
to  make  assurance  doubly  sure  by  hurrying  him  three  times 
round  the  house  at  full  speed— a  proceeding  well  calculated  to 
bewilder  the  poor  soul  in  the  coffin.  The  Auraucaniana  adopt 
the  plan  of  strewing  ashes  behind  the  coffin  as  it  is  being  borne 
to  the  grave,  in  order  that  the  ghost  may  not  be  able  to  find 
his  way  back.  The  very  general  practice  of  closing  the  eyes  of 
the  dead  appears  to  have  originated  with  a  similar  object ;  it 
was  a  mode  of  blindfolding  the  dead,  that  he  might  not  see  the 
way  by  which  he  was  carried  to  his  last  home.  We  have  seen 
several  doors  walled  up  on  the  north  side  of  churches  in  the 
East  Biding,  and  heard  such  doors  named  "Dead  door/* 
(?  Excommunicate  door.)  Further  information  is  desired. — E.Y. 

Horn-Blowing  at  Ripon.—  The  following  interesting  account 
of  this  ancient  Yorkshire  custom  is  extracted  from  an  article 
by  Mr.  W.  Andrews,  in  Tlte  Argonaut ; 

At  fiipon  a  custom  is  retained  which  originated  with  the 
Saxons,  and  is  perhaps  one  of  the  oldest  in  England;  it  is  now 
useless,  but  is  an  interesting  relic  of  days  of  yore.  Alfred  the 
Great  incorporated  this  city  in  886 ;  the  regulation  of  the  plaee 


YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE.  287 

was  committed  to  the  care  of  a  wakeman  with  a  competent  staff 
of  elders  and  assistants,  who  instituted  the  horn-blowing  service. 
An  old  writer  describes  the  ancient  ceremony  as  follows :  "  It 
was,  indeed,  the  custom  of  the  Vigillarius,  or  Wakeman,  to 
order  that  a  horn  should  be  blown  every  night  at  nine  o'clock ; 
and  if  any  house  or  shop  was  broken  open,  or  robbed,  after  that 
blowing  of  the  horn,  till  the  rising  of  the  sun,  why  then  the 
loss  was  obliged  to  be  made  good  to  the  suffering  inhabitant. 
For  this  obligation  or  insurance,  every  householder  used  to  pay 
fourpence  a  year;  but  if  there  was  a  back  door  to  another 
street,  from  which  double  danger  might  be  supposed,  then  it 
was  to  be  eightpence."  The  payment  of  the  tax  is  discontinued, 
but  the  horn  is  still  blown  at  the  accustomed  time.  The  horn- 
blower  gives  three  long  blasts  before  the  residence  of  the  mayor, 
and  one  blast  at  the  Market  Cross.  The  sound  is  rather  dismal 
but  yet  musical.  It  is  a  common  cow's  horn  (with  a  metal 
mouthpiece),  curved  in  shape,  measuring  three  feet  six  inches 
long.  By  means  of  a  leather  strap  across  the  bend  of  it,  the 
horn  is  carried.  The  horn-blower  carries  his  instrument  in 
front  of  the  mayor  and  corporation  when  they  attend  church. 
On  April  2,  1846,  died,  at  the  age  of  eighty-two,  a  famous 
horn-blower,  named  Benjamin  Simmonds,  who  had  occupied 
his  appointment  for  thirty  years.  It  is  said  he  excelled  all 
previous  horn-blowers  for  the  length  and  strength  of  blast. 

But  now  no  more  they'll  hear  his  blast, 

For  Benjamin  has  blown  his  last. 
For  thirty- three  years  his  son  has  filled  the  office.  The  horn 
now  used  is  not  the  original  one ;  this  is  kept  in  the  possession 
of  the  mayor;  and  Mr.  Frank  Buckland,  who  saw  it  in  October, 
1874,  thus  describes  it:  "This  ancient  horn  is  not  blown;  it 
is  handsomely  mounted,  and  fastened  on  to  a  black  velvet  scarf, 
which  is  worn  on  the  shoulders.  At  the  juncture  of  the  scarf 
with  the  horn  are  silver  models  of  a  miniature  spur  and  cross- 
bow. On  the  horn  is  this  inscription :  *  Antiquis  et  honorem 
et  premia  possi — (I  cannot  quite  construe  this)— Vetustate  lap- 
sum  restituit — J.  Aieelbie,  ABM.,  1708.'  On  the  lower  part — 
'This  horn  was  again  restored,  1854,  H.  Morton,  Mayor.' 
Attached  to  the  velvet  scarf  are  several  silver  plates.  Every 
mayor  on  resigning  office  adds,  or  is  supposed  to  add,  a  silver 
plate.  I  made  a  note  of  some  of  the  dates,  as  follows : — 1598, 
1570,  1595, 1602, 1658.  Some  of  {he  coats  of  arms  and  bosses 
are  shaped  like  a  sailor's  hat.  Several  also  are  curious  antique 
shapes.  I  was  informed  that  the  oldest  badges  are  those  of  a 
Wakeman  who  lived  in  the  time  of  Henry  VIII.,  the  name  of 
one  Gayscar,  Wakeman  in  1520,  being  marked  especially." 

Mr.  William  Harrison,  late  editor  of  the  Eipon  and  Richmond 
Chronicle,  told  Mr.  Buckland  "  that  the  horn  itself  is  certainly 
of  a  date  not  later  than  the  Conquest ;  that  its  form  is  true 


288  YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE. 

Saxon,  and  that  there  is  another  such  shaped  horn,  made  of 
ivory,  preserved  in  the  vestry  of  York  Cathedral.  This  is  the 
horn  of  Ulphas,*  who  was  prince  of  the  western  parts  of  Deira. 
The  Pasey  horn  is  of  the  same  peculiar  elongated  shape  as  of 
the  horns  of  York  and  Bipon,  and  illuminations  in  Saxon 
manuscripts  frequently  give  representations  of  horns  shaped 
like  those  at  Bipon  and  York."  The  name  of  Wakeman  was 
exchanged  for  that  of  Mayor  in  1604.  Hugh  Bipley  was  the 
last  Wakeman  and  first  Mayor.  In  the  nave  of  Bipon  Cathe- 
dral a  monument  is  placed  to  his  memory. 

There  is  another  horn-blowing  custom  at  Bainbridge  in 
Wensleydale,  in  the  North  Biding  ;  and  at  Otley,  in  the  West 
Biding,  it  is  still  carried  out.  Mr.  William  Smith,  junior, 
F.S.A.  Scot.,  in  his  valuable  volume,  "Bambles  about  Morley," 
informs  us  that,  in  looking  over  the  village  constable's  expenses 
for  1781,  he  found  an  entry :— "  September  21st. — Paid  to  Ben 
Fosterd  for  blowing  the  horn,  6d."  The  horn  was  blown  at  five 
o'clock  every  morning  for  beginning,  and  at  eight  at  night,  the 
time  for  leaving  work.  On  Christmas  morn  a  special  immunity 
was  granted  to  the  servants  and  apprentices,  who  were  allowed 
to  lay  undisturbed,  except  as  they  heard  the  "  nominy  "  of  the 
person  who  blew  the  old  horn  and  sang — 

"  Dames,  rise  and  take  your  pies, 
And  let  your  maids  lie  still." 
In  Whitby  Abbey  lived  and  sang  Caedmon,  the  first  of  the 
Saxon  poets.  Many  old  customs  still  linger  here,  and  a  curious 
ceremony  is  performed  on  every  Ascension  Eve,  known  as  the 
"  Horngarth."  It  is  referred  to  by  Sir  Walter  Scott  in  "Mar- 
mion" : — 

"  Then  Whitby's  nuns  exulting  told 
How  to  their  house  three  barons  bold, 

Must  menial  service  do  ; 
While  horns  blow  out  a  note  of  shame, 
And  monks  cry,  '  Fye  upon  your  name  ! 
In  wrath  for  loss  of  sylvan  game, 

Saint  Hilda's  priest  ye  slew  ; 
This  on  Ascension  Day  each  year, 
Must  Herbert,  Bruce,  and  Percy  bear." 
The  authority  for  the  origin  of  this  custom  is  an  ancient 
document,  evidently  as  much  a  fiction  as  "  Marmion."    The 
historian  of  Whitby,  Dr.  Young,  in  his  history,  gives  the  docu- 
ment in  full,  and  it  will  also  be  found  in  "  Whitby  and  its 
Vicinity,"  by  F.  K.  Bobinson.     See  Blount's  Tenure*,  Y.X.Q. 

As  to  the  true  origin  of  the  Horngarth  service,  Dr.  Young 
supposes  it  to  be  a  yearly  summons  to  those  of  the  abbot's 
vassals  whose  duty  it  was  to  keep  the  fences  of  his  storeyards 

*  See  engraving  of  it  in  Yorkshire  Notes  and  Queries. 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE.  289 

sear  the  water  in  repair.  This  garth,  he  adds,  being  superse- 
ded by  the  erection  of  better  yards  and  more  commodious 
warehouses ;  still  the  abbot  and  convent,  ever  jealous  of  their 
rights,  compelled  their  tenants,  or  those  who  did  not  purchase 
an  exemption,  to  continue  this  service,  or  at  least,  the  semblance 
of  it;  and  thus  the* shadow  was  retained  while  the  substance 
was  gone.  Hence,  in  the  course  of  a  generation  or  two,  the 
origin  of  this  service,  which  then  appeared  useless  and  frivolous, 
began  to  be  forgotten,  an  opportunity  was  furnished  to  the 
monks,  or  some  one  of  them,  to  invent  a  fable  which  might 
both  account  for  the  practice  and  keep  it  up.  The  horn  still 
blown  on  Ascension  Eve  to  gather  the  people  together  on  the 
south  side  of  the  River  Esk,  which  forms  the  harbour,  and 
within  high-water  mark,  where  it  is  supposed  the  ancient  horn- 
garth  was  made,  as  a  fenced-off  place  for  storing  goods,  the 
penny  hedge  is  planted. 

SIMEON  RAYNER. 
A  Folk-lorist  before  the  word  folk-lore  was  promulgated,  and 
an  early  contributor  to  Notes  and  Queries  (London,  weekly),  Mr. 
Rayner's  portrait  may  well  stand  as  frontispiece  to  this  first 
volume  of  Yorksldre  Folk-Lore,  He  not  only  proposed  a  rough 
draft  of  the  Folk-lore  section,  but  contributed  articles  for  its 
pages.  Outside  the  most  engrossing  of  his  favourite  studies 
and  researches,  the  History  of  Pudsey,  the  one  subject  of  anti- 
quarianism  that  took  him  farthest  afield  was  Folk-Lore.  His 
great  faculty  of  observation  led  him  early  to  note  the  curious 
customs  lingering  in  village  life.  He  was  indebted  to  his  own 
plodding  industry  for  his  literary  attainments,  as  he  left  school 
(if  such  a  word  is  suited  to  the  instruction  and  place,  a  cottage,) 
when  nine  years  of  age.  Assiduously  attentive  to  business 
from  that  time  to  the  date  of  his  death,  he  was  no  less  plodding 
during  the  same  period  as  a  scholar  and  student.  With  largely 
developed  caution,  he  ever  made  steady  progress,  financially, 
mentally,  politically,  morally.  Outshining  all  his  qualities  was 
his  serene  rectitude.  He  was  as  tolerant  of  other  people's 
opinions,  as  he  was  firm  in  maintaining  his  own.  Suaviter  in 
modo,  fortiter  in  re.  He  was  specially  gentle  with  an  incon- 
siderate opponent.  He  had  a  large  circle  of  friends,  by  many 
of  whom  he  was  intensely  revered.  He  lived  a  busy  life; 
laboured  as  scholar  at  Mechanics1  Institute  when  young,  after 
the  daily  business  toils  were  over,  and  endeavoured  to  dissem- 
inate truths  as  Sunday  School  Teacher,  Mechanics'  Institute 
Director,  School  Board  Member,  and  Politician.  He  died  at 
Pudsey,  his  native  place,  August  25th,  1886,  aged  54.  The 
only  book  he  ever  aspired  to  publish  was  the  "  History  of  Pud- 
sey," which  was  successfully  edited  and  issued  the  following 
year  by  Mr.  W.  Smith. 


240 


YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE. 


Typical  Yobkshibkmen.  —  On 
pages  222  and  228  are  figured  the 
jolly  and  the  depraved  Yorkshire 
labourer.  We  turn  to  two  public 
functionaries,  typical  of  York- 
shiremen  in  every  parish,  but  in 
this  case  portraits  of  Bradford 
notabilities  drawn  by  a  fellow 
townsman.  Jonas  Tasker  was  sex- 
ton at  Bradford  Parish  Church  in 
George  the  Third's  reign.  He  is 
described  as  a  tall,  well-made 


Bentley. 


Tasker. 
man,  lithe  as  a  willow,  'ga- 
thering them  into  the  fat,  old 
graveyard*  with  an  unction 
worthy  of  his  sober  calling. 
His  dress  was  as  he  is  pictured, 
Sunday  and  Warty  (Weekday), 
except  on  the  former  days  he 
sported  a  smock  of  becoming 
cleanness,  and  it  was  only  on 
the  rarest  occasion  that  he  wore 
a  tight-fitting  coat.  Abraham 
Bentley  was  the  town -crier, 
beadle,  and  parish  constable. 
There  were  then  no  illustrated 
placards  on  the  walls,  « fine 
enough  to  decorate  a  house ; ' 
large  posters  even  were  un- 
known ;  the  bell-man  was  the 
medium  of  communication 
when  it  was  requisite  to  make 
anything  known  to  the  town. 
Bovu. 


T.  Harrison,  Printer,  Bookbinder.  &e.,  Queen  Street,  Bingley. 


241 


Mttbtx  $tominnm. 

(Yorkshire  Folk-Lore,  Paris  I-XLL) 

[Compiled  by  Mr.  G.  F.  Tudor  Shebwood,  88,  Museum  Street, 
Oxford  Street,  W.] 


Aiselbie,  237 

Alfred  the  Great,  286 

Andrews,   1,    101,    119, 

143,  236 
Anthony,  58,  60,  63 
Aram,  168 
Armytage,  174,  207 
Arthur,  King,  146,  154, 

212 
Atkinson,  94,  135 
Ayrton,  175 

Backhouse,  22 
Bailey,  169 
Baker,  5 

Baring-Gould,  67 
Barnes,  206 
Earning,  135   ' 
Barratt,  7,  8 
Bates,  68 
Bathorst,  66 
Baxter,  135 
Beasley,  33 
Bede,  99 
Bell,  9, 121 
Benfield,  173 
Bentley,  226,  240 
Benton,  57 
Bland,  23,  24 
Blazeby,  234 
Bodin,  205 
Bomar,  62 
Booth,  126 
Bower,  64 
Bowers,  71 
Boyd,  172 
Braithwaite,  196 
Brearley,  133 
Brierley,  206 
Bristol,  Bp.  of,  108 
Broadley.  134 
Bronte,  67 
Brook,  123, 124,  125 
Brownbridge,  57 
Brace,  230 
Bromfitts,  6 
Baekland,  237  bis 
Bullen,  35 
Buhner,  57 
T.  F-L. 


Burdsal,  123, 125 
Burnett,  68 
Burns,  172 
Barton,  99,  162. 
Busby,  66 
Butler,  214 

Caedmon,  238 
Calbert,  75 
Calvert,  59 
Caason,  124 
Cateby,  134 
Cavffl,  135 
Chapman,  58 
Charles  of  Lorraine,  63 
Clark,  6,  7,  63,  133 
Clarkson,  8,  62 
Clegg,  231 
Clement,  231 
Clifford,  27  bis 
Cockroft,  2 
Coe,  67 
Conyers,  59 
Constantino,  154,  200 
Cook,  200,  231 
Cooper,  233 
Cox,  1,  202 
Craighton,  135 
Cranbrook,  174 
Crawford,  Lord,  172 
Cromack,  134 
Cromwell,  9,  34,  36,  73, 

157 
Crowe,  61,  64 
Crowther,  122 
Cumby,  58 

Dacre,  Lord,  145 

Daniel,  45 

Darney,  74 

Dawson,  86, 94, 123, 124, 

125,  168,  173 
Day,  168 
Deloney,  136 
Demaine,  168 
Dinsdale,  10 
Dixon,  199 
Dobson,  233 
Dodge,  234 


Douce,  205 
Dowlah,  185 
Drake,  36,  135 
Drayton,  195 
Dunning,  56 
Dyson,  25 

Eddows,  7 
Edward  III,,  105 
Edward  VI.,  35 
Elizabeth,  Qu.,  35 
EUand,  25 
Ellenborough,  197 
Ellis,  231 
Ely,  Bp.  of,  108 
EmpsaU,  167 
Emngham,  27 

Faber,  192 
Fairfax,  39,  40 
Fairer,  87, 134  bis,  193 
Faustus,  159 
Fawcett,  9, 11,  58, 59,  73 
Fawthrop,  135 
Felton,  156 
Fenton,  213 
Finding,  5 
Firmadge,  10 
Firth,  6 
Fitzwilliam,  91 
Fletcher,  234 
Fordun,  155 
Fortescue,  171 
Fosterd,  238 
Fothergill.  26 
Frazer,  108 

Gale,  61 
Garbutt,  57 
Gardiner,  152,  189 
Garnett,  71  p. 
Gaskell,  67 
GayBcar,  237 
George  IV.,  227 
Gibson,  56 
Gladstone,  73 
Goethe,  159 
Goodricke,  169 
Gorsthorpe,  139 


242 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LOBE. 


Graham,  61 
Graves,  135 
Gray,  56 
Green,  87 
Greenwood,  91 
Gresham,  39 
Grey,  169 
Grimshaw,  74,  75,  76 

Hailstone,  146,  190 
Hainsworth,  227 
Hall.  8 

Hamilton,  133,  325 
Hanley,  28,  89 
Hardcastle.  76 
Hardwick,  200,  207 
Hardy.  174 
Harrison,  104,  237 
Haverah,  141 
Hay,  24 
Heald,  87 
Hedges,  194 
Helena,  200 
Henry  VII L,  35 
Herrick,  205 
Hewson,  198 
Heywood.3,156,189,201 
Hick,  123,  124,  125 
Hindley,  2 
Hirst,  68 
Hobkirk,  45 
Hobson,  193 
Hodgekins,  136 
Hodgson,  168 
Holland,  167  bis,  201 
Hollindrake,  56 
Holmes,  110 
Holroyd,  217,  235 
Holt,  87 
Horsfall,  183  p. 
Horwood,  234 
Hotham,  168 
Houseman,  139 
How,  61 
Howngate,  27 
Hufeland,  56 
Hulbert,  8 
Hunter,  45,  231 
Hutton,  59,  71 

Ineson,  9 
Ingram.  193 
Ismay,  210 

Jackson,  87,  88 
James,  40, 196 
James  I.,  36 
James  II.,  37 
Jenkins,  56,  57,  169 


Jennings,  193 
Joanna  of  Castile,  155 
John  o'  Gaunt,  141 
Johnson,  9 

Ketel,  194 
Eirton,  138 
Enowles,  164,  180,  182 
Kohl,  56 

Lancaster,  89 
Lassels,  27 
Law,  57,  197 
Lawrence,  120 
Laycock,  171 
Leake,  69 
Learmont,  143 
Lebrecht,  163 
Leeds,  Duke  of,  59 
Lees,  45 
Lewis,  45,  66 
Lewis  XIV.,  37 
Ling,  134 
Lister,    40  bis,   68,  75, 

182,  234 
Lobley,  184,  135 
Lucas,  89 
Lumley,  66 
Lyttleton,  62 

Maciver,  190 
Mackay,  141 
Malcolm,  46 
Malmesbury,  197 
Maria-Theresa,  68 
Marlowe,  159 
Marvel,  35 
Mary  I.,  85 
Mary,  Qu.  of  Scots,  89 
Mason,  9 
Mawbank,  63 
Mawhood,  188 
Mercer,  91 
Mercier,  136, 192 
Metcalfe,  9 
Millies,  186 
Milton,  7,  8 
Mitchell,  86 
Montfort,  155 
Montgomery,  181 
Moor,  135 
Moore.  9 
Moresin,  205 
Morrall,  66 
Morton,  287 
Myers,  135 

Navey,  182 
Neale,  67 


Nelson,  123, 125 
Newcastle,  40  bis 
Newport,  40 
Newton,  126 
Nicholson,  6, 193 
Noble,  64 
Northrop,  122, 172 
Nowell,  45 

Ogleby,  184 

Parker,  125 
Parkinson,  161 
Pearse,  185 
Pearson,  59, 185, 171' 
Peel,  186 
Peokover,  71 
Penrose,  19 
Philips,  182 
Phillips,  136, 192 
Pierson,  174 
Pilkington,  213 
Preston,  123,  125 
Priestley,  215,  231 
Puoh,  99 
Pyrah,  208 

Quarmby,  "26 

Ramsay,  67,  215 

Ramsden,  8 

Ratcliffe98 

Rawson,  174,  207 

Ray,  59 

Rayner,  2,  87,  239 

Reade,  96 

Rhodes,  124 

Rice,  208 

Richard  II.,  104 

Rimbault,  1 

Ripley,  238 

Robert  of  Glo'ster,  154 

Roberts,  106,  214 

Robin  Hood,  2, 146, 178, 

234 
Robinson,  59,  61,  23d 
Robson,  66 
Rogers,  181 
Rokeby,  144 
Rollinson,  168 
Rookes,  71 
Ross,  120,  181 
Routh,  167 
Rovin,  62 
Ramsey,  231 
Rupert,  Prince,  39 

St.  Helena,  154 
St.  Hilda,  234,  238 


INDEX    NOMINUM. 


24» 


St.  John  of  Beverley,  99, 

197 
St.  Quintin,  198 
Savile,  59,  122 
Saywell,  23,  44,  57, 166, 

187 
Schomberg,  Duke,  134 
Scot,  205 
Scott,  54,  65,  182,  205, 

238 
Screeton,  168 
8croton,  17,  72,  209 
Sellers,  134 
Senior,   102,   125,    139, 

167 
Shaw,  59 
Shent,  75 
Shipton,  1.  31.  32 
Simmonds,  237 
Skeat,  1 

Skevington,  214 
Slack.  22 
Slingsby,  169 
Slugg,9 
Smirkson,  63 
Smith,  121  p.,  122,  166. 

168,  169. 234. 238, 239 
Smithson,  58,  63 
Snowden,  55 
Somen,  115 

Southampton,  Lord,  171 
Southey.  181 
Sonthiel,  32 
Spence,  172 
Spencer,  Earl,  181 
Stairman,  59 


Stead,  2 

Stephenson,  198,  230 
Stocks,  167 
Btorrs,  p*eud.y  127,  139, 

200,  207 
Stow,  185 
Stricket,  88 
Stringer.  56 
Stuart,  9,  10 
8turdy,  57 
Surrey,  Earl,  60 
Sykes,  56 

Talbott,  27 
Tankard,  39 
Taeker,  240 
Tate,  181 
Taylor,  9,  90 
Tempest,  174 
Terry,  25  bis 

Th ,  87 

Thirlwall,  120 
Thompson,  87,  91,  194, 

234 
Thorns,  56,  152 
Thornton,  122 
Thriscroft,  59 
Throp,  122 
Tillotson,  8 
Tinkler,  121 
Todd,  133 
Tootal,  226 
Tucker,  106 
Tudor,  35 
Turner,  88,  190 
Twigg,  6 


Ulphas,  238 

Villiers,  156 
Vint,  86 

Walbank,  63 
Walker.  62,  135 
Ward,  210 
Wastell,  59,  61 
Watts,  45, 120 
Waumsley,  207 
Webster,  179 
Wesley,  74,  75 
Wharncliffe,  9 
Whitaker,  200 
White,  181.  228,  233 
Whiteley,  57 
Wilkinson,  56,  134,  135, 

201,  227,  231 
Wilson,  57, 194 
Winn,  194 
Wolsey.  33 
Wood,  45 
Wooler,  135 
Wordsworth,  199,  201 
Worlidge,  62 
Wren,  88 

Wriggleaworth,  135 
Wright,  58,  64 
Wrightson,  133 
Wroe,  5, 17,  210 

Yarrell,  205 
Yeardley,  57,  230 
Young,  238 

Zorten,  63 


f  nfcs  Jtotaxnm. 

(  Yorkshire  Folk-Lore.) 

[Compiled  by  Mr.  O.  F.  Tudor  Sherwood,  88,  Museum  Street, 
Oxford  Street,  W.] 


Acklam.  57 
Ackworth,  22,  24 
Adwalton  moor,  40 
Aire,  5,  6 
Aldermanbnry,  6 
Alderscholes,  56 
Alegar  Well.  3, 196 
Aleley  Wood,  25 
Allerton,  136,  227 
Almondbury,  45 
AlTerthorpe,  7 


Amsterdam,  236 
Arkengarthdale,  22,  66 
Ashton-under-Lyne,      6, 

206 
Assisi,  286 
Australia,  7 
Aysgarth,  9 

Bacup,  142 
Bagby  Fields,  172 
Bagley,  134 


Baildon,  142 
Bainbridge,  23g 
Baltimore,  59 
Banner  street,  135 
Barkerend,  7o 
Barley,  76 
Barnard  Castle,  145 
Barnbow,  123 
Barnsley.  144 
Bath,  225 
Batley,  25,  89 


244 


YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE. 


Bawtry,  57 
Beeston,  124 
Beggar's-gill-Well,  194 
Benares,  162 
Beswick,  45 
Beverley,  99,  115,  119, 

144,  168 
Black  Syke,  208 
Blakehill,  88,  89 
Boiling  Hall,  38 
Bolton,  9,  56,  57,  58,  59, 

60,  64,  134 
Bolton  Castle,  167 
Bowes  Ca6tle,  144 
Bowling,  6,  17,  69 
Boyne,  134 
Bradford,  6,  7.  8,  17,  40, 

45,  87,  135,  p.,  196, 

207,    208,    214,    227, 

232,  234,  240 
Bramley,  94,  172,  173 
Bretton,  22,  45 
Brighouse,  30,  155 
Brighton,  2 
Brook,  133 
Barley,  104 

Calderdale,  29,  161 
Calder  Vale,  12 
Calverley,  134,  p. 
Camlan,  154 
Canker  Wells,  194 
Carleton,  136 
Carlisle,  168 
Castleton,  155 
Catterick,  58,  59,  60 
Cattering,  63 
Cawood,  34 
Chesterfield,  189 
Chorlton,  193 
Clayton,  122,  226 
Cleckheaton,  182 
Cleveland,  140,  193,  205 
Cliff  Wood,  196 
Clifton,  38 
Cliviger,  201 
Colchester,  231 
Colne,  122 
Cornwall,  76 
Cotherston,  144 
Cotterdale,  9 
Cover,  197 
Coverdale,  197 
Coverham,  197 
Coverside,  197 
Cowling  Head,  45 
Craven,  191 
Crow  Nest,  31 

Danby,  147 


Denholme,  122,  135,  bis 
Dewsbury,  29 
Doe  Park,  144 
Doncaster,  144 
Dring  Houses,  83 
Drumming  Well,  194, 198 

Earl's  Barton,  193 
Earltown,  143 
Easingwold,  127 
Eastbrook  House,  71 
Eastricgton,  57 
Ebbing  and  Flowing  Well 

195 
Eoclesall,  56 
Eccleshill,  123,  126 
Edinburgh,  190 
Edmonton,  203 
Eland,  25 

EUerton,  56,  58,  60 
Elton,  57 

Epping  Forest,  177 
Epworth,  169 
Eskdale,  93 
Evesham,  155 
Eyebright  Well,  194 

Fewston,  168 
Fieldhead,  215 
Flodden,  60,  167 
Fountains  Abbey,  146 
Frankfort,  159 
Fulneck,  225 

Gargrave,  200 
Gasthwaite,  168 
George  Street,  135 
Giggleswiok,    195,    196, 

197 
Gilling,  144 
Glaisdale,  57, 194 
Glasgow,  75 
Glastonbury,  154,  212 
Gomersal.  8,  180, 132,  p. 
Gormire,  145 
Gorton,  193 
Gray's  Inn,  185 
Great  Horton,  122 
Grindon,  230 
Guisborough,  94 

Halifax,  136 
Halton,  168 
Handsworth  Woodhouse, 

189 
Hardrow,  9,  10, 11,  25 
Hargreave,  6 
Harpham,  197, 198 
Harrogate,  88, 194 


Hart  Leap  Well,  199 
Hartlepool,  230.  231 
Hartshead.  8, 142 
Hatfield  Woodhouse,  169 
Haverah  Park,  141 
Hawkswell,  193, 194 
Haworth,  74 
Hawsker,  146,  234 
Heckmondwike,  45, 139, 

181 
Hedon,  92 
Hell  Beck  Lands,  9 
HelliweU,  3, 196 
Hertford.  193 
Hessle,  135 
High  Abbotside,  9,  25 
High  Dam,  194 
Hinderwell,  234 
Hobhole,  232 
Holbeck,  152 
Holderness,  92 
Holme,  66 
Holmfirth,  8.  209 
Holroyd  Hall,  208 
Holstein,  202 
Holywell,  S 
Hornby  Castle,  69 
Hornsea  Church,  146 
Horton,  135,  226 
Hnddenfield,  123 
Hull,  134,  139 
Hundhill  Hall,  24 

Idel.  80,  134,  bis 
Idle  Thorpe,  5 
Ilkley  Wells,  194 

KettleweU,  194 
Kingston,  104 
Kipling,  58,  59 
Kippax,  22 
Kirby,  145 
Kirkgate,  174 
Kirklees,    9,    146,    154, 

174,  177 
KirkstaU,  9. 173 
Knaresborongh,  32,  139, 

141,  168 

Lady's  Well,  191,  197, 

199 
Lartington,  145 
Lealholm,  194 
Leeds,  19.  135,  145. 152, 

193.  194,  201,  225 
Leicester,  10,  34 
Leipsic,  163, 
Little  Horton,  87, 135 
Loftus,  233 


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York  Gaol  Delivery,  Burn- 
ing to  Death,  Criminal 
Statistics,  1775        -  1. 

Woollen  Trade,  1726  -  8. 

Wakefield  Prison,  1605-1881  5. 

Huddersfield  Cavalry,  1817  10. 

Militia  15. 

Poem     on     Ingleborough 
District  -         -         -  16,  65. 

Langfellowe  and   Holling 
Hall  18. 

Jackson  and  Early  Baptists  28. 

Jollie's  Sheffield  Nonconft. 
Regr.      -         -         -        40. 

Yorkshire,  &c,  New  Books, 

49,  186,  208,  289. 

Eugene  Aram     -        -        54. 

Grindletonians    -         -         57. 

Washburn  Place-Names       57. 

Mount  Grace  Holy  Well      61. 

Centenarians        62,  252,  294. 

Arthington,  &c,  hals  -        62. 

Warley  May  Pole        -         62. 

Flambro*  Nominy        -         68. 

Yorkshire  Chap-books  68,  202. 

MirfieldHall       -        -        64. 

Yorkshire  Sayings       -        Q5. 

Knaresbro',  Poetical  Folk- 
lore 66. 

Saxon  Grit— A  Poem  -        85. 

Keighley  Quaker  Register, 

87,  145,  225. 

Beaumont  Tradition    -        96. 

Granny  Hall,  Brighouse      97. 

Barmston,  Monceaux, 
Boynton  -         -        98. 

Hull  Mansion  House  -       101. 

Hilston,  St.  Quintin    -       101. 

Brandesburton,  Fitz-Hugh  102. 

Howley  Hall       -     104,  167-8. 

Congregational   Churches, 

122,  161. 


PAGE. 

1  Sykes'  Free-Trade  Tract    169. 
,  Hull  Seamen's  Strikes       172. 
:  Winestead     Church    and 
Families  -         -       173. 

f  177,  correct  Angli,  sed 
!       AngelL) 

Nunburnholme  Cross  -  181. 
!  Canute's  York  Coins  187,  241. 
j  Dove  Cote,  Dowker  Gill 

Cavern    -         -         -       189. 
i  Honley    Church    and 
j       Village   -         198,  288, 855. 
!  Burning  Women  -       202. 

j  Register  Wants  -         -       202. 
|  Sherburn  School  Register, 
I  209, 278. 

j  Stanbury  Quaker  Register,  281. 
j  Yorkshire    Views,     War- 
!       burton's,  Brit.  Mus.        244. 

Hkley         -         -         -       250. 

Puritan  Emigration     -       251. 

Otley  Parish  Registers       258. 

Yorkshire  Dialect       254,  256. 

Wordsworth  in  Yorkshire  257. 

Relics,  British  and  Roman  267. 

Rev.  R.  V.  Taylor,  B.A.     271. 

Rev.  S.  Baring-Gould        272. 

Bradford  Market  Cross       272. 

Doncaster  Mayors        -      272. 

Witty  Doctor       -       293, 860. 

Wakefield    Manor    Rolls, 
1272-1806       -         -       294. 

Nidderdale,   the   Switzer- 
land of  England       -       305. 

Halifax  Library   and 
Museum  -         -       817. 

Rishworth  School        -      817. 

Halifax  Parish  Registers    318. 

A  Day  at  Skipton        -      828. 

Gainford  Register  (p.  290)  860. 

Kildwick     -         -         -      860. 


PAGE. 

Barmston  Manor  House  (from  Part  XIV.)     -         -         -        98: 
Brandesburton  Church         „  „  -         -  99.- 

Rev.  R.  V.  Taylor  and  Rev.  S.  Baring-Gould         -         -      271> 

Kildwick  Lang  Kirk 860.- 

Sir  Robert  de  Sty veton,  Arms  of  Plumpton,  Swire,  Garforth  860. 


PAGE. 

Holling  Hall,  Ilkley    -         18. 

Dumb  Steeple,  Kirklees       49. 

Knaresbro'      Views      and 
Comic  Sketches  (22)    66-85. 

Granny  Hall,  Brighouse      97. 

Barmston  Church  (2)  -         98. 

Monceaux  Seals  (2)     -         99. 

De  la  See  Arms  -         -        99. 

Boynton  Arms  (2)       -       100. 

Hull  Mansion  House  -       101. 

Hilston  Mount    -         -       102. 

St.  Quintin  Arms  (2)  -       102. 

Brandesburton  Church 
Niche      -         -         -       108. 

Brandesburton  Moat   -       108. 

Fitz-Hugh  Arms  -       108. 

Howley   Hall    Views    (8) 

104-120. 

Congregational  Churches 
(16).  (Selby,  Halifax, 
Saltburn,Ravensthorpe, 
Pudsey,  Darlington, 
Whitby,  Kirkby- 
Stephen,  Drighlington, 
Reeth,  Shelf,  Fulford, 
Ilkley,  Knareftro')  128-185. 

Wakefield  Arms,  Town 
and  Families  (10)    -       187. 

Aldbrough  Sundial      -       188. 


PAGE. 

Congregational  Churches 
(7).  (Ripon,  Scarboro', 
Barnsley,  Hillhouse, 
Rotherham,  Sheffield, 
Brightside.)     -         161-167. 

Howley,  Copley,  Saville 
Arms  (4)  -         -      168. 

Winestead  Church  (8), 
Effigy,  Hildyard  Arms 
(2),  Hilton  Arms  (2), 
Maister,  Bailey,  Rolht 
Arms,  Andrew  Marvel, 
M.P.       -         -         178-181. 

NunburnholmeCross(8)  184-5. 

Kilnsey  Crag,  Malham 
Cove,  Gordale,  Bolton 
Abbey  (6),  Barden  (2), 
Strid       -         -        257-267. 

British  and  Roman  Relics 


(18)         -         - 
Bradford  Cross    - 
Nidderdale  (6)     - 
Yorke  Arms 
Halifax  Museum 
Rishworth  School 
Halifax  Parish  Church      819. 
Skipton  (Church,   Castle, 

Portraits,  Arms,  &c.,86) 

828-355. 


268-270. 

-  27-2. 
807-815. 

-  807. 

-  817. 

-  818. 


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Burning  a  Woman  to  Death.— The  GENERAL  GAOL  DE- 
LIVERY  of  our  Lord  the  King,  of  his  County  of  York,  held  at 
the  Castle  of  York,  9  March,  16  Geo.  III.  [1775]  before  Sir 
Henry  Gould,  Knight,  John  Aspinal,  Esq.,  &c,  Giles  Earle, 
Esq.,  High  Sheriff. 

Elizabeth  Boardtngham,  late  wife  of  John  Boardinghaxn,  guilty 
Petty  Treason.  To  be  drawn  upon  a  hurdle  to  the  place  of 
execution  on  Wednesday  next,  the  20th  day  of  this  instant 
March,  and  there  to  be  burned  with  fire  until  dead.* 

Thomas  Aikney,  Guilty  Murder.  To  be  hanged  on  Wednesday 
next,  20  March,  and  his  body  to  be  afterwards  dissected  and 
anatomized. 

Rtbcrt  Iredale,  Guilty  High  Treason  in  having  in  his  dwelling 
house  a  dye  for  coining  a  guinea.  To  be  drawn  on  a  hurdle  to 
the  place  of  execution,  and  there  hanged. 

William  Allison,  Stealing  a  bill  of  exchange  out  of  a  post 
letter.    To  be  hanged. 

John  Whiteley,  Edward  Wilson,  Horse  Stealing.    Reprieved. 

James  Lawton,  Benjamin  Collitt,  John  Smith,  Sheep  Stealing. 
Reprieved. 

John  Changer,  Grand  Larceny.    Reprieved. 

Lawrence  Hartley,  Manslaughter.  Burnt  in  the  hand  and 
imprisoned  a  year  in  York  Castle. 

William  Fawcett,  Grand  Larceny.  Burnt  in  the  hand,  and 
imprisoned,  with  hard  labour,  a  year  in  Wakefield  Gaol. 

Elizabeth  Harrison,  William  Clark,  Grand  Larceny.  Burnt  in 
the  hand,  and  imprisoned  in  Wakefield  Gaol,  the  House  of 
Correction,  for  9  months. 

William  Smith,  William  Todd,  Isaac  Thompson,  John  Muers, 
Grand  Larceny,  Burnt  in  hand  and  imprisoned  6  months  in 
Thirsk  Gaol.        Ac.  &c. 

Fletcher  Riooe,  Clerk  of  the  Assizes. 

The  above  is  copied  from  a  printed  folio  page,  addressed  to 
Mr.  Waugh,  Keeper  of  the  House  of  Correction,  who  held  the 
post  from  1766  to  1794,  when  his  son  Benjamin  W.  succeeded. 

Crime. — The  following  particulars  are  taken  from  a  4to  pam- 
phlet, 4  pages,  two  being  blank ;  E.  Waller,  printer,  Wakefield* 

A  Comparative  Statement  of  the  Number  of  Criminal  Of* 
fenders  committed  to  the  several  gaols  in  England  and  Wales, 

*  The  last  case  of  burning  to  death  probably. 
Y.K.Q.  B 


2          Y0RK8HIRE  N0TE8  AND  QUERIES. 

for  Trial  in  the  years  1805  and  1806,  together  with  their  Crimes, 
Sentences,  &c. 

Committed— Males  8267  (1805)  8120  (1806). 

Females  1888       „  1226  „ 

Cnnuis.  1805.  1606. 

Sedition              ...            ...            ...  ...  4  0 

Murder               ...             ...             ...  ...  26  24 

Females,  (infant  murders)             ...  ...  27  86 

Manslaughter    ...            ...            ...  ...  66  67 

Cutting  and  Maiming       ...            ...  ...  21  8 

Shooting  at  persons          ...            ...  ...  14  7 

mHoOY  ...                     ...                      ...                      ...  ...  /  v 

Sodomy  and  unnatural  crimes        ...  ...  15  42 

Obtaining  property  by  threatening  to  charge  the  )     0  2 

persons  with  unnatural  crime     ...  ...  j 

x»ape    ...            ...            ...            ...  ...  oo  4o 

Coining              ...            ...            ...  ...  15  10 

Uttering  bad  money         ...            ...  ...  108  84 

Forgery              ...            ...            ...  ...  86  84 

„      Bank  Notes         ...            ...  ...  28  15 

Personating  Seamen  to  get  Prize  Money  ...  0  8 

Arson  ...            ...            ...            ...  ...  18  7 

Burglary            ...            ...            ...  ...  186  124 

Highway  Robbery             ...            ...  ...  68  52 

Stealing  Horses...            ...            ...  ...  65  58 

Stealing  Sheep  ...            ...            ...  ...  71  60 

Stealing  Cows,  Pigs,  &c.  ...            ...  ...  88  49 

Larceny             ...            ...            ...  ...  8555  8866 

Receiving  Stolen  Goods   ...            ...  ...  187  110 

Fraud ...            ...            ...            ...  ...  94  94 

Bigamy              ...            ...            ...  ...  28  22 

Returning  from  Transportation      ...  ...  15  11 


4605     4846 


Sentences.  1805.  1806. 

Death  [see  under  Executed.— Ed.]  ...            ...  850  825 

Transportation,  14  years ...            ...            ...  34  26 

7  years...            ...            ...  661  496 

Imprisoned,  (whipped,  pilloried,)  4  years      ...  1  0 

„                 „               ,,         8  years      ...  4  4 

„     t            „                „         2  years      ...  128  100 

„                 „                ,,    6  months  to  1  year  888  294 

„                 ,,               „    6  m.  and  under  1219  1158 

Whipping  and  Fine          ...            ...            ...  105  81 

Acquitted           ...            ...            ...            ...  1092  1065 

Discharged,  No  Bill         ...            780  766 

„         to  Berve  in  Army  or  Navy          ...  58  81 

Executed:          ...            ...            ...            ...  68  57 


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8 


Male  Fern.  Male  Fern. 


Murder 

••• 

••• 

5 

8 

5 

0 

„      of  Infants 

... 

... 

0 

2 

0 

0 

Cutting,  Maiming 

... 

.  •• 

1 

0 

2 

0 

Shooting  at  Persons 

... 

... 

1 

0 

8 

0 

Sodomy 

... 

... 

0 

0 

6 

0 

Bape    ... 

... 

... 

0 

0 

2 

0 

Obtaining  property  by  threatening  a  \ 

0 

0 

2 

0 

charge  of  Sodomy 

... 

...   ) 

Forgery 

... 

... 

6 

0 

11 

0 

„     Bank  Notes 

... 

... 

6 

1 

0 

0 

Personating  Seamen  for  Prize  Money 

0 

0 

2 

0 

Coining 

... 

... 

8 

0 

8 

1 

Arson  ... 

... 

... 

2 

0 

0 

0 

Burglary 

... 

... 

15 

0 

6 

0 

Stealing  in  House 

... 

••» 

8 

0 

1 

1 

Hignway  Robbery 

..- 

... 

4 

0 

8 

0 

Horse  Stealing  ... 

... 

... 

7 

0 

4 

0 

Sheep        ,, 

... 

... 

5 

0 

8 

0 

Cattle        ,, 

... 

... 

0 

0 

1 

0 

Returning  from  Trax 

isportation 
Jounty — 

0 

0 

1 

0 

68 

57 

Committed  in  each  C 

Yorkshire  1805,  181  males, 

64  females. 

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1806,  159 

ft 

54 

>t 

An  Account*  of  the  Number  of  Broad  Cloths,  Milled  at 
the  several  Fulling  Mills  in  the  West-Riding  of  the  County  of 
York,  from  the  24th  of  June,  1725,  (the  Commencement  of  the 
Act)  to  the  12th  of  March,  1726,  and  thence  annually,  distin- 
guishing each  year;  and  of  the  Narrow  Cloths,  from  the  1st  of 
August,  1787,  (the  Commencement  of  the  Act)  to  the  20th  of 
January,  1788,  and  thence  annually,  distinguishing  each  year ; 
likewise  the  Number  of  Yards  in  Lbngth,  made  each  year,  from 
Easter  Sessions,  1768. 


Years. 

Broads.    Narrows. 

Years. 

Broads. 

Narrows. 

1726 

26671 

1748 

60765 

68080 

7 

28990 

9 

60705} 

68889 

8 

25228} 

1750 

60447} 

78115 

9 

29648 

♦  1 

60964 

74022 

1780 

81579} 

2 

60724 

72442 

1 

85568 

8 

55858 

71618 

2 

35548* 

4 

56070} 

72894 

8 

84620 

5 

57125 

76295 

4 

81128 

6 

88590} 

79818 

6 

81744} 

7 

55777} 

77097 

*  From  effects  of  John  Armytage,  Esq.,  J. P.,  (died  24  May,  1886). 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 


Years. 

Broads. 

Narrows. 

Years.  Broads.  Narrows 

1786 

88899 

1758   60396    66396 

7 

42256 

9    51877$   65518 

8 

42404 

14494 

1760   49362}   69578 

9 

48086} 

58848 

1    48944    75469 

1740 

41441 

58620 

2   48621    72946 

1 

46864 

61196 

8   48088}   72096 

2 

44954 

62804 

4    54916    79458 

8 

45178J 

63545 

5    54660    77419 

4 

54627} 

68065 

6   72575J   78898 

5 

50458 

68428 

7   102428    78819 

6 

56687 

68775 

8   90036    74480 

7 

62480 

68874 

Broads. 

Narrows. 

Pieces. 

Yards. 

Pieces. 

Yards. 

1769 

92522 

2771667* 

87762 

2144019 

1770 

98075 

2717105 

85876 

2255625 

1 

92782 

2966224} 

89920 

2285625 

2 

112870 

8228918* 

95589 

2377517} 

8 

120245 

3635612} 

89874} 

2306235 

4 

87201 

2587864* 

88823 

2183588 

5 

95878 

2841213 

96794 

2441007 

6 

99783 

2975889 

99586 

2488140} 

7 

107750 

8158891 

95786 

2601583 

8 

182506 

8795990 

101629 

2746712 

9 

110942 

8427150 

93143 

2659650 

1780 

94625 

2802671 

87809 

2571324 

1 

102018 

8099127 

98721 

2671397 

2 

112470 

4453405 

97748 

2598751 

8 

131092 

4568876 

108641 

8292002 

4 

188028 

4094885 

115500 

8356648 

5 

157275 

4844855 

116086 

3409278 

6 

158792 

4934975 

123025 

8586889 

7 

155748 

4850882 

128740 

4058157 

8 

189406 

4244822 

182148 

4248308 

9 

154184 

4716460 

145495 

4409978 

1790 

172588 

5151677 

140407 

4582122 

1 

187569 

5815079 

154878 

4797594 

2 

214851 

6760728 

190468 

5531698 

8 

190882 

6054946 

150666 

4788722 

4 

190988 

6067208 

130403 

4684258 

5 

250993 

7759907 

155087 

5172511 

6 

246770 

7880536 

152594 

5246704 

7 

229292 

7285088 

156709 

6508648 

8 

224159 

7134144 

148566 

5180813 

9 

272755 

8806688 

180168 

6877277 

1800 

285851 

9268966 

169262 

6014420 

1 

264082 

8699242 

187281 

4888584 

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Broads. 
Pieces.        Yards. 


Narrows. 
Pieces.        Yards. 


2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
7 
8 
9 
1810 
1 
2 
8 


265660 
266785 
298178 
800287 
290269 
262024 
279859 
311289 
273664 
269892 
816481 
869890 


8686046 
8942798 
9987255 

10079256 
9561178 
8422143 
9050970 
9826048 
8671042 
8585559 
9949419 

11702887 


187016 
189575 
150010 
165847 
175834 
161816 
144622 
151911 
158252 
141809 
136863 
142863 


5028754 
5023996 
5440179 
6193317 
6480101 
5931253 
5809007 
5951762 
6180811 
5715534 
5117209 
6615755 


From  1814  to  1885  are  left  blank,  so  the  folio  sheet  was 
evidently  printed  in  1814. 

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Wakefield  Prison. — The  exact  date  at  which  this  Prison  was 
built  is  not  known,  but  it  is  clear  that  there  was  no  Prison  at 
Wakefield  before  the  year  1595  from  the  following  extract  from 
the  Will,  dated  16th  December,  1594,  of  Mr.  George  Savil,  of 
Wakefield,  which  was  proved  at  York,  on  the  17th  February  in 
the  following  year  (viz.,  1595) — "  Also  I  give  twentie  poundes 
"for  and  towardes  the  Buildinge  of  an  House  of  Correction 
"  within  Seaven  Miles  of  Wakefield,  for  the  settinge  of  the  poore 
"  on  worke  or  towardes  a  starte  for  the  Keepinge  of  them  in 
"  worke  accordinge  to  the  statute,  if  so  be  there  be  any  such 
"  house  builded  within  the  space  of  two  yeres  next  after  my  de- 
"  cease,  and  if  there  be  not,  then  this  bequest  utterlie  to  be  void." 

In  1597,  by  the  Act  89  Elizabeth,  cap.  4  and  5,  Justices  of 
the  Peace  were  required  to  provide  Houses  of  Correction  in  the 
districts  within  their  Jurisdiction,  and  it  is  probable  that  the 
erection  of  the  Prison  was  commenced  about  this  time,  as  we 
find  in  Whitaker's  "  Loidis  et  Elmete,"  page  228,  that  on  the 
examination,  before  Sir  John  Saville,  of  Walter  Calverley,  of 
Calverley,  on  the  24th  April,  1605,  for  the  murder  of  his  two 
sons,  "  he  was  committed  to  one  '  Maister  Key's  House,'  a  gaile 
but  lately  built  up  in  Wakefield,  for  at  this  time  the  infection 
of  the  plague  was  violent  in  Yorke."  It  may  fairly  be  presumed 
from  Whitaker's  note  above  quoted,  that  "  Master  Key  "  was 
the  first  Governor  of  the  Prison.  When  he  resigned,  it  is  not 
known,  but  we  find  that  at  the  Quarter  Sessions  held  in  April, 
1641,  Thomas  Somester,  who  was  then  upwards  of  80  years  of 
age,  resigned  his  office  as  Governor,  and  it  is  evident  from  the 
wording  of  the  record  of  his  resignation,  that  he  had  held  his 
office  for  a  considerable  period ;  it  may  therefore  be  assumed  that 
he  was  the  immediate  successor  of  "  Maister  Key.*'  From  this 
time  onward  we  have  a  complete  list  of  the  several  Governors. 


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8         YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

The  Act,  4  Geo.  IV.,  cap.  64,  which  came  into  operation  on 
the  1st  September,  1828,  required  that  two  or  more  Justices 
should  be  appointed  to  each  Gaol. 

Accordingly  on  the  11th  December,  1828,  at  Wakefield 
Sessions,  three  Magistrates  were  appointed,  and  as  the  Prison 
increased  in  importance,  the  number  of  Visiting  Justices  was 
from  time  to  time  increased,  until  at  the  present  they  are 
thirty-seven  in  number. 

By  the  passing  of  the  Prison  Act,  40  and  41  Vic,  cap.  21, 
which  came  into  force  on  the  1st  April,  1878,  the  authority  of 
the  Magistrates,  which  had  existed  for  more  than  270  years 
over  this  Prison,  was  vested  in  the  Prison  Commissioners,  and 
the  entire  expenses  of  the  Prison  became  chargeable  upon  Her 
Majesty's  Treasury. 

Complete  List  of  Visiting  Justices  of  the  West  Biding  Prison 
sinoe  the  first  appointment  under  4  George  IV.,  Cap.  64,  to 
1878,  when  the  duties  of  Visiting  Justices  ceased. 

xr  A  U1?  Date  of  appointment  as 

JNAMJ!j-  Visiting  Justice. 

John  Pemberton  Hey  wood      11th  December,  1828 

Benjamin  Dealtry        do. 

Bev.  William  Wood     do. 

John  Egremont  8rd  June,  1824 

Joseph  Scott  (of  Badsworth) 16th  November,  1825 

John  Plumbe  Tempest  28rd  August,  1827 

Daniel  Gaskell  ...         26th  November,  1829 

John  Army t age...  1st  December,  1881 

Sir  John  Lister  L.  Eaye  do. 

Godfrey  Wentworth     do. 

Charles  John  Brandling  do. 

Joseph  Holdsworth       16th  May,  1888;  appoin- 
ted Chairman,  1887 

Joshua  Ingham  (Blake  Hall) 7th  February,  1888 

Bev.  Theophilus  Barnes  (Vicar  of 

Castleford) 1st  September,  1885 

Charles  Winn 7th  June,  1886 

Thomas  Wheatley        do. 

Christopher  Beckett     7th  March,  1887 

John  Blaydes  (Oulton  Hall)  grandfather 

of  John  Calverley,  of  Oulton  Hall  do. 

W.  Bookes  Crompton  Stansfield        ...  do. 

George  Banks do. 

Francis  Maude 12th  September,  1888 

John  George  Smyth     12th  December,  1888; 

appointed  Chairman, 
February,  1866 
Bichard  Kennet  Dawson         19th  February,  1840 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL. 


John  Francis  Carr 
William  Hepworth 
Thomas  Hague ... 
Edward  Tew     ... 


Rev.  Edward  Hawke  Brooksbank 
John  Walbanke  Childers 
Richard  Heber  Wrightson 

Rowland  Winn 

Rev.  James  Armytage  Rhodes 
Henry  Wickham  Wickham     ... 
Thomas  Horncastle  Marshall... 

John  Rhodes  Ralph      

George  Thomas  Pollard 
Rt.  Hon.  Lord  Wharncliffe  (2nd  Lord) 
Richard  Monckton  Milnes 
William  John  fiagshaw 

Wilson  Overend  

John  Waterhouse         

John  Grossley 

Henry  Edwards  

John  CalverJey 

Edward  B.  Wheatley  Balme  ... 

Samnel  Waterhouse     

John  Beswicke  Greenwood 
John  Mason  Hepworth 

John  Brooke     

William  Henry  Leathern 

John  Barff        

John  C.  D.  Gharlesworth 

Edward  Akroyd  

Thomas  Foljambe        

Right  Hon.  John  Parker 
Thomas  Holy  Holds  worth 

Edmund  John  Winn     

The  Hon.  Henry  Constable  Maxwell 

Francis  Darwin  

Frank  Wormald  

The  Hon.  George  Edwin  Lascelles 
The  Hon.  W.  G.  Eden 
Daniel  Burton  Eendell 

George  Armitage  

Thomas  William  Tew 

Ayscough  Fawkes        

John  Lister       

Walter  Spencer-Stanhope 


10th  June,  1840 
do. 
do. 
10th  June,  1840;    ap- 
pointed     Chairman, 
15th  January,  1857 
9th  June,  1841 
14th  December,  1848 

do. 

do. 
18th  February,  1845 

do. 

do. 
11th  February,  1847 

do. 

do. 
10th  May,  1850 
21st  August,  1850 

do. 
21st  November,  1850 
19th  February,  1851 

do. 
12th  May,  1852 
22nd  February,  1855 

do. 
22nd  November,  1855 

do. 

do. 

do. 

do. 

do. 
21st  February,  1856 
20th  November,  1856 

do. 
20th  August,  1857 
24th  May,  1860 
16th  May,  1861 
25th  February,  1862 
15th  May,  1862 

do. 
21st  August,  1862 
19th  February,  1868 
19th  November,  1868 

do. 

do. 
18th  August,  1864 
17th  November,  1864 ; 
appointed  Chairman, 
21st  April,  1869 


10  YORK8HIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 

Frederick  Bacon  Frank  18th  May,  1865 

Alfred  Harris 1st  February,  1866 

Wright  Mellor do. 

The  Hon.  F.  Stuart  Wortley do. 

Went  worth  Blaokett  Beaumont  ...  81st  December,  1866 

Thomas  Brooke  21st  November,  1867 

William  Fison do. 

Henry  Otter      4th  January,  1869 

William  Carr    ..  do. 

Francis  Frederick  Whitehead 8rd  January,  1870 

William  Pollard  do. 

Lewis  Bandle  Starkey do. 

William  Aldam...      " 2nd  January,  1871 

William  Bothwell         1st  January,  1872 

Percy  Tew         80th  December,  1872 

William  Overend,  Q.G.  do. 

Bev.  Henry  Bowen  Cooke       5th  April,  1875 

Bobert  Bownas  Mackie  8rd  January,  1876 

Francis  Sharp  Powell do. 

These  particulars  are  kindly  furnished  by  Captain  Armytage, 
who  has  aooumulated  most  valuable  materials  for  a  History  off 
Wakefield  Prison,  1599-1881,  and  we  are  persuaded  that  the 
publio  will  most  gratefully  receive  this  interesting  addition  to 
our  County  History. 

o 

HUDDERSFIELD     YkOMANBY    CaVALBY    AND    TH«     OlTVKH-ITIB.— 

[From  papers  of  John  Armytage,  Esq.,  eldest  son  of  Sir  George 
Armytage  of  Kirklees,  who  died  May  24,  1886.] 

Milton,  March  18,  1817. 
Sir, 

Having  received  this  morning  a  letter  from  Ld.  Sidmouth, 
I  transmit  a  copy,  trusting  that  no  time  will  be  lost  in  putting 
into  activity  the  Corps,  now  accepted  by  the  Prince  Begent. 
I  have  the  honor  to  be,  Sir, 

Your  most  obedient  servant, 

Wkntwobth  Fitzwillum. 
B.  Haioh  Allen,  Esq. 

[Mr.  Haigh  Allen  is  well-known  as  the  founder  of  Trinity 
Church,  Huddersfield.] 
Articles  of  Enrolment  for  the  proposed  Huddersfield  Corps 

of  Yeomanry : 
We  whose  names  are  hereunto  subscribed,  in  pursuance  of 
an  Act  of  Parliament  42  Geo.  III.  c.  66,  entitled  "  An  Act  to 
enable  his  Majesty  to  avail  himself  of  the  Offers  of  certain 
Yeomanry  and  Volunteer  Corps  to  continue  their  services,"  do 
voluntarily  enrol  ourselves  to  form  a  corps  of  Cavalry,  to  be 
called  the  Huddersfield  Corps  of  Yeomanry  for  tbe  internal 
defence  and  security  of  the  kingdom  on  the  following  conditions: 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  11 

1.  To  receive  no  pay  unless  when  embodied,  or  called  out, 
but  to  attend,  mounted  on  serviceable  horses  not  less  than  14£ 
hands  high,  &c. 

2.  Such  times  and  places  of  exercise  to  be  fixed  as  may  least 
interfere  with  the  other  employments  of  the  persons  composing 
the  troops. 

8.  The  Corps  to  be  subject  to  be  embodied  within  the  Biding, 
or  neighbouring  Counties,  by  special  direction  from  his  Majesty 
for  the  suppression  of  Riots  and  Tumults,  &c. 

4.  To  be  liable  to  be  called  upon  by  his  Majesty,  or  by  the 
Lord  Lieutenant,  or  by  any  other  one  Magistrate  of  the  Biding, 
or  by  the  Sheriff,  for  the  suppression  of  any  Riots  or  Tumults 
within  the  Biding. 

5.  To  receive  pay  as  Light  Dragoons  when  thus  serving,  and 
be  subject  to  military  discipline. 

6.  On  exercise  days  to  wear  proper  uniform,  clothing,  accou- 
trements, cloaks,  saddles,  and  bridles,  at  each  individual's 
expense,  or  aided  by  local  subscription  or  government  allowance. 

7.  The  Arms  provided  by  government,  to  be  ready,  cleaned, 
&c,  on  exercise  days. 

8.  Officers  to  receive  Commissions  from  his  Majesty  or  the 
Lord  Lieutenant. 


March  4,  1817. 
Subscriptions  in  support  of  the  Huddersfield  Yeomanry  Corps. 

John  Lister  Kaye   ...  £60  Will.  Irving       ...  £10 

John  Beaumont      ...  £50  Joseph  Atkinson  £10 

B.  Haigh  Allen       ...  £80  T.  Bentley £10 

John  Whitaore        ...  £80  Thos.  Allen        ...  £20 

General  Bernard     ...  £20  Joseph  Armitage  £20 

John  Armytage       ...  £20  Henry  Nelson    ...  £10 

W.  W.  Stables        ...  £20  Jno.  Brooke       ...  £10 

John  Horsfall £20  W.  B.  Dobson    ...  £10 

JohnTuite       £10  Senior  &  Beaumont  £10  10s 

John  Sutclifte £10  John  Dyson       ...  £10 

William  Brooke      ...  £80  H.  Stables £10 


Whitehall,  12  March,  1817. 
My  Lord, 

I  have  laid  before  the  Prince  Begent  your  Lordship's  letter 
of  the  11th  inst.  containing  a  proposal  for  forming  a  Troop  of 
Yeomanry  Cavalry  of  Sixty  Privates  in  Huddersfield  and  its 
neighbourhood ;  and  I  have  the  satisfaction  to  acquaint  your 
Lordship  that  his  Royal  Highness,  in  the  name  and  in  the 
behalf  of  his  Majesty,  is  graciously  pleased  to  approve  thereof 
subject  to  the  provisions  of  the  Volunteer  Act.  His  Boyal 
Highness's  pleasure  with  respect  to  the  Gentleman  recommen- 
ded by  your  Lordship  for  the  command  of  this  Troop,  as  also 


12         YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

to  your  recommendation  of  a  Lieutenant  in  the  Northern  Regi- 
ment will  be  signified  to  your  Lordship  in  a  separate  letter. 
I  have  the  honour  to  be,  my  Lord, 

Your  Lordship's  most  obedient  humble  servant, 
Sidmouth. 
The  Earl  Fitzwilliam. 


At  a  Public  Meeting  of  the  Inhabitants  of  Huddersfield  and 
its  vicinity,  held  by  adjournment  at  the  George  Inn,  on  Mon- 
day, March  81,  1817,  John  Horsfall,  Esq.,  in  the  Chair, 

Resolved — That  under  the  present  alarming  circumstances 
of  the  Country,  the  services  of  the  Yeomanry  Cavalry  have  been 
of  most  essential  service  in  preserving  the  tranquility  of  this 
town  and  neighbourhood. 

That  the  thanks  of  this  Meeting  be  given  to  the  Officers  and 
Privates  of  the  Cavalry  for  their  Services,  and  that  they  be 
requested  to  continue  the  same  for  two  nights  longer,  and  that 
the  Chairman  be  requested  to  acquaint  John  Armytage,  Esq., 
Captain  of  the  Troop,  with  these  resolutions. 


Milton,  April  6,  1817. 
Sir, 

I  have  great  satisfaction  in  receiving  your  letter  of  ye  1st 
inst.  The  alacrity  with  which  the  principal  gentlemen  and 
merchants  of  the  neighbourhood  have  completed  the  Corps,  is 
demonstrative  of  their  proper  feeling,  and  of  this  right  and  just 
way  of  thinking — that  if  the  circumstances  of  the  times  require 
more  than  ordinary  preparations  for  maintaining  tranquility  in 
any  particular  district,  such  district  should  itself  provide  for 
that  security,  and  should  not  call  upon  the  exertions  of  others 
in  their  defence.  I  cannot  applaud  more  than  its  merits,  the 
zeal  with  which  you  and  the  corps,  watch'd  over  the  safety  of 
the  town  and  neighbourhood  of  Huddersfield  on  ye  80  March. 

I  have  the  honor  to  be,  Sir, 

Your  most  obedient  servant, 

Wentworth  Fitzwilliam. 
Capt.  Armytage, 

Huddersfield  Yeomanry. 


Head  Quarters,  Pontefract,  April  5th,  1817. 
My  dear  Sir, 

I  have  great  pleasure  in  forwarding  to  you  the  annexed 
copy  of  part  of  a  letter  I  received  this  morning  from  Lord 
Sidmouth  as  applying  to  your  Corps,  whose  prompt  disposition 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  18 

to  render  themselves  of  service  I  think  highly  deserving  of  the 
merit  he  attributes  to  them, 

I  have  the  honor  to  be,  mj  dear  Sir, 

Yery  faithfully  yours, 

J.  Byno,  M:  G: 

Huddersfield,  June  28,  1817. 
Dear  Sir, 

Accept  our  thanks  for  the  very  important  services  rendered 
by  yourself  and  by  the  Corps  under  your  command.  We  feel 
very  sorry  to  be  obliged  still  further  to  trespass  upon  your 
time,  but  from  the  unsettled  state  of  the  neighbourhood,  and 
the  number  of  prisoners  still  in  oustody,  we  think  that  we 
should  not  be  justified  were  we  not  to  request  that  you  will 
keep  twelve  men  on  permanent  duty  until  Saturday,  the  28th 
instant. 

We  have  the  honor  to  be,  dear  Sir, 

Your  very  obedient  servants, 

Jo.  Haigh, 
To  Capt.  Abhytage.  B.  Haigh  Allen. 

My  Lord, 

Inolosed  herewith  is  a  list  of  the  names  of  the  Noncom- 
missioned Officers,  Trumpeter  and  Privates  of  the  Huddersfield 
Troop  of  Yeomanry  Cavalry  under  my  command.  .  .  .  state 
to  your  Lordship  my  Company  will  complete  its  establishment 
in  a  month  as  I  am  now  wanting  only  eleven.  I  mention  this 
for  your  Lordship's  consideration,  whether  you  will  at  once 
cause  the  allowance  for  the  whole  establishment  to  be  paid  now 
or  an  amended  list  will  be  required.  May  I  at  the  same  time 
beg  your  Lordship's  instructions  as  to  the  pouches  and  belts 
which  are  the  only  articles  now  wanting. 

Huddersfield,  15  May,  1817. 
David  Alexander,*  Jno.  Allen,  Jno.  Jessop,  Chas.  Brook, 
Josh.  Brook,  E.  F.  Roberts,  Wm.  Shaw,  Geo.  Marriott,  Thos. 
Btarkey,  Jas. ,  George  Burn(ley),  Alex.  Mabon,  Geo.  Cal- 
vert, Jas.  Hinchliffe,  J.  D.  Whitehead,  Jno.  Peace,  Thos. 
Dinsley,  Wm.  Wigney,  Jno.  Allison,  Henry  Booth,  Jas.  Phillips, 
Samuel  Taylor,  Jno.  Hinchliffe,  Jas.  Halliley,  Richd.  Clay, 
Jas.  Tavernor,  Jno.  Little(wood),  Thos.  Haigh,  Willm.  Bates, 
Jno.  Rowland,  Saml.  Brook,  Saml.  Roberts,  Geo.  Moorhouse, 

Wm.  W.  Battye,  Robert  Knight, Hirst,  Geo.  Robinson, 

Jas.  C.  Fenton,  Henry  Alexander,  Jno.  Swift,  Josh.  Kaye,  Josh. 
Charlesworth,  Thos.  Farrar,  Jas.  Greaves,  Edwd.  Hardy,  Jno. 
Newhouse,  Edwd.  Riley,  Thos.  Robinson,  Edwd.  Lees,  Jno. 
Whitehead,  Benjn.  Buckley,  Abraham  Rhodes,  Jno.  Burnley. 

*  His  horse  was  shot  (Annals  Yorks.  18170 


14         YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

Dear  Sir, 

In  consequence  of  the  disturbance  of  last  night  we  are  very 
glad  to  avail  ourselves  of  the  patriotic  offer  made  by  the  Corps 
under  your  command.  We  request  that  you  will  continue  them 
upon  permanent  service  until  Monday  the  16th  instant,  for  the 
preservation  of  the  Peace  of  this  town  and  neighbourhood. 
We  have  the  honor  to  be,  dear  Sir, 

Your  obedient  servants, 

Jo.  Haigh, 
B.  Haigh  Allen.* 
Huddersfield,  June  9,  1817. 

To  Capt,  Abmytage,  Hudd.  Yeo.  Cav. 
On  the  16th  they  ask  for  a  third  part  of  the  Troop  to  remain 
on  duty  for  another  week. 

Wentworth,  June  20,  1817. 
Dear  Sir, 

The  service  that  in  the  course  of  the  last  fortnight,  you 
and  your  troop  have  rendered  to  the  country,  calls  for  the 
gratitude  of  all,  who  are  attached  to  our  constitutional  estab- 
lishments, and  feel  an  interest  in  preserving  the  present  order 
of  things.  Notwithstanding  the  readiness  you  have  all  evinoed 
to  devote  your  time  to  that  important  purpose,  still  it  ought  to 
be  in  the  consideration  of  others,  how  great  are  the  sacrifices 
you  make  for  the  safety  of  your  fellow-subjeete.  Appearances 
being  now  so  favourable,  I  trust  one  may  with  confidence  rely 
that  after  the  termination  of  the  present  week  the  Magistrates 
will  not  see  any  further  occasion  for  the  continuance  of  your 
service.  Whenever  you  withdraw  from  permanent  duty,  it  will 
be  necessary  to  make  out  a  regular  return  of  the  number  winch 
were  each  day  on  duty,  which  if  forwarded  to  me,  I  will  take 
care  to  transmit  to  the  Secretary  of  State,  for  the  purpose  of 
obtaining  pay  and  allowances. 

I  have  the  honor  to  be,  dear  Sir, 

Your  most  obedient  servant, 

Wentworth  Fitzwillum. 
Capt.  Com.  Abmttagk. 

Milton,  June  28,  1817. 
Sir, 

I  have  great  satisfaction  in  transmitting  an  extract  from  a 
letter  I  received  this  morning  from  Lord  Sidmouth. 
[Thanks  of  the  Government.] 

Your  most  obedient  servant, 

Wbntwobth  Fitzwillum. 

[Printed  Circular.]    Sir,  The  Magistrates  of  this  Town  being 

aware  of  the  valuable  time  you  have  given  up,  (from  the  8th 

•  Magistrates  of  Huddersfield. 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  15 

instant  to  this  day)  in  the  performance  of  those  duties  they 
required  of  yon  for  the  public  good,  and  which  you  have  so  ably 
and  so  handsomely  performed,  are  unwilling  to  trespass  any 
longer  on  that  time  which  your  other  private  duties  so  much 

demand 

I  have  the  honor  to  be  your  faithful  and  obliged, 

J.  Abmytagb, 

Captain  Commandant. 
Huddersfield,  June  28,  1817. 

P.S. — Drill  as  usual  on  Monday,  July  7,  4  p.m. 

["  Whiteley  of  Holmfirth  is  taken  and  sent  to  London  this 
morning,"  written  on  the  back.] 

Huddersfield  Corps  of  Yeomanry  Cavalry  to  assemble  on  the 
6th  of  May,  1818,  and  to  march  from  thence  to  York  for  train- 
ing and  exercise  during  six  days.  Present  state : — 2  Captains, 
1  Lieut.,  1  Cornet.  Non-com: — Qr.  Master,  8  Sergeants,  8 
Corporals,  Trumpeter,  50  Privates. 
[Four  extra  days  were  allowed  for  marching  to  and  from  York.] 

Letter  from  Gen.  Sir  John  Byng,  Head  Quarters,  Pontefract 
May  7,  1818,  regretting  his  inability  to  review  the  troops  him- 
self at  York. 

List  of  those  on  duty  May  6-14th.— Capt.  Armytage,  Lieut. 
Atkinson.  Cornet  Dobson.  Sergts.  Brook,  Jessop,  Whitehead. 
Corpls.  Shires,  Shaw.  Trumpeter  Radoliffe.  Privates — D. 
Alexander,  H.  Alexander,  Allison,  Booth,  Battye,  Blackstock, 
Beatson,  Calvert,  Clay,  Dinsley,  Fenton,  Farrer,  Greaves,  Eaye, 
Marriott,  Mabon,  Newhouse,  Peace,  Roberts,  Bhodes,  Starkey, 
Swift,  Wigney,  Jno.  Hincliffe,  Jas.  Taylor,  Jno.  Littlewood. 

[All  the  items  of  the  foregoing  pages  have  been  kindly  con- 
tributed by  Capt.  G.  Armytage.] 


Yorkshire  Militia. — I  have  a  coloured  plate  of  "  A  Grand 
Review  on  Heath  Common,  near  Wakefield,  of  the  Gentlemen 
Volunteers  of  Leeds,  Halifax,  Bradford,  Wakefield  and  Hudders- 
field, as  commanded  by  Lieut.-Col.  Lloyd,  and  reviewed  by 
Lieut. -Gen.  Scott  on  the  4th  of  August,  1796."  "Dedicated 
by  permission  to  Lt.-Col.  Lloyd  and  the  Commanding  Officers 
of  the  respective  Corps  by  their  obliged,  humble  servant — John 
Hopkins."  I  believe  Sir  George  Armytage,  Bart.,  commanded 
the  Huddersfield  Corps,  and  Col.  Horton  the  Halifax  Corps. 
The  colours  of  each  corns  are  now  at  Eirklees  and  Howroyd 
Halls  respectively.  This  is  probably  the  Corps  referred  to  by 
W.  A.  T.  (VoL  I.  p.  285).  Of  the  present  6th  West  York 
Militia,  whose  head  quarters  are  at  Halifax,  Capt.  Godfrey 
Armytage  was  appointed  Adjutant  of  the  Regiment  in  October, 
1858.  There  was  no  Militia  Regiment  at  Halifax  before  that 
date. 


16         YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

A  Description  of  the  Envibons  of  Ingleborouoh  and  prin- 
cipal places  on  the  banks  of  the  River  Wenning,  attempted  by 
Thomas  Dixon,  of  Bentham,  formerly  belonging  to  the  Royal 
Regiment  of  Horse  Guards. 

[The  MS.  Scrap  book,  in  which  this  is  written,  bears  the 
autographs  of  Thomas  Dixon  Jackson,  Surgeon,  Slaidburn, 
Joseph  Willis,  Slaidburn,  1842,  and  Dr.  Robert  Clark.] 

To  Abram  Rawlingson,  Esq.,  M.P.  for  Lancaster,  the  follow- 
ing attempt  to  describe  Ingleborough  is  humbly  inscribed  by 
his  much  obliged  and  most  obedient  servant— Thomas  Dixon. 

A  Description  of  the  Environs  of  Ingleborough,  Ac. 

The  dew  clad  grass  untraced  the  sky  was  clear 
No  drunkard's  oaths  as  yet  had  stain'd  the  air. 
The  rising  sun  gleam'd  through  the  dappled  grey 
Serene  the  morn,  the  first  of  blooming  May. 
The  Vale  of  Wenning  I  resolved  to  tread 
And  trace  the  radiant  rambler  to  its  head ; 
Determin'd  Ingleborough' 8  Mount  to  climb, 
And  what  I  saw  reoite  in  homely  rhyme. 
From  traokless  wilds  emerg'd  my  wondering  eyes 
View'd  the  flat  top,  approaching  to  the  skies. 
Immense  the  prospect,  keen  the  nipping  air, 
The  sun  clear  shining  and  the  weather  fair. 
The  verge  with  rapture  I  survey'd  around 
Imagination  term'd  it  fairy  ground. 
Push'd  from  this  height  the  rock  impetuous  leaps 
With  horrid  crash,  down  miles  of  dreadful  steeps. 
The  wind  then  turning  south,  breath'd  soft  and  mild, 
The  friendly  Genius  of  the  mountain  smil'd. 
The  distant  groves  with  pleasure  I  survey'd 
And  widespread  plains  that  far  below  me  laid, 
Here  plats  of  ling,  there  weather-beaten  rocks, 
Here  moor-game  haunt,  and  there  the  wily  fox. 
An  hundred  hills  are  from  this  mountain  seen 
As  many  vales  that  lie  those  hills  between. 
Longridge  and  Pendle,  superstition's  haunt* 
Whernside  and  Cam,  and  lofty  Penegent, 
Blackcolm,\  dread  mountain,  at  vast  distance  seen 
And  three  wide  shining  sands  that  lie  between. 
Hardknot  and  Wrynoae,  two  bleak  snow-crowned  hills 
Skirted  with  horrid  rocks  and  dreadful  gills. 
Leeks  fell  and  Gragareth  for  their  caverns  fam'd. 
And  Kingsdale  from  its  royal  lords  so  named. 
Far  from  the  house  of  man,  on  a  bleak  wild, 
Where  hills  on  hills  above  the  clouds  are  pil'd 

•  Evidently  witchcraft  is  in  the  writer's  mind, 
t  Beyond  Fairness,  near  the  coast. 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  17 

Lies  this  green  Tale,  where  thousands  daily  graze 

High  rooks  hang  o'er,  and  thro',  a  river  strays, 

Wheels  and  returns,  winds  off  with  many  a  round 

And  wanders  twenty  miles  in  one  of  ground.  (?) 

A  striking  object — Yordas  Cave— is  seen, 

With  awful  entrance,  and  a  spouting  stream ; 

Here  gloomy  darkness  reigns  in  sullen  pride 

With  blabbing  echo  seated  by  her  side ; 

Long  hollow  groans  were  heard  with  mournful  sighs 

To  issue  hence,  if  legends  are  not  lies. 

Near  which  are  seen  the  clefts  of  Gingling  Cove, 

Its  form  and  depth  the  curious  ne'er  could  prove ; 

The  falling  stones  from  rock  to  rock  rebound 

The  dark  abyss  returns  a  tinkling  sound. 

The  Routing  Chasm  amazing  to  behold 

With  dreadful  groan  intimidates  the  bold, 

The  depth  unknown,  vast,  dismal,  dark  and  wide 

With  rugged  pointed  rocks  on  every  side ; 

A  rapid  stream  falls  in  with  hideous  roar, 

Growls  thro'  the  mountain  to  some  distant  shore ; 

Dismay  arises  to  the  man  that  ventures  near, 

His  face  turns  pale,  his  courage  yields  to  fear. 

See  stately  Lune  sweep  down  the  verdant  vale 

[Burrow  Hall,  Thurland  Castle,  TunstaL] 

I  quit  the  summit  to  find  Wenning's  spring, 
Explore  its  course,  its  beauteous  windings  sing ; 
Adown  the  eastern  side  flows  many  a  rill 
Which  pour  thro  mossy  wilds  to  Glapdale's  gill, 
Add  to  the  force  with  which  he  bursts  away 
Thro'  pits  o'erhung  by  woods,  where  hid  from  day, 
With  solemn  roar,  resistless,  on  he  drives, 
Drops  down  a  pitfall,  thro'  a  mountain  drives 
Breaks  out  again,  from  rock  to  rock  he  foams 
With  headlong  rapid  rage  to  Clapham  roams. 
Here  simple  village  swains  long  stories  tell 
Of  fairy  gambols  round  the  Lady's  Well. 
This  charming  villa  equally  divides, 
Now  murmuring  down  the  vale,  to  Swinhouse  glides. 
From  Austwick  flows  a  silver  colour'd  stream, 
United  here,  here  Wenning  takes  its  name. 
This  gulph  profound  the  sullen  otter  haunts, 
The  silent  finny  tribe  supply  his  wants. 
Thro'  spacious  fields  which,  in  the  month  of  May 
With  cowslips  sweet  are  deckt,  he  makes  his  way 

Y.N.Q.  o 


18 


YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


To  Wenning  Hippim*  where  a  verdant  plain 
Is  beautified  by  GorreVs  sacred  fane, 
[Bentham,  Upper  and  Lower,  Wenning  Church,  where  the 
writer's  parents  were  interred,  Tatham  Church,  Hornby  Castle.] 
Total,  about  180  lines. 


lolling  tall,  Ilkleg. 

The  true  copies  of  certeyne  interrogatories  and  depositions 
of  John  Langfellowe,  producte  and  sworne  before  the  Lord 
President  and  Counceli,  established  in  the  North  parts  and 


Holling  Hall, 
examined  before  Thomas  Hardwicke,  gent.,  one  of  the  Exam- 
iners there,  on  the  part  and  behalf  of  our  Souveigne  ladie  the 
Queene,  in  an  informacion  exhibited  upon  the  Relation  of 
Thomas  Mawde,  against  the  said  John  Langfellowe  himself 
Defendant,  as  followeth : 

Ebor  undecimo  Junij  Anno  Regni  Regine  Elizabeth®  xxxiij* 
Interbooatories  to  be  ministred  on  Her  Majestie's  behalfe 
to  John  Langfellowe,  Defendant,  touching  the  matters  conteyned 
in  one  informacon,  exhibited  to  Her  Majestie  and  Her  Honor- 
able Counceli  in  the  North,  by  William  Payler,  Esquire,  Her 
Majestie's  Attorney  in  the  said  North,  upon  the  relation  of 
Thomas  Mawde,  against  the  said  John  Langfellowe,  Defendant 
To  the  FiR8T  whether  do  you  know  the  said  Relator  and  De- 
fendant  ?    And  doe  alsoe  knowe  the  said  seurall  mannors  or 
•  Stepping-stones,  whereby  to  cross  the  stream. 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LOBE    JOUENAL.  19 

lordships  of  Hkeley  and  Hollinghall,  with  the  seurall  mores 
waists  and  appurtenncs  to  the  said  seurall  mannors  seurallie 
belonginge,  or  no. 

(2)  Item  what  mores  commons  or  waists  do  you  certeynelie 
know  do  certeyne  belong  and  apperteyne  to  the  said  mannor  of 
Hollinghall,  and  how  and  in  what  manner,  and  by  what  metts 
and  bounders  are  the  same  devided  and  knowne  from  the  other 
Mannors  or  Lordshipp6  to  them  next  adioyninge. 

(8.  4.)  Item  what  moores  commons  or  waists  are  certeynelie 
belonginge  to  the  said  Mannor  or  Lordshipp  of  Ilkley,  with  th 
appurten'nce,  and  how  and  in  what  manner  and  by  what 
certeyne  metts  and  bounders  are  the  same  certeynelie  knowne 
from  the  mores,  commons  and  waists  of  the  said  Mannor  of 
Hollinghall,  and  what  be  the  names  of  the  said  bounders,  and 
how  know  you  the  same  Item  how  and  in  what  manner  and  by 
what  certeyne  knowne  bounders,  names  and  marks  are  the 
said  seurall  mannors  and  the  seurall  moores,  commons  or 
waists  thereof,  certeinlie  and  seu'allie  knowne  boundered  and 
seuered  thone  from  the  other  And  how  know  you  the  same 
And  what  be  the  names  of  the  said  bounders  and  how  know 
you  the  same. 

(5)  Item  whether  is  there  a  mannor  of  Hollinghall  called 
Hollinghall  or  no,  and  how  know  you  the  same. 

(6)  Item  whether  is  and  tyme  out  of  minde  of  man  hath 
the  said  percell  of  inclosed  ground  in  the  information  men- 
tioned bene  called  and  knowne  by  the  name  of  the  Oxeclose  or 
Intacke  of  Hollinghall  ever  since  the  enclosure  thereof  or  noe. 

(7)  Item  whether  was  the  said  inclosed  ground  in  the  In- 
formation named  taken  up  and  improued  from  the  moore  and 
wastes  belonginge  and  percell  of  the  said  Mannor  or  Lordshipp 
of  Hollinghall  or  not. 

(8)  Item  whether  hath  the  said  enclosed  ground  euer  since 
the  enclosure  thereof  and  before  the  enclosure  thereof  tyme  out 
of  minde  of  man  beene  commonly  reputed,  taken,  occupied, 
and  enioyed  as  parte  and  percell  of  the  said  Mannor  of  Holl- 
inghall and  also  hath  beene  parte  and  percell  thereof  or  noe. 

(9)  Item  by  whom  was  the  said  ground  in  variance  enclosed 
and  taken  up  of  and  from  the  said  waiste,  or  com'on  of  Holl- 
inghall and  what  was  his  or  their  name  or  names  that  did  so 
enclose  the  same  and  how  longe  is  it  since. 

(10)  Item  whether  at  and  before  the  time  of  the  said  en- 
closure makeinge  was  the  said  Sir  Godfrey  Ffoliambe  Knight 
deceased  lawfully  seized  in  his  demeane  as  of  ffee  of  the  said 
Mannor  or  Lordshipp  of  Hollinghall  and  of  the  waiste  there- 
vnto  belonginge  with  the  appurten'ncs  or  no. 

(11)  Item  whether  was  the  said  enclosure  made  and  taken 
up  by  the  lycence  and  appointment  of  the  said  Sir  Godfrey 
Ffoliambe   as  p'rcell  of  the  waistes  of  the  said  Mannor  of 


20  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 

Hollinghall  and  not  by  the  license  of  the  said  ffrancis  Mearinge 
or  no. 

(12)  Item  if  the  said  ffrancis  Mearinge  gaue  any  license  for 
makeinge  of  the  said  enclosure  to  whom  gaue  he  such  license 
and  when  and  where  was  the  said  license  giuen  And  how  long 
is  it  since  and  whether  was  the  same  license  giuen  by  him  by 
word  or  by  writing  And  whether  did  you*  heare  or  know  of 
the  same  license  giueinge  and  where  and  in  whose  presence 
was  the  same  license  giuen. 

(18)  Item  whether  at  any  time  of  the  said  enclosure  were 
you  tennant  vnto  the  said  ffrancis  Meareinge  or  no  ?  If  you 
were  then  whereof  were  you  then  tennant.  And  whether  then 
did  you  cutt  down  any  wood  in  the  said  ground  enclosed  and 
converted  the  same  to  your  ownerse  as  tennant  of  the  said 
meareinge  or  no  And  what  other  tennant  of  the  said  meare- 
inge did  then  cut  and  take  to  his  or  their  vse  or  vses  any  wood 
in  the  said  grounds  and  what  was  their  name  or  names. 

(14)  Item  whether  was  James  Langfellow  your  late  father 
sole  ten'nt  and  occupier  of  the  tenemt  whioh  you  now  occupie 
at  the  time  of  the  said  enclosure  vnder  the  said  mearinge  and 
before  that  time  and  after  dureing  his  life  being  for  the  space 
of  twenty  yeares  after  or  thereabouts  or  no. 

(15)  Item  whether  after  the  decease  of  the  said  James  your 
father  was  your  late  mother  placed  tennant  of  the  same  tenemt 
which  you  now  occupy  or  no,  and  whether  was  she  sole  tennant 
and  occupier  thereof  so  long  as  she  lined  or  no. 

(16)  Item  whether  was  your  said  father  and  mother  both 
dead  before  such  time  as  you  were  placed  tennant  of  the  tenemt 
wch  you  nowe  occupie  or  no,  or  if  you  had  any  occupation  of 
the  premisses  in  either  of  their  life  tymes  whether  was  the 
same  in  their  or  those  of  their  rights  or  no :  And  when  dyed 
your  father  and  when  dyed  your  mother  and  how  longe  is  it 
since  the  seu'all  times  of  their  deathes. 

(17)  Item  whether  do  you  know  one  gill,  brook  or  rundell 
of  water  or  a  place  wherein  water  runs  in  wynter  tyme  com- 
'only  called  and  knowne  by  the  name  of  Nichollriddlngill  als. 
Bigallriddingill  or  no. 

(18.  19)  Item  whether  doth  the  said  gill,  brook  or  rundle 
run  and  extende  between  the  said  Lordshipp  of  Hollinghall 
and  Ilkley  and  doth  devide  thone  Lordshipp  from  thother  for  a 
certeyne  space  or  no  And  how  far  doth  the  same  becke  or 
rundle  devyde  the  same 

Item  whether  hath  the  said  beck  or  rundle  been  time  out  of 
minde  of  man  a  knowne  bounder  to  devyde  the  said  Lordshipp 
as  far  as  the  same  runneth  betwixt  them  or  no  and  how  tar 
doth  it  run  betwixt  them. 


*  Query — When  did  you  first  appear  instead  of  thou  1 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  21 

(20)  Item  whether  doth  all  the  grounds  called  the  Westwood 
of  Ilkeley  als.  the  new  close  lye  ouer  the  one  side  of  the  said 
becke  or  rundle  and  on  the  west  side  of  th  said  brooke  or  no 
And  which  be  all  the  grounds  called  the  Westwood. 

(21)  Item  whether  time  out  of  minde  of  man  hath,  all  the 
groundes  moores  and  waists  lyinge  and  adioyninge  on  the  West 
side  of  the  said  rundle  or  brooke  by  what  name  or  names  so- 
ener  they  be  called  been  parte  and  percell  of  the  said  Mannor 
or  Lordshipp  of  Hollinghall  or  no. 

(22.  28)  Item  whether  do  you  know  certeyne  enclosed 
groundes  lying  and  adioining  on  the  East  side  of  the  said  becke 
or  rundle  within  the  Lordshipp  of  Ilkeley  now  or  late  in  the 
tenures  or  occupacion  of  one  James  Sheaffeild  late  deceased 
John  Rossendale  late  deceased  William  Ian  son  and  others 
which  were  heretofore  ymproved  and  taken  up  of  and  from  the 
mores  or  wastes  of  Ilkeley  or  no. 

Item  when  were  the  same  last  mentioned  grounds  so  im- 
proved and  how  longe  is  it  since  and  how  many  be  there  of  the 
said  seural  inclosure  so  ymproved  on  the  east  side  of  the  said 
rundle. 

(24)  Item  whether  at  and  before  the  time  of  the  said  seurall 
inclosures  makeing  on  the  ea6t  side  of  the  said  rundle  or  beck 
or  most  part  were  all  of  the  said  grounds  so  there  ymproved 
into  the  said  seuall  inclosures  a  very  woody  and  bushey  ground 
growing  full  of  hollings,  thornes,  and  other  woode  or  no. 

(25)  Item  whether  was  all  the  said  last  mencioned  grounds 
so  ymproved  as  aforesaid  or  any  of  them  being  wodd  ground 
vntil  the  same  were  enclosed  as  aforesaid  And  untill  the  in- 
closures thereof  made  com'onlie  gen'allie,  and  certeynelie  called 
and  knowne  by  the  name  of  the  Westwodd  of  Hkley  or  no. 

(26)  Item  whether  before  the  time  of  the  said  last  mencioned 
inclosures  makeing  on  the  east  side  of  the  said  rundle  did  you 
knowe  any  grounds  saueing  them  soe  last  mencioned  to  be 
then  called  or  knowne  by  the  name  of  the  Westwoodd  of  Ilkley 
or  no,     And  if  yes  then  what  grounds  were  the  same 

(27)  Item  whether  was  the  first  menconed  inclosed  grounds 
called  the  Oxeclose  or  Intake  of 'Hollinghall  before  th  inclosure 
then  called  by  the  name  of  the  Westwodd  of  Ilkley  als.  the 
New  Close  or  no.  And  if  yes  then  how  and  by  what  meanes 
and  reason  came  the  same  to  be  so  called  [Oxeclose]  als.  the 
new  close  the  same  lying  open  not  being  inclosed 

(28^  Item  whether  were  you  a  wittnesse  of  the  purchase 
makeing  of  the  said  Mannor  of  Ilkley  with  thapprtnncs  by  the 
said  John  Middleton  of  the  said  ffrancis  mearinge  or  no,  how 
long  is  it  since  And  whether  was  the  same  purchase  made  in 
the  lifetime  of  the  said  James  Langfellowe  your  late  Father  or 
no  and  if  yes  how  longe  was  the  same  before  he  dyed 


22        YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

(29)  Item  whether  was  liu'y  and  seizine  had  and  made  vpon 
the  lands  so  purchased  or  no  when  and  where  and  in  what 
places  or  place  was  liuerie  and  seisine  so  ginen  and  deliu'ed 
and  by  whom  and  to  whom  and  who  were  wittnessee  thereof 
And  what  were  their  names 

180)  Item  whether  was  liu'y  and  seisine  therevpon  giuen 
ie  in  one  place  in  the  name  of  all  the  rest  or  els  in  sea'all 
places  or  no,  if  onely  in  one  place  then  in  what  place  and  if  in 
seu'all  plaos  then  in  what  and  how  many  seu'all  places  certey- 
nely  vpon  your  oath  was  the  same  giuen 

(81.  82)  Item  whether  did  you  see  liuery  and  seizine  thereof 
giuen  by  the  said  mearinge  to  the  said  Middleton  onelie  in  the 
said  ground  in  variance  called  the  Oxe  close  or  Intake  of  Hoil- 
inghall  in  the  name  of  all  the  premises  purchased  or  no  and 
who  were  then  and  there  present  Item  whether  was  liu'y  and 
seizin  giu'n  both  in  the  said  ground  in  variance  and  also  in  a 
howse  or  tenement  wherein  you  dwell  in  Ilkley  or  no,  if  it  was 
giuen  in  them  both  then  in  whether  of  them  was  liu'y  and 
seizine  firster  made 

(88)  Item  what  moved  you  to  depose  that  liu'ey  was  giuen 
in  the  said  grounds  in  variance  in  the  name  of  all  the  rest 

(84)  Item  if  liu'ey  was  giuen  in  any  other  place  then  in  the 
said  howse  then  whether  was  the  same  giuen  in  any  place  or 
places  belonginge  and  percell  of  the  said  Mannor  of  Hollinghall 
or  no  And  if  yes  then  certeynelie  and  in  what  place  or  places 
was  the  same  And  what  were  the  names  of  the  giuers  of  liu'y, 
to  whom  was  it  made  and  who  were  wittnesse  thereof  And  how 
longe  is  it  since 

(85)  Item  whether  haue  you  since  you  were  examined 
affirmed  and  said  as  touchinge  the  said  liu'y  and  seizine  gineing 
that  you  had  neuer  deposed  that  possession  and  seizine  was 
giuen  any  where  else  upon  the  said  purchase  but  only  in  your 
father's  howse  And  that  the  examiners  might  wryte  what  they 
woulde  but  else  you  neuer  knew  of  liuerie  makeing  in  any  other 
place  but  the  said  house  or  words  to  that  effect  or  no 

(86)  Item  whether  did  you  affirme  when  you  were  going  to 
Yorke  to  be  examined  that  you  must  needes  say  as  Mr  Middle- 
ton  your  master  would  have  you  say  or  no 

£87)  Item  whether  since  you  were  examined  at  the  Assizes 
before  the  Judges  in  this  matter  have  you  affirmed  that  you 
were  not  well  and  that  you  should  be  well  enough  if  Mr 
Middleton  and  the  Lords  of  Hollinghall  should  agree  and  lett 
you  alone  or  wordes  to  that  effect  or  no  And  why  doubted  you 
to  be  lette  alone  and  what  was  the  cause  thereof,  and  declare 
your  whole  knowledge. 

(88)  Item  whether  have  you  heretofore  confessed  and 
affirmed  upon  demand  thereof  made  that  you  were  neuer 
priuie  nor  had  deposed  of  any  possession  or  liuerie  made  in  the 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE    JOURNAL.  28 

said  Oxeelose  or  Intaoke  of  Hollinghall  bat  onely  in  this 
manner  that  you  and  div'se  tenants  of  Ilkley  went  thither  with 
Mr  Middleton  and  at  his  eomanndemt  And  that  Mr  Middleton 
alone  entered  the  said  Oxeelose  or  Intacke  of  Hollinghall  and 
therein  digged  up  a  peece  of  earth  and  bad  you  and  the  rest 
stande  of  the  outside  to  beare  him  wittnes  he  tooke  seizins  and 
that  he  would  stand  to  the  dainger  himselfe  alone,  or  no. 

(39)  Itim  whether  do  you  know  that  the  John  Middleton 
brought  an  accion  of  tresspas  at  the  com' on  lawe  against  the 
said  William  Mawd  and  Icpofer  Uawd  or  those  of  them  and 
that  he  brought  the  same  to  a  nisi  primo  at  Yorke  and  had 
yssue  therein  isyued  and  a  jurie  sworne  for  tryall  thereof  And 
that  the  same  sute  was  quashed  by  reason  of  Sir  Richard 
Chomeley,  Knight,  then  Sherif  and  for  such  other  causes  as 
you  deposed  in  your  deposicon  to  the  said  seuenth  Interrog* 
atorie  or  no,  if  yes  how  were  you  priuie  thereof  who  were 
Attorneys  of  eyther  side  in  the  cause,  what  yssue  was  ioyned, 
who  were  of  the  jurie  sworne  who  were  wittnesses  in  the  cause, 
who  was  Judge  or  Judges  of  the  Dize  how  longe  is  it  since 
And  whether  then  were  you  a  tennant  to  Mr  Middleton  or  no. 

John  Lanofellowe  of  Ilkeley  in  the  Countie  of  Yorke 
Husbandm'  about  thage  of  three  score  and  ten  yeares  wyttnes 
producte  sworne  and  examined  on  the  partie  and  behalfe  of  our 
Sou'eigne  Ladie  the  Queene  in  an  informacion  exhibited  vpon 
the  relacon  of  Thomas  Mawde  against  this  Depont  himselfe 
Defendt  vpon  his  oathe  deposeth  and  saith 

To  the  Fibst  this  Exatnt  saith  he  doth  know  the  relator  and 
the  seu'all  Mannors  or  Lordshipps  of  Ilkley  and  Hollinghall 
with  the  mores  waysts  and  appurtenncs  to  the  said  seu'all 
mannors  or  lordships  belonginge 

To  the  Second  he  sayth  that  whether  Hollinghall  be  a 
Mannor  or  not  he  cannot  depose  howbeit  he  saith  that  for  the 
space  of  three  score  yeares  the  tennants  of  Hollinghall  have 
had  bytt  of  mouth  in  all  com'ons  for  their  cattell  with  the 
tennants  of  the  mannor  of  Ilkley  which  com'ons  and  the  metts 
and  bounders  thereof  shalbe  sett  downe  in  his  answer  to  the 
third  and  ffowerth  interrogatorie. 

To  the  third  and  ffowerth  he  saith  that  the  bounders  of 
the  Mannor  of  Ilkley  are  as  followeth  vizt  beginninge  at  the 
midl  streame  of  the  River  of  Wharfe  at  Bamskell  becke  end 
And  so  up  Bamskell  beoke  to  the  head  of  the  same  becke  and 
so  on  to  the  none  stone  And  so  to  the  grene  ewe  pike  and 
from  thence  to  Buckstones  as  heaven  water  dealeth  and  so  on 
to  the  White  Cragge  as  heaven  water  dealeth  And  so  on  the 
height  of  the  White  Cragge  as  heaven  water  dealeth  betweene 
the  Mannor  of  Ilkley  and  Bingley  to  the  sett  stone  on  the 
White  Cragge  and  from  thence  Northward  to  a  great  stone 
called  Langshawe  Ladde    And  so  on  to  another  sett  stone 


24         YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

called  Stone  edge  and  so  on  still  Northwards  to  another  sett 
stone  in  William  Stead's  Intacke  And  then  downe  by  the 
East  side  of  Gillfeild  and  so  on  by  the  East  side  of  Wheatley 
Wood  and  so  downe  againe  to  the  Biuer  of  Wharfe  which 
bounders  this  examt  hath  heard  accounted  to  be  the  bounders 
of  the  Mannor  of  Ilkley  theis  three  score  yeares  for  about  three 
score  yeares  ago  when  this  examt  was  a  boy  he  rant  in  com- 
panie  with  Mr  Ffranncis  Meareinge  then  Lord  of  Ilkley  when 
he  walked  those  bounders  And  diu'se  of  the  said  Ffrancis 
Meareinge  tennants  then  were  in  companie  with  the  said 
Ffrancis  Meareinge  And  about  thirty  fiue  yeares  agoe  Mr 
John  Middleton  did  againe  walke  the  said  boundrs  and  about 
eight  yeares  agoe  Mr.  William  Middleton  now  Lord  of  Ukeley 
also  walked  the  same  bounders  so  that  he  hath  been  three 
seuerall  times  at  the  walkeing  of  those  boundrs  and  as  he 
taketh  it  all  the  mores  and  waistes  within  the  bounders  afore- 
said do  belonge  to  the  Mannor  of  Ilkley  howbeit  the  tennants 
and  occupyers  of  Hollinghall  were  as  free  for  byth  of  mouth 
within  all  the  mores  and  waists  within  the  boundrs  aforesaid 
as  the  tennants  of  the  Mannor  of  Ilkley.  And  saith  that 
Hollinghall  and  all  the  lands  therevnto  belonginge  are  within 
the  bounders  of  the  Mannor  of  Ilkley  And  this  depont  saith 
that  he  neuer  knew  any  boundrs  betweene  the  mannors  of 
Ilkley  and  Hollinghall. 

To  the  Fifth  he  saith  that  now  of  late  he  hath  hard  Holling- 
hall called  a  Lordshipp  and  a  Mannor  but  whether  the  same 
be  a  Mannor  or  not  he  cannot  depose  for  he  neuer  knew  any 
Courts  kept  there 

To  the  Sixt  he  saith  that  three  score  yeares  ago  the  said 
percell  of  ground  in  the  Informacon  menconed  was  called  by 
the  name  of  the  Westwood  of  Ilkley  so  it  was  called  till  about 
ffifty  yeares  ago  that  the  same  was  enclosed  and  euer  since  the 
same  hath  beene  called  by  the  name  of  the  Oxeclose  or  Intacke 
of  Hollinghall,  or  what  other  name  they  pleased. 

To  the  Seaunth  he  saith  that  before  the  said  ground  in  the 
Informacon  mencioned  was  taken  up  and  enclosed  the  same 
ground  was  vsed  and  occupied  as  com'on  as  well  for  the  tenn- 
ants of  Ilkley  as  Hollinghall  And  so  by  reporte  it  had  beene 
vsed  tyme  out  of  minde  of  man. 

To  the  Eight  he  saith  that  euer  since  the  said  ground  was 
enclosed  the  same  was  occupied  and  enioyed  as  parte  and  per- 
cell of  the  Mannor  or  Lordshipp  of  Hollinghall  And  when  this 
Examt  about  fiftie  yeares  agoe  went  to  fetch  wood  forth  of  the 
said  enclosed  ground,  one  William  Mawde  would  not  suffer 
this  Examt  to  fetch  any  from  thence  for  the  said  William 
Mawde  then  affirmed  he  had  enclosed  the  said  ground  by 
lycense  of  the  said  Mr  firanncs  Mearinge. 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  25 

To  the  Ninth  he  saith  that  about  ffiftie  yeares  ago  the  said 
William  Mawde  who  was  Father  to  the  Eelator  did  enclose  the 
said  percell  of  ground. 

To  the  Tenth  he  saith  that  he  knew  not  Sir  Godfrey  Ffol- 
iambe  in  this  interrogatorie  named  but  by  reporte  the  said  Sir 
Godfrey  was  seized  of  the  said  Mannor  or  Lordship  of  Holling- 
hall  with  all  the  appurtnncs  therevnto  belonginge  before  the 
said  ground  was  enelosed 

To  the  Eleauenth  he  saith  that  he  neu'r  heard  that  the  said 
Sir  Godfrey  ffoliame  gaue  license  for  enclosure  of  the  said 
ground  but  this  Examinant  the  Raid  Wiiliam  Mawde  about 
inftie  yeares  agoe  affirme  that  he  enclosed  the  same  by  the 
lycense  of  the  said  ffrancis  Mearinge. 

To  the  Twelft  he  saith  that  about  ffiftie  yeares  agoe  the 
said  grounds  was  newly  enclosed  when  this  Examt  was  fetch- 
ing a  burden  of  wodd  forth  of  the  said  enclosed  ground  in  the 
informacon  menconed  and  the  said  William  Mawde  would  not 
suffer  this  Examt  to  carry  the  same  burden  of  wood  away  for 
the  said  William  Mawd  told  this  Exam'  that  he  had  enclosed 
the  said  ground  by  the  lycense  of  the  said  ffrancis  Mearinge 
wch  is  all  that  he  can  depose  or  knoweth  touchinge  the  said 
lycense  giueing. 

To  the  Thibteenth  he  saith  that  all  the  tyme  of  the  said 
enclosure  this  Depont  and  his  Father  were  as  far  as  he  can  by 
any  meanes  remember  both  tennants  unto  the  said  ffrancis 
Mearinge  of  the  tenement  which  this  Exam'  now  occupyeth 
and  before  the  said  enclosure  this  Exam'  did  diu'se  and  many 
tymes  gett  wodd  and  brackens  in  the  said  ground  and  conu'ted 
the  same  to  thuse  of  this  examt's  Father  and  thus  examt  and 
one  Thomas  Gromocke  and  all  other  the  tennants  of  Ilkley  at 
their  pleasure  before  the  said  ground  was  so  enclosed  did  gett 
wood  and  brakens  there  without  any  interrupcon  But  indeede 
since  the  same  ground  was  enclosed  it  hath  beene  occupyed  as 
belonging  to  Hollinghall  till  now  of  late. 

To  the  ffowebtebnth  he  saith  that  his  Father  liued  about 
seuenteene  yeares  after  the  said  enclosure  But  this  Examt 
was  put  in  as  tennant  with  his  Father  of  the  said  tenemt 
before  the  said  enclosure  as  far  as  he  oan  remember. 

To  the  ffifteenth  he  saith  that  his  Mother  dyed  before  his 
Father  so  that  she  was  neuer  soly  possessed  of  the  said  tenem. 

To  the  Sixteenth  he  saith  that  he  was  ioyned  tennant  with 
his  Father  of  the  said  tenemt  wch  he  now  enioyeth  in  the  life- 
time of  his  Father  And  saith  that  his  Mother  dyed  about 
thirty  five  yeares  ago. 

To  the  Seaunteenth  he  saith  he  doth  know  one  place  where- 
in water  often  runneth  com* only  called  and  knowne  by  the 
name  of  Nichollriddin  gill  and  the  Examt  neuer  knew  the 
same  called  by  any  other  name 


26        YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

To  the  Eighteenth  and  Nineteenth  he  saith  that  before 
Lent  last  past  he  neuer  heard  the  said  gill  beeke  or  rundell 
accounted  for  a  bounder  between  Hollinghall  and  Ilkley. 

To  the  Twentith  he  saith  that  the  said  ground  enclosed  by 
the  said  William  Mawde  which  was  called  Westwodd  before  the 
enclosue  thereof  doth  lye  on  the  West  side  of  the  said  Nioholl- 
ridding  gill  And  Mr  Ffrauncys  Mearinge  enclosed  ground  in 
the  East  side  of  the  said  gill  which  was  called  Westwodd  And 
by  report  one  Perkyn  enclosed  a  parte  of  the  said  Westwodd 
before  this  Examt  cold  remember. 

To  the  One  and  Twentith  he  saith  that  he  neuer  knew  the 
said  Nichollriddinge  gill  to  be  any  boundr  betweene  Ilkley  and 
Hollinghall  But  this  Examt  saith  that  before  the  said  West- 
wodd was  enclosed  by  the  said  Mr  Mearinge  and  William 
Mawde  the  same  ground  was  veed  as  common  as  well  for  the 
tennants  of  Hollinghall  as  for  the  tenants  of  the  Mannor  of 
Ilkley. 

To  the  Two  and  Twentith,  Three  and  Twentith  he  saith  he 
doth  know  certeyne  enclosed  ground  lying  on  the  East  side  of 
the  said  becke  or  rundle  called  Nichollriddinge  gill  within  the 
Lordship  of  Ilkley  now  or  late  in  the  tenures  or  occupacons  of 
one  James  Sheaffild  late  deoeased  John  Rossendale  late  de- 
ceased William  Ianson  and  others  some  of  which  grounds  were 
enclosed  about  ffortie  yeares  ago  and  some  since  But  oerteynely 
when  those  enclosures  were  made  or  how  many  there  be  of  the 
said  enclosures  this  Examint  cannot  depose 

To  the  ffoweb  and  Twentith  he  saith  that  at  and  before  the 
tyme  of  the  said  seu'all  encloseing  of  the  groundes  lying  on  the 
East  side  of  the  said  Nichollriddinge  gill  all  or  most  parte  of 
the  said  grounds  so  enclosed  were  verie  woddy  and  bushey 
grounds  growen  full  of  thornes  hollings  and  other  woodes  and 
brakens  and  since  that  time  some  of  the  same  ground  is  stubbed 
and  made  arable  ground. 

To  the  ffiue  and  Twentith  he  saith  that  some  of  the 
groundes  last  mencioned  before  the  same  were  so  improved 
were  percell  of  the  said  Westwodd  and  so  called  vntill  the 
same  were  enclosed  but  Ianson  neuer  occupyed  any  part  of  the 
Westwodd  enclosed  for  bardengill  is  the  uttmost  fence  or 
bounder  of  the  East  side  of  the  Westwood  And  the  Westwodd 
did  extende  no  further  Eastward  but  to  the  said  Barden  gill. 

To  the  Six  and  Twentith  that  the  said  ground  enclosed  by 
the  said  William  Mawde  and  also  the  ground  by  report  enclosed 
by  the  said  Parkin  and  all  the  ground  lying  on  the  East  side 
of  Nichollridding  gill  extending  to  the  said  Barden  gill  were 
called  by  the  name  of  Westwood  of  Ilkley  before  thenclosure 
thereof 

To  the  Seauen  and  Twentith  he  saith  that  the  said  grounde 
in  the  Informacon  mencioned  which  was  enclosed  by  the  said 


WITH    Y0BK8HIBE    FOLK-LOBE    JOUBNAL.  27 

William  Mawde  was  called  by  the  name  of  the  Westwodd  onely 
before  the  same  was  enclosed  And  after  that  enclosure  then  it 
was  called  the  New  Close  or  Oxclose  or  Intacke  or  by  what 
other  name  pleased  them. 

To  the  Eight  and  Twentith  he  saith  that  when  John  Middle- 
ton  purchased  the  Mannor  of  Ilkley  of  the  said  Ffrancys 
Mearinge  this  Exam'  was  a  wittnesse  of  liu'y  and  seizine  which 
was  giuen  of  the  same  to  the  said  John  Middleton  which  was 
so  giuen  about  thirty  eight  yeares  agoe  And  this  Examts' 
Father  was  then  lyveing  and  liued  about  three  yeares  after 
that  tyme 

To  the  Nyne  and  Twentith  he  saith  that  the  said  liu'ie  and 
seizine  was  so  giuen  and  deliu'd  in  the  howse  wherein  this 
Examt  dwelleth  and  in  the  Westwodd  aboue  the  Gragge  Topp 
which  was  so  giuen  and  deliu'ed  in  both  those  places  by  the 
said  Ffrancys  Mearinge  in  his  owne  person  to  the  said  John 
Middleton  himself  in  the  presence  of  William  Ffox  John  Boss- 
endale  Bryan  Hardwicke  Thomas  Mason  and  many  others 

To  the  Thibtith  he  saith  that  the  said  liu'y  and  seizine  was 
giuen  in  two  places  as  aforesaid 

To  the  One  and  Thibtith  and  Two  and  Thibtith  he  saith  he 
did  see  the  said  liu'y  and  seizine  giuen  in  both  the  said  places 
as  is  aforesaid  And  it  was  first  done  in  the  howse  wherein 
this  Examt  dwelleth  and  vpon  the  same  daie  shortlie  after- 
wards in  the  said  Westwodd. 

To  the  Thbee  and  Thibtith  he  saith  that  liu'y  and  seizine 
was  giuen  in  the  said  Westwodd  in  the  name  of  all  the  rest  of 
the  grounds  belonging  to  that  Mannor  for  this  Examt  was 
present  when  the  same  was  so  giuen  whereby  he  is  certyne  to 
depose  herein 

To  the  ffoweb  and  Thibtith  he  saith  that  he  did  see  the 
liu'y  and  seizine  giuen  and  made  both  in  the  howse  and  in  the 
Westwodd  as  is  aforesaid  and  he  hath  before  deposed  both  who 
gaue  the  same  liu'y  and  seizine  and  to  whom  it  was  giuen  and 
who  were  witnesses  thereof. 

To  the  ffiue  and  Thibtith  he  saith  that  he  did  neuer  say 
that  he  did  not  depose  that  possession  was  giuen  in  any  other 
place  upon  the  said  purchase  but  in  this  Examt's  Fathers 
howse  for  this  Examt  from  tyme  to  tyme  hath  affirmed  and 
confessed  that  the  said  possession  was  giuen  both  at  the  said 
house  and  in  the  said  Westwodd  and  he  neu'  spake  the  con- 
trary to  any  man. 

To  the  Six  and  Thibtith  he  saith  that  he  did  not  at  any  time 
eaie  he  must  needs  say  as  Mr  Middleton  his  Mr.  would  haue 
him  to  say  or  any  words  to  that  effect. 

To  the  Seaun  and  Thirtith  he  saith  that  since  he  was  ex- 
amined before  the  Judges  touching  this  matter  he  hath  wished 
that  Mr  Middleton  and  Mr  Mawde  were  agreed  together  which 


28         YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

is  all  that  he  can  remember  he  spake  touchinge  the  matters  in 
this  Interrogatorie  sett  downe. 

To  the  Eight  and  Thirtith  he  saith  he  hath  not  confessed 
any  such  matter  as  in  this  Interrogatory  is  sett  downe  for  this 
Examt  saith  that  liu'y  and  seizine  was  deliu'ed  in  as  good 
manner  and  as  effectuallie  in  the  Westwodd  as  in  the  howse. 

To  the  Nynk  and  Thirtith  he  saith  that  about  twenty  fine 
yeares  agoe  the  said  John  Middleton  brought  an  action  of 
trespasse  at  the  Common  Lawe  against  the  said  William 
Mawde  and  Christofer  Mawde  or  thone  of  them  and  brought 
the  same  to  a  nisi  prius  at  Yorke  And  had  yssue  therein 
ioyned  and  a  jury  sworne  and  the  matter  about  to  be  tryed 
then  eyther  the  said  William  Mawde  or  Christofer  Mawde 
found  such  meanes  by  reason  that  Sir  Richard  Cholmeley  who 
then  was  Sherif  of  the  County  of  Yorke  was  so  neare  of  kyn  to 
the  said  John  Middleton  that  the  same  matter  was  quashed 
But  who  were  Attorneys  of  either  side  in  that  cause  or  what 
yssue  was  then  joyned  or  who  were  then  sworne  as  jurors  or 
who  were  then  Judges  of  Assize  he  cannot  depose  for  although 
this  Examt  hath  deposed  as  is  aforesaid  yet  this  Examints 
whole  knowledge  therein  ariseth  by  reason  in  that  Assize  week 
when  the  matter  was  to  be  tryed  he  came  to  Yorke  about  buy- 
ing of  corne  And  for  that  this  Examt  was  then  tennant  to  Mr 
Middleton  therefore  he  went  to  the  Castle  Garth  to  learne  how 
the  matter  went  And  then  he  did  understand  how  the  matter 
was  quashed  and  by  what  means. 

Signed  thus  Ex.  pr.  The  Hardwicke. 

In  testimony  that  this  coppie  is  true  the  Lord  President  and 
Councell  of  the  Queen's  Maiestie  established  in  the  North  at 
the  humble  sute  and  request  of  the  Relator  haue  caused  her 
Mats  signer  remaineinge  with  her  Highnes  Secretary  attendant 
upon  the  said  Lord  President  and  Councell  to  be  hereunto  sett 
the  sixteenth  day  of  July  in  the  ffower  and  thirtith  yeare  of 
her  Highnes'  reigne  Anno  Dni  1592. 

S  thus  ffacta  collacone  concordat  cum  Originali  Ra.  Rokebie. 

[On  a  parchment  4  feet  7  inches  by  22  inches.] 


(Earlg  ^orksbire  15  apt  is  ts. 

A  MS.  book  (5  inches  by  8,)  in  the  writing  of  Alverey 
Jackson,  a  Yorkshire  Baptist  Minister,  has  been  lent  to  us  by 
Mr.  Ormerod,  Langfield  House,  Todmorden,  which  supplies 
materials  for  Baptist  history  at  a  period  of  which  little  is 
known.    Its  principal  contents  are : 

Sum's  Melody  Vindicated. — Question,  How  is  the  Church  of 
God  to  be  considered  ? 

Ana.,  To  (sic.  for  Two)  ways,  either  as  Catholick,  and  in- 
visible ;  or,  as  particular  and  visible. 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  29 

What  is  the  Catholic  Church  ? 

The  Catholic  and  invisible  Church,  wch  the  Apostle  calls  the 
General  Assembly;  consists  of  all  the  members  of  Christ's 
mystical  Body  (both  militant  and  triumphant)  gathered  into 
one  in  Christ  their  head.  Heb.  12.  28.  Eph.  19.  10.  Gal.  8. 
28.     Eph.  8.  15. 

What  is  a  particular  church  ? 

A  particular  and  visible  church,  is,  a  congregation  of  people 
(who  are  under  a  visible  profession  of  Christianity,  usually 
meeting  in  one  place)  gathered  out  of  the  world,  by  the  preach- 
ing of  the  gospel,  unto  faith  in  Christ,  and  by  mutual  agree- 
ment, joyned  together  to  worship  God  in  His  ordinances, 
according  to  divine  appointment.  Act  1,  15  and  2,  1,  and  2, 
41,  42,  46,  47,  and  4,  28,  and  5,  18,  14,  and  9. 26.    2  Cor.  8.  5. 

What  are  God's  Ordinances  ? 

(Ans.)  Ac. 

How  many  sorts  ?  (        ) 

What  are  the  Ceremonial  Ordinances  ? 

(Jewish.) 

What  are  the  Moral  Ordinances  ? 

(Natural  Worship.) 

What  are  Evangelical  Ordinances  ? 

(Baptism,  the  Lord's  Supper,  &c,  (1)  under  the  Law,  (2) 
under  the  Law  and  Gospel,  (8)  under  the  Gospel  only. 

Doth  all  these  Ordinances  belong  to  the  Church  only  ? 

(The  word  [preaching],  prayer,  and  singing  of  Psalms  to  all 
who  attend  the  Lord's  Supper  and  Censures  of  the  Church  to 
the  Church  exclusively. 

How  do  you  prove  that  singing  of  Psalms  and  Hymns  and 
Spiritual  Songs  is  an  ordinance  of  God  now  under  the  New 
Testament. 

(1)  It  is  part  of  natural  worship,  &c. 

(2)  Injoyned  and  commanded  in  New  Test.,  Ac. 
(8)  Practised  by  Christ,  and 

(4)  Foretold  in  Old  Test, 
is  singing  a  moral  duty  ? 
(Elaborately  followed  out.) 

Eight  verses  follow : 

(1)  The  time  I  have  on  earth  to  live, 

Lord  let  me  sing  Thy  praise ; 
Who  did  at  first  me  being  give ; 
And  feeds  me  all  my  days. 

(2)  Thy  works  are  great,  thy  ways  are  good, 

Thy  mercies  never  cease ; 
Thou  didst  redeem  me  by  Thy  "blood, 
And  turn  me  by  Thy  grace. 


80  YOBKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIE8. 

(8)  Therefore  I'll  sing  praise  till  I  die, 
And  death  will  be  my  gain ; 
And  when  Christ  oomes  the  second  time 
I'll  rise  and  sing  again. 

The  Use  we  are  to  make  of  all  this  is  (1)  For  Lamentation, 
(2)  Advice,  &c. 

Page  1. 

Hymn  I. — Sung  after  a  Sermon  preached  by  John  Craw6hay, 

from  Psall  46.  4.    Aug :  5.  1716. 

(1)  There's  a  River  the  Streams  whereof 

Shall  make  glad  the  City 
Of  God,  the  Holy  places  of 
The  Tents  of  the  most  High. 

(2)  This  City's  very  well  compact, 

If  enemies  assail ; 
Upon  a  Bock  it  is  Erect, 

'Gainst  which  hell  can't  prevail. 

*  *  *  *  * 

(7)  Hosanna  to  the  fountain  head 

From  whom  these  streams  descend ; 
Lord,  raise  our  hearts  Thy  praise  to  spread, 
Henceforth  world  without  end. 

(Alvery  Jackson)    A.  L 

Page  2. 
Hymn  II.— Sung  after  a  Sermon  preached  by  John  Crawshay, 
from  Jam.  1.  26.     Oct.  7.  1718. 
(1)  If  any  man  Religious  seem 

And  bridles  not  his  tongue, 
He  his  own  heart  deceives,  and  vain 
Is  that  man's  Religion. 

*  *  *  *  • 

(6)  For  'tis  said,  they  that  would  live  long 

And  would  good  days  enjoy ; 
They  must  refrain  their  lips  and  tongue 
From  speaking  vanity. 
A.  I.    (Alvery  Jackson.) 

Page  8.    Hymn  III. 
Poor  Sinners  all,  let  us  now  call 

Unto  our  minds  our  sin, 
And  let's  repent,  that  we  have  spe't 
Our  time  so  much  therein. 

(7)  Lord  (with  the  space)  give  us  y*  grace 

Of  true  Repentance  then ; 
That  happy  we  may  be  with  Thee 
For  evermore ;    Amen. 
A.I. 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  81 

(Page  4.)    Hymn  IV.    The  Epistle  to  Youth. 
Young  people,  Wisdom  you  invites. 
6  verses  unsigned. 
(Page  5.)    Hymn  Y.     Sung  after  a  Sermon  preached  from 
Ec.  11.  9. 
The  Judgment-day  is  coming  on. 
6  verses,  signed  A.  I. 
Page  6.     Hymn  VI.— Of  Man's  Poverty. 
Poor  Man,  come  see,  thy  poverty 
Brought  on  thee  by  thy  fall ; 
6  verses,  signed  A.  I. 
Hymn  VII.— Lord,  we  Thy  holy  name  adore. 
6  verses.    A.  I. 
Hymn  VIII. —  Admire,  my  Soul,  the  sufferings 
That  Jesus  Christ  hath  born ; 
4  verses.    A.  I. 
Hymn  IX. —  Sin  is  the  thing  the  Lord  doth  hate 
Pity,  *tis  lov'd  by  men  ! 
9  verses.    A.  I. 
Hymn  X. —  Come  rise  my  heart  thy  Saviour's  risen. 

6  verses,  signed  I.  D. 
Hymn  XL —  He  that  hath  not  the  Son,  his  lot 
6  verses.     A.  I. 

Hymn  XII. —  Jesus,  Thy  face  I  fain  would  see. 
6  verses.     A.  I. 
„      Xm. — A  kind  and  gracious  God  have  we, 
0  let  us  give  Him  praise ; 
His  many  favours  unto  us 
Ought  all  our  hearts  to  raise. 
6  verses.    A.  I. 
XIV. —  Glory  to  God  now  in  the  highest. 

6  verses.    A.  I. 
XV. —  Lord,  what  a  doleful,  wretched  state  ? 

6  verses.    A.  I. 
16. —    It  doth  appear  sinners  are  saved 

6  verses.    A.  I. 
17. —     Sinners  are  saved  by  grace. 

6  verses.    A.  I. 
18. —    0  blessed  day  that  I  can  say 

My  Jesus  I  am  Thine. 

7  verses.    I.  B. 
19.— Cant.  8.  5. 

Who's  this  that  from  the  wilderness. 
4  verses.    A.  I. 
20. —    Now  let  us  sing  a  hymn  of  praise. 
7  verses.    A.  I. 


YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

21.— Of  Baptism, 

Go  teach  all  nations  and  Baptize. 
6  verses.    A.  I. 
22. —    Are  we  0  Lord  begot  again 

Unto  a  hope  with  Thee  to  reign  ? 
6  verses.    A.  I. 
28. —    An  Acrostick :  Sung  before  a  Funeral  Sermon, 
By  D.  C.  (David  Crossley.) 

I  AMES     EMMOT    ASLEEP     IN     CHRIST. 
I  Gome,  dear  Lord,  I  come  to  Thee, 
Accept  me  thro*  Thy  grace ; 
My  soul  longs  much  to  dwell  in  Thy 
Eternal  holy  place,  (fee. 
24.—    By  D.  C. 

Poor  mortals  all  now  let  us  fall 
Before  God's  holy  throne. 
6  verses. 
25. — Sung  on  a  Day  of  Preparation  for  the  Lord's 
Supper,'  by  a  Church  of  Christ  that  had  been 
scattered,  and  left  for  some  time  without  a 
Pastour,  &o. 
Thine  Ordinances  Lord  we  have,  &c. 
We've  had  the  Gospel  many  years,  &c. 
(8)  For  which  abuses  of  Thy  grace, 
Thou  took  Thy  hedge  away, 
And  in  a  cloud  Thou  hid  Thy  face, 
And  left  Thy  sheep  to  stray ! 

(4)  But  now  a  shepherd  Thou  hast  sent ; 
(Tho'  he  is  weak  and  mean) 
Lord,  take  us  into  covenant, 
And  gather  us  again. 

6  verses.    A.  I. 

Hymn  26. —    At  once  became  the  Angel's  well. 
12  verses.    A.  I. 
„      27. —  Eccl.  12.  1.    Young  people  bear  in  mind. 

6  verses.    A.  I. 
„      28.—  Mat.  5. 11.  12.    Methinks  I  hear  my  Jesus  speak. 

6  verses.    A.  I. 
„      29. —    The  Sacred  Three  in  One.    5  parts. 
24  verses.    A.  I. 

„      80. — Who's  this  that  stands  and  knocks  so  hard? 
'Tis  Jesus ;  let  Him  in : 
I  cannot  ope  I  my  heart  is  barr'd  f 
And  bolted  so  by  sin  1 

8  verses.    A.  I. 


WITH  YORKSHIKE  FOLKLORE  JOURNAL.      88 

„      81. — Lord  teach  me  in  my  youthful  days, 
My  God,  and  Guide  then  be ; 
And  when  my  strength  with  age  decays, 
Still  let  me  lean  on  Thee. 
7  verses.    A.  I. 
„      82. — An  Acrostick  Sung  at  a  Funeral  Sermon  preached 
from  Heb.  18;  18,  14,  15,  occasioned  by  the 
death  of  Richard  Swinglehurst. 
Redeemed  by  Christ  my  great  High  Priest, 
I  now  His  praises  sing.      A.  I. 
„      88. — Sung  on  a  Day  of  Preparation  for  the  Lord's 
Supper. 
Lord  we  are  here  met  to  prepare. 

5  verses,  unsigned. 
„      84 — At  the  Lord's  Supper. 

Think  now  my  soul  wt  thou  dost  owe. 

6  verses,  unsigned. 

„      85.— My  Soul,  did  Enoch  walk  wth  God. 

7  verses,  unsigned. 

„      86.— Let  all  the  Children  of  the  Lord. 

4  verse 8,  unsigned. 
„      87. —    Poor  sleepy  sinners  little  think. 

6  verses,  unsigned. 
„      88. —    Come  manna-gatherers,  all  now  sound. 

6  verses,  unsigned. 
„      89. —    Help  me  my  God,  to  sing  Thy  praise. 

6  verses,  unsigned. 
„      40. —    By  God  it  was  contrived.     10  verses,  unsigned. 
„      41. —    Since  rents  are  high  and  Trades  are  low, 
There's  many  run  behind ; 
The  ready  way  I  fain  would  know, 
A  wealthy  store  to  find. 
12  verses,  unsigned. 
„      42.— (page  48.) 

The  time  I  have  on  earth  to  live, 
Lord,  let  me  sing  Thy  praise. 

8  verses,  unsigned. 

An  Abridgment  of  a  Sermon  concerning  the  Gospel  Ordinan- 
ces of  Singing  Psalms,  &c.  Preached  at  Barnoldswick  Nov.  10. 
1717.    By  A.  I. 

Dearly  beloved  in  the  Lord  Jesus  X  the  Reasons  why  I 
preached  unto  you  and  would  indeavour  to  practise  among  you 
this  Ordinance  of  Singing  Psalms ;  are  as  follows,  &c. 

An  abridgment  of  some  of  the  principal  heads  of  a  Book  by 
Thomas  Brooks, — An  ark  for  all  God's  Noahs. 

Y.N.Q.  I) 


84  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 

A  Sermon,  preached  at  the  marriage  of by  Thomas 

Dickenson.    Psal.  68.  6.     God  setteth  the  solitary  in  families. 

(12  leaves.) 
No  scornfull  beauty,  ere  shall  boast 

She  made  me  love  in  vain ; 
For  she  that  I  adored  most 
I  now  as  much  disdain. 

And  so  on  for  twenty  pages  of  love  songs  or  reproachful  jilt- 
ing addresses,  signed  by  Thomas  Cockshot ;  possibly  copied. 
This  part  of  the  volume  has  evidently  no  connection  with  the 
rest  of  the  M8S.,  but  was  bound  up  with  them  for  preservation. 

A  fraction  of  another  note  book  follows  beginning  with  page 
47,  being  outlines  of  sermons  in  Mr.  Jackson's  writing.  After 
page  77  there  are  a  few  blank  leaves,  and  then  the  following 
outline  of  a  Baptist  Association  which  I  have  fully  copied. 

The  management  of  the  Association  held  at  Barnoldswick  on 
the  fifteenth  and  sixteenth  days  of  June,  in  the  year  1720,  was 
as  followeth — 

In  the  first  place  after  the  Association  was  come  together  it 
was  agreed  that  the  meeting  should  begin  with  prayer  for  a 
blessing  upon  it  by  Alverey  Jackson.  After  which  John  Sedg- 
field  being  chosen  to  preach,  gave  out  the  28  psalm  to  be  sung, 
and  preached  from  Jerem.  6.  29.  Sermon  being  ended  Thomas 
Greenwood  followed  with  prayer,  and  then  Bichard  Ashworth 
after  making  a  short  introductory  discourse,  lead  forth  the  first 
psalm  and  preached  from  Acts  5.  88.  89.  and  concluded  with  a 
short  prayer.  Then  the  Association  came  together  and  B.  A. 
was  by  vote  chosen  Moderator. 

The  Letters  from  the  several  Churches  were  read ;  and  the 
questions  therein  commended  to  each  one  consideration  against 
the  day  following,  and  John  Wilson  was  chosen  to  conclude 
the  first  day  with  prayer. 

The  second  day  Nathanael  Booth  was  chosen  to  begin  the 
meeting  with  prayer.  Then  in  the  next  place,  the  question 
proposed  in  the  Letter  from  Liverpool  was  debated,  viz.— 
Whether  the  Laying  on  of  hands  upon  all  Believers  as  believers, 
without  relation  to  any  office,  be  a  standing  Ordinance  in  the 
Church  of  Christ,  and  to  be  practised  now  by  His  Ministers  or 
not  ?    Answered  as  follows : — 

In  answer  to  the  Question  proposed  by  the  Church  of  Liver- 
pool, about  laying  on  of  hands  upon  Baptized  Believers  as  sack 
in  order  to  communion.  It  is  reasonable  to  suppose  it  was 
practised  in  the  Apostoliok  and  Primitive  times,  and  if  the 
cessation  of  the  extraordinary  gifts  of  the  Holy  Spirit  then 
attending  its  usage  cannot  be  pleaded  as  a  supersedeas  to  this 
ceremony,  it  ought  to  be  used  still.  Some  of  us  whose  names 
are  underwritten  are  of  opinion  it  cannot ;  for  if  this  ceremony 
or  principle  cease,  because  stript  of  those  priviledges  that  then 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  85 

accompanied  it,  it  is  reasonable  that  other  services  cease  for 
the  same  cause :  for  what  is  plainer  then  miracles  accompany- 
ing both  the  Standing  Ordinances  of  preaching  and  prayer, 
Mar.  16.  16.  17 ;  Acts  4. 81,  and  8. 15.  Bat  whoever  takes  the 
Liberty  in  it  let  it  be  done  with  prudence  and  moderation,  not 
abasing  it  to  superstition,  neither  censuring  those  that  omit  it. 
Bom.  14.  from  the  18  to  the  28. 

Bichard  Ashworth  John  Sedgfield 

John  Wilson  Tho.  Seaoome 

Alverey  Jackson 
And  it  was  agreed  that  this  case  thus  drawn  up  and  subscribed 
only  by  these  five  of  the  Association,  should  be  sent  only  to  the 
Church  at  Liverpool  in  answer  to  their  question,  to  the  intent 
that  they  may  be  the  better  satisfied,  and  other  Churches  ye 
less  troubled  about  it. 

In  the  second  place  the  case  in  Bodhill-end  Letter  was  con- 
sidered wch  was  presented  to  this  purpose — That  they  had  in 
time  past  some  person  or  p'sons  among  them  as  common 
hearers  (considering  whose  conduct  they  could  not  but  charit- 
ably hope  their  condition  was  safe)  who  could  not  see  it  their 
duty  to  enter  orderly  into  Church  Communion  in  the  time  of 
their  health,  who  yet  in  the  time  of  their  sickness  earnestly 
desired  to  partake  of  ye  Lord's  Supper  before  they  left  the 
world*  Question — Whether  it  is  warrantable  to  administer  the 
Lord's  Supper  to  such  a  person  in  such  a  condition  ?  Ans. 
Whereas  a  Question  was  proposed  about  communicating  a 
dying  person,  upon  a  friendly  and  amicable  debate  thereupon 
it  was  concluded  that  several  such  difficulties  would  necessarily 
intangle  the  final  determination  of  it  as  would  make  it  both 
proper  and  necessary  to  refer  the  drawing  of  it  up  to  some 
particular  person:  Whereupon  it  was  agreed  that  Bichard 
Ashworth  should  draw  up  the  whole  case  against  the  next 
Association  in  order  to  prepare  it  for  their  further  judgment. 

Thirdly  upon  the  consideration  of  some  dangerous  evils, 
especially  of  a  Laziness  and  coldness  of  Spirit,  grown  up  or  in 
apparent  danger  to  grow  up,  among  the  several  churches  be- 
longing to  this  Association ;  we  have  thought  it  necessary  after 
a  long  consultation  in  inquiring  into  the  matter  as  to  the  evil, 
the  cause  of  the  evil,  and  cure  of  it:  as  one  likely  means  among 
the  rest  to  set  apart  a  certain  day  solemnly  to  be  observed  by 
all  the  Churches,  by  way  of  fasting  and  humiliation,  prayer 
and  supplication :  and  think  proper  on  that  occasion  to  appoint 
Aug.  4.  1720,  concluding  at  the  same  time  to  revive  the  too 
much  neglected  observation  of  the  last  appointment  of  this 
nature,  concluded  in  the  last  Association,  1719,  obliging  every 
person  to  the  weekly  observation  of  every  Thursday. 

Fourthly  it  was  debated,  whether  we  should  endeavour  to 
supply  the  people  at  Gildersome  now  left  without  publick 


36         YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIE8. 

means  thro*  Mr.  0.  absence.     Axis.    It  was  agreed  that  we 
should  indeavour  to  provide  them  a  supply. 

Fifthly  it  was  inquired,  whether  it  doth  most  properly  belong 
to  the  Deacons  of  the  Church  to  distribute  the  Elements  of 
bread  and  wine  among  the  communicants  in  the  administration 
of  the  Lord's  Supper  ?  Ans.  For  as  much  as  the  Deacons  are 
the  hands  of  the  Church;  we  judge  it  doth  most  properly 
belong  to  them  to  do  that  service. 

Sixthly,  The  following  Letter  was  drawn  up  and  agreed  upon 
that  each  one  of  the  several  churches  joyned  in  this  Association 
shall  have  a  copy  of  it. 

Time  has  made  it  notoriously  evident  and  plain  that  some 
lesser  evils  connived  at  in  some  worthy  persons  amongst  us  has 
at  last  grown  to  be  very  pernicious  to  our  profession  in  general, 
as  well  as  such  persons  in  p'ticular,  insomuch  that  it  is  not 
without  great  reason  we  all  henceforward  be  watchful  wth  an 
unwearied  and  invincible  diligence,  and  take  all  pious  and 
painful  methods  and  measures  to  prevent  any  such  thing  at  its 
first  appearance ;  in  like  manner  we  desire  that  all  our  several 
Churches  study  to  be  peaceable,  and  meddle  not  in  ye  world 
more  then  needs  must:  provoke  one  another  by  counselling  and 
catechizing  of  youth.  Timothy's  example  will  ever  shine 
bright,  who  being  influenced  by  the  seasonable  advice  and  un- 
paralleled piety  of  both  mother  and  grandmother  had  gained  a 
familiar  knowledge  of  the  Scriptures  with  the  Apostles'  appro- 
bation and  high  commendations  that  it  was  able  to  make  him 
wise  unto  salvation.  Meet  often  together ;  make  it  known  to 
all  men  you  are  Christ's  disciples  by  continuing  in  His  word, 
John  8.  81.  and  loving  one  another.  If  a  brother,  an  officer, 
an  elder  or  pastor  be  overtaken  in  a  fault  you  that  are  spiritual 
and  privy  to  his  failing  restore  such  an  one  with  meekness  not 
sawciness ;  restore  him,  not  expose  him,  make  known  to  him, 
do  not  whisper  it  around  the  country ;  if  he  hear  thee,  well ;  if 
not  employ  some  other  whose  presence  or  prudence  may  more 
probably  prevail ;  but  if  not  think  it  not  too  great  a  trouble, 
nor  too  far  about  to  tell  it  to  the  Church ;  and  if  too  difficult 
for  yours,  bring  it  to  the  Association.  Study  to  outstrip  one 
another.  Forbear  all  provocations  in  word  or  in  gesture,  give 
no  offence  carelessly ;  nor  take  it  causelessly ;  make  it  manifest 
to  the  world  you  do  more  than  others.  Let  it  appear  your 
dissent  is  rational  and  conscientious;  and  cut  off  occasion  from 
them  that  desire  occasion.  Fill  up  the  duties  of  your  relations, 
both  publiok  and  private.  Be  not  selfish  to  serve  God  of  that 
wch  cost  you  nought,  when  to  lay  out  more  for  God  is  manifest 
duty  and  liker  to  meet  with  a  richer  return.  Make  religion 
well  spoken  of  by  good  living ;  let  your  light  so  shine  before 
men,  that  they  may  see  your  good  works,  and  glorifie  yonr 
Father  which  is  in  heaven.     Take  heed  to  your  ways  and 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  87 

especially  that  yon  offend  not  with  your  tongue,  and  to  this 
end  let  your  words  be  with  grace  seasoned  with  salt,  that  they 
may  administer  grace  to  the  hearers.  Reconcile  the  two  abused 
extream  in  religion,  advance  and  extol  free  grace,  maintain 
and  promote  good  works.  Believe  all  His  promises,  do  all  His 
commands ;  make  Christ  all  in  all ;  and  when  yon  have  done 
all  count  yourselves  unprofitable.     So  fare  you  well. 

All  these  things  unanimously  agreed  to  by  all  the  Ministers 
and  Messengers  of  the  Association  (except  the  case  before 
excepted.) 

From  Bossendale — Richard  Ashworth,  Simeon  Lord,  John 
Elison. 

From  Liverpool — John  Sedgfield,  Thomas  Seacombe. 

From  Rawden — John  Wilson,  Nathanael  Booth,  Tho.  Hard- 
castle. 

From  Rodhill-end  or  Stone-slack — Thomas  Greenwood,  John 
Greenwood. 

From  Sutton — (Henry  Wilkinson,  disappointed,)  Robert 
Clongh. 

From  Barnoldswick — Alverey  Jackson,  John  Hargreaves. 

Tottlebank  came  not.  Wherefore  it  was  agreed  that  a  Letter 
should  be  drawn  up  and  sent  thither  in  the  name  of  the  Asso- 
ciation to  inquire  into  their  state,  and  know  the  reasons  why 
they  came  not  to  the  Association. 

And  Lastly,  at  the  request  of  the  Association,  Rich.  Ash- 
worth closed  up  the  whole  with  a  general  exhortation,  and 
prayer  to  the  Lord. 

It  was  concluded  that  the  next  Association  be  at  Baccup  in 
Bossendale. 

[This  Baccup  Association  Meeting  would  take  place  in  1721, 
but  there  are  no  notes  of  other  meetings  until  it  has  worked 
round  again  in  1728  to  be  the  turn  to  hold  the  Association  at 
Baccup.] 

A  Circular  Letter  from  the  Association  at  Baccup,  June  12th 
and  18th,  1728. 

We  send  our  Salutation  to  the  several  Churches  of  our 
Association  and  Denomination,  wishing  their  welfare,  and 
longing  to  know  how  they  do. 

We  have  some  of  us  spent  days  without  eating  and  nights 
without  sleeping,  as  an  heathen  monarch  to  his  honour  some- 
time did  of  old  when  Daniel's  life  was  in  danger  by  the  lyons ; 
as  ours  and  our  devout  friends  are  now  by  customary  raigning 
6ins  and  restless  devils :  now  suffer  us  to  salute  you  in  those 
savory  names  of  Israelites  without  guile  and  your  ministers  of 
Nasarites  purer  than  snow  and  whiter  than  milk,  and  your 
elderd  and  faithful  people,  as  Daniels ;  servants  of  the  living 
God. 


88        YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

And  now  tell  us  truly,  we  ask  yon  lovingly,  whether  yon 
serve  your  God  constantly,  and  send  and  sue  to  Him  daily, 
and  pray  to  Him  continually ;  for  it  is  a  shame  that  the  world 
should  be  more  unwearied  in  plotting  than  you  in  praying ;  or 
that  they  should  take  more  pains  to  go  to  hell  than  you  to 
heaven,  especially  considering  that  plots  was  never  any  match 
for  prayer  nor  the  counsel  of  the  wicked  able  to  stand  before 
the  supplications  of  the  righteous. 

Be  so  kind  to  search  and  see,  whether  this  living  God  be 
able  and  actually  has  by  your  endeavours  delivered  you  from 
the  roaring  lyon  of  hell,  that  goes  about  seeking  who  he  may 
destroy,  has  wounded  many  to  death,  and  has  left  many  houses 
desolate  and  turned  many  professors  into  time  servers,  and 
many  have  not  only  lost  their  own  standing  and  indangered 
their  own  souls,  but  have  also  become  btumbling  blocks  to 
others,  for  one  sinner  destroys  much  good.  But  'tis  some 
comfort  that  whosoever  is  the  author  or  instrument  of  troubles, 
offences,  or  heresies ;  God  is  the  orderer  and  nothing  shows  a 
more  holy  frame  of  heart  than  when  we  stay  not  in  creatures 
but  are  carried  to  God  as  the  author  of  our  comforts  and 
crosses. 

Many  there  be  that  say  they  shall  have,  and  others  that  say 
they  have  Peace,  though  they  walk  in  the  imaginations  of  their 
own  hearts.    Deut.  29.  19. 

[twice  as  much  more.] 
lastly  that  you  may  do  this  is  our  counsel  and  prayer  and  when 
you  do  we  pronounce  the  Peace  of  our  God  upon  you  and  all 
that  walk  according  to  gospel  rule  and  order,  and  on  the  whole 
Israel  of  God.    Farewell. 

The  Appendix. 

The  Letters  from  the  several  Churches  carrying  in  them  an 
unusual  complaint  of  the  decay  of  piety  and  the  want  of  the 
power  of  Godliness,  and  some  principal  causes  hereof  seeming 
to  be  too  much  indulgence  in  the  officers  and  too  much  indiffer- 
ency  in  many  members  of  the  several  Churches :  We  therefore 
recommend  it  as  the  advice  of  this  Association;  That  the 
rulers  of  the  several  Churches  magnify  their  office  and  look 
well  to  the  order  of  God's  house ;  yet  there  be  a  careful  and 
strict  discipline  exercised  in  the  several  societies  committed  to 
their  care  and  charge.  Let  the  teachers  wait  on  their  teaching, 
the  elders  rule  with  diligence,  and  the  deacons  minister  with 
chearfulness ;  in  an  especial  manner  taking  care  that  the 
ministry  be  not  contemned  and  under-valued,  the  ordinances 
slighted  and  neglected,  that  the  members  do  not  wrong  or 
abuse  one  another,  either  by  word  or  action,  but  yet  the  unity 
of  the  Spirit  be  kept  entirely  in  the  bond  of  Peace,  that  the 
weak  be  not  offended  and  ye  inquirers  discouraged. 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  39 

We  farther  advise  all  those  that  have  given  up  themselves  to 
the  Churches  of  Christ  in  this  Association,  that  they  every  one 
ieep  their  places,  and  fill  them  up  with  duty;  that  they  beware 
of  absenting  themselves  from  ye  worship  and  ordinance  of  God 
in  the  Church,  that  they  stay  not  at  home  through  idleness, 
nor  wander  abroad  through  fickleness  or  humor,  nor  suffer  the 
world  to  have  the  preference  to  the  worship  of  God,  but  dili- 
gently and  constantly  attend  upon  public  ordinances  and  pro- 
mote meetings,  unless  they  can  be  able  to  give  a  sufficient 
reason  to  God  and  their  brethren  to  whom  they  are  accountable 
for  such  negligence.  We  advise  you  to  meet  often  together  for 
prayer  and  other  parts  of  divine  worship,  that  you  carry  not 
your  strange  to  a  shy  of  one  another,  but  be  loving,  free  and 
cordial  in  all  your  carriage  and  behaviour  as  brethren  and 
sisters  of  the  same  family,  travellers  in  the  same  way  and  heirs 
of  the  same  inheritance ;  encouraging  and  helping  forward  one 
another  in  the  ways  of  God,  calling  upon  one  another  to  your 
duty,  saying,  Come  and  let  us  go  up  to  the  house  of  the  Lord, 
and  when  one  of  your  kind  brethren  or  sisters  calls  upon  you 
to  your  duty  do  not  excuse  yourselves.  Be  not  forward  to  take 
up  evil  reports  one  of  another ;  nor  speak  slightly,  nor  con- 
temptibly of  one  another  before  their  faces  or  behind  their 
backs.  We  also  exhort  you  to  obey  and  submit  to  your  faith- 
ful pastors  and  teachers,  and  as  you  expect  that  they  should 
often  visit  you  do  you  often  visit  them,  and  open  unto  them 
your  soul  wants  and  spiritual  deseases,  that  they  may  know 
now  to  suit  their  ministry  to  you  and  apply  words  in  season  to 
your  conviction,  instruction  and  comfort.     Mai.  2.  7. 

We  advise  you  also,  To  maintain  communion  with  God  by 
secret  prayer  and  keep  up  family  worship.  To  sit  loose  from 
the  world,  to  labour  to  get  ground  against  your  corruptions, 
especially  the  sin  that  doth  most  easily  beset  you.  Flie  from 
the  errors  and  customs  of  the  times  and  places  wherein  you 
live,  and  as  much  as  in  you  lies  endeavour  to  live  peaceably 
with  all  men.  These  are  the  few  necessary  things  we  would 
advise  you  to,  which  if  you  observe  to  do  ye  shall  do  well. 
Fare-ye-well. 

An  Hymn  on  the  Advice  given  in  this  Epistle  and  Appendix. 

If  this  Advice  be  taken  well, 

And  followed  without  fail ; 
We  need  not  fear  the  gates  of  hell 

Against  us  can  prevail. 
[Nine  more  verses.] 


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YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


©np3  of  a  fUgtsta:  of  ®I)U&mt 

Baptized  by  the  Rev.  Mr.  [Timothy]  Jollie,  [Sheffield],  from  April  18, 
1681,  (the  day  of  his  ordination,)  to  July  27,  1704;*  23  years  3 
months.  Brit.  Mus.  Add.  24436. 


1681 

May  16 

Jonathan 

Joseph  Taison 

Fullwood 

80 

Edward  &  Rebecca 

Thomas  Twigg 

June  18 

Samuel 

Samuel  Shepherd 

Mansfield 

Aug.  10 

Josiah 

Wm.  Ward 

Sheffield 

18 

Peter  &  Obadiah 

Robt.  Dickenson 

Fishlake 

22 

John  &  Margaret 

John  Trippet 

Sheffield 

Oct.    17 

Rebecca 

John  Rogers 

High  Lee 

Dec.     5 

John 

Samuel  Thwaites 

Sheffield 

14 

John 

John  Baker 

do. 

Jan.  19 

John 

Mercur8  Shimeld 

do. 

Feb.  25 

Christian 

Joseph  Smith 

do. 

Mar.    8 

Hezekiah 

Joseph  Smith 

do. 

Elizabeth 

Ralph  Hider 

do. 

Mary 

John  Barber 

do. 

1682 

April  12 

Mary 

Joseph  Yates 

do. 

19 

James 

James  Shimeld 

do. 

May     8 

Ruth 

Joseph  Justis 

do. 

June  22 

Elizabeth 

Joshua  Bayes 

do. 

Aug.  81 

Dorothy 

John  Bamforth 

Fullwood 

Sep.     4 

Anna 

Edw.  Roberts 

Sheffield 

Oct.     9 

Elizabeth 

Thos.  Wilson 

do. 

Nov.  22 

Thomas  &  Deborah 

Thos.  Machon 

Crookmore 

Dec.  18 

Jeremiah 

John  Baker 

Sheffield 

29 

Jonathan 

Jonathan  Smith 

do. 

Jan.     4 

Elisabeth 

Antho  Morris 

do. 

1688  Feb.  20 

Mary 

Mercurs.  Shimeld 

do. 

27 

Anna 

Joseph  Yates 

do. 

Mar.  11 

Deborah 

Dan1  Oates 

Chesterfield 

1684 

April  81 

Anna 

Thos.  Wilson 

Sheffield 

May     8 

Matthew 

Matth.  Wright 

do. 

25 

Hannah 

Robt.  Ellis 

do. 

May  25 

Edward 

Joseph  Smiths 

do. 

Sarah 

Ralph  Hider 

do. 

June    5 

Anna 

Joseph  Taison 

Fullwood 

8 

Deborah 

Nich8  Crabtree 

Fishlake 

Aug.  12 

Rebecca 

John  How 

little  Shefd 

28 

Joshua 

Mr.Samllbbet8on 

Leeds  at  Hatfd 

Sep.  10 

William  &  Joseph 

Wilm  Turner 

Sheffield 

29 

John 

Jonatn  Smith 

do. 

Oct.    28 

Elisabeth 

Henry  Oates 

do. 

Jan.   25 

Thomas 

Saml  Hallows 

Glapwell 

29 

Joseph 

Mercui8  Shimeld 

Sheffield    _ 

*  ?  1702.    Mr.  Jollie  died  in  1714,  aged  55,  and  is  buried  there.    A  copy  of  the  Inscription!  on  U* 
and  other  grareatones  there  will  be  acceptable. 


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41 


87 


Apr.  15 

June    4 
Jane    5 


19 
Aug.    2 

10 
Oct.  8 
Nov.  10 


Dec.  10 

Jan.  26 

Feb.  28 
Apr. 

May  10 


June  14 
15 


Sep.  14 
Oct.    21 


24 

Nov.    8 

I  Deo.     4 

Dec.  22 

Jan.  18 

1  26 

|Feb.  16 


25 
[Mar.  15 
April  10 

28 
May  16 
June  21 
July  80 
Aug.     1 


Nathaniel 

Thos.  Twigg 

Rebecca 

Field  Sylvester 

Joseph 

John  Lee 

Henry 

Henry  Oates 
Joseph  Yates 

Lidia 

John 

William  Turner 

Edward 

John  Barber 

William 

Ralph  Hider 

Ephraim 

Joseph  Smith 

Sarah 

Saml.  Hallows 

John 

George  Car 

Lidia                      ' 

Andrew  Crabtree 

Hannah 

Joseph  Yates 

Hephzibah 

Robert  Ellis 

Rebecca 

Jonn  Smith 

Rachel 

John  Curtland 

Thomas 

Thomas  Wilson 

Martha 

Joseph  Hancock 

George 

Thomas  Webster 

Mary 

Sam.  Hutchinson 

Christian 

Joseph  Smith 

Samuel 

John  Swindon 

Joshua 

Wil.  Turner 

Elisabeth 

Joseph  Clayton 

Thomas 

John  Morphey 

Elisabeth 

Wil.  Hall 

John 

Nics.  Matthewxnan 

Matthew 

Matth*  Clayton 

Sarah 

John  King 

Matthew  &  Rachel 

George  Barber 

Samuel 

William  Clayton 

Thomas 

liArthur  Mangery 

Hugh 

Hugh  Hider 

Samuel 

Robert  Darwent 

Ann 

Edw.  Taylor 

Samuel 

Samuel  Hallows 

Thomas 

John  Lee 

John 

Joseph  Yates 

Ann 

Sam  Hawksworth 

Nathaniel 

Jonn  Webster 

Mary 

John  Barber 

Abigail 

John  How 

Jonathan 

Mercu™  Shimeld 

Samuel 

Robert  Stamforth 

Edward 

Wil  Bates 

Anthony 

Anthony  Morris 

Sarah 

Sam.  Hutchison 

Hannah 

Sam.  Thwaites 

Sheffield 

do. 

do. 

do. 

do. 

do. 

do. 

do. 

do. 
Glapwell 
Sheffield 
Fishlake 
Sheffield 

do. 

do. 

do. 

do. 

do. 
Stannington 
Sheffield 

do. 
Bradfield 
Sheffield 

do. 
Gainsborough 
Eeksby 
Birley  Carr 
Sheffield 

do. 

do. 

do. 

do. 

do. 

do. 
Pitsmoor 
Glapwell 
Sheffield 

Fullwood 
Sheffield 


[ir  p.  48.] 


42 


YORKSHIRE  MOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


1688 

Aug.  25 

Elisabeth 

Francis  Girdler 

Sep.  20 

Hannah 

Uamael 

Samael 

James  Barber 
Robert  Ellis 
Wil»  Hides 

Oct.    10 

Thomas 

Nevil  Symmons 
Joseph  Fox 

15 

Sarah 

16 

Sarah 

John  Gurtland 

Nov.    8 

Elisabeth 

John  Wood 

12 

Elisabeth 

Wil.  Turner 

15 

Bath 

Bich*  Marsh 

19 

Hannah 

JonB  Smith 

Jan.     8 

Mary 

Jona  Webster 

14 

Benjamin 

Arthur  Mangery 

20 

Elisabeth 

Saml  Hallows 

Glapwell 

Feb.     2 

Hannah 

James  Oates 

Clarkhouse 

12 

Jeremiah 

Thos.  Marshall 

Sheffield 

23 

Moses 

Moses  Springfield 

Mar.    4 

George 

John  Button 

Eittons 

1689 

May     2 

Mary 

John  Birks 

Sheffield 

18 

Martha 

Jos.  Smith 

81 

John 

Caleb  Clayton 

June  19 

Samuel 

Bobt.  Salmon 

20 

Elisabeth 

John  Lee 

28 

Samuel 

Balph  Hider 

Aug.  22 

John 

GeorgeHutchinson 

14 

Ann 

Ben*  Shimeld 

Oct.      4 

Joseph 

Jos.  Smith 

24 

John  &  Thomas 
Sarah 

Thos.  Scargell 
Sam1  Webster 

Nov.     6 

Timothy 

Wm.  Ward 

21  j  Timothy 

John  Wood 

Mary 

Wil  Salmon 

26 

James 

James  Hoole 

Dec.     8 

Elisabeth 

John  Curtland 

11 

Samuel 

Adam  Hawksworth 

Jan.     2 

Benjamin 

Nat.  Sadler 

Feb.     6 ,  Elisabeth 

John  Swinden 

22 

Martha 

Bichd  Marsh 

1690 

Apr.  14 

John 

Wm.  Hides 

22 

Mary 

Saml  Hallows 

Glapwell 

May     9 

Ann 
Mary 

Jos  Yates 
Anthony  Morris 

Sheffield 

10 

Lydia 

James  Oates 

22 

Timothy 

George  Carr 

June  17 

Mary 
William 

Jos.  Smith 
Josh.  Dewsbury 

July  11 

John 

Francis  Girdler 

Thomas 

—  Woodward 

Sheffield 

WITH    YOBKSHIBE    FOLK-LOBE    JOUBNAL. 


48 


o[      u 

1  Martha 

21 

James 

29 

Susannah 

Sep.    4 

Zechariah 

22 

Martha 

Mary 

iNov.    8 

Elisabeth 

12 

Elisabeth 

John 

20 

Joshua 

Hannah 

Dec.    1 

Mary 

11 

Mary 

Jan.  12 

Elisabeth 

Mar.    9 

Jonathan 

22 

Elisabeth 

81 

Alice 

ipr.     7 

Timothy 

Mary 

Hay     4 

Richard 

oly   22 

Sarah 

Lug.     6 

Nathaniel 

10 

Thomas 

Benjamin 

Mary 

17 

Hannah 

26 

Nathaniel 

ep.     1 

Timothy 

28 

Anna 

3t.        9 

Thomas 

20 

Matthias 

22 

Martha 

81 

Matthew  & 

jc.      6 

Martha 

a.   26 

Joshua 

28 

Sarah 

b.    15 

Hannah 

r.      1 

Mary 

2 

Joseph 

Ann 

-.    11 

Jonathan 

V      8 

Hannah 

12 

Hannah 

26 

Joseph 

e  24 

Hannah 

80 

Samuel 

8  1  Samuel 

4l 

John 

Joshua 


Wil»Hall 
James  Hoole 
John  Smith 
John  Arthur 
Bobt  Ellis 
Thos.  Wilson 
John  Smith 
Andrew  Hill 
Samuel  Roberts 
Thos.  Marshall 
Sam.  Hutchinson 
John  Lee 
Nevil  Simmons 
Caleb  Clayton 
Jona  Smith 
George  Fox 
James  Haugh 
Saml  Thwaites 
Wil  Ward 
Rich*  Marsh 
Wil.  Woodward 
Sam.  Hallows 
Wil.  Turner 
John  Cortland 
Thos.  Scargell 
Francis  Girdler 
Nathl  Bacon 
Timothy  Jollie  ^ 
Benjn  Stamforth 
John  Wood 
OhristopherEaslem 
Moses  Springfield 
Saml  Roberts 
Wil.  Bate      ' 
John  King 
James  Spencer 
John  Mandevile 
James  Bullae 
Joseph  Yates 
James  Hoole 
AdamHawksworth 
Thos.  Handley 
—  Holland 
Josh.  Dewsbury 
Wil.  Ward 
Wil.  Wadsworth 
Timo.  Shirley 
Elias  Wadsworth 

or  Wordsworth. 


Gainsborough 
Sheffield 
Attercliffe 
Sheffield 


Attercliffe 
Sheffield 


Glapwell 
Sheffield 


Glapwell 
Attercliffe 

Sheffield 


Attercliffe 
Sheffield 


Glapwell 

Skinnerthorpe 

Sheffield 


Hall  Car 
Sheffield 


Attercliffe 

Rotherham 

Sheffield 


44 


T0BK8HIBE  NOTES  AND  QUEBIE8. 


1692  Aug.  16 

Alice 

Andrew  Hill 

25 

Berthia 

Bobt.  Ellis 

29 

Hannah 

Jos.  Smith 

Sep.     2 

Bobert 

Wil  Marsland 

Attercliffe 

26 

John 

John  Bacon 

Heath 

26 

William 

John  Levett 

Attercliffe 

Oct.    17 

John 
John 

Caleb  Clayton 
Edward  Windle 

Sheffield 

22 

Hannah 

Saml.  Hallows 

Glapwell 

Dec.     2 

Benjamin 

Wm.  Smith 

Attercliffe 

12 

Edward 

Thos.  Marshall 

Sheffield 

15 

Sarah 

Joseph  Machon 

28 

Mary 

Ben.  Stamforth 

Jan.  16 

Nevil 

Nevil  Simmons 

Sheffield 

19 

Mary 

James  Hoole 

Feb.     8 

Ann 

James  Wilson 

Tinsley 

Samuel 

Sam1  Roberts 

Attercliffe 

Mar.  18 

Mary 

Wil.  Woodward 

16 

Ruth 

Thos.  Wilson 

Sheffield 

1698 

Apr.  60 

Mary 

Saml  Thwaites 

May     1 

William 

Wil.  Ward 

May     8 

Elisabeth 

John  Bradley 

17 

James 

James  Bullas 

Grimesthorpe 

June    2 

Sarah 

John  Smith 

Attercliffe 

5 

Joshua 

Bichd  Marsh 

Sheffield 

10 

Ann 

George  Fox 

21 

Daniel 

Joseph  Lee 

July  18 

James 

Wil.  Ashford 

81 

Mary 

Nich*  Shertliffe 

Aug.  18 

Samuel 

John  Wood 

22 

Elisabeth 

Jos  Caladine 

Bolsover 

Oct.     9 

Lidia 

John  Holland 

Sheffield 

80 

Hephzibah 

Chris  Haslem 

Nov.  16 

James* 
Martha 

John  Nettleton 
John  Pinder 

Attercliffe 

15 

Sarah 

Fran  Girdler 

Sheffield 

Dec.  12 

George 

Sam1  Ashford 

Grimesthorpe 

27 

Elisabeth 

Edward  Roberts 

29 

Mary 
Hannah 
Mary 
Bobert 

—  Crooks 

—  Cowdale 

—  Cowdale 
Ephr.  Nichols 

Jan.  11 

John 

Richd  Crabtree 

25 

Joseph 

John  Curtland 

Feb.  12 

Bebecca 

Balph  Wildsmith 

Mar.    8 

Mary 

Nath.  Bacon 

Glapwell 

7 

Hephzibah 

Jere  Fisher 

1694 

Apr.  11 

John 

* —  Brown  &  Sara 

a  his  daughter^ 

*  Two  children,  or  Brown  and  hi*  daughter  b*pL 


WITH    TOBKBHIBE    FOLK-LOBE    JOUKNAL. 


46 


94| 

Sarah 

Elias  Wordsworth 

26 

Hannah 

Thos.  Scargell 

Mary 

Jona  Smith 

Hannah 

Daniel  Meenis 

May  24  Theodosia 

Saml  Hallows 

Glapwell 

lJuly    9 'William 

Henry  Wherrick 

Bolsover 

Aug.  80  Samuel 

Jona  Shepherd 

Sep.  10  Joseph 

Sam1  Parramore 

15  j  Elisabeth 

Hunt  (William) 

Glapwell 

!         24  John 

James  Bullae 

Skinnerthorpe 

,  Oct.     5 ;  Mary 

John  Almond 

Attercliffe 

20 1  Susanna 

John  Nettleton 

22 !  Sarah 

Wm.  Ward 

Sheffield 

Dec.  10 

Mary 

Sam.  Roberts 

26 

Joseph 

Lemuel  Nutt 

Jan.  17 

William 

Nevil  Simmons 

Timothy 

Thos.  Marshall 

i          28 

Jeremiah 

Josh  Oates 

Attercliffe 

Feb.  21 

John 

Wil.  Wallace 

Sheffield 

Mar.    4 

Andrew 

Andrew  Hill 

7 

Hannah 

Ephr  Nichols 

11 

Samuel 

Saml  Hunter 

29 

Matthew 

James  Hoole 

Tinsley 

Apr.  15 

Hannah 

Thos.  Wilson 

Sheffield 

24 

Elias 

Elias  Wordsworth 

do. 

Jane 

James  Hoole 

May  18 

Mary 

Sam.  Hawksworth 

Crooksmon 

27 

Hannah 

John  Wood 

Sheffield 

29 

Timothy 

Sam1  Hallows 

Glapwell 

June  24 

Elisabeth 

Balph  Hides 

Sheffield 

Samuel 

Luke  Winter 

Fuly  29 

Mary 

Josh  Hawksworth 

Ug.  19 

Lidia 

Edw.  Roberts 

Sep.     5 

Ann 

Ralph  Wildsmith 

16 

Ann 

Wil.  Woodward 

27 

John 

John  Brown 

)ct.    18 

Frances 

John  Murphey 

Gainsborough 

18 

William 

Thos.  Handley 

HallCarr 

rov.   14 

William 

Fran.  Girdler 

Sheffield 

tec.      9 

George 

!  Caleb  Clayton 

Anna 

Sam  Paramore 

an.      1 

TimottyBM 

i  John  Heywood 

Pontefract 

eb.      8 

Obedience 

j  Chris  Haslam 

Sheffield 

18 

Theodosia 

Nich*  Shirtliffe 

24 

James 

John  Mandevile 

Elisabeth 

—  Allison 

Palterton 

ar.      1 

James 

Gervase  Bellamy 

Gainsbro 

80 

Anna 

Saml  Thwaites 

Sheffield 

46 


YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


1696 

Apr. 

2 

Joseph 

Jose  Smith 

May 

11 

Martha 

John  Wood 

26 

William 

Jose  Barber 

Darnal  [thorpe 

June  22 

Mary 

—  Bilby 

Staley    Wood- 

29 

Rebecca 

Wil  Ward 

Sheffield 

July 

9 

John 

Daniel  Meenis 

1697 

July 

16 

Ephraim 

James  Bullas 

Skinnerthorpe 

Elisabeth 

James  Wilson 

Tinsley 

22 

Mary 

David  Oass 

Sheffield 

Aug. 

9 

Aaron 

Moses  Springfield 

25 

George 

Thos.  Handley 

HaUCarr 

80 

Joseph 

Emanuel  Newton 

Sheffield 

Oct. 

14 

William 

Will  Wallace 

17 

Nathaniel 

Sam1  Baxter 

Gainsbro' 

25 

Stephen 

Wil.  Ward 

Sheffield 

Nov- 

10 

Sarah 

M™  Wyld  North- 

Dec. 

22 

Sarah 

Dr  Wainwright 

Jan. 

8 

Francis 
Stephen 

—  Gowdal 
Sam  Hawkworth 

Feb. 

7 

Christopher 

Wm  Allison 

Paltertown 

14 

Jonathan 

Chrisr  Haslam 

21 

John 

M"  Holland  North 

Mar. 

2 

Jacob 

Saml  Roberts 

Birley  Carr 

Joel 

Jona  Shaw 

Wadsley 

7 

Elisabeth 

Wil  Woodward 

1698 

81 

Elisabeth 

Edw.  Sanderson 

Sheffield 

Apr. 

11 

Sarah 

Hugh  Harrison 

Paltertown 

25 

John 
Elisabeth 

John  Warbleton 
John  Bamforth 

Sheffield 

June  18 

John 

John  Hough 

15 

Mary 

Bobt  Hoole 

20 

Joshua 

John  Browne 

28 

Thomas 

Saml  Roberts 

July 

2 

Thomas 

Tho.Blenerhaysset  Atterolifie 

18 

Samuel 

Jos.  Smith 

Sheffield 

Sep. 

18 

Hannah 

—  Aldred 

25 

Lidia 

Wm.  Hunt 

Glapwell 

Oct. 

8 

Elisabeth 

Joseph  Fletcher 

Sheffield 

6 

John 

Jos.  Pierson 

24 

Lydia 

Sam  Thwaites 

26 

Daniel  &  Mary 

Daniel  Twybell 

Brightsid 

27 

Sarah 

Dan1  Meenis 

Sheffield 

Nov. 

18 

Joshua 

—  Travis 

28 

Nathanel 

Nath1  Hoyland 

Dec. 

19 

Mary 

John  Stamforth 

Jan. 

2 

Sarah 

Jose  Sanderson 

4 

John 

Abijah  Ashton 

, 

11 

Sarah 

Bobt  Crookes 

WITH    YOBKSHIBE    FOLK-LOBE    JOURNAL. 


47 


9? 

Dorcas 

—  Jenkinson 

28 

Ezra 

Lemuel  Nutt 

25 

Elisabeth 

Nevil  Simmons 

26 

John 

George  Carr 

Feb.  20 

Mary 

Thos.  Marshall 

27 

Jonathan 

Jona  Dixon 

Elisabeth 

Wil.  Burton 

Mar.    6 

Mary 

Wil.  Stear 

80 

William 

Ralph  Hides 

Joshua 

Luke  Winter 

Ruth 

Jona  Smith 

Ap.      9 

Elisabeth 

—  Robinson 

Gainsbro' 

19 

Thomas 

Jon  Fashley 

Attercliffe 

Sarah 

Wm.  Wallace 

Sheffield 

May  25 

James 

John  Bright 

Aug.    7 

Elisabeth 

Caleb  Clayton 

Aug.  27 

John 

John  Mandefield 

StonyHoughton 

Sep.  25 

Sarah 

Jona  Hunter 

Sheffield 

28 

John 

David  Gass 

80 

Timothy 

Wil  Fawson 

Glapwell 

)ct.      9 

Thomas 

John  Warbleton 

Sheffield 

28 

Esther 

Wil  Ward 

fov.     1 

Titus 

John  Almond 

2 

Elisabeth 

Jere  Waynwright 

>ec.     4 

Alice 

Dan1  Meenis 

11 

Rebecca 

Joseph  Fletcher 

%n.   29 

William 

Wm.  Heldrick 

eb.   19 

Joseph 

Jos.  Wilson 

ar.     4  Edward 

Edw.  Hancock 

25  Elkanah 

John  Stamforth 

or.   18  Jonathan 

Danl  Twybell 

22 ;  Joshua 

Thos.  Marshall 

27  J  Hannah 

Wil.  Woodward 

ne  17 1  Caleb 

Henry  Warwick 

15  Euphan 

Wm.  Wallace 

ly     9   Susanna 

Sam1  Roberts 

26 ,  Mary 

Leesland  (Jos.) 
Stead  (William) 
David  Fullilove 

p.      6   William 

16 

Charles 

3.        7 

William 

Jon  Turner 

15 

Mary 

Jos  Sanderson 

r.   22 

Mary  &  Joseph 

Jos  Smith 

28 

Abijah 

Jon.  Oakes 

Attercliffe 

25 

Bath 

Adam  Hawkworth 

.      9 

Ebenezer 

Wil.  Ward 

Sheffield 

28 

Jeremiah 

Dr  Waynwright 

SO 

John 

John  Bamforth 

2 

Elisabeth 

Nich'  Shirtcliffe 

48 


YOBKSHIBE    NOTES    AND    QUIBIE8. 


1700 

24 

Simeon 

Em1  Newton 

Feb.  26 

Anne 

Simmons 

1701 

Apr.     7 

Simeon 

Sam1  Thwaytes 

Ap.       9 

Martha 

Abijah  Ashton 

16 

Lydia 

James  Wilson 

May  14 

Lemuel 

Lem1  Nutt 

June  11 

Mary 
William 

Edw.  Sanderson 
—  Cowdale 

July  10 

George 

George  Lewis 

Brightsid 

21 

Ebenezer 

Joseph  Fletcher 

Sheffield 

24 

Helen 

Dan.  Meenis 

Aug.  12 

Elisabeth 

Jos.  Webster 

14 

Joseph 

Wil  Wallace 

Sep.     4 

John 
Mary 

Saml  Shore 
Bobt  Palmer 

10 

Hannah 

Jos  Pashley 

1                     U 

Hannah 

Nath  Rhodes 

Elisabeth 

Ben  Pashley 

1           17 

Martha 

Dan1  Twybell 

1        19 

John 

Jos  Travis 

Oct.     9 

Mary 

Jona  Dixon 

28 

Lydia 
William 

John  Brown 
Wm.  Hobson 

Nov.  29 

Samuel 

Elias  Wordsworth 

Sheffield 

Dec.     4 

Sarah 
John 

John  Sanderson 
John  Stamforth 

19 

Mary 

John  Meenis 

Jan.     4 

Robert 

Francis  Badcliffe 

15 

Stephen 

Turner,  Adult 

26 

Elisabeth 
Buth 

wife  of  Bob.Black- 
dau.    do.     [stoole 

Feb.  26 

George 
Joseph 

Geo.  Fox 
Jona  Woollen 

Mar.  18 

John 

Ch"  Fullilove 

Treeton 

1702 

26 

Luke 
Caleb 

Luke  Winter 
Caleb  Clayton 

Sheffield 

Ap.    28 

William 

Wm.  Woodward 

May     4 

Buth 

Jos.  Smith 

June    4 

Mary 

Joseph 

Robert 

Jona  Winter 
Jos.  Leathly 
—  Bright 

8 

James 

John  Hough 

18 

George 

Thos.  Marshall 

July  80 

John 

Jos.  Sanderson 

Benjamin 

Eman1  Newton 



IT  This  is  a  remarkable  entry.  P.  41.  Arthur  Mangery  removed  to  Leeds.  Then  be  tnjgf  £ 
counterfeiting  ooln,  was  convicted  at  York  and  executed.  His  son,  Thomas  Imagery,  UJ*"*1  V 
Mr.  Jollle,  was  afterwards  D.D.,  and  Canon  of  Durham,  and  died  5  March,  1756,  et  71.  Bttcbto**1 
Durham,  II.  178. 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL. 


49 


Jitrtitts  of  $t*to  Itaoks. 

The  Bbonte  Country:  Its  Topography,  Antiquities,  and 
listory.  By  J.  A.  Erskine  Stuart,  L.R.C.S.,  [of  Staincliffe, 
>ewabury.]  Printed  by  C.  Greening,  Bradford,  1888,  pp.  xiv., 
i2. 

Mr.  Greening  is  to 
be  congratulated  on  the 
superb  quality  of  this 
volume,  in  printing  and 
binding;  and  Bradford 
may  equally  be  proud 
of  Mr.  Shepherd,  whose 
thirty-three  sketches 
adorn  the  work.  All 
these  (save  seven,)  are 
Yorkshire  views,  of 
Bronte  scenes  at  Dews- 
bury,  Hartshead,  Kirk- 
lees,  Haworth,  Birstall. 
Wethersfield  Church, 
Cowan  Bridge,  and  Tun- 
stall  Church  are  also 
portrayed.  Dr.  Stuart 
quotes  an  opinion  we 
gave  many  years  ago 
that  Dumb  Steeple 
(around  which  Luddite 
reminiscences  cluster,) 
derives  its  name  from 
doomed  steeple — a  sanctu- 
ary boundary  of  Kirk- 
lees  Nunnery.  Having 
r  seen  any  explanation  of  the  word,  or  account  of  its 
a,  we  would  invite  discussion  thereon.  The  topographer 
antiquary  will  be  delighted  with  Dr.  8tuart's  volume, 
1  is  particularly  accurate  in  its  varied  details,  and  written 
eminently  descriptive  style.  Of  the  story  of  the  Brontes 
e  not  now  at  liberty  to  write,  but  we  state  unhesitatingly 
Or.  Stuart  has  supplied,  and  supplied  well,  a  missing  link 
3nte  literature,  which  will  gain  interest  as  time  rolls  on. 
ikshire  Abchjeological  Association.  Record  Series,  Vol. 
Vills  in  the  Yobk  Begistby,  1686  to  1652.  Printed  for 
>ciety  [by  White,  Worksop],  1888,  pp.  vi.,  201. 
i  short  preface  is  signed  by  F.  Collins,  and  we  venture  to 
ulate  with  Dr.  Collins  for  not  having  his  name  on  the 
age  as  Editor.  The  laborious  work  of  compilation  and 
Q.  E 


Dumb  Steeple.    By  permission. 


50  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 

painstaking  editorial  industry,  not  to  mention  the  immeasur- 
able boon  conferred  on  genealogists  and  the  public,  required 
the  fullest  Editorial  announcement.  There  are  about  sixty 
entries  on  each  page,  and  yet  this  is  only  one  of  the  several 
volumes  we  are  expecting  from  Dr.  Collins'  labour.  There 
have  been  special  difficulties  in  compiling  this  Index,  for  the 
Wills  here  recorded  are  still  in  bundles,  and  not  transcribed  into 
books  as  before  and  after  this  interval.  Consequently  they  are 
far  less  known.  Having  spent  a  considerable  time  copying 
from  Wills  from  1889,  we  await  with  impatience  the  two  vols, 
promised  containing  the  Index  from  1889-1600.  This  truly 
National  Work  should  be  supported  from  the  National  Ex- 
chequer. 

Yorkshire  Archaeological  Association.  Rules.  Contents  of 
Journal.  Record  Series.  Catalogue  of  Library.  Huddersfield, 
Edward  Hodgkinson,  King  Street,  1888.    pp.  Hi. 

Yorkshire  Arch,  and  Top.  Association.  Excursion  to  Rich- 
mond and  Easby  Abbey,  25th  July,  1888.  12  pages.  White, 
Worksop. 

Yorkshire  Legends  and  Traditions,  as  told  by  her  ancient 
Chroniclers,  her  Poets  and  Journalists.  By  the  Rev.  Thomas 
Parkinson,  F.R.H.S.,  Vicar  of  North  Otterington.  London, 
Elliot  Stock,  1888.     pp.  xii.,  244. 

Here  is  a  delightful  book  for  the  Folk-Lorist.  The  compre- 
hensiveness of  the  work  may  be  judged  from  the  list  of  con- 
tents. The  first  section  is  connected  with  Early  Yorkshire 
previous  to  Norman  times;  the  second  relates  to  Monastic 
legends  covering  ninety  pages ;  the  third  records  the  Satanic 
legends ;  the  fourth  expatiates  on  Ghost  stories ;  the  fifth  on 
Mother  Shipton ;  the  sixth  on  Dragons;  the  seventh  on  Battles; 
the  eighth  on  Wells  and  Lakes  ;  and  the  ninth  section  gives  ft 
miscellaneous  assortment.  Although  most  of  these  are  well 
known  to  the  Folk-Lore  student,  and  many  of  them  have 
appeared  in  our  Folk-Lore  section,  we  gladly  welcome  this 
beautiful  hand-book,  as  a  well-arranged  and  well-written  re- 
pertory, occupying  a  place  no  other  Yorkshire  book  filled.  The 
careful  touch  of  the  antiquary  and  poet  may  be  noted  in  every 
story.  We  shall  also  welcome  the  second  *  Wainload  *  already 
collected.    The  price  of  the  volume  is  5s.  6d. 

Howden  Nonconformity.  A  Manual  of  two  centuries  of  local 
Free  Church  History.  By  the  Rev.  E.  Goodall,  Congregational 
Minister.  Howden,  G.  0.  Ayre,  1880.  76  pages.  Frontispiece 
of  Stephen  Arlush's  Home.  Price  Is.  6d.  May  be  had  from 
Mrs.  Goodall,  Morley. 

This  little  book  is  of  great  interest  to  the  nonconformist 
historian  and  the  local  topographer.  The  account  of  the  Rev. 
Joshua  Wilkinson  (1781-1888,)  is  particularly  interesting,  and 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  51 

deserves  to  be  reprinted  as  a  memoir  of  a  Yorkshire  worthy,  a 
striking  contrast  to  his  predecessor,  Mr.  Foljambe. 

Abound  Settle.  A  Holiday  Book.  By  T.  E.  Pritt,  Author 
of  "  North  Country  Flies,"  "  The  Book  of  the  Grayling,"  &c. 
Seven  Illustrations  by  the  Meisenbach  process.  Settle,  Graven 
Printing  Co.,  Ld.,  1888.    pp.  viii.,  91. 

A  book  from  the  pen  of  the  Yorkshire  Post  Angler  cannot 
be  dull  nor  uninstructive.  With  Mr.  Brayshaw's  antiquarian 
note  books  at  hand,  Mr.  Pritt  has  given  us  a  pleasant  evening's 
reading,  and  a  true  holiday  book,  welcome  to  the  increasing 
number  of  visitors  to  that  cnarming  locality.  The  illustrations 
include  Settle,  Settle  Market  Place,  Giggles  wick  Church, 
Scaleber  Foss,  Gordale  Scar,  Kilnsey  Crag,  Catterick  Foss, 
and  facsimile  of  Oliver  Cromwell's  autograph  at  Malham. 

Walker's  Guide  to  Wharfedale.  Upper  and  Lower  Wharfe- 
dale:  Illustrated.  By  Fred  Cobley,  Author  of  "  On  Foot 
through  Wharfedale."  Otley,  W.  Walker  &  Sons,  1888.  166 
pages.    Is. 

This  is  the  best  shilling's  worth  we  have  seen  of  a  Yorkshire 
Guide  Book.  In  the  first  place  Mr.  Cobley  has  an  intimate 
knowledge  of  his  ground  and  its  associations,  in  the  next  place 
he  has  gathered  more  than  fifty  good  illustrations,  and  thirdly 
the  '  get-up '  is  worthy  of  the  old  firm  whose  name  is  almost 
synonymous  with  Otley. 

The  Antiquary.  Vol.  xvii.  Jan. -June,  1888.  London,  Elliot 
Stock. 

Much  as  we  have  lauded  the  previous  half-yearly  volumes, 
the  present  issue  strikes  us  as  being  increasingly  interesting. 
We  fail  to  find  a  superfluous  or  dull  page  in  it.  A  few  more 
Reminiscences,  like  those  of  our  old  friend  Dr.  Rendle,  would 
be  a  boon  to  all  folk-lorists  and  antiquaries. 

The  Return  of  the  Guards,  and  other  Poems.  By  Sir 
Francis  Hastings  Doyle.  London,  Macmillan,  1888.  pp.  xiii., 
844. 

That  the  Poet  and  the  Scholar  are  manifest  in  every  line  of 
Sir  Francis  Doyle's  book,  need  not  be  enforced,  and  we  are 
pleased  that  the  ex-Poetry  Professor  at  Oxford  consented  to 
their  re-printing,  with  additions.  He  was  born  at  Nun  Apple- 
ton,  August  22,  1810,  and  died  June  8th,  1888.  His  last  work 
was  issued  in  1886,  entitled — "  Beminiscences  and  Opinions." 

Modern  Freemasonry  as  a  Social  and  Moral  Reformer.  A 
Lecture  delivered  at  Hull,  March  2,  1888,  by  J.  Ramsden  Riley 
[of  Bradford.]   1888.     14  pages.    Ded.  to  Bro.  Thomas  Denby. 

The  high  tone  aimed  at  speaks  well  of  its  writer,  and  all 
members  of  the  craft,  as  indeed  that  greater  brotherhood — the 
fiuman  race,  must  profit  by  a  perusal  of  this  lecture. 


52        YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

The  Elocutionist,  edited  by  Edwin  Drew,  4d.  monthly,  is  in 
its  seventh  year  of  existence.    London,  Wyman  &  Sons. 

The  Wbiteb  and  Reader,  a  monthly  review  of  new  books. 
No.  1,  August,  1888,  though  printed  at  Preston  and  published 
in  London,  seems  to  have  an  Editor  resident  in  Yorkshire. 

Mr.  Henry  Frowde,  of  the  University  Press,  Oxford,  an- 
nounces a  Collotype  facsimile  of  MS.  Junius  11,  commonly 
known  as  the  Gaedmon  MS.,  282  folios  (a  quarter  of  which  are 
blank),  51  illustrations,  in  12  parts,  at  10s.  6d.  per  part. 
Archbishop  Usher  gave  this  inestimable  MS.  to  Junius,  who 
left  it  to  the  Bodleian  in  1678.  It  contains  parts  of  poems  on 
the  stories  of  Genesis,  The  Temptation,  Exodus,  Daniel,  the 
Fallen  Angels,  descent  of  Christ  into  Hell,  his  resurrection, 
ascension  and  the  Last  Judgment.  They  were  all  once  gener- 
ally ascribed  to  Caedmon  of  Whitby,  who  flourished  in  the 
latter  half  of  the  7th  century,  owing  to  their  agreement  in 
subject  with  poems  which  Beda  (Eccl.  Hist.)  states  to  have 
been  composed  by  Caedmon.  Modern  criticism  shews  that 
only  a  portion  of  the  poems  can  be  considered  as  early  as  750, 
and  that  the  date  of  the  MS.  is  near  the  year  1000.  It  is, 
nevertheless,  almost  unsurpassable  as  the  most  ancient  relic 
of  our  National  poetry  and  language.  Besides  its  linguistic 
value,  the  MS.  has  a  remarkable  artistic  and  archaeological 
interest,  as  being  largely  illustrated  with  drawings  which  afford 
a  curious  and  instructive  display  of  the  art  and  customs  of  the 
period.  The  specimen  collotype  sent  us  is  quite  a  study  in 
itself.  The  MS.  is  about  12}  in.  by  7J.  Complete  editions  of 
the  poems  were  printed  by  Junius  in  1655,  Thorpe  in  1832, 
Bouterwek  in  1849-54,  and  Grein  in  1857.  A  copy  of  the 
illustrations  appeared  in  the  Archaeologia,  1838,  Vol.  xxiv., 
and  in  a  separate  form ;  and  some  of  them  had  formed  subjects 
of  engravings  in  1754.  Now,  (if  subscribers  are  forthcoming,) 
the  text  and  illustrations  will  be  given  to  perfection. 

Histoby  and  Guide  to  the  Buins  of  Mount  Grace  Priory. 
Compiled  by  C.  W.  Smithson.  Price  2d.  Northallerton,  W. 
B.  Smithson,  1888.     2nd  edition.     24  pages. 

A  complete  little  history  for  visitors,  and  the  only  suggestion 
we  make  is  that  a  ground  plan  and  illustration  be  added.  St. 
John's  Well,  or  the  Wishing  Well  into  which  bent  pins  (for  the 
want  of  crooked  sixpences  ?)  are  cast  by  young  ladies  wlio  km* 
to  get  a  good  husband;  Prior  Nicholas  Love's  translation  of 
Bonaventura's  Mirror  of  the  Life  of  Christ,  now  in  the  British 
Museum,  and  a  MS.  once  belonging  to  Mount  Grace,  entitled 
Speculum  Spiritualium,  preserved  in  York  Minster  Library ,  are 
referred  to. 

Armstrong's  Habbogate  Almanack,  1888. 

Armstrong's  Directory  of  Harrogate  and  District,  1887-& 
Price  1/6.     [Pub.  every  alternate  year.] 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  58 

Armstrong's  Harrogate  Railway  Guide.     Monthly,  Id. 

Armstrong's  Harrogate  Hand  Book  and  Visitors'  Vade 
Mecum,  with  Appendix  edited  by  Dr.  G.  W.  Piggot,  and  a  Map 
of  twenty  miles  round  Harrogate.  Price  Is.  Printed  and 
published  by  J.  L.  Armstrong.  100  pages.  The  cover  says — 
44  6th  edition,  price  6d." 

These  are  very  useful  publications. 

Ducks  and  Green  Peas.  A  Tale  of  the  Queen  Hotel,  Harro- 
gate. Price  2d.  16  pages.  Harrogate,  J.  L.  Armstrong, 
Princes  Street. 

This  is  a  reprint  of  the  well-known  pamphlet,  and  founded 
on  an  incident  of  1767. 

Illustrated  Guide  to  Enaresborough.  28  pages.  Abel 
Heywood,  Manchester. 

The  illustrations  are  worth  the  penny. 

A  Difficult  Lancashire  Place  Name  [Todmorden].  By 
Abraham  Stansneld.  Manchester,  1884.  Reprinted  from  the 
"  Manchester  Quarterly."     16  pages. 

Moss-Gatherers:  A  Lancashire  specimen.  By  Abraham 
Stansneld.  Reprinted  from  the  "  Manchester  Quarterly," 
1882.     14  pages. 

Mr.  Stansneld  abandons  the  Tod = fox  theory,  and  pleads  for 
dothar,  a  stream,  but  we  differ  from  him  in  the  latter  conclusion, 
for  we  have  one  or  two  Todhoes  having  no  relation  to  streams. 
The  Moss-GaUterers  is  an  interesting  memoir  of  John  Noweil,  of 
Stansfield,  a  Yorkshire  specimen  rather  than  "  a  Lancashire 
specimen."  We  are  not  more  pleased  with  the  fine  description 
of  Todinorden  or  Upper  Calderdale  scenery,  than  with  Mr. 
Stansfield's  learned  account  of  the  unostentatious  muscologist, 
after  whom  Mitten  named  the  Nawellia  curvifolia,  Schimper 
named  ihe  Zygodon  NowelHi,  and  Moore  named  the  Lastrenmon- 
tana  Ntywelliana.  This  working-man  joined  with  Baines  and 
Baker  in  the  Flora  of  Yorkshire,  published  in  1854.  He  died  in 
1867,  and  rests  in  Gross-stone  Churchyard. 

The  History  of  the  2nd  West  Biding  of  Yorkshire  Engineer 
Volunteers,  from  1861  to  1887.  A  Souvenir  of  the  Jubilee 
Year.  By  Qr.  Master  Fredk.  Green.  Leeds,  Julian  Green,  8, 
Albion  St.,  1887.     68  pages,  portrait  of  Col.  W.  Child. 

This  is  a  closely  printed  account  of  the  formation  and  history 
of  the  Corps,  and  we  commend  such  publications,  which  will 
gain  interest  as  time  passes.  Such  promptitude  in  rescuing 
data  is  commendable. 

With  new  literary  ventures,  Bradford  is  well  to  the  front. 

No.  1  of  The  Babbit-Keeper  and  Show  Reporter,  a  well- 
edited,  illustrated  weekly,  price  Id.,  appeared  on  June  7th, 
1888.  16  pages.  Printed  at  the  Express  Office,  Wakefield,  but 
published  at  Penny  Bank  Buildings,  Bradford. 


54  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 

Miss  Edith  Lupton  recently  tried  an  educational  war-cry, 
entitled  "The  School  Board  Echo,"  (No.  1,  April  27,  ±d.)  which 
lived  three  weeks,  and  Mr.  James  Bartley,  a  democratic  Demos. 

No.  1  of  a  penny  weekly  newspaper— Tlie  Bradford  Eastern 
Star,  appeared  July  14th.  The  Yorkshire  Review  of  Politics, 
Society,  Literature  and  Art,  No.  1,  dates  from  Saturday,  July 
21st,  1888.    Price  Id.     W.  Reid  &  Co.,  Park  Lane,  Leeds. 

Semerwater:  A  Legend  of  Wensleydale,  by  C.  Horner. 
Leeds,  Goodall  and  Suddick,  1887.    21  pages. 

This  is  the  well-known  story  of 

"  Semerwater  rise,  Semerwater  sink, 
And  cover  all  save  this  lile  house, 
That  gave  me  meat  and  drink," 
and  Mr.  Horner  has  clothed  the  legend  in  a  truly  poetic  garb. 

Yorkshire  Biography — Joseph  Kichabdson — Reprinted  from 
Yorkshire  Notes  and  Queries.  Revised  and  extended  by  J.  G.  S. 
Price  6d.   London,  H.  Gray ;  Bingley,  T.  Harrison  ;  pp.  ii.  84. 

Such  memorials  are  certain  to  be  more  useful  and  permanent 
than  costly  marbles,  which  are  too  apt  to  be  removed  into  some 
dark  steeple. 

The  Life  and  Death  of  Mother  Shipton,  with  the  whole 
of  her  remarkable  prophecies,  newly  collected,  and  historically 
explained.  Strangely  preserved  amongst  other  writings  be- 
longing to  an  old  Monastery  in  Yorkshire.  New  Edition. 
Knaresbrough,  Parr,  1881,  60  pages,  with  rough  wood-cut  of 
Dropping  Well,  6d. 

Although  we  beg  to  state  our  belief  that  the  prophecies  were 
no  prophecies  at  all,  but  written  after  the  fact,  and  that  the 
preservation  in  the  Yorkshire  Monastery  is  a  deliberate  lie,  we 
can  commend  this  little  book  to  the  curious.  Perhaps  it  would 
spoil  the  story  if  the  publisher  were  to  add  the  advice — Read, 
but  do  not  believe. 

Life  and  Trial  of  Eugene  Aram  for  the  Murder  of  Daniel 
Clark,  of  Knaresbrough,  who  was  convicted  at  York  .  .  •  1759 
.  .  .  with  Notes  by  Norrison  Scatcherd,  Esq.,  also  the  Dream 
of  Eugene  Aram,  a  poem  by  Thomas  Hood,  Esq.  Knaresbrough, 
Parr,  1878.     64  pages,  with  portrait,  6d. 

We  gladly  add  this  notioe  of  a  reprint  of  Aram's  life  to  our 
numerous  list  of  Aram  bibliography,  (pp.  58 — 55,  Vol.  I.  Y.B.) 

Much  care  has  been  taken  in  arranging  the  notes  from 
Scatcherd's  tracts. 

We  have  also  to  add  a  Knaresbrough  copy  of  the  "  Trial," 
with  Uood's  poem,  86  pages,  n.d.  Also  a  London  printed 
edition  of  the  Genuine  Account,  16  pages,  1882.  Also,  "Tl>* 
Blood  of  the  Innocent  calleth  loudly  for  vengeance,  exemplified 
in  the  discovery  of  the  murder  of  Daniel  Clark,  fourteen  years 
after  it  was  perpetrated  by  Eugene  Aram."    86  pages,  London, 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  55 

1809.  Also,  "The  Dream  of  Eugene  Aram,  the  Murderer,"  by 
Thomas  Hood,  Esq.,  (Author  of  "The  Song  of  the  Shirt"),  with 
designs  by  W.  Harvey.  New  Edition.  London :  David  Bogue, 
86,  Fleet  Street,  1846.  Price  One  Shilling.  8vo.  82  pp.  6 
inserted  plates. 

"  The  genuine  account  of  the  trial  of  Eugene  Aram  for  the 
murder  of  Daniel  Clark,  late  of  Knaresborough,  in  the  County 
of  York,"  who  was  convicted  at  York  Assizes,  August  8,  1759, 
before  the  Honourable  William  Noel,  Esq.,  one  of  His  Majesty's 
Justices  of  the  Court  of  the  Common  Fleas.  To  which,  after  a 
short  narration  of  the  fact,  is  prefixed ;  an  account  of  the  re- 
markable discovery  of  the  human  skeleton  at  Thistle-Hills,— a 
detail  of  the  judicial  proceedings  from  the  time  of  the  bones 
being  found,  to  the  commitment  of  Richard  Housman,  Eugene 
Aram,  and  Henry  Terry,  to  York  Castle ; — The  depositions  of 
Anna  Aram,  Philip  Coates,  John  Yates,  &c. — The  examination 
and  confession  of  Richard  Hou6man.  The  apprehending  of 
Eugene  Aram  at  Lynn  in  Norfolk,  with  his  examination  and 
commitment.  To  which  are  added:  The  remarkable  defence 
he  made  on  his  trial ;  his  account  of  himself,  written  after  his 
condemnation,  with  the  apology,  which  he  left  in  his  cell,  for 
the  attempt  upon  his  own  life.  All  taken  immediately  from 
the  original  depositions,  papers,  &c,  York.  Printed  by  A. 
Ward  for  C.  Etherington,  Bookseller  in  Coney  Street,  1759. 

The  Life  and  Wonderful  Adventures  of  John  Metcalfe, 
commonly  called  Blind  Jack,  of  Knaresbrough,  who  lost  his- 
sight  in  his  infancy,  yet  became  eminent  as  a  musician,  as  a 
soldier,  a  guide  over  the  then  unenclosed  forest,  a  common 
carrier,  a  builder  of  bridges  and  houses,  a  contractor  for  making 
turnpike  roads,  and  a  skilful  player  at  whist.  New  Edition. 
Knaresbrough,  Parr,  Market  Place,  1877.  72  pages,  with 
portrait,  6d. 

Of  all  the  lives  we  have  seen  of  Blind  Jack,  this  is  the  fullest 
in  detail. 

The  Hull  Illustrated  Journal:  A  quarterly  publication, 
July  1888,  6d.    No.  8. 

This  number  is  mainly  devoted  to  Armada  Memorials,  and 
is  well  written,  spiritedly  illustrated,  and  beautifully  printed. 
Hull,  A.  Brown  and  Son,  or  from  Mr.  Wildridge,  27,  Bond  St., 
Hull. 

An  Account  of  the  Church  and  Parish  of  St.  Giles,  without 
Crippleoate,  London:  By  J.  J.  Baddeley,  Churchwarden,  of 
Chapel  Works,  Moor  Lane,  E.C.  220  pages,  88  illustrations, 
10s.6d. 

St.  Giles'  is  the  burial  place  of  John  Milton,  John  Speed, 
John  Fox,  Mattin  Frobisher,  Glover,  the  Herald ;  and  Smyth, 
the  Chronicler.     The  topics  treated  of  include  the  history  of 


56        YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

the  Parish  and  Church  from  1090,  its  Vicars,  Parish  Registers 
(1561 — 1700),  Monuments,  Furniture,  Church  books,  Charities, 
the  Plague,  &c,  &c.  The  whole  is  beautifully  printed  with  red 
borders,  and  handsomely  bound.  We  can  scarcely  imagine 
how  a  book  of  this  excellence,  in  matter  and  illustrations,  can 
be  made  to  clear  .expenses.  It  is  a  model  work,  and  of  the 
widest  interest.  There  are  eight  different  views  of  the  Church, 
twelve  engravings  of  principal  monuments,  eleven  facsimiles  of 
writing.  The  engraving  of  Sir  Martin  Frobisher's  monument 
is  particularly  fine,  and  two  pages  of  letterpress  accompany  it. 
It  is  a  new  monument  in  course  of  execution,  and  about  to  be 
erected  as  a  Tercentenary  Memorial  of  the  Armada.  Yorkshire 
should  share  in  honouring  one  of  its  great  navigators. 

T'Fisher  Folk  of  Filey  Bay  :  Poems  chiefly  in  the  Yorkshire 
dialect,  by  the  Rev.  W.  H.  Oxley,  M.A.,  formerly  Vicar  of 
Grewelthorpe.  2nd  Edition.  Scarborough,  E.  T.  W.  Dennis, 
1888,  ls.6d.  4to.,  46  pages.  Illustrated  by  the  Author  and 
Friends. 

These  eight  poems  give  a  true  picture  of  Filey  Fisher  Folk 
in  the  lingo  they  use,  and  the  numerous  spirited  etchings,  to- 
gether with  the  printer's  excellent  workmanship,  combine  in 
making  the  pamphlet  a  desirable  keepsake. 

Mr.  Frank  Peel,  Herald  Office,  Heckmondwike,  has  issued  an 
enlarged  and  illustrated  edition  of  his  "  Bisings  of  the  Luddites, 
Chartists  and  Plug  Drawers,"  to  Subscribers  at  Half-a-crown. 
Mr.  Peel  has  made  a  special  study  of  these  events,  and  we 
venture  to  predict  that  the  second  edition  will  soon  be  as  scarce 
as  the  first.     Two  illustrations,  854  pages,  1888. 

Mr.  G.  A.  Federer,  Bradford,  will  shortly  issue,  to  Subscribers 
only,  a  volume  of  Yorkshire  Chapbooks ;  the  first  series  com- 
prising Thomas  Gent's  scarce  pamphlets, — 1.  The  Life  of  St. 
Winefred ;  2.  The  Life  of  St.  Robert  of  Knaresborough ;  8.  The 
Life  of  Afflicted  Job ;  4.  The  Life  of  Judas  Iscariot.  Price  5s. 
Mr.  Federer  stands  amongst  the  most  eminent  Yorkshire 
bibliophiles,  and  proposes  to  give  us  copies  of  our  scarce 
pamphlets.  It  is  impossible  for  a  tithe  of  the  collectors  to 
obtain  the  originals,  and  therefore  the  outstanding  'nine,'  along 
with  general  readers,  will  welcome  this  opportunity  of  studying 
Yorkshire  literature  of  last  century. 

North  Country  Poets  :  By  W.  Andrews,  (No.  4,  September, 
Price  4d.,)  is  destined  to  become  a  popular  handbook.  It  ij 
well  edited ;  the  biographies  well  written,  and  the  poems  well 
selected ;  the  work  is  very  neatly  printed,  and  the  price  within 
reach  of  the  poorest.    Hull,  A.  Brown  and  Sons. 

Yorkshire  Poets,  Past  and  Present  :  Edited  by  Dr.  C.  F. 
Forshaw,  Westgate,  Bradford,  Monthly,  Id. 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  57 

We  make  no  pretensions  to  poetical  abilities,  but  we  do  see 
the  good  work  that  is  being  done  for  Yorkshire  Poetical  Bibli- 
ography, Biography,  and  Poetry,  and  we  wish  the  work  success 
until  the  thousand  and  one,  past  and  present,  Yorkshire  Poets 
are  embalmed  in  these  pages.  The  same  editor  announces  a 
Yorkshire  Poet's  Birthday  Book,  at  2s.6d. 


Grindletonians  :  A  sketch  of  this  sect  will  be  highly  valued. 
I  have  just  picked  up  "  A  Bundle  of  Soul-convincing,  Direct- 
ing and  Comforting  Truths  :*  clearly  deduced  from  diverse  select 

Texts  of  Holy  Scripture Being  a  brief  Summary  of  several 

Sermons  preached  at  large,  by  that  faithful  and  pious  Servant 
of  Jesus  Christ,  M.  Bodger  Breirly,  Minister  of  the  Gospel  at 
Grindleton  in  Craven. 

[Matt,  ii.,  25,  26.]  London :  Printed  by  J.  B.  for  Samuel 
Sprint,  in  litle  Brittain,  1677." 

In  an  Epistle  to  the  Beader  of  three  pages,  J.  C.  speaks  very 
highly  of  Brierley's  character,  and  says  that  his  followers  were 
called  Grindletonians  in  scorn,  and  that  he  was  imprisoned  at 
York,  but  acquitted  by  L.  Bishop  Tobias  Matthews,  after 
preaching  a  sermon  in  the  Cathedral,  and  "  after  much  travel 
and  pains  in  witnessing  the  glad  tidings  of  salvation,  ended  his 
natural  life  at  Burnlaie,  in  Lancashire,  after  whose  death  these 
few  head-notes  of  some  of  his  sermons  came  to  my  view." 
Catalogue  of  the  xxvii.  sermons,  8  pages.  Sermons,  pages 
1 — 270.  Then  follows  a  poem,  pages  1 — 94,  the  Preface  of 
Mr.  Brierly.  There  is  no  leaf  missing  as  this  begins  on  part  of 
the  last  sermon  sheet. 

"  I  wot  not  what  quaint  humour  now  of  late, 
To  write  these  numbers,  set  my  Pen  agate." 
The  last  word  is  a  bit  of  real  good  Yorkshire. 

"  I  was  sometime  (as  then  a  stricter  man), 
By  some  good  fellows,  tearm'd  a  Puritan." 
****** 

And  now  men  say,  I'm  deeply  drown'd  in  Schism, 
Retyr'd  from  God's  grace  unto  Grindletonism. 
Grindleton  Chapel  is  in  Mitton  Parish,  but  Dr.  Whi taker 
does  not  record  the  Curates  so  early  as  Brierley's  day. 

J.H.T. 


W&ashbnxn  fjUar*  jUanus. 

Having  only  such  an  acquaintance  with  the  district  about 
the  sources  of  the  Washburn  as  can  be  obtained  from  a  perusal 
of  maps  and  books,  the  following  suggestions  as  to  the  origin 

•  Taking  for  granted  that  the  title  page  tells  me  the  truth. 


58        YORKSHIRE  NOTE8  AND  QUERIES. 

of  the  place-names  in  the  list  of  "A.  Forester/'  in  the  number 
for  July,  oan  only  have  a  proportionate  value. 

1. — Hood-stokth. — Hood,  probably  a  personal  name,  occurs 
several  times  in  the  district,  e.g.,  Hood-Crag,  Hood-spring, 
Hood-gap,  Hood  House,  and  Hood-atort/i.  Storth  is  Old  Norse 
for  a  plantation  of  young  trees,  and  so  may  mean  Hoods- 
plantation.  Other  examples  are  Storiths,  Hazlewood,  with 
Storiths  near  Bolton  Abbey.  Storthes  Hall,  Thurstonland, 
near  Huddersfield;  Storth,  and  Storth-end,  Westmoreland; 
and  Storth,  an  Island  nr.  Norway.  Cleasby's  Icelandic  Diction- 
ary gives  Storth — 1.  A  young  wood,  plantation  fcdla  $em  storth, 
to  fall  like  storth.  2.  The  earth  grown  with  brush-wood.  8. 
The  name  of  an  Island  in  Norway. 

2. — The  Whams. — The  word  Wham,  or  Whams,  occurs  in  a 
variety  of  forms  in  the  Teutonic  languages  and  dialects.  Eng- 
lish, Wham;  Scotch,  quham,  and  whaum;  Anglo-Saxon, 
hwam,  andhwaem;  Icelandic,  hwammr;  Old  Swedish,  kvammr; 
Gothic,  Svamms;  Modern  Swedish,  and  Danish,  Suamp; 
Suomp,  &c.  In  Scotland  it  is  applied  to  a  wide  flat  glen, 
through  which  water  runs ;  and  also  to  a  hollow  place  usually 
wet.  In  Anglo-Saxon,  wham,  wham  is  a  corner,  a  district,  a 
level  place  in  the  open  fields,  &c.  In  Iceland,  a  grassy  slope 
or  vale,  the  level  portion  of  a  farm,  &c.  In  Danish  and  Swedish 
it  means  fungus,  a  sponge,  and  then  a  soft,  spongy,  boggy 
place,  a  fen.  In  Anglo-Saxon  also  the  name  for  a  mushroom 
or  fungus  is  Swamm.  In  England  whams  are,  or  were  origin- 
ally, swampy,  miry,  boggy  places,  occurring  on  the  moorlands, 
chiefly  in  Lancashire  and  Yorkshire,  north  of  the  Wharfe. 
Examples: — Brown  House  Wham,  and  Dirty  Leach  Wham, 
Lancashire;  and  Blowith  Wham,  Flowery  Wham,  Foulshaw 
Crags  Wham,  Kills  Wham,  and  White  Whams,  &c,  Yorkshire, 
between  the  Wharfe  and  the  Nidd. 

8. — Slade,  Slced,  Icelandic  and  Anglo-Saxon,  a  valley,  and 
according  to  Lye,  vitt  montium  convallihus ;  a  way  in  the  vales 
between  the  mountains.  In  Early  English,  an  open  plain  or 
sloping  vale  in  or  near  a  wood,  or  plantation.  It  does  not 
occur  in  Chaucer,  but  is  used  by  his  contemporaries,  Gower, 
Piers  Plowman,  and  Bobert  of  Gloucester,  and  also  by  the 
Authors  of  Morte  Arthur,  and  the  Earlier  Bobin  Hood  Ballads 
shortly  afterwards.  It  is  omitted  by  Shakespeare,  and  ako 
by  Dr.  Johnson  in  his  Dictionary,  1755.  It  is,  however,  fre- 
quently used  by  writers  in  the  seventeenth  and  eighteenth 
centuries,  especially  Drayton,  and  it  occurs  in  several  Diction- 
arier  prior  to  Dr.  Johnson's,  and  is  added  in  Todd's  edition  of 
Johnson,  Vol.  V.,  1818,  where  it  is  defined,  "A  flat  piece  of 
ground,  lying  low  and  moist ;  a  little  den  or  valley."  And  in 
the   Glossary  appended  to  Bp.*  Percy's  Beliques  of  Ancient 


£TH      YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  59 

1   breadth  of  greensward  between  plough-lands  or 
Chis   definition  is  given  to  illustrate  the  use  of  the 
a  ballad  of  Robin  Hood,  and  Guy  of  Quisburn. 
3S  of  use  in  literature : — 
44  And  bow  he  olimbeth  up  the  bankis 
And  falleth  into  sladis  deep." — Gower. 
rl  Koberd  of  Gloucestre,  as  man  wythoute  fere, 
trong  eastel  of  Brystow,  that  he  let  hym  sulf  rere, 
ed  wel  ynou,  and  also  the  slede, 
ield  them  both  age,  the  kyng,  to  thence  on  Kunhede." 

Robert  of  Gloucester's  Chronicle. 
e,  the  editor,  explains  slede,  a  valley,  in  the  appended 

There  is  slain  in  that  slope  elagre  of  his  hondes, 
Sexty  slongen  in  a  Slade,  of  Sleigh  men  of  armes." 

Morte  Artkure. 
44  It  had  been  better  of  William  a  Trent, 
To  have  bene  abed  with  sorrowe, 
Than  to  be  that  day  in  the  greenwood  slade, 
To  meet  with  little  John's  Arrowe." 

Ballad — Robin  Hood  and  Guy  of  Gisburn. 
triples  of  Place-Names : — Slade,  Slades,  Hanging- Slade, 
lane,  (Rastrick),  Sleadsyke,  Sleadhall,  (Lightcliffe), 
waite,  Slaidburn,  Sledmere,  Sleddale,  Sledshoe,  and 
iow,  in  older  books  and  maps,  expanded  into  Sledge- Shoe 
3  Ordnance  Surveyors. — Yorkshire, 
-de,  Sladen,  Greenslade,  and  Bagslate,  formerly  Bagslade. 
ncashire. 

iddale,  and  Weetslade,  Westmoreland ;  Slade,  Devonshire ; 
Blade  Green,  Kent. 

— Gapelshaw. — Capel  is  an  old  English  form  of  the  word 
>el,  from  the  Low  Latin,  capella,  and  is  still  found  in  place- 
ts, in  England  and  on  the  continent ;  but  as  there  is  no 
>ability  of  there  ever  having  been  a  chapel  here,  Gapel-shaw 
scarcely  be  supposed  to  mean  a  chapel  in  the  wood, 
laple,  Capul,  are  also  the  names  for  a  horse  from  the  Latin, 
>allus  through  the  Old  Icelandic  Eappal,  and  are  so  used  by 
rs  Plowman,  Chaucer,  and  other  Early  English  writers. 
41  Then  conscience  upon  his  Gaple  kaireth  forth  fast." 
"  Why  ne  hast  thou  putt  the  Gaple  in  the  laithe." 

CJiaucer,  Reeves  Tale. 
Capul  is  also  a  name  given  to  a  hen  or  fowl  in  Old  English, 
e  Helliwell  and  Wright's  Dictionaries.  Gapelshaw  therefore 
lay  mean  the  shaw  or  wood  in  which  horses  found  shelter 
uring  pasturage,  or  the  plantation  in  which  hens  or  fowls  were 
sd  or  preserved.  Near  Long  Preston,  in  Craven,  is  Gappleside 
louse,  and  Far  Gappleside — the  hill  side  where  horses  were 
pastured  probably.   Is  it  possible  for  Gappishaw  to  be  derived 


60  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 

from  Caput,  head,  and  shaw,  the  head  or  highest  shaw  in  the 
dale? 

5. — Libbishaw. — In  some  of  the  northern  languages,  the 
plant  Lovage,  is  called  Libbi-sticker,  but  this  could  scarcely  be 
supposed  to  give  name  to  shaw  in  which  the  plant  grew. 

Libbis  was  an  old  English  Surname  according  to  Fergnsson, 
connected  with  the  German  Luiba,  and  Lieb.  May  not  this 
shaw  have  part  of  the  possession  of  some  person  named  Libbi 
or  Libbis  ? 

6. — Brandrith  or  Brandreth. — Fergusson  gives  Brandreth 
as  a  personal  name  derived  from  Old  Norse  brandi,  * 'signifying 
a  torch,  a  flame,  but  metaphorically  a  sword,  from  its  shining 
and  red  counsel."  In  old  authors  this  word  assumes  the 
various  forms  of  reed,  rath,  raith,  reith,  &c,  and  is  used  in  the 
sense  of  counsel,  advice,  reason,  counsellor,  senator,  judge,  &c. 
According  to  this  view  Brandreth  Crags  would  be  the  crags 
belonging  to  or  in  the  possession  of  Brandreth.  Brand  the 
counsellor,  or  Brand  the  judicious,  able,  swordwielder.  Again 
Bed,  rjord,  reith,  rath,  and  ruth,  are  forms  in  various  dialects 
of  a  word  meaning  a  clearing,  a  settlement  in  a  clearing,  hence 
Brandreith  or  rith,  would  be  applied  to  a  space  cleared  by 
burning.  Furthermore  in  the  Celtic  languages,  Irish,  Welsh, 
&c,  Hath,  rhaith,  or  raith,  is  the  name  of  a  circular,  raised 
mound  or  enclosure  for  defence,  and  hence  an  elevated  fort,  a 
stronghold,  artificial  or  natural  but  generally  artificial.  Brand- 
rith might  then  be  the  fort  or  stronghold  of  Brand. 

In  Anglo-Saxon,  and  Icelandic,  Brand,  Brandr,  Brandreith,  is 
the  name  for  hearth  fire-place,  grate,  and  gridiron,  and  Mr. 
Lucas,  Studies  in  Nidderdale,  supposes  from  this  that  Brand* 
stone-scar,  means  the  Scar  or  quarry,  "from  which  hearth 
stones  were  dug,  and  probably  still  are  dug."  He  does  not  ex- 
plain the  meaning  of  Brandrith  Craggs. 

7. — Redlish.— Is  there  or  has  there  ever  been  anything  like 
lake,  or  standing  water  here  ?  Our  word  lake  is  derived  from 
the  Saxon  lac,  laca  and  is  found  in  early  English  as  lace,  las 
and  lish.  Deeplish  in  Lancashire  has  been  variously  written 
Deeplac,  Deeplace  and  Deeplish. 

8. — Fleets.— Ordinarily  the  word  as  a  substantive  is  defined 
as  by  Johnson,  a  creek  an  inlet  of  water,  from  the  Saxon  fleot, 
an  estuary,  or  arm  of  the  sea.  The  noun  is  derived  from 
the  verb  fleotan,  to  flow,  and  conveys  the  idea  of  motion  to 
and  fro;  fleeting  or  flitting  about.  In  Promptorium  Parvu- 
lorum  it  is  defined  as  a  place  where  "the  watyr  of  the  see 
comythe  and  goythe,"  and  the  editor  in  a  note  says  "On 
the  coasts  of  Norfolk  and  Suffolk  the  name  is  common,  and 
properly  according  to  Forby,  though  not  invariably  implies  a 
channel  filled  by  the  tide,  and  left  at  low  water  very  shallow 


ITH      YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LOBE    JOURNAL.  61 

7".      I>r.    Whitak'er's  History  of  Graven  explains 

ftat  bog,"  and  Carr,  "Craven  Dialect,11  says  "Fleet 
Sax.,  fleot.  It  cannot  be  deemed  an  estuary  here,  ex- 
rom  the  resemblance  to  a  bay,  when  the  flatt  fleet 
inclosed  by  hills.  In  Suffolk  this  word  signifies  a 
Bee  of  standing  water**.  In  this  sense  the  term  is 
lorth  Yorkshire.  Kirkby-Fleetham  is  an  example, 
>  on  the  fleet  or  flooded  district.  The  fleets  of  the 
i,  Nidderdale,  and  Craven  Moors,  are  flatt  places,  for- 
Lot  now  covered  with  water. 
chabd  Dyke — In  the  near  neighbourhood  are  Eochard 

Rochard  Crags.  Can  the  name  have  been  derived 
*   nature   of   the  rocks  ?  Or  may   not  Eochard  be   a 

name  ?  Fergusson  gives  Old  German  Eocco,  Euchart, 
ilochard,  English  Eockett  and  Eoget,  as  personal  names. 
Maukin  Cross. — Miss  Yonge,  (Christian  Names),  gives 
and  Maukin  as  forms  of  Mary  the  Virgin  the  mother  of 
d.  Is  it  possible  there  may  have  been  a  cross  here 
3d  to  the  Virgin  under  the  name  of  Malkin  ?     Other 

connect  Malkin  and  Maukin  with  Matilda  originally, 
terly  being  transferred  to  Mary. 
-Pan  Head.— Is  this  Pen-head  ?  The  Top  of  the  Hill. 
-Yaud  Bones  Eidoe. — The  word  Yaud  occurs  several 
as  in  Yaud-head,  and  Grey  Yaud,  in  Ure-dale,  Yaud- 
ridge,  and  probably  Yord  and  Eowan  Tree  Yards,  in 
fe  and  Washburn  Dales.  Mr.  Lucas  does  not  mention 
articular  ridge  but  of  Yand-head,  Grey-yand,  and  Eowan 
Yands,  he  says — "dubious".  These  are  elevated  ridges 
ed  with  Crags  or  loose  blocks  of  stone,  and  perhaps  may 
received  their  name  from  a  fancied  resemblance  to  the 

and  flanks  of  a  horse  as  seen  from  a  distance,  as  the 
liarly  rounded  and  hollow  topped  hills  have  been  named 
(miis,  saddleback,  &c,  respectively.  Yaud  is  an  old  Lowland 
,ch  and  North  of  England  form  of  the  word  Jade,  a  worn 
bony  horse.  Yaud  bones  ridge  may  therefore  be  supposed, 
1  its  numerous  crags  to  represent  a  bony  old  jade. 
8.— Pockstones.— Mr.  Lucas  says  from  Danish  pak  a  group, 
two  Danish  dictionaries  I  have  consulted  the  only  meaning 
en  to  pak  is  parcel.  Is  it  not  rather  derived  from  pock  a 
;tule,  and  then  pock-stones  may  represent  the  rough  uneven 
-face  of  the  moor  ? 

C.  D.  Habdcastle. 
ieds,  August  18th,  1888. 

0 

Saint  John's  Well,  Mount  Gbace. — This  well  is  situated  in 
ie  wood  at  the  North  East  corner  of  the  ruins  of  Mount  Grace 
riory,  and  from  which  the  Monks  in  former  times  drew  their 


62        YOBKBHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

water  supply ;  it  is  strongly  built  of  squared  stone,  walled  round 
and  protected  by  a  picturesque  dome  of  hewn  stone*  which  is 
apparently  modern.  It  is  known  as  Saint  John's  Well,  but 
young  ladies  call  it  the  Wishing  Wsll,  and  it  is  a  source  of 
amusement  to  them  to  cast  bent  pins  into  the  water  and  then 
utter  the  dearest  wish  of  the  heart,  which  must  be  done  in 
silence  or  the  wish  will  not  be  fulfilled.  An  old  author,  on 
visiting  the  ruins,  quaintly  says — "  What  that  may  be  we  can- 
not pretend  to  know,  and  if  we  knew,  durst  not  presume  to  tell. 
We  drank  of  the  water,  which  is  excellent,  and  whilst  doing  so, 
had  the  audacity  to  think  that  we  had 

*  Mused  on  ruins  grey 
With  years ;  and  drunk  from  old  and  fabulous  wells.' " 

c.  w.  s. 


YOBKBHIRE     CENTENARIANS. 

Inscriptions  from  the  church-yard  of  Danby,  in  Cleveland : 
Ann  Plows  died  Jan.  28,  1846,  aged  96  years ;  John  Plews,  her 
husband,  died  May  14,  1846,  aged  101  years.  The  above  were 
married  seventy-two  years. 

18,  Bagdale.  J.  W. 

Mrs.  Mary  Hunter,  of  Howden,  died  Jan.  81, 1888,  aged  104 
years.  It  is  stated  that  her  intellect  was  unimpaired  almost  to 
the  last. 


Thomas  Hall,  the  hal  of  Abthinoton  Hall. — This  hal  seems 
to  have  been  a  contemporary  of  the  noted  hals  of  Kirklees, 
Bradford,  and  Halifax.  Is  anything  known  of  him,  or  of  the 
Halifax  hal  (Johnny  Worrall)  whose  portrait  has  been  preserved? 
"  Much  cry  and  little  wool,"  a  common  Yorkshire  saying  is 
attributed  to  the  hal  of  Kirklees,  and  is  generally  given  in  foil 
in  Calderdale :  Much  cry  and  little  wool,  as  th'al  said  when  he 
sheared  t'pig." 

o— — 

Warley  Mat  Pole. — A  Committee  has  been  formed  for  erect- 
ing a  new  May  Pole  in  the  square  at  Warley  town.  The  present 
Pole,  erected  by  subscription  twenty-five  years  ago,  is  showing 
signs  of  decay,  and  cannot  with  safety  be  permitted  to  remain 
standing. 

Seeing  that  a  May  Pole  is  known  to  have  existed  in  Warley 
since  the  year  1814,  it  is  felt  that  it  will  be  fitting  to  preserve, 
on  this  favourite  site,  a  relic  of  old  times  connected  with  some 
of  the  most  pleasing  rural  enjoyments  of  our  forefathers, 
worthily  commemorated  in  prose  and  verse  by  English  classic 
authors  of  the  highest  repute.  W.  Bowers. 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  63 

Flambbo'  Nominy.— As  conveyances  run  in  and  out  of  the 
village  of  Flambro',  the  children  run  after  them  in  the  hope  of 
receiving  a  few  coppers.    Their  nominy  is — 
Here  we  are  at  oor  toon  end, 
A  bottle  of  gin,  a  penny  to  lend, 
A  croon  to  spend,  hip,  hip,  hurrah ! 

June,  1888. 


i4 
tole 


Bundle  of  Yorkshire  Chap-Books. — The  following  (5  inches 
by  9£)  are  from  the  press  of  J.  Eendrew,  Printer,  Collier  Gate, 
York. 

(1)  The  Shepherdess  of  the  Alps,  a  very  interesting,  pathetic, 
and  moral  tale.  Published  by  request.  Bude  woodcut  on 
title  page.    24  pages,  on  the  coarsest  paper. 

(2)  The  Seaman's  Confidence :  A  Dialogue  between  two  Sea- 
men, after  a  storm.    Bude  woodcut  of  ship.    8  pages. 

BUI.     " What  cheer,  shipmate •" 

Tom.     " I  thought  we  should  every  man  of  us  go  to 

Davy  JoneB'  Locker."* 

(3)  God's  Judgment  against  False  Swearing.  Giving  an 
account  of  one  Mr.  Bichards  and  his  wife,  of  the  town  of 
Horsham,  in  Sussex,  &c.    8  pages,  coarse  paper. 

A  raven  turns  out  to  be  the  thief,  and  the  young  woman  is 
released  on  the  scaffold.  Notwithstanding  this  reprieve,  the 
pamphlet  closes  with  a  funeral  hymn : 

"  Since  our  good  friend  is  gone  to  rest." 

(4)  A  Key  to  open  Heaven's  Gates,  or  a  ready  Path-way 
lead  to  Heaven,  &c,  &c.    8  pages,  coarse  paper. 

o 

The  Presumptuous  Sinner ;  or,  a  Dialogue  between  a  noble 

Lord  and  a  poor  Wood-man,  concerning  the  Fall  of  Adam, 

with  an  account  how  the  Nobleman  reproved  him  for  his  sharp 
reflections.  To  which  is  added  An  Agreement  made  between 
them  to  place  the  poor  man  in  all  the  pomps  and  glories  of  the 
world,  which  he  was  to  enjoy  so  long  as  he  abstained  from  one 
thing  he  had  commanded.  Concluding  with  the  poor  Man's 
Disobedience,  &c.  Doncaster:  printed  and  sold  at  the  printing 
office,  in  French-gate.  8  pages,  in  rhyme 
A  Noble  Lord  of  high  renown, 
As  he  was  coursing  up  and  down,  &c. 

*  *  *  * 

With  that  he  raised  up  the  dish, 
But  their  (sic)  was  neither  flesh  nor  fish, 
But  out  their  (sic)  leap'd  a  living  mouse, 
Which  run  from  him  across  the  house. 

*  *  *  * 

This  old  Yorkshire  story  has  been  told  under  various  versions. 
#  An  old  expression  for  "  bottom  of  the  sea." 


64  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES. 

The  Preaching  Woman ;  or  an  Impostor  exposed.    A  trite 
tale.     Otley,  printed  and  sold  by  W.  Walker.     1812.    Price 
One  Penny.    8  pages  of  rhyme  on  coarse  paper. 
About  some  forty  weeks  ago, 
What  more  or  less  I  do  not  know, 
An  hypocritic  Woman  came 
And  preach'd  in  chapel,  field,  or  lane. 
*  *  *  * 

Some  one  had  made  with  her  too  free, 
A  preacher  too,  they  say  is  he ! 
The  Heavenly  Footman  ;  or,  a  Race  for  Eternal  Life.     By 
John  Bunyan.  Otley,  W.  Walker,  Market  Place,  1813.  8  pages. 
The  strange  and  wonderful  History  and  Prophecies  of  Mother 
Shipton.    Bude  woodcut.     Newcastle,  M.  Angus  and  Sou.    24 
pages. 

Chap.  I.  Of  her  birth  and  parentage. 

„     II.  How  Mother  Shipton's  Mother,  &c. 
„  III.  By  what  name  she  was  christen'd. 
„    IV.  Several  other  merry  pranks. 
„     V.  How  Ursula  married  .  .  .  Tobias  Shipton. 
,,    VI.  Her  prophesy  against  Cardinal  Woolsey. 
,,  VII.  Some  other  prophecies. 

„VIII.  Her  prophecies  in  verse  to  the  Abbot  of  Beverley. 
„  IX.  Life,  Death  and  Burial. 
The  story  of  Lady  Courten,  of  Mr.  John  Mortimer,  and  of 
Matthias  Dolanscius,  who  was  saved  from  starving  by  a  little 
Bird,  which  brought  a  piece  of  Gold  to  the  Window  of  the 
Prison.  J.  Todd,  printer,  Bedale  [Price  One  Penny.]  8  pages 
of  very  coarsest  paper. 

Friendly  Hints  to  a  Servant.  Rude  woodcut.  Easingwold : 
Printed  and  sold  by  J.  Todd.  Price  one  penny.  8  pages  of 
rudest  printing  and  paper.     [Printed  after  April,  1805.] 

An  Historical  Account  of  Kirkstall  Abbey,  near  Leeds,  in 
Yorkshire.  Leeds,  printed  for  John  Binns.  81  pages  on  very 
coarse  paper.     5  inches  by  8.  8. 

o 

Mirfield  Hall. — At  the  west  end  of  the  church  is  a  conical 
mount,  raised  by  the  Saxons,  and  intended  as  a  place  of  defence 
to  the  manor  house.  Immediately  adjoining  to  this  hill  was 
Castle  Hall,  the  mansion  successively  occupied  by  the  Mirfields, 
the  Hetons,  the  Beaumonts  and  the  Armytages.  This  antique 
mansion,  after  being  many  years  used  as  a  public-house,  was 
taken  down  in  1827,  and  a  commodious  inn  erected  on  its  site, 
still  popularly  called  Chapel  Hall,  though  bearing  the  sign  of 
"  Beaumonts1  Arms."  A  nearly  obliterated  date  in  front  of 
the  hall  was  read  by  some  antiquaries  1022,  by  others  1522; 
but  if,  as  is  supposed,  it  was  the  residence  of  Sir  John  Heton, 


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the  founder  of  the  parochial  church,  higher  antiquity  than  the 
sixteenth  century  belonged  to  it,  and  this  opinion  is  counte- 
nanced by  the  following  metrical  epitome  of  the  history  of 
Mirfield,  transcribed  by  the  Bev.  Joseph  Ismay  from  an  ancient 
manuscript : — 

"  In  time  of  yore  a  knight  did  dwell 
At  Castle  Hall,  near  Chappel  Well, 
And  Sir  John  Heton  was  his  name, 
A  worthy  baron  great  in  fame, 
Lord  of  this  town,  as  story  tells, 
When  chappel  stood  at  Chappel  Wells. 
He  got  this  church  parochial  made, 
And  the  foundation  of  it  laid 
In  the  same  place  where  now  it  stands, 
Upon  a  part  of  his  own  lands. 
Behind  the  house  a  mount  appears, 
A  lasting  monument  of  years ; 
It  was  erected  by  the  Danes, 
And  piled  up  with  wondrous  pains ; 
A  Saxon  lord  possessed  the  same 
Before  the  Norman  princes  came ; 
The  Normans  next  possession  took, 
As  doth  appear  by  Domesday  Book. 
The  Beaumonts  did  the  place  command, 
When  Harry  Tudor  ruled  the  land  ; 
The  house  rebuilt,  which  ages  stood, 
And  front  adorned  with  carved  wood, 
By  Thomas  B,*  the  owner's  name, 
Who  lived  and  died  in  the  same. 
Bells  to  the  church  the  living  call, 
And  to  the  grave  they  summon  all ; 
And  when  by  death  one  gets  a  fall, 
He's  neighbour  then  to  Castle  Hall."t 


Inglebobough  Poem. — For  the  information  of  collectors  of 
Yorkshire  Books,  &c,  it  might  be  as  well  to  say  that  the  lines 
in  the  "  Scrap  Book,"  mentioned  page  16,  have  appeared  as  a 
pamphlet,  which  was  printed  at  Kendal  by  James  Ashburner, 
a.d.  1781.  T.  B.,  Settle. 

A  peck  o'  March  dust  is  worth  a  king's  ransom. 
April  shaars  spring  May  fiaars. 
Calm  weather  i'  June  sets  t'  corn  i'  tune. 
September  blaw  soft  till  t'  fruit  be  i'  t'  loft,  &c. 

I  wish  to  know  if  Tusser  himself  originated  these  sayings,  or 
only  collected  what  was  in  general  use  at  the  time. 

#  Beaumont,    t  A  Mirfield  proverb. 
V.N.Q.  F 


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YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 


&  ftortxcal,  fristoricai  an&  yolk-Jtoxt  Sktttfr  of 
Unansbow'  anb  its  Castle. 

By  Dr.  Watson,  with  Illustrations  by  Miss  Kate  Pabkiksoh. 

The  moralizings,  although  perhaps  the  most  important 
sections  of  the  poem,  as  they  are  undoubtedly  the  most  poetic, 
are  omitted,  because  they  would  occupy  too  much  of  our  space, 
which  is  specifically  designed  for  such  matters  only  as  the 
extracts  we  give  illustrate,  and  because  the  anonymous  work— 
"  Knaresboro'  Castle  Yard  "—may  probably  be  obtained  from 
Dr.  Watson,  Uplands,  Sandown,  I.W.,  a  native  of  Doncaster, 
we  believe. 

So  drawn  to  this  knarled  town,  these  castle-walls, 
Whatever  I  see  my  boyish  days  recalls ; 
Where'er  I  turn  something  long  lost  appears 
Unchanged,  and  dearer  from  the  flight  of  years. 

The  change  is  mine. 

This  ragged  keep,  and  hoar, 


Oft  fearlessly  I  climbed  and  scampered  o'er, 
And  not  alone  the  giddy  chase  have  tak'n 
Up  where  aloft  hoarse  creaks  the  rusty  vane. 
Back  to  the  square  that  roofs  the  dungeon-cell, 
Whose  horrors,  ah !  no  living  tongue  can  tell, 
Where  prisoners  died,  and  now  where  goblins  dwell, 


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ing  till  purged  away  all  mortal  sin, 
till  decay  its  final  morsel  win, — 
special  times  emerging. 
vher,  a  school-boy  band,  we  came  one  night, 
;ent  to  see  a  miserable  sprite,— 
two  perchance,  two  haunted  at  that  time 
da  very  spot,  atoning  each  its  crime, — 
Whatever  the  cause  might  be,  such  spectres  then 
ft  sped  athwart  the  path  of  country  men, 
or  shunned  the  strictures  of  the  vulgar  gaze, 
hough  since  grown  shy  and  reticent  in  their  ways : 
ross  roads  were  full  of  them,  and  sweet  green  lanes 
tang  with  the  clangour  of  unearthly  chains. 

The  country's  shrewdness  failed  the  people  here, 
Yorkshire  in  all  save  superstitious  fear ; 
Religious  to  excess ;  like  Bushmen  prone 
To  see  and  quail  before  the  dead  and  gone ; 
"  He  comes  again  !  "  spoke  of  some  suicide 
Spread  shadowy  consternation  far  and  wide ; 
And  when  'twas  whispered,  killed  in  drunken  brawl, 
Bird-like,  lame  Ned  perched  on  the  churchyard  wall, 
A  shudder  of  dismay  ran  through  the  town, — 
An  evil  phantom-world  might  swamp  our  town  I 
Prepared  we  came  that  drear  November  night, 
The  full  description  conned  of  either  sprite ; 
One  would  appear  a  grisly  form,  'twas  said, 
Dark,  gaunt,  gigantic,  without  face  or  head, 
Move  slowly  to  the  summit,  then  oppressed 
With  sudden  languor  sink  to  quiet  rest : 
The  other,  no  mere  shadow,  must  have  grown 
By  slow  accretions. 

A  pearly,  thin,  transparent,  tableau  bound 
In  darkness,  flitting  on  a  jet-black  ground. 
When,  how,  she  earned  her  doom  none  clearly  knew, 
But  that  she  oft  was  seen  nought  was  more  true ; 
'Twas  always  near  the  keep  at  some  dark  hour ; 
In  winter-time  when  deepest  shadows  lower ; 
At  dead  of  night. 

Her  shadowy  eyes  with  salt  tears  seemed  to  flow ; 
Kneeling  she  bent  repentant  in  dumb  show ; 
Then,  like  a  thin  mist  floating  through  the  air, 
Slid  from  the  tower  and  sought  the  dungeon-square. 

By  darkness  awed  we  each  to  each  clung  near, 
And  sought  with  poor  forced  mirth  to  banish  fear ; 
So  hand  in  hand  we  watched. 

But  nought  was  seen, — 
Save  a  dim  candle  glimmering  o'er  the  green : 


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And  nought  was  heard, — save  the  deep,  hashing  roar 
The  mill-stream  made  as  from  the  race  it  tore ; 


A  moving  shadow  or  a  rustling  sound 
Chills  the  warm  blood,  and  makes  the  strong  heart 

bound, 
As,  late,  the  traveller,  clear  discernment  lost, 
The  sighing  wind  or  the  white  finger-post 
Translates  into  a  robber  or  a  ghost. 
He,  peering  o'er  the  graveyard,  feels  no  doubt 
The  monumental  marbles  move  about. 

Bridget,  the  butcher's  wife, 
Regarding  gold  the  dearest  prize  of  life, 
Thrice  dreamt — some  spirit  prompts — it  must  be  true- 
Beneath  a  neighbour's  cellar,  deep  from  view, 
Treasure  lay  buried,  and  her  avarice 
At  length  would  let  her  only  think  of  this. 
Teased,  coaxed,  persuaded,  driven,  her  husband  next 
Assailed  the  owner  with  a  fair  pretext, 
And  bought  the  place  at  quadruple  its  worth, 
Bribing  the  well-pleased  tenant  to  go  forth. 
The  very  spot  the  dreamer  marked  was  tried ; 
And  then  another ;  others ;  more  beside, 
But  the  dear  urn  so  vivid  and  profound, — 
Three  times  so  vivid, — nowhere  could  be  found. 

Slowly  begin  the  pariah-bells  their  chime. 


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'Twas  here  with  childhood's  lightest  step  I  moved ; 
This  spot  in  childhood's  happiest  hour  I  loved ; 
My  constant  play-ground,  field  for  every  sport, 
Of  hardy  games  and  pastimes  gay,  resort 
To  this  fair  green,  an  open,  free  display, 
Game  circus-folks  in  exquisite  array ; 
Their  painted  clown,  with  gibes  and  mimic  pranks, 
Cozening  the  laughing  crowd  to  buy  his  blanks ; 
The  strolling  players  here,  tinselled  and  bold, 
Danced  on  their  stage,  delighting  young  and  old ; 
The  wicket  here  was  raised ;  th'  athletic  crew 
Freed  from  book-toils  spontaneous  hither  flew : 
Adown  these  slopes  with  eager  haste  we  ran, 
Or  sought  Jack  fly  far' s  hole, — a  highway-man, 
Who  used  a  shelter  in  the  rock  to  find, 
As  busy  housewives  tell,  the  warp  who  wind, 
Chatting  among  their  children,  while  the  loom 
Makes  rhythmic  clatter  in  an  inner  room. 

When  flourished  Hugh  de  Burgh,  serfs  of  the  soil 
The  people  were  and  doomed  to  hopeless  toil ; 
Sold  with  the  land,  like  tools  of  husbandry, 
The  sorrowing  Saxons  knew  no  liberty, 
But  flocking  to  that  spot  as  Bond  End  known 
Herded  outside  the  freedom  of  the  town. 


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YORKSHIRE  NOTES  1ND  QUERIES, 


A  Time  will  come, — 
A  few  more  generations  in  their  tomb, — 
When  not  a  vestige  shall  remain  to  show 
That  such  a  thing  e'er  was,  razed  Pile !  as  thou. 


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Infinite  Time !  How  trifling  is  the  span 
That  points  with  birth  and  death  the  life  of  man  I 

Each  drop  of  rain  that  in  each  shower  distils, 
Caught  on  the  mass  some  little  crevice  fills, 
And  softly  wears,  or  frozen,  bursts  away 
The  subtle  bonds  that  keep  it  from  decay. 

Ere  Sailor  Bill — who  near  the  Low  Bridge  kept 
A  little  store  to  which  the  invited  stepped, 
(Himself  the  inviter,  or  his  tall  thin  wife 
Whose  ribbons  gay  disguised  a  fretful  life) 


71 


Museum  called,  like  old  Don  Saltero's, 

Filled  with  aught  striking  Art  or  Nature  shows  ; 

A  club,  a  spear,  carved  soap-stones ;  fossils,  spars, 

Star-fish,  sea  urchins,  shells,  with  things  in  jars, — 

Reformed  and  patronised,  became  the  ward 

And  lawful  tenant  of  this  keep  and  yard : 

Ere  rose  the  Sessions-House  :  ere  Carte  threw  down 

The  magic  cane  that  polished  many  a  clown 

Bright  for  the  desk,  the  mart  or  college-gown  : 

Applied  with  irony  twice  cutting  when 

His  bat  the  culprit  better  used  than  pen  : 


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It 


Ere  Stbutt  the  bellman  stopped, — with  voice  as  clear 

As  his  own  bell  or  crow  of  chanticleer : 

Ere  Stiffback  wabbled  down  to  Church  no  more : 

Ere  Steam  had  spoilt  the  vale  it  bridges  o'er : 

Ere  dapper  Giles,  by  aureate  love  o'erthrown, 

Beset  fair  May  as  Darby  might  some  Joan  ; 


Ere  the  poor  Publican, — a  deed  insane, — 
By  wicked  youths  was  miserably  slain, 
Who,  at  a  scrowling  apparition  scared, 
Fled  off  dismayed  nor  search  for  plunder  dared : 
Ere  the  old  Vicar  died,  courteous  and  true, 
Beloved  and  honoured  his  small  parish  through,— 
Whose  only  fault  was  hate  of  doctrines  new : 
Ere  that  brave  Woman  ceased,  whose  loving  zeal 
Brought  weekly  crowds  to  hear  her  sweet  appeal, 
With  awe  surcharged  when  picturing  things  to  come. 
Millennial  raptures  and  impending  doom, — 
Ere  Will  Mockshowman,  perfect  in  his  roar, — 
His  neigh,  bark,  crow, — his  funny  tale  gave  o'er : 
Ere  that  strange  couple,  pious  to  excess, 
Had  ceased  to  spy  the  devil  though  in  full  dress, 


74        YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 

Who,  eager  for  an  entrance  to  their  hut 
His  well-known  hoof  o'er  covered  with  a  boot : 
Ere  Jemmy  Slow  the  barber  left  his  den, 
Where  news  he  sold  that  travelled  weekly  then : 
Bird-stuffer,  angler,  herbalist,  humourist,  aught, 
Alike  well-pleased  lone  Jemmy  played  or  wrought ; 
Ere  Hope  the  bookseller  whose  modest  stall 
Suggested  fresh  exchange  at  each  fresh  call; 
Ere  hypochondriac  John  forgot  his  plaint, 
Brought  out  by  solitude  when  cold  and  faint ; 


Ere  that  great  Act  (Reform)  was  carried  through, 
As  shown  in  symbol  here  by  one  Lamplough, 
Who,  drunk  and  coffined,  to  the  bridge  was  borne, 
While  Saul's  dead-march  Bounded  from  drum  and  horn; 
Immersed  and  rescued  the  poor  hunchback  then 
Gaily  bedecked  was  chaired  by  brawling  men, 
The  clarion  shrill,  the  bugle,  fifes  and  drums 
Loud  playing — "  See  the  conquering  hero  comes ! " 
Lamplough,  half-idiot  and  half-demagogue, 
In  some  low  tap-room  left  was  plied  with  grog, 


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Y0BE8HIBE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 


TITH     YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL. 

t  all  these  things  passed  over  us,  and  more 
it  scattered  lie  like  waifs  upon  a  shore : 
)ld  Robert  tottering  on  his  stick  would  bend — 
1,  key 8  in  hand,  the  visitor  attend ; 
garrulous,  here  and  there,  when  every  place 
,s  full  of  things  a  well-drawn  tale  to  grace, 
jike  a  true  artist,  master  of  his  craft, 
5  on  his  work  fresh  beauty  to  engraft, 


77 


e  would  with  castellatedjforms  commence, 
ben  talk  of  scraps  and  tactics  of  defence ; 
s  chronicler  the  many  legends  give, 
bat  in  this  ancient  barony  yet  live ; 
ow  the  good  hermit  Robert,  known  as  saint, 
he  hero  was  of  days  both  dark  and  guaint, 
fhen  the  Ascetic  led  the  holiest  life, 
nd  myth  and  mkacle  abroad  were  rife. 
As  thus. 


SO         YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 

Thus  would  old  Robert  these  old  stories  tell : 
Explain  the  morning,  noon,  and  curfew  bell: 
The  peal  at  eve  of  market  and  fair-days, 
Once  leading  travellers  through  the  forest  ways ; 
Still  heard  if  useless ;  and  relate  beside 
Marvellous  doings  of  blind  Jack,*  the  guide 
Employed  by  wayfarers,  when  roads  were  not, 
Safely  to  pilot  them  from  spot  to  spot. 


Well  I  remember  would  each  youngster  go 
Beside  this  man  whose  locks  were  white  as  snow, 
And,  while  against  the  keep-wall  he  would  lean, 
Catch  all  he  said  of  what  himself  had  seen, 
And  what  his  sires  before  him  could  relate 
When  war,  intestine  war,  raged  in  the  State : 
How,  when  his  Ironsides  victorious  proved 
At  Marstou,  Cromwell  o'er  the  country  moved 

•  John  Metcalfe,  page  79- 


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m  he  called  hypocrite,  tyrant,  and  vile, 
eld  by  courtly  flatterers  for  long  while : 
less  the  lines  inscribed  on  Slingsby's  tomb, 
met  in  those  stern  days  a  martyr's  doom : 
wiser  now,  impartial  thinkers  can 
romwell  own  a  great  though  austere  man, 
jeen  to  seek,  of  notice  unaware, 
lance  and  strength  divine  in  secret  prayer : 
ter  was  Lilburn  with  his  soldiers  sent, 
>  three  whole  weeks  in  a  vain  storming  spent ; 
ichery  at  last,  existing  in  the  town, 
nger  than  force,  disarmed  the  garrison, 
ben  with  his  stick  he  showed  the  fir-clad  spot 
Scotton-moor,  whence  furiously  were  shot 
whizzing  balls  that  round  the  stronghold  raved, 
t  nigh  the  brunt  of  centuries  six  had  braved : 
stories  charmed  the  young,  amused  the  old, 
sweet  romance  spiced  all  the  truths  he  told. 
1-omened  as  of  yore,  many  believe 
anguished  soul  does  in  that  screech-owl  grieve ; 
,  as  they  sit  around  their  chimney-hearth, 
tiile  they  pause  and  ope  the  cottage-door, 
1  the  lost  woman  of  the  wood  deplore, 
'his  is  the  tale  they  tell. 

A  village-maid, 
ose  humble  fortunes  careless  ease  forbade, 
mg,  fresh  and  fair,  with  service  well-content, 
led  with  gay  hopes,  to  Belmont-farm  was  sent 
3  kine  to  milk,  the  small  stock  tend  and  feed, 
w  in  the  dairy  busy,  now  the  mead, 
3  circle  of  her  knowledge  small  indeed. 
r  rustic  charms  her  false  protector  saw, 
10,  reckless  of  results,  spurned  duty's  law ; 
is  sweetly  human  swift  to  violate, 
d  lapse  to  barbarism  as  his  normal  state. 
)all  me  your  friend — not  master :  my  reward 
catch  some  smiling  token  of  regard :  " 
the  base  tempter,  watchful  to  entice 
love's  own  name  the  ignorant  to  vice : — 
Erelong  the  child  and  mother  disappear ; 
hen  wild  suspicion  whispers  loud  her  fear : 
search  is  made,  an  outcry  raised  around ; 
t  none  responds  and  nought  they  seek  is  found. 
But  oft,  'tis  said,  on  lands  where  footsteps  swerved 
ldom  or  never,  fires  had  been  observed 
trly  and  late, — of  stubble,  leaves  and  ferns, 
hich  a  good  farmer  to  rich  ashes  burns ; 


82  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 

And  these  'tis  now  believed  were  means  be  used 
To  dissipate  his  crime,  in  air  diffused : — 

Bat  thence,  dire  sentence  I  was  the  mother's  shade 
Into  the  body  of  an  owl  conveyed ; 
There  doomed  to  dwell  'till  bleached  be  every  stain, 
And  her  true  form  through  penance  she  regain. 

Quick  fled  the  murderer,  shunned  on  every  hand, 
A  wandering  outcast  from  his  native  land, 
To  seek,  vain  hope  i  upon  a  distant  shore, 
That  forfeit  peace  which  he  could  find  no  more : 


[Mother  Ship  ton,  from  an  old  drawing.] 
O'erawed  by  gloomy  superstition's  power, 
And  the  mysterious  beauty  of  the  hour, 
On  such  a  night  well  might  weird  sisters  tune 
Their  wild  enchantments  to  the  full-faced  moon, 
To  beg  the  triple  Hecate's  favoring  glance, 
While  nimbly  on  the  scented  turf  they  dance 
Concocting  charms,  in  the  swung  caldron  placed, 
Or  raise  a  spirit,  the  magic  circle  traced, 
To  do  their  bidding,  or  some  secret  show 
That  these  sharp  censors  of  their  time  should  know, 


LTH     YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  8B 

ft,  'tis  certain,  from  observance  hid, 
witch  deformed,  old  Mother  Shipton,  did ; — 
>se  birth  and  parentage,  figure  and  acts, 
3  vulgar  marvels  were  long  held  for  facts ; 
>  somewhere  lived,  near  yonder  limpid  spring 
parry  wealth,  o'er  rock  meandering 
iny  streams,  the  Dropping  Well  to  shape, 
rusting  pendant  nest,  moss,  fern  or  grape ; 
knew  or  feigned  she  knew  the  powers  that  grow 
wolfsbane,  rue,  mandrake  and  mistletoe ; 
:ata,  black  dogs,  in  snakes  and  spotted  toads ; 
win  demoniac  help  from  Stygian  gods. 


Few  those  who  haste  with  fluttering  hopes  to  try 

le  dark-eyed  Gipsy's  skill  in  palmistry, 

ho,  arch  and  smart,  at  wake  or  country-feast 

iffused  with  joy  the  bumpkins  whom  she  fleeced, 

hile  fond  young  mothers  begged  her  to  charm  off 

beir  darlings'  wart  or  thrush  or  hooping-cough. 

Few  now  seek  out  the  aspects  of  the  stars, 

r  look  above  them  for  portents  of  wars ; 

he  farm-yard  may  be  robbed ;  pigs,  poultry  die ; 

orses  fall  sick  and  cows  untimely  die ; 

asper  be  jilted  by  some  merry  maid 

/ho  little  heeds  the  havoc  of  her  raid ; 


84         YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 

The  good  wife,  left  the  whole  dark  evening,  fear 
The  pretty  hostess*  curls  more  than  her  beer ; 
Bat  who,  for  some  occult  relief,  now  speeds 
Post-haste  (as  once)  to  the  "  wise  man  "  of  Leeds: 

Faith  in  such  craft  has  vanished. 
Our  fathers  hence,  in  superstitions  fed, 
Like  blind  men  in  the  streets  in  chains  were  led  ; 
Physics  and  physiology  unknown, 
Nature  they  filled  with  phantasms  of  their  own ; 
Corrupted  legends  of  old  Eastern  thought 
Through  ancient  Rome  to  Gothic  nations  brought ; 


Peopling  with  horrid  fiends  this  smiling  globe, 
Bedecked  in  beauty's  sweetest,  purest  robe : 

Nidd  is  the  only  murmurer.    He  flows, 
Humming  the  town  to  slumber  as  he  goes  : 
Thus  the  young  child,  held  to  its  mother's  breast, 
Is  sung  by  some  soft  lullaby  to  rest. 

Upstream  the  fisher  with  night  lines  has  been, 
And  gliding  from  the  bridge  is  dimly  seen ; 
I  hear  his  heavy,  lunging,  plunging  oar, 
And  meanwhile  all  is  silent  as  before : 

Farewell,  fair  Moon !  Ye  woodland  scenes,  farewell 
Ye  that  can  peace  impart  and  passion  quell ! 


ITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL. 


85 


ntlest  of  rivers,  and  sweet  vale,  adieu ! 

ituring  time  has  severed  me  from  you : 

ou  ruined  spot,  farewell !  Each  grove,  each  plain, 

ade-lulled  or  vocal  with  the  song-bird's  strain  ; 

here  contemplation,  fostered  by  retreat, 

raits  the  pensive  wanderer  t    greet ; 

youthful  scenes,  passed  from  my  midnight  view, 

early  joys,  a  long,  a  long  adieu ! 

these  prevailing  throbs  no  longer  dead, 
it  to  their  underlying  centbe  led, 
ly  Love  Divine  enkindle  every  mind, 
id  a  wise  faith  emancipate  mankind ! 


&a*0n   (grit. 

—Rev.  R.  Collteb,  D.D. 

orn  with  the  battle,  by  Stamford  town, 

Fighting  the  Norman,  by  Hastings  Bay, 

arold  the  Saxon's  sun  went  down, 

While  the  acorns  were  falling,  one  autumn  day. 

len  the  Norman  said,  "  I  am  lord  of  the  land, 

By  tenure  of  conquest  here  I  sit ; 

will  rule  you  now  with  the  iron  hand ; " 

But  he  had  not  thought  of  the  Saxon  grit. 


DRK3HIHE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 

<d  wife,  left  the  whole  dark  evening,  few 
tty  hostess*  curls  more  than  her  beer; 
>.  for  some  occult  relief,  now  speedi 
ite  (as  once)  to  the  l<  wise  man  M  of  Leeds: 

in  such  craft  has  vanished* 
ters  hence,  in  superstitions  fed, 
ad  men  in  the  streets  in  chains  were  led; 
and  physiology  unknown, 
hey  filled  with  phantasms  of  their  own ; 
id  legends  of  old  Eastern  thought 

ancient  Home  to  Gothic  nations  brought; 


ITTE  rOBESHIBE   F0LE-10RE   JOVRNAL- 


rith  horrid  fiends  this  smiling  globe, 
in  beauty's  sweetest,  unrest  robe  i 


J^Umeri^a  sweet  vale,  adieu  t 
™*m  tme  bas  severed  me  from  you  • 

J*  WU  or  vocal  with  the  aoug  bird's  Si^ 

*Wito  ^sive  wanderer  to  greet  • 

IfJTOi.  along,  a  long  adieu'  g 

»"« tatli emancipate  mankind! 


86  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 

He  took  the  land,  and  he  took  the  men, 

And  burnt  the  homesteads  from  Humber  to  Tyne, 
Made  the  freemen  serfs  by  the  stroke  of  his  pen, 

Eat  up  the  corn,  and  drank  the  wine ; 
And  Baid  to  the  maiden  pure  and  fair, 

"  Thou  shalt  be  my  leman,  as  is  most  fit, 
Your  Saxon  churl  may  rot  in  his  lair ; " 

But  he  had  not  measured  the  Saxon  grit. 

To  the  merry  green -wood  went  bold  Robin  Hood, 

With  his  strong- hearted  yeomanry  ripe  for  the  fray, 
Driving  the  arrow  into  the  marrow 

Of  all  the  proud  Normans  who  came  in  his  way : 
Scorning  the  fetter,  fearless  and  free. 

Winning  by  valour  or  foiling  by  wit, 
Dear  to  our  Saxon  folk  ever  is  he, 

That  jolly  old  rogue  with  the  Saxon  grit. 

And  Kett  the  tanner  whipt  out  his  knife, 

And  Wat  the  Tyler  his  hammer  brought  down, 
For  ruth  of  the  maid  he  loved  better  than  life, 

And  by  breaking  a  head  made  a  hole  in  the  Crown. 
From  the  Saxon  heart  rose  a  mighty  roar, 

"  Our  life  shall  not  be  by  the  King's  permit; 
We  will  fight  for  the  right— we  want  no  more ! " 

Then  the  Norman  found  out  the  Saxon  grit. 

For  slow  and  sure  as  the  oaks  had  grown 

From  the  acorns  falling  that  autumn  day, 
So  this  Saxon  manhood  in  thorpe  and  town 

To  a  nobler  stature  grew  alway. 
Winning  by  inches,  holding  by  clinches, 

Standing  by  law  and  the  human  right, 
Many  times  failing,  never  once  quailing, 

So  the  new  day  came  out  of  the  night. 

Then  rising  afar  in  the  Western  Sea, 

A  new  world  stood  in  the  dawn  of  the  day, 
Beady  to  welcome  the  brave  and  free 

Who  could  wrench  out  their  heart  and  march  away 
From  the  narrow,  contracted,  dear  old  land, 

Where  the  poor  were  held  by  a  cruel  bit, 
To  ampler  spaces  for  heart  and  hand — 

And  here  was  a  chance  for  the  Saxon  grit. 

Steadily  steering,  eagerly  peering, 
Trusting  in  God,  your  fathers  came, 

Pilgrims  and  strangers,  fronting  all  dangers, 
Cool-headed  Saxons,  with  hearts  aflame. 


TH     YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  87 

d  by  the  letter,  but  free  from  the  fetter, 
d  hiding  their  freedom  in  Holy  Writ, 
gave  Deuteronomy  hints  in  economy, 
t  made  a  new  Moses  of  Saxon  grit. 

whittled  and  waded  through  forest  and  fen, 
arless  as  ever  of  what  might  befall ; 
ing  out  life  for  the  nurture  of  men ; 

faith  that  by  manhood  the  world  wins  all. 
nting  baked  beans,  and  no  end  of  machines ; 
reat  with  the  rifle  and  great  with  the  axe — 
ling  their  notions  over  the  oceans, 
3  fill  empty  stomachs  and  straighten  bent  backs. 

:t  to  see  chances  that  end  in  the  dollar, 
et  open  of  hand  when  the  dollar  is  made, 
ntaining  the  meeting,  exalting  the  scholar, 
ut  a  little  too  anxious  about  a  good  trade ; 
s  is  young  Jonathan,  son  of  old  John, 
ositive,  peaceable,  firm  in  the  right, 
on  men  all  of  us  may  we  be  one, 
iteady  for  freedom  and  strong  in  her  might. 

m,  slow  and  sure,  as  the  oaks  have  grown 
horn  the  acorns  which  fell  on  that  old  dim  day, 
this  Saxon  manhood,  in  city  and  town, 
Co  a  nobler  stature  will  grow  alway ; 
nning  by  inches,  holding  by  clinches, 
Slow  to  contention,  but  slower  to  quit, 
w  and  then  failing,  never  once  quailing, 
Let  us  thank  God  for  our  Saxon  grit ! 

)em,  spoken  from  the  heart  of  a  true  Yorkshireman, 
by  the  author  at  the  Forefathers'  Celebration  in  New 
r,  the  2nd  day  of  December,  1879.  At  the  request  of 
•d  gentleman,  we  have  got  the  author  to  write  a  copy 


!Uijjbl*g  (gtxahtr  fUgisfo:. 

first  instruments  that  the  Lord  sent  to  declare  thq 
way  amongst  us"  says  an  old  paper  "was  William 
•y  &  Thomas  Stubbs  who  came  from  the  Ive-delves 
ey  &  declared  the  truth  about  Stanbury,  &  Christopher 
eceived  them  &  their  message,  then  to  Oakworth  hall 
Did  Anthony  Moore  received  them  &  their  message, 
3  Sabbath  day  their  was  a  meeting  at  Exley-head  in 
belonging  to  John  Beanlands  where  many  was  y**  day 
ed.  And  from  thence  they  went  to  Kildwick  &  had  a 
;  in  ye  steeple-house  on  a  week-day. 


88        TORKSHIBE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 

Shortly  after  a  meeting  was  settled  bat  friends  could  not 
carry  their  dead  to  the  steeple-house  to  bury,  &  as  yet  a  con- 
venient burying-place  a'wanting,  William  Brigg  died  (who 
received  friends  &  meetings)  so  his  brother  Thomas  Brigg 
laid  his  body  in  his  own  ground  (where  our  burying  place  now 
is)  who  walled  a  small  parcell  of  ground  off  where  he  buried 
his  dead  &  gave  leave  to  friends  to  burie  their  dead  for  the 
space  of  82  years.  His  son  Thomas  Brigg  freely  gave  it  to 
friends  as  it  now  is  &  passed  it  to  friends  according  to  law  for 
the  due  keeping  of  it  to  future  ages." 

William  Brigg  died  in  1658  and  is  the  first  name  in  the 
Register.  The  burial  ground  was  conveyed  to  trustees  in  1690, 
and  fresh  trustees  were  appointed  as  occasion  required.  In 
1828  it  was  sold  back  again  to  the  Brigg  family  and  has  been 
used  since  that  time  by  them  as  a  private  "  Sepulchre." 

The  Register  is  a  fair  sized  book,  bound  in  pigskin  and 
in  good  preservation.  The  entries  are  written  in  various  hands 
and  seem  to  have  all  been  made  at  the  time.  Besides  those 
relating  to  births,  deaths  and  marriages,  there  is  a  full  and 
complete  account  of  all  sufferings  endured  by  the  Friends  at 
Eeighley  from  the  commencement  to  the  year  1788. 

The  following  lists  contain  all  the  names  that  are  in  the 
book,  with  the  original  spelling,  but  re-arranged  and  unnecessary 
matter  omitted. 

W.  A.  B. 
Year.  Day.  Month.  Births. 

1654       14        4*      John  Brigg  son  of  William  Brigg 

„         26      10        Margaret  Brigg  dau.  of  Thomas  Brigg 

,,         80      10        William  Brooksbanke  son  of  John  Brooks- 
banke 

1656  27      10        Hester  Bothameley  dau.  of  Jonas  Bothom- 

ley 

1657  28        1        Alverey  Jackson  son  of  Alverey  Jackson 
[p.  28,  y.n.q.    Ed.] 

Sara  Brigg  dau.  of  Thomas  Brigg 
Susannah    Brooksbancke    dau.   of  John 

Brooksbancke 
Robert  Taylor  son  of  Thomas  Taylor 
William  Walker  son  of  John  Walker 
Deborah  Dawson  dau.  of  Joshua  Dawson, 

name  given  28th  of  same  month 
Jeramy  Brigg  son  of  Thomas  Brigg 
William  Waide  son  of  Dyonis  Waide 
Ellizabeth  Eastberne  dau.  of  Jo.  Eastberne 
Dorathy  Brigg  dau.  of  Thomas  Brigg  of 

Coversett  hill 

"  4th  Month  would  be  June. 


t» 

17 

11 

If 

26 

11 

9» 

19 

1 

1658 

26 

8 

1659 

20 

1 

1660 

21 

10 

!» 

28 

12 

1661 

26 

10 

1664 

8 

2 

nTH     YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  89 

,  Month. 

8  Denis  Oockshott  son  of  Denis  Oockshott 

1         Phebe  Staveley  dan.  of  James  Staveley  of 
Kighley 

9  Thomas  Brigg  son  of  Thomas  Brigg  the 

yonger  of  or  neare  Coversett  hill 
1         James  Staveley  son  of  James  Staveley  of 

Kighley 
5         Jo :  Bamsden  son  of  James  and  Elizabeth 

Bamsden 
1         Mary    Brigg  dan.   of   Thomas  Brigg  of 

Harding 
4         Jeramy  Bamsden  son  of  James  and  Eliza- 
beth Bamsden 
>       12         James  Bamsden  ditto. 

11         Joshua  Brigg  son  of  Thomas  and  Isabel 
Brigg  was  borne  at  the  Intak  in  Kighley 
p'ish 
at       8        Grace  Pearson  dan.  of  Thomas  Pearson  of 

Fell  Lone  near  Keighley 
)        6        Bobert  Smyth  son  of  William  Smyth  of 

Clewbanck 
5        1        Elizabeth  Pearson  dan.  of  Thomas  Pearson 
0        8        Jerimyah    Shackleton    son    of    Richard 

Shackleton 
4        1        Michael  Bamsden  son  of  James  and  Eliza- 
beth Bamsden 
2      10        John  Widopp  son  of  Joh.  Widoupp  in 
Felloone  (Fell-lane) 
John  Shackleton  son  of  Richard  Shackleton 
Josep  Ambler  son  of  Dinnis  Ambler  of 

Oarleton 
Agnes  Hird  dan.  of  Jo.  Hirdof  Braithwaite 
Biohard  Shackelton  son  of  Bichard  Shack- 

elton  of  Harding 
John  Hird  son  of  John  Hird  of  Brathwatt 
Luce  Smith  dan.  of  John  Smith  of  Lackock 
Thomas  Musgrave  son  of  Thomas  Musgrave 
of  Intak 
20       1        Hannah  Taylor  dan.  of  John  Taylor  of 

Harding  in  p'ish  of  Bingley 
2       9       Bnth  Mand  dau.  of  Timothy  and  Esther 

Mand  of  Oastlefield  in  Bingley  p'ish. 
25     12       William  Davie  son  of  William  and  Hannah 

Davie  of  Whitley-head 
8       5       Bogger  Shackleton  son  of  Bogger  Shackle- 
called  July,    ton  of  Hardein 

22     12       John  Brigg  son  of  Jerimie  Brigg  of  Gard 
house 


7 

8 

;G 

10 

.0 

9 

11 

9 

9 

9 

LI 

2 

L6 

8 

Yeab. 
1692 

99 

Dat. 
28 
20 

Month 

10 

1 

1698 

24 
27 

9 
6 

99 

5 

11 

99 

14 

10 

1694 

15 

1 

1695 

12 

7 

»» 

6 

12 

if 

0 

8 

90  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 


Martha  Mawde  dan.  of  Tymothy  Mawde 
Alice    Davy    dau.   of   William  Davy  of 

Whittley  head 
Tho:  Hird  son  of  Jo:  Hird  of  Braithatt 
Elizabeth  Wilson  dan.  of  Henry  Wilson  of 

Braithwaite 
Moses  Maud  son  of  Timothy  and  Esther 

Mand  of  Castlefield  in  Bingley  p'ish. 
Thomas  Brigg  son  of  Jeremy  Brigg  of 

Gard  house 
Marye  Shackleton  dan.  of  Richard  Shack- 

leton  of  Hardein 
Jeremy  Brigg  son  of  Jeremy  &  Elizabeth 

Brigg  of  Gairdhouse  near  Kighley 
Mercy  Maud  dan.  of  Timothy  and  Esther 

Maud  of  Castlefield 
Sarah  Davie  dan.  of  William  &  Hannah 

Davie  of  Whitley-head 
1696        2        8        Ann  Wade  dan.  of  William  &  Elizabeth 

Wade  of  Bteeton  in  the  p'ish  of  Kildwick 

and  county  of  York 

8  Abraham  Shackleton  son  of  Richard  and 
Sarah  Shackleton  of  Hardden 

9  Debora  Mawd  dau.  of  Timothy  &  Esther 
Mawd  of  Castlefield 

1        David  Brigg  son  of  Jeremy  &  Elizabeth 

Brigg  at  Steeton 
8        Hannah  Mawd  dau.  of  Timothy  &  Esther 

Mawd  of  Castlefield 

10  John  Wade  son  of  William  and  Elizabeth 
Wade  of  Steeton 

8  Timothy  Mawd  son  of  Timothy  &  Esther 
Mawd  of  Castlefield  near  Bingley 

11  Hannah  Davie  dau.  of  William  &  Hannah 
Davie  of  Whitley  head 

1  David  Waddington  son  of  Richard  and 
Margret  Waddington  of  Calversik  hill  in 
the  townshipp  of  Kighley 

8  Thomas  Wade  son  of  William  &  Elizabeth 
Wade  of  Steeton 

9  Mary  Mawd  dau.  of  Timothy  and  Esther 
Mawd  of  near  Bingley 

6  Lidia  Davie  dau.  of  Dyonis  k  Martha  Davie 
of  Reedcar 

12  Sarah  Davie  dau.  of  William  and  Hannah 
Davie 

10  Timothy  Mawd  son  of  Timothy  &  Esther 
Mawd  of  Crossflatt  near  Bingley 


»9 

27 

1697 

10 

1699 

10 

99 

22 

99 

19 

1700 

27 

99 

20 

1701 

28 

99 

29 

99 

17 

1702 

20 

99 

10 

1708 

14 

fflTH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  91 

r.  Month. 

\        7        John  Coulings  eon  of  Thomas  and  Sarah 

Couling8  of  Brumthwaite  in  the  parish 

of  Kildwick  &  county  of  York 
)         1        John  Binns  son  of  John  &  Abigaill  Binns 

of  Cragg-top  near  Kildwick  in  the  county 

of  York 
)         4        Mary  Wade  dau.  of  William  and  Elizabeth 

Wade  of  Steeton,  in  the  p'ish  of  Kildwick 
)         8        William  Smith  son  of  Robert  and  Hannah 

Smith  of  Clough  bank 
3         5        Thomas  Coulings  son  of  Thomas  &  Sarah 

Coulings  of  Braimthwaite  in  the  parish 

of  Kildwick  &  County  of  York 

3  6        Benjamin  Bins  son  of  John  and  Abigail 

Binns  of  Farnhill  in  the  p'ish  of  Kildwick 

D        9        Jonathan  &  Rebeckali  Taylor,  Twins,  son 

.  and  daughter  of  Jonathan   and  Lidia 

Taylor  of  ftavenroid  near  Bingley 
7      10        Joshuah  Brigg  son  of  Thomas  and  Ruth 

Brigg  of  Calversike  hill 
6        5        William  Davie  son  of  William  &  Hannah 

Davie  of  Whittley  head 
6      10        Susanna  Smith  dau.  of  Bobert  &  Hannah 

Smith  of  Clough  bank  in  the  p'ish  of 

Kighley 
18        8        Joshuah  Blaikey  son  of  Thomas  and  Anne 

Blaikey  of  Utley  within  the  township 

of  Kighley  (about  the  11th  houre  of  the 

day) 
9        8        William  Binns  son  of  John  &  Abigaill  Binns 

of  Cragg-top  in  Farnhill  near  Kildwick 
6      10        William  Wilson  son  of  Thomas  and  Ellen 

Wilson  of  Law  close,  within  the  p'ish  of 

Kildwick 

4  12        Buth  Brigg  dau.  of  Thomas  &  Buth  Brigg 

of  Calversike  hill  within  the  township 

of  Kighley 
SO      12        Martha  Davie  dau.  of  Dennis  and  Martha 

Davie 
28       8        William  King  son  of  Henry  &  Luce  King 

of  Laoock,  within  the  parish  of  Kighley 
1        4        Jonas  Binns  son  of  John  &  Abigaill  Bins 

of  Farnhill  cragg-top  in  the  p'ish  of 

Kildwick 
7       9        Joseph  Blaikey  son  of  Thomas  and  Ann 

Blaikey  of  Utley  within  the  Township 

of  Kighley 


92        YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIE8, 

Year.  Day.  Month. 

1709  29        8        Anne  Coullings  dan.  of  Thomas  &  Sarah 

Coullings  of  Brumthwaite  in  the  parish 

of  Kildwick  &  county  of  York 
„  7        5        Steven  Wade  son  of  William  &  Elizabeth 

Wade  of  Steeton  in  the  p'ish  of  Kildwick 
„         28      11        John  King  son  of  Henry  &  Luce  King  of 

Lacock 
,,  2      12        Joseph  Blaikey  son  of  Thomas  &  Anne 

Blaikey  of  Kighley 

1710  15        8        Martha  Bins  dau.  of  John  &  Abigaill  Bins 

within  the  parish  of  Kildwick 
„         28        4        Robert  Smith  son  of  Robert  and  Hannah 
Smith  of  Clongh  bank  in  the  —  Kighley 

1711  19        8        Joseph  Binns        of  John  &  Abigaill  Binns 

within  Farnhill  near  Kildwick  in  the 

county  of  York 
„  4        7        Kathrine  Smith  dau.  of  David  &  Susanna 

Smith  of  Kighley 
„  2      11        Peter  Coullings  son  of  Thomas  and  Sarah 

Goullings  of  Brumthwaite  in  the  parish 

of  Kildwick  &  county  of  York 

1712  28        1        Thomas  Blakey  son  of  Thomas  and  Anne 

Blakey  of  Kighley 
„         81        8        Rachell  Brigg  dau.  of  Thomas  and  Ruth 

Brigg  of  Calversike  hill  within  the  town- 
ship of  Kighley 
„         10        9        Luce  Smith  dau.  of  Thomas  and  Hanna 

Smith  of  Clough-bank  in  the  parish  of 

Kighley 
„         12        7        Benjamin  King  son  of  Henry  and  Luce 

King  of  Lacock  in  the  parish  of  Kighley 

and  county  of  York 
„  5      12        Elizabeth  Davy  dau.  of  William  &  Hannah 

Davy  of  Whitley  head  in  the  parish  of 

Kildwick 
1718      21        2        Mary  Leach  dau.  of  Joseph  &  Sarah  Leach 

of  Lacock  in  the  parish  of  Kighley 

1714  4        4        William  Goullings  son  of  Thomas  &  Sarah 

Goullings  of  Brumthwaite  in  the  parish 
of  Kildwick 
,,         81        5        John  Ramsden  son  of  James  and  Agnes 
Ramsden  of  Braithwaite  in  the  parish 
of  Kighley 

1715  6        1        Mary  Smith  dau.  of  Robert  and  Hannah 

Smith  of  Clough-bank  in  the  parish  of 
Kighley 
„  7        4        Ann  Smith  dau.  of  David  and  Susannah 

Smith  of  Kighley 


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t.  Month. 

d         4        Henry  King  son  of  Henry  and  Luce  King 

of  Lacock  in  the  parish  of  Eighley 
6       12        David  Davy  son  of  William  and  Hannah 

Davy  of  Whitley  head  in  the  parish  of 

Kildwick  &  county  of  York 
2         3        Hird  Bamsden  son  of  James  and  Agnes 

Bamsden  of  Braithwaite  in  the  parish 

of  Eighley  &  county  of  York 
5         5        Hannah  Blakey  dau.  of  Thomas  and  Anne 

Blakey  of  Uttley  within  the  township 

of  Eighley 
1         7        Hannah  Lee  dau.  of  John  &  Sarah  Lee  of 

Braithwaite  in  the  parish  of  Eighley  & 

county  of  York 
19         7        Richard  Waddington  son  of  Thomas  and 

Hannah  Waddington  of  Galversike  hill 

within  the  township  of  Eighley 
1         8        Thomas  Leach  son  of  Joseph  and  Sarah 

Leach    of   Steeton    in    the    parish  of 

Eeighley 
22        5        Mary  Ashall  dau.  of  James  &  Martha  Ashall 

of  Shann  Intak  within  the  townshipp  of 

Eighley 

8  4        Hannah  Bamsden  dau.  of  James  &  Agnes 

Bamsden  of  Braithwaite  in  the  parish  of 

Eighley 
80        7        John  Smith  son  of  David  and  Susannah 

Smith  of  Eighley 
28        9        John  Lee  son  of  John  &  Sarah  Lee  of 

Braithwaite  in  the  parish  of  Eighley 
12      10        Martha  Blakey  dau.  of  Thomas  and  Anne 

Blakey  of  Eighley 
28      10        John  Asholl  son  of  James  &  Martha  Ashall 

within  the  township  of  Eighley 
2      11        Joseph  King  son  of  Henry  &  Luce  King  of 

Lacock  within  the  parish  of  Eighley 

9  4        Sarah  Waddington  dau.  of  Richard  Wad- 

dington Junr.  &  Mary  Waddington  of 

Eighley 
2       6        Hannah  Waddington  dau.  of  Thomas  and 

Hannah  Waddington  of  Galversike  hill 

within  the  township  of  Eighley 
8      11        James  Bamsden  son  of  James  and  Agnes 

Bamsden  of  Brathwate  in  the  parish  of 

Eighley 
8     12        Joseph  Asholl  son  of  James  &  Martha  Asholl 

within  the  township  of  Eighley 


94        YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 

Yeab.  Day.  Month. 

1720  18      12        John  Blakey  son  of  Thomas  &  Ann  Blakey 

of  Kighley 

1721  1        5        Sarah  Waddington  dan.  of  Richard  Wadd- 

ington  Jnnr.  &  Mary  Waddingion  of 
Kighley 
„         25      12        Thomas  King  son  of  Henry  &  Lnee  King 
of  Laoook  in  the  parish  of  Kighley 

1722  22        2        Agnes  Ramsden  dan.  of  James  and  Agnes 

Ramsden  of  Braithwaite  in  the  parish  of 
Kighley 

„  80  6  Hannah  Waddington  dan.  of  John  &  Lidia 
Waddington  of  Kighley 

„  80  8  David  Asholl  son  of  James  &  Martha  Asholl 
within  the  township  of  Kighley 

„  9      12        Richard  Waddington  son  of  Richard  Wadd- 

ington Junr.  and  Mary  Waddington  his 
wife  of  Kighley 

1728  7      11        Elijah  Lee  6on  of  John  and  Sarah  Lee  of 

Ravenroid  in  the  parish  or  near  Bingley 
,,  6      12        Sarah  Blakey  dan.  of  Thomas  and  Ann 

Blakey  of  Kighley 

1724  24        9        Elizabeth  Ramsden  dan.  of  James  &  Agnes 

Ramsden  of  Braithwaite  in  the  parish  of 
Kighley 

1725  12        2        Mary  King  dan.  of  Henry  and  Lnce  King 

born  at  Oakcliff  in  the  parish  of  Carlton 
„         19        8        William  Waddington  son  of  John  &  Lidia 
Waddington  of  Kighley 
17       12        Jonathan  Ashold  &  Sarah  Ashold  eon  &  dan. 
of  James  &  Martha  Ashold  of  Kighley 

1726  27        8        Thomas  Blakey  son  of  Thomas  and  Anne 

Blakey  of  Kighley 
,,         20        5        Hannah  Lister  dan.  of  Thomas  &  Hannah 
Lister  of  Oilsthead  in  the  parish  of 
Bingley 

1727  8        2        Esther  Maud  dan.  of  Timothy  Mand  Jnnr. 

and  Ann  Mand  of  Oanthorp  hall  near 

Bingley 
,,         18        8        Lawrence  King  son  of  Henry  &  Lnce  King 

of  Oakcliff  in  the  parish  of  Carlton 
„         28        4        James  Ramsden  son  of  James  and  Agnes 

Ramsden  of  Braithwait  in  the  parish  of 

Kighley 
,,         11        7        Robert  Smith  son  of  William  and  Martha 

Smith  of  Clongh-bank  in  the  parish  of 

Kighley 

1729  2        1        George  King  son  of  Henry  and  Lnce  King 

of  Oakcliff  in  the  parish  of  Carlton 


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y.  Month. 

U         1        Timothy  Maud  son  of  Timothy  Maud  Junr. 

and  Ann  his  wife  of  Ravenroid  near 

Bingley 
2       11        William  Sharp  son  of  William  &  Mary  Sharp 

of  Eighley 
5       12        John  Smith  son  of  William  &  Martha  Smith 

of  Clough-bank  in  the  parish  of  Eighley 
2         1      *Deborah  Brigg  dan.  of  Thomas  and  Judith 

Brigg  of   Laycock    in    the    parish    of 

Kighley 

9  2        Joseph  Widdoop  son  of  Daniell  and  Sarah 

Widdoop  of  Kighley 
.2        6        William   Maud    son    of   Timothy    Maud 

younger  and  Ann  his  wife  at  Bavenroid 

near  Bingley 
LO        1        Dennis  Ambler  son  of  Dennis  &  Susannah 

Ambler    of    Silsden   in  the  parish  of 

Kildwick 
27        1        Ann  Holmes  dan.  of  Joseph  and  Sarah 

Holmes  of  Braithwaite  in  the  parish  of 

Eighley 
15        2        A  child  of  William  &  Mary  Sharp  of  Eighley 

was  born  the  15th  day  of  the  2nd  month 

and  was  buryed  the  17th  day  of  the  same 

in  the  friends'   burying  place  at  the 

meeting  house  in  Eighley 
22        1        Deborah  Brigg  dau.  of  Thomas  and  Judith 

Brigg  of  Lacock  in  the  p'ish  of  Eighley 

10  8        Bethiah  Brigg  dau.  of  Joshua  and  Isabell 

Brigg  of  Calversiko  hill  within  the  town- 
ship of  Eighley 
22        2        Mary  Smith  dau.  of  William  and  Martha 

Smith  of  Clough-bank  in  the  parish  of 

Eighley     "  (not  sent  to  the  monthly 

meeting)" 
16       7        John  Ambler  son  of  Dennis  and  Susanna 

Ambler    of    Silsden    in  the  parish  of 

Kildwick 
6      12        Joshua  Stansfeild  son  of  John  and  Debora 

Stansfeild  of  Morton  in  the  parish  of 

Bingley 
2       4        Lois  Brigg  dau.  of  Joshua  &  Isabell  Brigg 

of  Calversike  hill  in  the  township  of 

Eighley  "(12-15  p.m.)" 
10       5        Thomas  Brigg  son  of  Thomas  and  Judith 

Brigg    of   Laycock    in  the    parish  of 

Eighley 

i  similar  entry  (in  a  hand  of  earlier  date)  gives  the  year  as  1733. 


96         YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 

xear    Day    \iqkttt 

1786  16        1        Esther  Stansfield  dan.  of  John  Stansfield 

of  Morton  in  the  parrish  of  Bingley 

1787  22        5        Cornelia  Brigg  dan.  of  Joshua  and  Isabell 

Brigg  of  Calversike  hill  in  the  township 
of  Eighley 

1788  6        5        Ann  Stansfeild  dan.  of  John  and  Debora 

Stansfeild  of  Morton  in  the  parish  of 
Bingley 

1789  1        8        Paulina  Brigg  dan.  of  Joshua  and  Isabell 

Brigg  of  Calversike  hill  in  the  township 

of  Eighley 
1749      24        7        Thomas  Brigg  son  of  Joshua  and  Isabell 

Brigg  of  Calversike  hill  in  the  township 

of  Eighley  was  born  in  Kighley 
1752      25        8        Joseph  Davie  son  of  Joseph  &  Lidia  Davie 

of  Layoock  in  the  parish  of  Eighley 
1758      21      10        William  Davie  son  of  Joseph  Davie  ALydia 

Davie  at  Layoock   in  the    parrish  of 

Eighley 

1760  27        9        Abraham  Davie  son  of  Joseph  and  Lydia 

Davie    of   Layoock    in  the  parish   of 
Eighley 

1761  80      11        John  Aspdin  son  of  George  &  Sarah  Aspdin 

in  Eighley 
1765      21      10        Cornelia  Horsefall  dan.  of  William  Horsfall 
of  Howarth  &  Cornelia  Horsfall  his  wife 
at  Haworth  in  the  p'ish  of  Bradford 

Marriages  and  Burials,  to  follow  in  next  issue. 

;o; 

Beaumont  Tbadition. — Do  you  happen  to  know  the  origin  of 
the  following  very  old  cradle  song  which  has  been  sung,  I 
believe,  for  generations,  to  a  traditional  tune  by  the  inhabitants 
of  the  Almondbnry  district,  and  probably  in  other  parts  of 
Yorkshire. 

"  Ding  dong,  ding  dong  for  Beaumont ; 
Beaumont's  dead  and  gone ; 
Locked  under  London  stone. 
Ding  dong,  ding  dong  for  Beaumont.1' 

B. 
[It  formed  part  of  the  chanted  sing-song  at  card-setting 
houses  in  Bastrick,  so  late  as  1850,  but  had  become  a  mere 
jumble  of  words,  the  meaning  of  which  was  completely  lost. — 
Ed.] 


ITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE    JOURNAL.  97 

Hall  is  one  of  the  several  old  farm-houses  in 
ae-cum-Brighouse,  dignified  by  the  name  "Hall." 
3  not  uncommon  to  find  such  Halls  in  any  part  of 


Riding,  and  many  of  them  are  of  very  ancient  date, 
by  their  names,  e.g.  the  numerous  Laverack  (Layrock, 
ton,)  Halls.  The  special  distinction  seems  to  have 
I  from  some  principle  of  taxation,  or  from  being  the 

H 


YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 


residence  of  its  own  yeoman-farmer,  or  statesman.  As  to  the 
name  "Granny"  I  am  unable  to  satisfy  myself.  Whether 
given  in  derision,  like  its  neighbour  "  Needless  Hall,"  or  from 
some  descriptive  situation,  as  "gronny,"  (marshy,)  I  cannot 
state.  It  is  situated  in  a  slack,  near  the  sleads  or  sladts,  on  the 
boundary  line  of  Brighouse  hamlet.  It  is  not  mentioned  in 
Watson's  "  Halifax,"  and  all  I  know  of  its  history  is  confined 
to  the  present  century,  having  passed  from  Mr.  Mark  Black- 
burn, of  Clifton-on-Calder,  to  his  representative  Mr.  Joseph 
Bayner,  late  Town  Clerk,  of  Liverpool,  who  sold  it  on  leaving 
Slead  House,  to  Mr.  Thomas  Sugden.  The  house  has  been  re- 
fronted  and  rough-casted,  but  the  hob-nailed  door,  the  diamond- 
shaped  flagstone,  and  a  plaster  coat-of-arms  of  Charles  H. 
(which  is  also  to  be  found  at  Brookfoot-house,  and  probably 
indicates  a  royalist  owner,)  indicate  a  residence  of  some  pre- 
tensions. Numerous  obsolete  customs  hang  about  the  memory 
of  the  old  house,  especially  the  use  of  milk-sticks,  or  tallies, 
and  the  fear  of  letting  the  fire  go  out  on  New  Year's  eve. 
At  the  distance  of  a  few  fields'  length  was  born,  and  still 
resides,  Mrs.  Sunderland,  the  Yorkshire  Queen  of  Song ;  and 
her  husband  resided,  when  a  young  man,  at  Granny  Hall. 
Miss  Susan  Sykes,  (giving  her  maiden  name,)  is  a  member  of 
an  old  local  family.  Old  Luke  Settle,  the  harmonious  member 
of  a  race  of  blacksmiths,  and  composer  of  "  Settle,"  and  other 
old-time  favourite  tunes,  had  a  hand  in  teaching  Miss  Susan 
to  sing.  I  treasure  the  old  "Breeches"  and  "Cratch"  Bible 
of  the  Settles,  which  from  its  printing  in  1602  passed  from 
Jonas  Rowlingson,  1675,  Daniel  Blaymires,  to  Samuel  Settle, 
of  Shelf,  blacksmith,  to  his  son  John,  of  Soutbowram,  black- 
smith, (died  at  the  age  of  67,)  to  old  Luke,  of  Slead  Syke, 
blacksmith,  (died  Jan.  23,  1868,  aged  84,)  whose  sons  John,  of 
Kastrick  Common,  and  Jubal,  of  Slead  Syke,  both  blacksmiths, 
are  now  deceased.  T. 


BaimstoD  Ubarcb,  West  End. 


IB'armston.  The  Lordship  of 
Berneston,  so  called  from  its  Anglo 
Saxon  owner,  is  mentioned  in 
Domesday  as  belonging  to  Torchil, 
Siward,  Bonde  and  Alchil,  who 
were  subject  to  the  payment  of 
Danegelt.  Sir  Allan  Monceauz,  of 
Norman  extraction,  held  the  manor 
about  1100,  and  it  continued  in 
the  family  until  Brian  de  la  See, 
who  died  in  1497,  the  son  of  Brian, 
left  two  daughters  only,  and  the 
elder  marrying  Sir  Henry  Boynton 
carried  the  manor  into  that  family, 


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De  la  See. 

with  whom  it  has  remained  nearly 
four  centuries.  The  Monceaux  arms 
are,  Or,  a  cross  moline  gules.  John 
Monceaux,  son  of  Sir  John,  died  in 
his  father's  life  time,  at  Barmston. 
His  will,  dated  1881,  bears  this  seal 
with  arms : 


Monceaux  Seal. 


John  Monceaux,  Esq.,  whose  daughter  married  Brian  de  la 
See,  made  his  will  in  1426.  It  bears  two  seals  as  given  here- 
under : 


too 


YOB&8HIRE    NOTES    AND    QUEBIUS, 


™^  *  nan  wa8  Kreat-great-grandson  of  Peter  de  la  See, 
M.P.  for  Bavenspur  Oaa,  23  Edward  I.  Their  arms  are, 
Argent,  two  bars  wavy,  or. 

The  Bovnton  arms  are,  Or,  a  fess  between  three  crescents, 
gules.    The  fess  was  formerly  charged  with  a  lion  passant,  or. 


Church  Doorway,  Barmeton. 


Bojnton  Arms. 

Sir  Allan  Monceaux  probably  built  the  first  church,  or  re* 
placed  an  older  one.  The  above  cut  represents  a  late  Norman 
doorway,  preserved  at  a  more  recent  re-erection.  It  is  now 
within  the  porch.     The  list  of  incumbents  begins  with  1292. 

The  Manor  House,  from  the  most  ancient  times,  was  the 
residence  of  the  Lords.  It  was  deeply  moated  on  all  sides, 
and  accessible  only  by  a  drawbridge.  Our  view  gives  the  right 
wing  of  the  mansion  erected  by  Sir  Thomas  Boynton,  Knt., 
and  his  son  Sir  Francis,  in  Elizabeth's  reign.    From  1605,  the 


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101 


family  mansion  has  been  at  Barton  Agnes,  and  a  century  later 
Barmston  Manor  House  was  mostly  dismantled,  and  the 
neighbouring  farm- houses  were  built  with  the  materials. 
Potdson  gives  an  interesting  inventory  of  the  various  rooms 
and  furniture,  with  cash  value,  in  1581. 


Hull  Mansion  House.    This  house  in  Lowgate,  was  formerly  the 
residence  of  Alderman  Jarratt,  and  was  so  occupied  for  fifty-six 


if v  if1 


Hull  Mansion  House. 

?ears,  when  it  was  pulled  down  to  be  replaced  by  the  present 
•own  Hall.  T.  T.  W. 


Hilston,  near  Tunstall,  in  the  East  Riding,  is  on  the  highest 
point  of  the  cliff,  about  eighty  feet  above  sea-level.  One  of  the 
Storr  family  built  a  brick,  octagonal  tower  in  1750,  which 
serves  as  a  noted  landmark,  and  from  which  there  is  an  ex- 
tensive sea  prospect.  The  tower  is  situated  a  little  north  of 
the  village,  and  is  known  as  Hilston  Mount.  The  Storr  family 
settled  at  Hilston  about  1600.  Drogo  held  the  manor  at  the 
time  of  Domesday  Survey,  1085,  in  succession  to  Murdoo. 
The  name  appears  as  Heldoveston,  and  in  1272  as  Hildofston, 
evidently  from  an  early  owner. 


102 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 


St.  Qnintin. 


St.  Qnintin. 

Brandesbubton  Church  is 
built  of  sea-cobbles  and  brick. 
It  is  an  ancient,  decorated,  per- 
pendicular edifice.  Torre  gives 
a  list  of  incumbents  from  1820. 
Brantisburtone,  from  Brant  the 
original  possessor,  passed  to 
Suuen,  Ulf,  Ulchil,  Waih, 
Chilvert  and  Arnui  in  Saxon 
times,  and  to  Drogo  under 
Domesday.  The  St.  Quintins 
held  it  from  1200.  Their  arms 
are,  Or,  three  chevronels  gules, 
a  chief  vaire,  argent  and  azure. 
In  the  church  is  an  ancient 
niche,  the  purpose  of  which  is 


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unexplained.  An  old 
shield  of  the  Fitz- 
hughs  (a  chief  or, 
azure  three  chevron- 
els  braced,)  is  to  be 
seen  on  the  church. 
At    the    hamlet    of 

\  Moor  Town  are  the 

remains  of  a  moat 

^    indicating  a  former 

^  mansion    of    some 


Niche. 


Fitz-Hugh. 


vil 


^   * 


&M,.  .         Ou.er    Bank  rfC^ 


Finn  of  Moat, 
pretensions.     Visitors  were  formerly  told 
that  Moor  Town  supported  its  own  poor, 
an   easy  affair  when   there  was  but  one 
Jgfe     :0^  cottage  in  the  place. 


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%\ft  (Earlg  Historg  of  |jotol*2. 

By  W.  Palsy  Baildon. 

The  early  history  of  the  Manor  of  Howley  seems  to  be  un- 
usually obscure.  The  earliest  mention  I  have  found  of  the 
name  is  in  1889,  and  prior  to  that  date  there  appears  to  be 
nothing  on  record  directly  concerning  Howley.  There  is, 
however,  considerable  reason  for  believing  that  Howley  was 
merely  a  dependency  of  the  more  important  Manor  of  Morley, 
and  that  the  history  of  the  one  is  the  history  of  the  other. 
The  grounds  for  this  belief  will,  I  think,  sufficiently  appear  in 
the  sequel,  where  it  will  be  noticed  that  from  1U89  to  the  end 
of  the  sixteenth  century,  the  two  manors  have  precisely  the 
same  history.  I  shall  therefore  address  myself  first  to  the 
early  history  of  Morley. 

In  the  Domesday  Survey,  we  are  told  that  Dunstan  held  six 
carucates  in  Morley  T.  R.  E.,*.and  that  Ilbert  holds  them  now. 
Whether  Dunstan  continued  in  possession  as  under-tenant  to 
Ilbert  [de  Laci],  or  whether  Ilbert  had  granted  the  Manor  to 
some  other  under-tenant  to  the  complete  dis-possession  of 
Dunstan  and  his  family,  or  whether  Ilbert  held  in  demesne,  we 
have  no  means  of  ascertaining. 

Here,  as  in  most  other  cases,  there  is  a  woful  gap  between 
the  Domesday  Survey  and  the  next  record.  Early  in  the 
Xlllth  century  Morley  was  held  jointly  by  Ralph  de  Insula 
[or  de  Lisle]  and  Robert  de  Beston  (a).  Ralph  de  Insula  and 
William,  his  son,  [or  brother,  Burton.]  gave  12  oxgangs  of 
land  in  Morley  to  Nostell  Priory,  (b).  William  is  more  likely  to 
have  been  the  son  than  the  brother,  though  of  course  the  latter 
is  possible. 

William  de  Insula  left  two  daughters  and  co-heirs  Eufemia 
and  Helewisia;  of  these,  Eufemia  married  Nicholas  de 
Rotherfield,  and  Helewisia  married  Marmaduke  Darel  (c). 
Smith  gives  the  date  1226  for  the  former  marriage,  (d)  which 
is  likely  enough,  but  he  gives  no  authority. 

In  1227,  there  was  a  fine  levied  between  the  two  ladies  and 
their  respective  husbands,  touching  lands  in  Morley  and  else- 
where, (e.)  This  probably  dealt  with  the  partition  of  the 
lands,  and  Morley  went  to  the  Rotherfields. 

Hunter  gives  a  small  pedigree  of  the  Rotherfields  (e),  which 
he  took  from  Gascoigne's  great  MS.  of  the  Wentworth  pedigree; 
but  Hunter  suspects  this  to  be  in  some  points  erroneous. 

(a.)  Smith's  History  of  Morley,  88.    •  Time  of  King  Edmund. 

(b.)  Burton,  Mon.  Ebor.,  S06. 

(c.)  Harl.  MS.,  797,  fo.  89. 

(d.)  Pero27. 

(e.)  South  Yorkshire,  II.,  184. 


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YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 


How  ley— Cellar  Ruins. 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL. 


107 


The  pedigree  is  as  follows : — 

Sir  Nicholas  de  Botherneld=f=Eufemia,  d.  &  co-h.  of  William 

|      de  Lisle. 


Albreda,  d. 

of=r 

Sir  Peter  de  B.  =p  Agnes,  < 

1.  of  Sir        John 

Oliver 

1 

1  WiUiamWallis;m. 

D'Eincou 

rt      1 
SirWi 

1  also  Sir WilliamClarel 

Stephen 

UiamdeB.        Dionysia    John       William, 

Bector  of 

=^=... 

m.  William  = 

p...       Dean  of 

the 

Went  worth, 

York,  1278 

Church 

of 

(more  pro- 

of  Helagh, 

Wentworth, 

bablyArch- 

5Edw.ni. 

Woodhouse 

deacon  of 
Bichmond 

and 

Treasurer 

of  York. 

J.H.note). 

a  dau.,  m. 

a  dau.,  m. 

a  dau.,  m.   a  dau.,  m. 

Sir  Adam    John 

Giles,  son 

William 

Thomas     the  son  of 

de  B.,       slain 

of  the 

Daivil. 

le  Pover.     the  Vicar 

died  with-     by 

parson  of 

(Constance) 

of 

out  issue.   John 

Hickleton 

Hickleton. 

Tyas. 

(Elizabeth) 

I  believe,  with  Hunter,  that  there  are  several  errors  here, 
and  I  will  point  them  out  later. 

In  1284-5,  Peter  de  Botherneld  is  recorded,  in  Kirkby's 
Inquest,  to  have  lands  in  Hickleton,  Austhorp,  Sutton,  and 
Wilberfoss.  (f)  The  returns  for  the  Wapentake  of  Morley  are 
unfortunately  incomplete,  but  he  probably  held  Morley  as  well. 

In  1291,  Peter  de  Botherneld,  son  of  Nicholas  and  Eufemia, 
quit-claimed  to  the  nuns  of  Wilberfoss  all  his  right  in  two  ox- 
gangs  of  land  in  Newton-on-Derwent,  which  Eufemia,  his 
mother,  had  given  them,  (g.) 

In  26  Edw.  I.,  1297-8,  Peter  de  Botherneld,  William  and 
Balph  de  Bees  ton,  and  others,  were  found  by  the  assize  to  have 
unjustly  disseised  the  Prior  of  S.  Oswald,  of  Nostell,  of  the 
common  of  pasture  in  Morley,  which  belonged  to  his  free  tene- 
ment in  the  same  town,  (h.)  Peter  was  dead  apparently  in  81 
Edw.  I.,  1802-8.  Albreda  D'Eincourt  survived  him,  and  we 
find  that  "Dns.  Petrus  de  Botheresfeld  "  and  "Dna.  Albreda 
"  uxor  ejus  "  were  buried  at  the  House  of  Friars  Preachers  of 
Pontefract.  (i.) 

(f.)  Snrtees  Soc.,  Vol.  49,  pp.  36,  47,  49,  87.' 

(g.)  Barton,  Mon.  Ebor.,  417. 

(h.)  Harl.  MS.,  797,  fo.  39d. 

(i.)  Col.  Top.  et  Gen.,  iv.,  74. 


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YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 


William  de  Rotherfield,  son  of  Peter,  died  either  before  his 
father  or  very  soon  afterwards.  He  got  the  Hickleton  property, 
which  William  Deyvile  and  Giles  de  Hickleton  (see  pedigree, 
supra)  were  holding  in  81  Edw.  I.  (j.) 

John  de  Rotherfield,  son  of  Peter,  was  holding  the  Sutton 
property  in  81  Edw.  I.  (k.) 

The  Morley  estate  was,  in  81  Edw.  I.,  held  by  Albreda  de 
Rotherfield,  widow  of  Peter,  probably  in  dower :  she  held  15 
car.  in  Morley  and  Driglington  of  the  Castle  of  Pontefract,  of 
which  Sir  Simon  Warde  held  in  Driglington  6  car. ;  she  also 
held  2  car.  in  Austhorp  (1.) 

In  9  Edw.  II.,  1815-6,  Albreda  was  evidently  dead,  and 
John  had  succeeded  to  her  property  at  Morley;  for  in  that 
year  the  Receiver  of  the  Honor  of  Pontefract  accounted  for 


1  j*'->r.rj,,  it 


Pg^toarf ; j 


Howley— Old  View. 
58s.  6d.  for  the  relief  of  John  de  Rotherfield  for  one  half,  one 
eighth,  and  one  sixteenth  of  a  Knight's  Fee  in  Morley,  Drig- 
lington, and  Beeston  (m.)     In  the  Nomina  VMarum,  of  9  Edw. 
II.,  also  John  is  returned  as  owner  of  Morley  (n.) 

The  next  note  I  have  is  in  88  Edw.  III.,  186!  when  John  de 
Rotherfeld,  who  died  on  "  Sonday  next  after  the  fest  of  the 
Epiphany  a0-  87  E.  8,n  held  2  Knights'  fees  in  Qweldale, 
Sutton,  Morlay,  Austhorp,  and  elsewhere,  of  the  Honor  of 
Pontefract  (o.)  This  may  have  been  the  John  above  mentioned 
son  of  Peter,  but  the  interval  seems  a  very  long  one,  and  I 


% 


.)    Surtees  Soc,  Vol.  49,  p.  282. 

:.)    ibid,  p.  285. 

,)    ibid.,  p.  227. 
(m.)    Harl.  MS.,  797.  fo.  89  d ;  Smith,  28. 
(n.)    Snrteee  Soc..  Vol.  49,  p.  860. 
(o)    Harl.  MS.  797,  fo.  89. 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  109 

surmise  that  there  ought  to  be  two  Johns.  This  view  is 
supported  by  the  fact  there  were  three  John  de  Botheresfelds 
buried  at  Pontefract  (p.)  The  middle  one  of  the  three  is 
described  as  "  filius  p'dicti  Johannis." 

Whether  the  John  who  died  in  1864  was  son  or  grandson  of 
Peter,  he  was  succeeded  by  his  son  Adam,  who  in  the  same 
year  paid  £10  for  his  relief  (q.)  I  cannot  say  if  this  Adam  is 
identical  with  the  Adam  given  in  Hunter's  pedigree,  who  is 
said  to  have  died  without  issue.  The  estates  seem  about  this 
time  to  have  descended  to  an  heiress  called  (probably  after  her 
ancestress)  Albreda.  I  think  she  must  have  Jbeen  the  heiress  of 
the  above-named  Adam,  but  I  have  no  direct  evidence  of  this. 
If  Hunter  is  correct  when  he  says  Adam  died  childless,  Albreda 
was  probably  his  sister.  Smith  following  what  is  obviously 
a  clerical  error  in  Harl.  797,  calls  her  Albredus.  That  MS. 
unfortunately  does  not  record  the  date  when  "John  Mirfield, 
William  Beeston,  and  Christopher  Ward  paid  a  relief  of  £5  for 
a  Knight's  Fee  in  Morley,  Beeston  and  Driglington,  which 
Albredus  (sc.  Albreda)  de  Botherfeld  sometime  held  (r).  But 
this  relief  was  probably  long  after  the  time  of  Albreda,  for  Sir 
Christopher  Ward  died  in  1522,  and  the  John  Mirfield  may 
have  been  the  John,  son  of  Bobert,  of  whom  I  shall  have 
something  to  say  later  on.  I  have  one  more  note  about 
Albreda.  In  a  Survey  made  in  19  Eliz.,  it  is  said  that  she 
formerly  held  one  Knight's  fee  in  Morley,  Beeston,  and  Drig- 
lington, which  was  subsequently  held  by  Thomas  Gray,  Adam 
de  Mirfield  and  Ralph  de  Beeston.  (s.) 

We  next  find  that  Hopkinson  records  a  marriage  between  a 
Mirfield  and  a  Botherfield,  and,  considering  that  shortly  after 
the  time  at  which  we  have  now  arrived,  viz.  in  1389,  Adam 
Mirfield  was  "  of  Howley,"  this  is  of  the  highest  importance. 

He  says : — "  John  Mirfield  son  and  heire  of  Willm  was  w^ 
Willm  Beiston,  Esq.,  &  Sr  Christopher  Ward,  Knt.  seized  of 
lands  amounting  to  a  whole  Knight's  Fee  in  Morley,  Beiston 

&  Drighlington,  married daughter  and  coheire  of  Albred 

of  Botherfield,  had  issue  Sr  Willm."  (t.)  Hopkinson's  pedigree 
of  Mirfield  is  hopelessly,  ludicrously,  incorrect  in  the  earlier 
generations,  but  as  this  marriage  fits  in  so  well  with  the  other 
known  facts,  I  think  we  may  assume  that  he  is  right  here,  and 
that  one  of  the  early  Mirfields  married  a  co-heiress  of  the 
Botherfields.  But  the  husband  of  Albreda  (or  Albreda's  co- 
heiress) was  certainly  not  the  John  given  by  Hopkinson. 

(p.)  Col.  Top.  et  Gen.,  iv.,  74. 

(q.)  Harl.  MS.  797,  fo.  39  d. 

(r.)  fo.40. 

(s.)  post,  Appendix,  I. 

(t.)  Harl.  MS.,  4630,  pa.  402. 


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YORKSHIRE  NOTE8  AND  QUERIE8, 


WITH    YOBKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  HI 

In  1389,  as  I  have  already  stated,  Adam  Mil-field  describes 
himself  as  "of  Howley,"  in  a  charter,  dated  10th  February, 
relating  to  property  in  Shibden.  (tt.) 

The  father  of  the  Adam  Mirfield,  who  was  "  of  Howley  "  in 
1389,  was  Sir  William  Mirfield,  Ent.,  (u.)  and  he  it  was,  as  I 
believe,  who  married  the  heiress  of  Botherfield.  The  date 
tallies  exactly,  Adam  de  Mirfield  would  be  called  after  his 
uncle,  Adam  de  Botherfield,  and  he  would  thus  naturally  be 
the  first  of  his  family  at  Howley,  as  he  would  inherit  it  from 
his  mother. 

Sir  William  Mirfield,  the  father  of  Adam,  paid  20s.  as  a 
"  Ghivaler  "  in  the  Poll  Tax  of  2  Bic.  II.  and  six  of  his  servants 
paid  4d.  each,  (v.)  Adam  de  Mirfield  at  the  same  time  was 
living  at  Elland,  and  he  paid  4d.  (w.)  He  was  probably  in  the 
household  of  his  relative,  Sir  John  Savile,  of  Elland. 

This  Adam  had  a  son,  William,  to  whom  Howley  no  doubt 
descended,  (x.) 

William  Mirfield  had  two  sons,  Oliver,  and  Bobert  who 
married  the  heiress  of  Tong,  and  founded  the  family  of  Mirfield 
of  Tong,  the  heiress  of  which  married  Henry  Tempest.  William 
Mirfield  appears  to  have  settled  his  property  (including  Howley) 
on  his  eldest  son,  Oliver,  in  tail;  with  remainder  to  his  younger 
son,  Bobert  in  tail ;  with  remainder  to  his  own  right  heirs.  I 
have  no  direct  evidence  of  this  settlement,  and  my  reasons  for 
assuming  its  existence  will  appear  later. 

Oliver  Mirfield,  eldest  son  of  William,  succeeded  on  the  death 
of  his  father.  He  married  Isabel,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Savile, 
of  Thornhill,  by  his  wife,  Alice,  daughter  of  Sir  William 
Gascoigne,  of  Gawthorpe.  Oliver  died  in  1461,  and  his  will  is 
thus  given  by  Dodsworth  :  — 

"First  I  will  that  all  my  ffeoffees,  that  are  enfeoffed  in  all 
my  lordships,  lands,  tenemta,  in  the  townes  of  Mirfeld,  Dighton, 
Egerton,  Gleydeholt,  Heyton,  Hopton,  Batley,  Howley,  Morley, 
GUdosome,  Bolton,  Chekingley,  Lede,  Newstede,  Halifax, 
Wakefeld,  West  Bretton,  with  their  appurtenances,  make  an 
estate  of  them,  &c,  to  William  Mirfeld,  my  sonne,  and  to  his 
heires  of  his  body  begotten.  And  allso  I  will  that  my  wife 
have  xl.  markes  in  the  name  of  her  dower  for  to  be  taken  in 
the  Townes  aforesaid,  except  the  mannr  of  Holay,  which  I  will 
my  sonne  have  when  he  comes  to  age.  Allso  I  will  that  my 
daughters  have  eder  G.  markes.  (y.)  His  wife,  his  cousin 
Bobert  Nevill,  and  his  brother  John  Sothill,  were  executors. 

I  cannot  explain  these  relationships. 

(tt.)    Br.  Mus.,  add.  chart  1571&  ~~  " 

(u.)    Harl.  MS.  797,  fo.  38. 


(w.) 

(y. 


Y.  A.  <fe  T.  J.,  vi.,  287. 

ibid.,  291. 

Harl.  MS.,  797,  fo.  88. 

Y.  A.  A  T.  J.  vii.,  128,  261. 


112  Y0RK8HIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 

Oliver's  wife,  Isabel  Savile,  survived  him  and  married  Sir 
John  Ashton.  In  the  Visitation  of  Yorkshire  made  in  1612, 
the  second  husband's  name  is  given  as  "John  Melton  of  Aston"; 
after  the  lapse  of  time,  confusion  might  easily  arise  between 
"  Ashton  "  and  "  Melton  of  Aston."  In  1478,  Sir  John  Ashton 
petitioned  the  King  in  Parliament  respecting  an  assault  made 
on  his  house  at  Howley,  by  John  Mirfield  and  others,  in  1470. 

g,.)  This  petition  does  not  help  us  forward  at  all  with  the 
istory  of  Howley.  Sir  John  speaks  of  "his  manner  and 
dwelling  place  ef  "Holley  in  the  Towne  of  Morley,"  but  he  had 
no  rights  there  except  jure  uxoris.  The  explanation  of  the 
affray  is  I  think  as  follows : 

Oliver  Mirfield,  it  will  be  remembered,  laid  it  down  in  his 
will  that  his  widow  was  not  to  have  Howley  in  dower,  but  that 
it  was  to  become  the  property  of  his  son  William  as  soon  as  he 
should  come  of  age.  I  do  not  know  if  William  was  of  age  in 
1470,  but  he  was  probably  nearly  so,  if  not  quite,  as  his  eldest 
son  was  born  in  1480.  The  two  principal  offenders  against 
whom  Sir  John  Ashton  petitioned  were  John  Mirfield  and 
Richard  Leeds,  both  late  of  Pontefract.  Now,  Oliver  Mirfield's 
brother,  Robert,  had  a  son  John,  and  I  venture  to  suggest  the 
following  explanation — Sir  John  Ashton  lived  at  Howley  with 
his  wife  Isabel,  Oliver  Mirfield's  widow,  during  tho  minority  of 
her  son  William  Mirfield ;  that  on  William  attaining  his  full 
age,  Sir  John  refused  to  give  up  possession  in  accordance  with 
the  terms  of  Oliver  Mirfield's  will ;  that  William  Mirfield  tried 
to  gain  possession  by  force ;  and  that  as  part  of  the  scheme, 
William's  cousin,  John  Mirfield,  and  others  kidnapped  Sir 
John  Ashton  and  took  him  off  to  Pontefract  Castle.  I  would 
call  special  attention  in  this  place  to  the  words  used  by  Sir 
John  in  his  petition,  as  to  the  terms  on  which  he  was  released* 
viz : — Uppon  promys  and  affirmans  by  mouth  made  by  hym  to 
the  said  Riottours  in  M.  li.  to  be  bounden  that  he  should  abide 
the  rule  of  such  persones  as  they  wold  be  agreeable  unto."  (The 
italics  are  mine." 

No  money  was  extorted  from  Sir  John ;  he  was  simply  bound 
in  a  penal  sum  of  £1,000  to  submit  the  differences  to  the 
arbitration  of  some  persons  to  be  agreed  to  by  the  Mirfields. 

To  return  to  Isabel.  She  survived  her  second  husband,  and 
died  in  1488.  She  was  buried  at  Wakefield,  where  she  pro- 
bably removed  after  her  son  came  to  Howley,  and  Glover 
records  the  following  inscription  on  her  tomb : — 

"$ic  facet  Qna  £**b*Ua  gUljtfton  vibvut  tixtptr 
vtvov  $oi}anni0»  militis,  et  Jftater  $Pmi  $ttitrf*lfc, 
ntilitjg,  qttcc  obit  ttf  Me  jKiati  rnccccluxntiii}. 

(a.)  Bolls  of  Parliament,  Vol.  vi.,  12  &  18,  Edw.  IV.  The  Sieges  of 
Pontefract  Castle,  Richard  Holmes,  p.  ;  see  also  Leeds  Mercury  Weekly 
Supplement,  Deo.  18, 1886,  for  a  communication  by  Mr.  Holmes. 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  118 

The  following  arms  were  on  the  tomb: — Savile  impaling 
Gascoigne,  for  her  father  and  mother;  Mirfield,  and  Ashton, 
for  her  two  husbands. 

Administration  to  her  estate  was  granted  November  22nd, 
1488,  to  William  Mirfield,  of  Howley,  Esq.,  and  Thomas 
Went  worth,  of  Elmsall,  gentleman,  her  son  and  her  son-in-law. 
(b.) 

Oliver  Mirfield  had  one  son,  Sir  William,  and  at  least  two 
daughters,  Jane,  wife  of  Thomas  Wentworth,  of  Elmsall,  and 
one  other,  whose  name  has  not  been  handed  down,  but  whose 
existence  may  be  inferred  from  Oliver's  will. 
'  Sir  William  Mirfield,  of  Howley,  Knt.,  became  entitled  to 
Howley,  as  we  have  already  seen,  on  coming  of  age.  He 
married  Anne,  daughter  of  Sir  Richard  Fitzwilliam,  of  Aldwark, 
by  his  wife  Elizabeth,  daughter  and  co-heiress  of  Thomas 
Clarell,  of  Aldwark.  In  1680  (so  Whitaker)  (c.)  there  was  re- 
maining in  the  north  chapel,  in  Batley  Church,  which  chapel 
belonged  to  Howley  Hall,  the  figure  of  a  female  (the  figure  of 
the  husband  having  perished),  party  per  pale  Mirfield  and 
Fitzwilliam,  and  behind,  a  daughter  kneeling,  with  this  in- 
scription : — 

«« njJjo  cattaeb  trji*  nrtnbottr  to  be  make  in  ttye 

tjecrr  of  pux  Sorb,  tncccc*ctxi{\.'* 

This,  from  the  impalement,  is  clearly  Sir  William  Mirfield 
and  his  wife.    In  the  window  of  the  middle  choir, 
"Sttr.  jjjttirfWfc*  tnxcccciMCx" 

This  also  is  probably  Sir  William ;  but,  of  course,  before  he 
was  knighted.  In  the  north-west  corner  of  the  same  chapel, 
so  Whitaker  tells  us,  is  a  very  fine  alabaster  tomb,  of  which  an 
engraving  is  given  in  "  Loidis  et  Elmete."  On  the  slab  is  a 
knight  in  armour,  and  his  lady,  and  around  the  sides,  held  up 
by  figures  of  men  and  women,  are,  or  were,  these  shields : — 

1.  Mirfield  impaling  Savile. 

2.  Mirfield  impaling  Fitzwilliam. 
8.  Imperfect. 

4.  Eland  impaling  Mirfield. 

This  tomb  is  probably  that  of  Sir  William  Mirfield  and  his 
wife;  and  the  arms  thereon  represent  (1)  his  father  and 
mother,  (2)  himself  and  his  wife,  (8)  (?)  his  son  William  and 
his  wife,  (4)  his  daughter  and  her  husband. 

In  1604  he  purchased  from  his  cousin,  John  Mirfield,  of 
Tong,  (son  of  Robert,  brother  of  Oliver),  for  the  sum  of  £1,000, 
all  his  interest  in  the  manors  of  Morley,  Finchden,  Howley, 

(b.)  Surtees  Soo.,  Vol.  53,  Test.  Eborac,  pa.  18.  The  learned  editor  of 
that  volume  states  that  her  maiden  name  was  Eland.  He  gives  no  authority, 
and  appears  to  be  in  error.    Note  the  arms  on  the  tomb. 

(c.)    "  Loidis  et  Elmete,"  234  et  seq. 

T.N.Q.  I 


114 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 


Mirfield,  Hop  ton,  Dighton,  Batley,  Bolton,  Newstede,  Wake- 
field, Gildersome,  Kirkheaton,  and  Little  Smeaton,  besides 
other  property  in  these  places  and  elsewhere,  (d.)  It  is  this 
transaction  which  leads  me  to  suppose  that  William  Mirfield, 
the  father  of  Oliver  and  Robert,  settled  Howley  and  other 
property,  as  I  have  stated  above.  I  believe  it  was  his  interest 
under  this  settlement  that  John  sold  on  this  occasion ;  and, 
indeed,  if  there  were  no  such  settlement,  I  am  not  aware  of 
any  interest  in  the  property  that  John  could  possibly  have  to 
sell. 

Sir  William  died  on  the  80th  May,  1608  (e.)  The  "  Inqui- 
sition post  mortem  "  was  held  at  Pontefract,  and  he  was  found 
to  have  died  seized  of  property  in  the  following  places : — West 
Ardsley,  Batley,  Bolton  in  Bradford-dale,  Ghickenley,  Drigling- 
ton,  Gildersome,  Halifax,  Heton  near  Ossett,  Hopton,  H adders- 
field,  Kirkheaton,  Laughton  in  the  Morthing,  Mirfield,  Morley, 
Newstede  near  Lede,  Puknall  (?>,  Saxton,  Smeton,  Stubbe, 
Wakefield,  Wilmersley  and  Woodkirk.  (e). 

His  wife,  Anne,  survived  him,  and  at  the  date  of  the  Inqui- 
sition was  living  at  Howley.  She  re-married  with  Thomas 
Clifford,  Esq.,  and  was  living  in  1521  (f.) 

It  will  be  noticed  that 
Howley  is  not  mentioned  in 
the  list  of  places  given 
above,  although  it  is 
mentioned  as  being  the 
residence  of  Anne  the  relict; 
this,  I  think,  agrees  with 
my  suggestion  that  it  was 
included  in  Morley. 

William  Mirfield,  only 
son  of  Sir  William,  suc- 
ceeded on  the  death  of  his 
father,  at  which  time  he 
was  aged  22  (g).  He  married 
Katherine,  who  was,  I  be- 
Arms  od  Howley.  lieve,a  daughter  of  Sir  James 

Harrington,  (h.)  He  died  without  issue  November  25th,  1520. 
His  will  is  dated  October  25th,  in  the  same  year.  He  directs 
that  he  shall  be  buried  in  Batley  Church,  "or  els  where 
as  shall  pleas  Almighty  God  I  shall  deperte  fro  this  wretahid 
world."    The  greater  part  of  his  property  he  bequeathed  in 


(d.)  Feet  of  Fines,  Mich.  20  Hen.  VII. ;  Yorks.  Arch.  Record  Ser.,  Vol  II., 
pa.  19. 

'     Inq.  p.  m.,  Chan.,  24  Hen.  VII.,  No.  53. 
Inq.  p.  m.  on  her  son,  Vide  post. 
Inq.  p.m.  on  Sir  William,  supra. 
Flower's  Visit,  Harl.  Soc.,  pa.  360. 


ft.  XV 

t 


WITH  YORKSHIRE  FOLKLORE  JOURNAL.     116 

trust  for  his  wife  Katharine  for  life,  she  paying  all  his  debts. 
If  his  heirs  attempt  to  disturb  Katherine,  then  his  feoffees  (the 
trustees)  are  to  alien  the  manors  of  Hooley  (Howley)  and 
Dighton  to  the  King,  at  ten  years*  purchase.  If  the  King  will 
not  buy  them,  they  are  to  be  offered  to  the  Archbishop  of  York 
or  to  the  Chancellor  of  England  for  the  same  price.  If  neither 
of  these  two  will  buy,  the  Lord  Darcy  is  to  have  the  offer.  If 
he  also  refuses,  the  feoffees  are  to  sell  at  the  best  price  they 
can  get,  and  Katherine  is  to  have  the  money.  All  his  goods 
and  chattels  go  to  Katherine,  and  she  is  appointed  sole  ex- 
ecutrix. 

The  will  is  set  out  in  his  Inquisition  post  mortem,  which 
was  held  at  Wetherby,  June  18th,  1521.  ( j.) 

But  although  William  intended  to  make  a  feoffment  to  the 
uses  of  his  wife,  it  was  never  completed  by  livery  of  seisin, 
which  omission  rendered  it  void.  Accordingly  Elizabeth,  the 
sister  of  William,  brought  an  action  against  his  widow,  which 
was  tried  at  York,  and  resulted  in  Elizabeth's  favour.  She 
thus  became  possessed  of  Howley,  and  the  other  property  as 
heir-at-law  to  her  brother,  subject  to  Katherine's  dower,  (k.) 

Katherine,  widow  of  William  Mirfield,  re-married  with  Sir 
Thomas  Burgh  (or  Borough),  knt. ;  she  was  again  a  widow  in 
1537,  when  Sir  John  Went  worth,  knt.,  and  Joan  his  wife 
settled  on  her  for  life  the  Manor  of  Howley  ("Holey")  and 
three  messuages  with  lands  in  Howley  and  Morley  (1.)  She  is 
also  mentioned  in  a  Fine  in  1542  as  having  a  life  interest  in 
property  in  Howley  and  Scolcroft  (mi;  and  again  in  1550  as 
having  a  life  interest  in  property  in  Westerton,  Earlsheaton, 
and  Wakefield,  (n.) 

Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Sir  William  Mirfield,  and  heir  to  her 
brother,  was  aged  40  at  the  time  of  the  latter' s  death,  1520 ; 
and  she  was  at  that  time  the  wife  of  Robert  Elland  (o),  having 
been  married  to  him  prior  to  1517  (p).  Robert  Elland  was 
dead  in  1522,  (q),  and  in  1524,  we  find  Elizabeth  was  the  wife 
of  Richard  Jenkinson,  of  Wakefield  (r).  As  already  stated  she 
brought  an  action  against  her  brother's  widow  to  establish  her 
right  as  his  heir-at-law.  She  seems  to  have  been  very  friendly 
with  her  Savile  relations.  I  find  that  she  gave  the  manor  of 
Dighton  to  trustees  to  the  use  of  Robert  Savile,  bastard  son  of 
Sir  Henry  Savile,  and  his  heirs ;  she  also  gave  property  in 

(j.)  Inq.  p.m„  chan.,  13  Hen.  VIII.,  No.  Go. 

(k.)  Harl.  MS.,  4630,  pa.  155. 

(1.)  Feet  of  Fines,  Trin.  29  Hen.  VIII. 

(m.)    Feet  of  Fines,  East.  34  Hen.  VIII. 

(n.)  Feet  of  Fines,  Mich.  4  Edw.  VI. 

(o.)  Inq.  p.  m.  Snpra. 

(p.)  Feet  of  Fines,  Trin.  9  Hen.  VIII. 

(q.)  Feet  of  Fines,  Mich.  14  Hen.  VIII. 

(r.)  Feet  of  Fines,  Trin.  16  Hen.  VIII. 


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YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 


»fe 


Wakefield  to  John  Savile,  of  Lupset,  who  was  son  of  Thomas, 
brother  of  Isabel,  wife  of  Oliver  Mirfield. 

Elizabeth  Jen  kin  son  died  March  15th,  1532:  she  had  no 
issue  by.  either  husband  (s).  The  Inquisition  post  mortem  was 
held  at  "  Wentbrig,"  May  80th,  1586.  From  it  we  learn  that 
Henry  Sotehill  (t)  was  seized  of  the  manor  of  Hopton  and 
property  in  Hopton,  Morley,  Batley,  Gildersome,  Mirfield, 
Huddersfield  and  Kirkheaton,  which  he  held  by  charter  of  Sir 
William  Mirfield  (father  of  Elizabeth)  son  and  heir  of  Oliver, 
being  all  the  inheritance  of  the  said  Sir  William  except  one 

third  held  by  Isabel 
his  mother  in  dowerr 
in  trust  for  the  said 
Sir  William  and  the 
heirs  of  his  body; 
«_in  default  to  go  to 
?  the  heirs  of  the  body 
rjrjof  Oliver,  in  default 
:to  the  heirs  general 
i  of  the  last  named 
■  William.  John 
[Wentworth,  of  Elm- 
Jsall,  was  found  to 
I  be  her  next  heir, 
jviz: — son  of  Jane 
{ Wentworth,  sister 
|  of  William  Mirfield, 
[knt.,  father  of 
[Elizabeth,  which 
5  John  was  then  aged 

no. 

Richard  Jen  kin  son 

^survived    his   wife, 

'and  was  living   in 

-1542,  when  he  had 

a    life    interest    in 

part    of    his    late 

wife's    property   in 

Howley— Gateway.  Kirkheaton  (u.) 

We  must  now  go  back  to  Jane,  daughter  of  Oliver  Mirfield. 

She  married  Thomas  Wentworth,  of  Elmsall,  by  whom  she  had 

five  sons,  John,  Roger,  Thomas,  Oliver,  and  William.     Jane 

and  her  husband,  it  appears,  were  both  dead  in  1582. 

Sir  John  Wentworth  was  aged  40  at  the  time  of  the  death  of 
Elizabeth  Jenkinson  in  1582  (v.)    He  was  twice  married.     By 

!s.)  Inq.  p.m.,  Exch.,  28  &  24  Hen.  VIII.,  William  Mansell,  Eacaet.,  No.18. 

t.)  Oliver  Mirfield  called  John  SothilThis  brother,  supra. 

u.)  Feet  of  Fines,  East.  84  Hen.  VIII. 

y.)  Inq.  p.m.  on  Elizabeth  Jenkinson,  supra. 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  117 

his  first  wife,  Anne,  daughter  of  Thomas  Creyke,  of  Beverley, 
lie  had  issue,  John,  Philippa,  Dorothy,  and  Joan.  By  his 
second  wife,  Joan  (or  Jane),  daughter  of  Boger  Appleton,  of 
Dartford,  county  Kent,  he  had  issue,  Thomas,  Christopher, 
Hector,  Elizabeth,  Bridget,  and  Frances,  (w.)  On  the  death 
of  his  cousin,  Elizabeth  Jenkinson,  he  became  entitled  to  the 
Mirfield  estates  as  her  heir-at-law,  and  amongst  the  rest 
Howley,  but  subject  to  the  life  estate  of  Eatherine  Brough.  (x). 
In  1541  Sir  John  and  his  second  wife  joined  with  his  eldest 
eon  John  in  settling  part  of  the  Mirfield  estate  on  some  of  the 
daughters.  The  estate  settled  consisted  of  the  manors  of 
Morley,  Howley,  Batley,  Mirfield,  Hopton,  Dighton,  and 
Gildersome,  besides  other  property,  and  the  limitations  were  to 
Elizabeth  and  Bridgett  Went  worth,  and  Joan,  wife  of  Robert 
Triggott,  of  South  Kirkby,  and  the  heirs  of  their  bodies,  with 
remainder  to  Sir  John  in  fee.  (y.) 

This  settlement  was  revoked  the  following  year,  and  fresh 
arrangements  were  made.  A  new  settlement  was  made  of  the 
manor  of  Howley,  and  property  in  Howley  and  Scolcroft,  to 
Sir  John  and  Joan,  his  wife,  for  their  joint  lives  and  the  life  of 
the  survivor;  remainder  to  Thomas  Wentworth  (the  second 
son)  and  the  heirs  of  his  body;  remainder  to  Christopher, 
Hector,  Bridget,  Frances,  and  Philippa  Wentworth,  Joan 
Triggott,  and  Margaret  Eyddall,  the  younger  children,  and  the 
right  heirs  of  Sir  John  (a.)  This  Margaret  Kyddall  is  stated 
to  be  a  daughter  of  Sir  John's,  but  her  name  does  not  occur  in 
the  pedigrees,  and  I  cannot  say  if  she  was  a  child  of  the  first 
wife  or  the  second. 

Sir  John  Wentworth  died  in  1544  (a),  and  his  second  son 
Thomas  became  possessed  of  Howley,  according  to  the  last 
mentioned  settlement. 

Joan  Wentworth  survived  her  husband,  Sir  John,  and  re- 
married with  Sir  Thomas  Gargrave,  of  Nostel,  the  father  of 
Sir  Cotton  Gargrave.  (b). 

One  of  the  first  proceedings  of  Thomas  Wentworth  on  coming 
into  Howley  and  Morley  (for  he  had  Morley  as  well  as  Howley, 
although  the  former  only  was  included  in  the  settlement  of 
1542),  was  to  improve  his  estate  there,  by  the  purchase  from 
Ralph  Bees  ton,  of  Bees  ton,  clerk,  and  Ralph  Beeston,  Esq. 
(son  and  heir-apparent  of  the  said  Ralph  Beeston),  and  Mary, 
his  wife,  of  their  interest  in  the  two  manors,  (c.)  What  this 
interest  was  I  do  not  know ;  but  as  the  price  paid  for  it  was 

(w.)  Glover's  Visitation,  Foster,  pa.  378. 

(x.)  Feet  of  Fines,  Trin.  29  Hen.  VIII. ;  East.  34  Hen.  VIII. ;  and  Mich. 

4  Edw.  VI.,  snpra. 

(y.)  Feet  of  Fines,  East.  33  Hen.  VIII. 

(a.)  Inq.  p.m..  Chancery,  36  Hen.  VIII.,  No.  87. 

(b.)  Glover's  Visitation ;  Foster,  pa.  69. 

(c.)  Feet  of  Fines,  Mich.  38  Hen.  VIII. 


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YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LOBE    JOURNAL.  119 

£800,  it  must  have  been  considerable.  It  dated,  at  any  rate, 
from  early  times,  for  we  have  already  seen  that  Adam  De 
Mirfield  and  Ralph  De  Beeston  jointly  held  property  in  Morley, 
and  the  fact  that  the  Beestons  now  sold  an  interest  in  Morley 
and  Howley,  I  think,  materially  strengthens  my  suggestion 
that  Howley  was  formerly  included  in  Morley,  and  that  the 
early  descent  of  Howley  must  be  taken  from  that  of  Morley. 
In  1565,  Thomas  Wentworth  sold  the  Manors  of  Morley  and 
Howley  to  Sir  Francis  Leek.  The  conveyance  is  dated  the  4th 
of  March,  and  is  expressed  to  be  made  "Between  Thomas 
Wentworth  of  Assheby,  in  the  Gountye  of  Lincolne,  Esquier, 
of  th'  one  partye  and  Sir  Frauncys  Leek,  of  Sutton-in-le-Dale 
in  the  Countye  of  Derb*  Knyghte  of  th'  other  partye."  Went- 
worth, in  consideration  of  £2,000,  conveys  "all  those  his 
manors  of  Morley  and  Howley  wyth  th'  apprtennanoes  in  the 
Countye  of  Yorke,"  "  and  all  and  singuler  other  his  landes 
tenementes  and  hereditamentes  rentes  proffytts  and  comodytyes 
in  Morley,  Howley,  Soddhouses,  Fynchden,  Woodkyrk  and 
Battley  or  ells  where  in  the  said  Countye  of  Yorke."  The 
vendor's  covenants  are  very  curious  and  interesting,  which  i&i 
my  excuse  for  giving  them  at  some  length : — A  covenant  that 
the  manor  of  Morley  and  the  other  property  in  Morley,  Wood- 
kirk,  Sodhouses,  and  Batley  are  now  and  henceforth  shall 
continue  of  the  yearly  value  of  £55  10s.  over  and  above  all 
outgoings  and  deductions.  That  all  the  said  manors  and 
premises  are  now,  and  after  the  death  of  Dame  Jane  Oargrave, 
mother  of  the  said  Thomas,  of  the  yearly  value  of  £115  lis.  4d. 
over  and  above  all  outgoings  and  deductions.  That  the 
property  is  free  from  all  encumbrances,  except  leases  not 
exceeding  eighteen  years  in  length,  or  for  life  or  lives,  where- 
upon the  accustomed  rents  are  reserved ;  and  except  also  "  th' 
estate  for  terme  of  lyfe  of  the  said  Dame  Jane  Oargrave, 
mother  of  the  said  Thomas,  of  and  in  the  landes,  tenementes 
and  hereditamentes  in  Howley,  and  th'  estate  and  interest  of 
Hector  Wentworth,  brother  unto  the  said  Thomas  for  terme  of 
his  lyfe,  of  twoo  parcells  of  grounde  beinge  parte  of  the  said 
premisses,  th'  one  called  the  Tynge  Lawe*  of  the  yerelye  rente 
of  eyghte  poundes  eyghte  shillinges,  and  th'  other  called  the 
Parrocks  of  the  yerelye  value  of  foure  pounds  foure  shillinges." 
That  Wentworth  will  pay  or  cause  to  be  paid  to  Leek,  during 
the  life  of  the  said  Dame  Jane  Gargrave,  the  sum  of  £26  IBs. 
4d.  yearly,  and  during  the  life  of  Hector  Wentworth  £12  12s. 
yearly,  these  sums  to  be  paid  by  two  equal  portions  at  the 
feasts  of  Pentecost  and  St.  Martin  the  Bishop,  (d.) 


#  [Hence  Tingley,  formerly  as  here  and  in  the  Wakefield  Manor  Bolls — 
Thinglawe,  or  hill  where  the  Wapentake  Court  was  held.— Ed.] 
(d.)    Close  Boll,  7  Eliz.,  pt.  7. ;  Feet  of  Fines,  East.  7  Eliz. 


120 


YORK8HIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 


In  1579  Sir  Francis  Leek  sold  Howley  and  other  property  to 
Robert  Savile,  bastard  son  of  Sir  Henry  Savile,  of  ThornhilL 
The  property  sold  comprised  the  manors  of  Morley,  Oildersome 
and  Howley,  and  houses  and  land  in  those  places,  and  in 
Sodhouses,  Finchden,  Woodkirk  and  Batley.  (e.) 

Robert  Savile  himself  lived  in  Lincolnshire,  and  I  am  not 
aware  that  he  ever  resided  at  Howley.  He  may  have  com- 
menced to  build  the  hall,  but  he  is  always  described  as  of  the 
county  Lincoln.  He  was  knighted  in  1588,  as  "  Sr  Robert 
Savell  de  com.  Lincoln.,  nothus  Henrici  Savell  equitis." 

In  1566  he  is  described  as  of  Pullam,  (f.)  co.  Lincoln,  Esq.; 
and  the  same  description  is  continued  up  to  1588. 


Howley  Ruins.* 

He  died  in  1586.  He  was  succeeded  by  his  son,  Sir  John, 
who  seems,  like  his  father,  to  have  lived  in  Lincolnshire.  In 
1585  he  was  living  at  Doddington,  in  that  county ;  and  after 
his  father's  death,  when  living  at  Pullam,  he  purchased  the 
Mano*  of  Doddington  for  £5,000,  from  Thomas,  Lord  Burg,  of 
Gainsborough.  In  1588  he  is  described,  for  the  first  time,  as 
of  Howley,  from  which  we  may  conclude  that  the  Hall  was 
then  finished  and  he  was  residing  there. 

(e.)    Feet  of  Fines,  Hil.  21  Eliz.,  pt.  2. 

(f.)  I  cannot  find  any  place  in  Lincolnshire  called  Pullam,  PooUam, 
Pulham,  Pollom,  Ac.,  (all  these  spellings  occur).  There  is  a  place  called 
Pilham,  near  Gainsborough. 

•We  are  indebted  to  Mr.  Smith,  Morley,  for  the  use  of  the  illustrattaBS 
that  accompany  this  article. — Ed. 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  121 

I. — Knights'  Fees  in  Yorkshire,  19  Eliz. 

MORLEY,  BEESTON,  DRIGLINGTON. 

Albreda  de  Rotherfeld  formerly  held  one  Knight's  Fee  in 
these  villes ;  afterwards  Thomas  Gray,  Adam  de  Mirfeld  and 
Ralph  de  Boston,  held  that  Fee;  lately  the  wife  of  William 
Mirfeld  and  Ralph  Boston ;  now  Ralph  Beston,  Francis  Leke, 
knight,  William  Broke  and  John  Broke  hold  the  said  Fee. 

[Duchy  of  Lane,  Class  26,  Bund.  42,  No.  8.] 

II. — Knights'  Fees  in  the  Honor  of  Pontefract,  19  James  I. 
MORLEY. 

John  Savile,  knight,  for  his  lands  and  tenements  there, 
formerly  belonging  to  Thomas  Gray,  afterwards  to  Adam  de 
Mirfeild,  lately  to  Francis  Leake,  knight,  and  Ralph  Beeston, 
and  afterwards  to  Robert  Savile,  knight,  held  by  the  service  of 
one  tenth  part  of  a  Knight's  Fee,  and  a  rent  of  7d.  per  annum. 

[Duchy  of  Lane,  Glass  26,  Bund.  81,  No.  4.] 

Feet  of  Fines,  Yorkshire,  II  Hen.  III.,  No.  58. 

Between  Nicholas  de  Rithereffeld  and  Eufemia  his  wife, 
plaintiffs,  and  Marmaduke  Darel  and  Helewisa  his  wife,  ten- 
ants, of  half  all  the  lands  which  belonged  to  William  de  Insula, 
father  of  Eufemia  and  Helewisa,  in  Broddeswrth,  Quendal, 
Sutton,  Morle,  Neweton,  Beston,  Cottingle,  Cherlewell,  Hansee, 
Puntfreit,  Eusthorp,  Dritlington,  Gildhus,  Poles,  Pikeburn, 
Bukethorp,  Squalecroft,  and  Finchden.  Nicholas  and  Eufemia 
io  have  all  the  lands  in  Quendal,  Sutton,  Morle,  Neweton, 
Puntfreit,  Eusthorp,  Beston,  Cottingle,  Cherlewell,  Dritlington, 
Gildhus,  Fincheden,  Squalecroft,  Poles,  and  Hansee,  except 
the  homage  and  service  of  Hugo  de  Langetweit  of  the  land  of 
Diglandes. 

Marmaduke  and  Helewisa  to  have  all  the  rest,  i.e.,  Broddes- 
wrth with  the  advowson,  Pikeburn,  Buggethorp,  and  the 
aforesaid  service  of  Hugo  de  Langetweit. 

N) 

Assize  Boll,  Yorkshire,  1  -8,  m.  60.,  7  Edw.  I. 
4  J 

Nicholas  de  Langton  of  York  complains  against  Peter  de 
Rotherfeud,  executor  of  the  will  of  William  de  Rotherfeud,  that 
whereas  he  (Nicholas)  in  1219  sold  to  the  said  William  de 
Rotherfeud  16  ells  of  blue  cloth  for  46s. ,  and  whereas  the  said 
William  de  Rotherfeud  had  appointed  the  said  Peter  his  ex- 
ecutor, and  William's  goods  and  chattels  had  come  to  Peter's 
hands,  the  said  Peter  refuses  to  pay  for  the  cloth.  Peter 
denies  that  he  is  William's  executor  or  has  his  goods.  The 
Jury  find  a  verdict  for  the  defendant. 


122  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 

Congregational  <Jlmrclj*s. 

I  well  remember  the  scorn  with  which  an  aged  lady  treated 
the  words  "  Lightcliffe  Church/'  as  applied  to  what  she  had 
always  known  as  "  Leetcliff  Chapel."  She  had  attended  it  for 
seventy  years  and  it  was  never  anght  else  than  "Leetcliffe 
Chapel "  till  the  new  vicar  came,  (now  forty  years  *go.)  With 
similar  doggedness,  the  old  race  ot  nonconformists  insisted  on 
retaining  "  Independent  Chapel,"  instead  of  (to  their  idea)  the 
new-fangled  "  Congregational  Church."  A  "  church  "  is  not  a 
material  building,  they  argued;  but  what  a  "chapel"  was  they 
never  stopped  (stooped,  I  might  have  written,)  to  consider. 
Meeting-house  began  to  be  too  quakerish  to  adopt,  and  of  the 
Roman  Catholic  origin  of  Chapels  they  had  never  heard,  or  they 
would  have  spurned  it  even  more  than  the  word  "Church," 
which  was  universally  synonymous  with  a  "  National  Establish- 
ment." As  for  the  architecture,  the  nearer  they  got  to  the 
barn-like  structures  of  their  forefathers,  and  the  further  from 
the  church  spire  and  gothic  style  of  the  Establishment,  the 
more  they  were  gratified.  Forgetting  that  their  illustrious 
founders  had  no  objections  to  the  venerable  buildings  from 
which  they  were  ejected,  nor  serious  difficulties  with  the  main 
portions  of  the  liturgy  and  music,  they  denounced  such  Church 
tendencies  as  anti-scriptural.  But  during  the  present  reign, 
and  especially  since  1850,  a  new  order  of  things  has  obtained, 
which  is  well  worthy  of  passing  attention  in  these  transitional 
days.  It  is  proposed  to  give  a  couple  of  articles  which  will 
speak  more  appealingly  by  picture  than  by  pen,  and  the  first 
of  these  papers  must  be  devoted  to  the  designs  of  Mr.  J.  P. 
Pritchett,  of  Darlington,  who  has  led  the  van  in  Yorkshire  and 
other  counties.  There  is  little  need  to  give  details  of  archi- 
tectural descriptions,  and  I  shall  content  myself  with  the 
barest  recitals,  as  the  "  Congregational  Year  Books  "  may  be 
consulted  by  those  who  have  need  of  further  information.  [We 
are  indebted  to  Mr.  Pritchett  for  most  of  the  views,  but  ac- 
knowledge our  obligations  to  Mr.  Stanoliff,  Memorial  Hall, 
London,  for  six  blocks ;  and  to  Mr.  Clapham,  for  Dkley. — Ed.] 

Mr.  Pritohett's  Yorkshire  work  began  about  1861-2,  with  two 
Wesleyan  Chapels  at  Leeds — Sheepscar,  costing  £8,987,*  and 
Headingley  remodelled  for  £1197.  Hillhouse  Congregational 
Church,  Huddersfield,  seats  950,  cost  £8,118 ;  opened  February 
16th,  1865.  In  1865,  Knaresborough  Congregational  Church, 
seating  600,  was  erected  for  £2,080,  and  Pudsey,  seating  700 
adults,  for  £2,566 ;  and  Selby  for  £1,010.  Next  year,  besides 
remodelling  Benton  Park  (Rawdon,)  for  £1,211,  he  erected  the 
Established  Church  at  Fulford  for  £8,926,  and  Rhodes  Street, 
(Halifax,)  Wesleyan  Chapel  and  School  for  £5,878.     Saltburn 

"  These  figures  do  not  include  the  cost  of  the  sites. 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE    JOURNAL.  128 

Established  Church  followed  about  1868,  at  a  cost  of  £8,776; 
and,  about  the  same  time,  Beeth  Congregational  Church  (cost- 
ing £881),  Drighlington  Congregational  Church  (£1,171),  and 
Whitby  Congregational  Church  (£8,590 ,  were  reared.  Ilkley 
Congregational  Church,  with  School,  cost  £4,55p ;  Ravensthorpe, 
with  School,  £4,060;  Shelf  (or  Buttershaw)  £1,900;  Bipon, 
£8,640;  Holywell  Green,  near  Stainland,  erected  by  Messrs. 
Shaw,  £7,400;  Ossett,  £6,200.  To  these  he  has  added  Es- 
tablished Churches  at  Spofforth  (£1,250),  Snape,  Sandhutton, 
Ainderby  (£2,000) ;  a  Wesleyan  Chapel  at  Bingley  (£11,400), 
and  several  cemetery  chapels  and  schools.  Of  mansions  and 
public  buildings  this  article  does  not  treat. 


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#£otias  af  &ein  Uoohs. 

The  History  of  the  Old  Parish  Chubch  of  All  Saints, 
Wakefield,  now  the  Cathedral  Chubch  of  the  Diocese  of 
Wakefield.  By  John  W.  Walker,  f.s.a.,  m.r.c.s.,  l.b.cp. 
Wakefield,  W.  H.  Milnes,  1888.  pp.  xv.,  856.  Demy  8vo., 
price  21s. 

Dr.  Walker's  volume  is  a  complete  success.  Few  books  have 
given  us  so  much  satisfaction,  in  subject  matter,  illustrations, 
printing,  paper,  binding,  and  index;  all  are  excellent.  The 
minuteness  of  the  description  of  the  fabric  and  its  furniture; 
the  exactitude  in  tracing  the  history  of  the  Church  from  Saxon 
times,  and  the  social  reminiscences  clustering  around  it ;  the 
wealth  of  genealogical  and  biographical  notes ;  the  promptitude 
in  setting  off  the  new  Cathedral,  with  time-hallowed  associ- 
ations, on  a  long  journey  of  futurity;  the  excellence  of  the 
numerous  woodcuts  and  folding  plates  that  illustrate  the  work, 
and  also  the  typographical  excellence ;  these  qualities  call  forth 
from  us,  as  they  will  from  all  the  happy  possessors,  the  highest 
encomiums.  In  justice  to  many  Yorkshire  bibliophiles  and 
antiquaries,  we  must  say  that  the  book  was  not  well  advertised 
or  their  names  would  have  appeared  in  the  subscription  list, 
which  numbers  only  a  hundred.  By  the  authors  leave,  we  add 
specimens  of  the  many  arms  that  are  given  of  the  historic 
families  of  "  Merrie  Wakefield." 

1.  Argent,  a  chevron,  between  three  crosses  formee  fitchee 
gules,  (Woodrove) ;  impaling,  Argent,  a  saltier  gules,  (Neville). 

2.  Argent,  a  cross  patonce  voided  gules,  (Pilkington). 
8.  Arms  of  the  See  of  Wakefield. 

4.  Three  crowns,  or.  Assigned  to  Edmund  the  Martyr, 
King  of  East  Anglia ;  but  see  Hull  Arms  in  Yorkshire  Notes  and 
Queries,  Folk-lore  section  ;  with  coronets  varied. 

6.  Azure,  three  mascles  or,  a  chief  indented  gules,  (Challoner); 
impaling  Ermine,  a  saltire  engrailed  gules,  (ScargiU). 

6.  Quarterly,  1  and  4,  Barry  of  six,  argent  and  azure  in  chief 
three  lozenges  gules,  (Fleming) ;  2  and  8,  Barry  of  six,  ermine 
and  gules,  three  crescents  sable,  (Waterton). 

7.  Quarterly,  1  and  4,  Argent,  fretty  sable,  over  all  a  label 
df  three  points  gules,  (Middelton,  of  Ilkley;)  2  and  8,  Argent  a 
cross  patoncee  sable,  (Copley;)  impaling,  Argent,  on  a  bend 
sable,  three  spout  pots  of  the  field,  (Sewer.) 

8.  The  Percy  Badge  (as  given  also  in  "  Ilkley,  Ancient  and 
Modern,")  is  carved  on  a  seat  or  misericord. 

9.  Argent,  on  a  bend  sable,  three  owls  of  the  first,  (Savile;} 
impaling,  Argent,  on  a  pale  sable,  a  conger's  head,  erect  and 
couped  or.  (Gascoigne,  of  Gawthorp.) 

10.  Gules,  on  a  less,  or,  between  three  crosses  patee  argent, 
a  lion  passant  guardant  of  the  field,  (Staynton.) 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  187 


188 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 


Ryedale  and  Nobth  Yobkshibe  Antiquities*  By  George 
Frank,  author  of  "A  Guide  to  Ryedale,"  (8rd  ed.,  8th  thousand) 
with  fourteen  wood  engravings.  York,  Sampson  Brothers, 
1888.    Demy  8vo.,  pp.  xxi.,  286. 

Mr.  Frank  treads  historic  ground  with  due  reverenoe,  and 
the  historical  student,  and  the  tourist,  who  traverses  the  forks 
that  feed  the  Derwent,  will  feel  safe  in  so  careful  a  guidance* 
The  first  few  chapters  comprise  a  brief,  general  description  of 
Yorkshire  remains,  particularly  runic  inscribed  stones  of  the 
West  Riding.  These  notes  we  appreciate,  but  the  rest  of  the 
volume  we  heartily  welcome  as  a  standard  work  of  Yorkshire 
topography.  The  book  is  very  well  printed,  and  the  illus- 
trations though  small  are  neat.  The  price  to  subscribers  was 
7s.  6d. 

The  Book  of  Sun-Dials.  Collected  by  Mrs.  Alfred  Gatty. 
New  edition,  enlarged  by  H.  E.  F.  Gatty  and  Eleanor  Lloyd; 
with  appendix  on  the  construction  of  Dials  by  W.  Richardson* 
London :  Geo.  Bell  &  Sons,  1889,  sm.  4to.,  pp.  viii.,  519,  with 
illustrations. 

We  rejoice  in  the  possession  of  this  valuable,  beautiful,  in- 
structive volume,  which  we  may  fully  claim  as  a  Yorkshire 
production,  and  which  teems  with  Yorkshire  antiquarian  learn- 
ing. Price  to  subscribers,  10s.  6d.,  and  we  vouch  for  a  capital 
investment.  We  hope  to  give  the  long  list  of  Yorkshire  dials, 
that  our  readers  may  furnish  any  case  of  omission.  Engrav- 
ings of  two  Anglo  Saxon  dials  in  Yorkshire,  Weaverthorpe  and 
Kirkdale,  are  given,  but  as  that  at  AHbrough,  East-Riding,  is 
not  illustrated,  we  add  a  block  of  our  own,  with  description 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE    JOURNAL.  189 

from  Mrs.  Gatty's  Book.  "  The  dial  in  the  south  wall  of  the 
nave  of  Aldbrough  Church,  in  Holderness,  is  circular,  and 
divided  into  eight  equal  parts,  with  a  hole  in  the  centre  for  the 
style.  In  one  of  these  divisions  is  a  fylfot,  but  here  marking 
the  beginning  of  the  first  tide,  7-80  a.m.  The  inscription  is  on 
the  outer  circle,  and  runs  as  follows :  +  VLF  H  ET  /E  R I E  R AN 
CYRICE  FOR  HANVM  AND  FOR  GVNWARA  SAVLA. 

It  is  not  unlikely  that  this  was  Ulf  Thoraldsen,  who  gave  his 
lands  to  the  Minster  at  York,  and  whose  horn  is  still  preserved 
there  amongst  the  treasures  of  the  Church.  (See  Y.  N.  Q. 
Vol.  I.,  281,  for  engraving.)  The  inscription  is  a  curious 
instance  of  a  mixed  dialect,  Old  English  and  Scandinavian. 
The  dial  is  15}  inches  in  diameter." 

In  Praise  of  Alb,  or  Songs,  Ballads,  Epigrams,  and  Anec- 
dotes relating  to  Beer,  Malt  and  Hops,  with  some  curious 
particulars  concerning  Ale-wives  and  Brewers,  Drinking  Clubs 
and  Customs.  Collected  and  arranged  by  W.  T.  Marchant. 
London :  G.  Redway,  Covent  Garden,  1888.    pp.  viii.,  682. 

Nearly  twenty  years  ago  we  contributed  a  series  of  articles 
on  * 'Ancient  Drinking  Customs,*1  to  a  couple  of  temperance 
newspapers,  and  the  subject  has  not  lost  one  whit  of  its  interest 
to  abstainers  or  non-abstainers.  The  material  brought  together 
and  so  well-arranged  by  Mr.  Marchant,  and  published  by  Mr. 
Bedway  in  beautiful  style  at  a  very  reasonable  price,  is  exactly 
the  work  we  were  anxious  to  see  accomplished.  Although  we 
advocate  Temperance  principles  more  strictly  than  Mr.  March- 
ant, we  fail  to  find  a  dull  page  in  this  portly  volume ;  nay,  we 
even  welcome  the  side  he  has  taken  as  affording  materials  for 
^  full  history  of  the  long- vexed  question.  We  do  not  know  any 
class  of  readers  who  may  not  consult  this  book  with  profit  and 
glee. 

Yorkshibe  :  Its  Scenes,  Lobe  and  Legends.  Elaborated  from 
a  Prize  Essay  written  for  the  Bradford  Geographical  Exhibition, 
1887.  By  M.  Tait,  with  maps  by  F.  D.  King.  Leeds,  E.  J. 
Arnold,  1888.    pp.  v.,  100 ;  ten  maps,  ten  engravings. 

Of  the  ten  illustrations,  only  two — Jennet's  Force  and  North 
Yorks.  Coast  Scenery  (?Runswick),  are  at  all  passable.  The 
maps  are  good,  though  small  copies  of  well-known  large  ones 
by  Newton  and  Davis.  The  book  is  seven  inches  square,  with 
small  type,  and  is  neatly  bound ;  and  the  price  is  haJf-a-crown. 
The  letterpress  is  crowded  with  gazetteer  matter,  but  lacks 
originality.  We  fail  to  see  any  purpose  in  the  book  as  a 
handbook  for  elementary  teachers ;  less  still  for  scholars.  It  is 
a  book  of  cram,  utterly  devoid  of  scientific  treatment.  The 
child  should  be  led  from  the  known  to  the  unknown ;  and  the 
home  and  school  should  be  the  central  starting  point  of  observ- 
ation. To  pester  either  teacher  or  scholar  with  a  hundred 
pages  of  mere  cram  is  criminal.    On  the  other  hand,  as  a  book 


140        YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 

of  reference  we  find  little  fault  with  it,  except  that  most  of  the 
matter  is  more  readily  come-at-able  in  Murray's  YorkMrt. 
The  purpose  of  the  Geographical  Conference  and  Exhibition  is 
still  to  be  accomplished  so  far  as  this  essay,  to  which  was 
accorded  the  second  prize,  is  concerned.  "  Yorkshire "  is  a 
confused,  feltered,  unravelled  skein,  and  what  teachers  most 
require  is  a  tangible  or  digested  series  of  lessons  suitable  for 
2nd  and  8rd  Standard  children.  Twelve  such  Notes  of  Lessons 
would  be  a  boon  to  all  young  teachers. 

From  this  standpoint  alone,  and  not  as  a  Yorkshire  book, 
we  judge  the  work. 

Westmorland  Chubch  Notes  :  being  the  Heraldry,  Epitaphs, 
and  other  Inscriptions  in  the  Thirty-two  Ancient  Parish 
Churches  and  Church-yards  of  that  County.  Collected  and 
arranged  by  Edward  Bellasis,  Lancaster  Herald,  Barrister-at- 
Law.    Vol.  I.    Kendal :  Wilson,  1888.    pp.  xii.,  281. 

We  commend  this  volume,  not  only  to  those  interested  in 
Westmorland  families,  but  to  our  Yorkshire  readers,  who  may 
easily  spare  a  few  hours  in  warm  weather  in  copying  the 
monuments  and  gravestones  of  our  own  ancient  churches* 
Many  would  do  this  if  assured  that  their  labours  would  not  be 
lost,  and  therefore  we  promise  space  in  our  pages  for  such 
contributions.  We  notice  Yorkshire  people  mentioned  on 
some  of  the  Westmorland  stones.  In  printing  the  memorials 
there  is  no  space  lost  in  mere  verbiage.  Our  early  correspond- 
ent, the  late  Mr.  Hamerton  Crump,  receives  constant  ac- 
knowledgments. 

Old  Bibles:  An  Account  of  the  Early  Versions  of  the 
English  Bible,  by  J.  B.  Dore.  2nd  edition,  with  preface  to 
1611  version  added.  London :  Eyre  and  Spottiswoode,  1888. 
pp.  xvi.,  895,  with  17  pages  of  facsimiles  added. 

Mr.  Dore,  of  Huddersfield,  has  honoured  the  town  in  which 
he  resides  by  his  marvellous  collection  of  Old  Bibles,  and  the 
exhaustive  treatise,  most  worthily  printed  and  bound  at  the 
small  sum  of  five  shillings!  will  make  the  bibliophile's  eye 
glisten  with  delight.  It  is  a  book  that  will  be  treasured  by  all 
classes  of  readers  as  long  as  books  endure. 

Old  Wild's.  The  original,  complete,  and  only  authentic 
story  of  "  Old  Wild's,"  a  Nursery  of  Strolling  Players,  and  the 
celebrities  who  appeared  there,  being  the  reminiscences  of  its 
chief  and  last  proprietor,  Bam  Wild.  Edited  by  "Trim." 
Beprinted  from  the  "  Halifax  Courier."  London,  O.  Vickers; 
[printed  by  W.  Byles  and  Sons,  Bradford.]  244  pages,  paper 
covers,  Is. 

Old  James  Wild,  the  pioneer  of  provincial,  travelling  theat- 
rical managers,  was  laid  in  the  graveyard  at  Trinity  Church, 
Huddersfield,  as  the  year  1888  went  out.  He  had  reached  the 
age  of  67.     His  sons,  Tom  and  Sam,  especially  the  latter 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LOBE    JOUBNAL.  141 

carried  on  the  concern  until  near  their  death,  which  happened 
on  the  19th  and  17th  of  May  respectively,  1888 ;  Tom  aged  709 
and  Sam  aged  67.  What  shouting  and  joy  there  was,  when 
the  lumbering  caravans  and  waggons  entered  the  West  Biding 
Villages  at  the  annual  feasts,  few  will  need  be  reminded. 
Though  we  never  entered  their  theatre,  unfortunately  probably, 
we  have  read  these  reminiscences  with  avidity.  Besides 
furnishing  materials  for  a  history  of  village-feasts  and  old-time 
customs,  either  the  editor  (whom  we  recognise  as  a  Bradfordian, 
W.B.M.)  or  old  Sam,  or  both,  have  supplied  us  with  a  most 
amusing  and  racy  memoir.  The  reading  has  been  delightful; 
we  wish  the  end  of  the  struggling  strollers  had  been  more 
prosperous. 

Smxthson's  Northallerton  Almanack  for  1889.  26th  year  of 
publication.    Northallerton,  W.  B.  Smithson. 

The  local  matter  contains  a  list  of  the  public  officers  and 
institutions,  an  instructive  article  on  "Northallerton  fifty  years 
ago,"  and  two  local  poems. 

Cockbubn's  Ossett  Almanack  and  Yeab  Book,  1889.  25th 
year  of  publication,  20  local  views  and  portraits,  Id.;  or  in 
scarlet  cloth  boards,  Is.    Ossett,  S.  Cockburn  and  Son. 

Nothing  passes  in  Ossett,  Horbury,  Dewsbury  and  neighbour- 
hood but  is  faithfully  chronicled  in  these  pages  year  by  year. 
It  is  wholly  printed  at  home,  and  the  local  information  alone 
fills  a  hundred  pages.  The  editor  works  con  amove.  Baring- 
Gould's  David  Turton  appears  among  the  illustrations. 

Wilsden  Almanac,  1889.  Id.  Second  year  of  publication. 
B.  Binns  &  Son. 

There  are  only  seven  leaves  of  local  matter,  a  third  of  which 
are  in  rhyme. 

The  Yorkshire  Beoistries  Acts,  1884  and  1885,  with  Rules, 
Forms,  Introductions,  Notes,  and  Index  by  Reginald  J.  Smith, 
LL.M.,  Barrister-at-Law.  Bevised  edition.  London,  W.Glowes 
and  Sons,  Limited,  1885.  pp.  xx.  88.  [Printed  by  Leader, 
Sheffield.] 

Of  legal  value,  and  not  without  Antiquarian  interest. 

Hand-Book  to  the  Bobough  of  Leeds,  1889.  First  year  of 
publication,  price  8d.,  or  in  cloth,  6d.  Leeds,  J.  Robinson, 
Bond  place.    82  pages. 

The  Libraby,  a  Magazine  of  Bibliography  and  Literature. 
Organ  of  the  Library  Association.  No.  1,  Jan.  1889.  London, 
£.  Stock,  for  the  proprietors.    8d.  monthly. 

Amongst  the  several  valuable  articles  of  this  first  issue,  is 
one  on  the  Appledore  Private  Press,  U.S.A.,  the  property  of 
Mr.  W.  J.  Linton,  Hamden,  New  Haven,  Conn,  who  started  in 
1851  the  English  Republican,  a  monthly  magazine,  first  printed 
at  Leeds.  After  a  while  he  set  up  his  press  at  Brantwood, 
now  Mr.  Buskin's  residence,  but  in  1867  removed  to  America. 


142       YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 

The  patronage,  the  standing  of  its  contributors,  and  the  style 
of  its  production  ensure  success  to  "  The  Library." 

Fulneck  School  Magazine,  No.  1,  Oct.  1888*  No.  2,  Feb. 
1889.    16  pages  each,  price  4d. 

The  seal  bears  the  words— "Vicit  Agnus  Noster  Eum 
Sequamur.  Founded  a.d.  1758/'  and  in  this  religious  and 
antiquarian  spirit  we  welcome  all  productions  of  the  Moravian 
press.  Bishop  Taylor  gives  a  simple,  entertaining  story  of  his 
boyhood's  travel  from  the  West  Indies  to  Fulneck  fifty  yean 
ago,  and  Mr.  F.  Ellis  describes  a  similar  journey  forty-five 
years  ago.  The  rest  of  the  sheet  is  filled  with  school  news, 
missionary  report,  and  the  story  of  the  great  balloon  of  186—. 

Outlines  of  the  Histobt  of  Saddlewobth.  By  Morgan 
Brierley.  Beprinted  from  the  Manchester  City  Press.  Price  Is. 
small  4to.,  20  pages,  double  columns. 

We  called  attention  to  this  essay  as  a  supplement  to  the 
"  City  Press"  Notes  and  Queries,  and  we  have  pleasure  in  doing 
so  again  as  a  separate  reprint,  hoping  that  it  will  be  speedily 
followed  by  Mr.  Morgan  Brierley's  History  of  Saddleworth. 

Yobkshibe  Pamphlets.     Since  last  issue  we  have  received— 

1.  Forty-five  Predictions  of  the  Old,  with  the  Fulfilment  of 
them  in  the  New  Testament.  By  the  late  Bear  Admiral  Henry 
Gage  Morris.  London,  Groombridge,  1855.  84  pages,  un- 
numbered. 

2.  Questions  on  the  Pentateuch,  with  lessons  from  Matthew 
Henry's  Commentary  .  .  .  No.  1.  Genesis.  By  an  Officer 
of  the  Royal  Navy  [Bear  Admiral  H.  G.  Morris.]  London, 
Painter,  [1889]  152  pp. 

8.  The  Yorkshire  Hymn  Book.  By  Rev.  F.  0.  Morris,  B.A., 
Bector  of  Nunburnholme.  York,  Sampson,  1860.  [  Coultas, 
printer.]     122  pages. 

4.  Comfort  for  the  Contrite.  By  Bev.  F.  0.  Morris.  London, 
Groombridge.     1854.    pp.  26. 

5.  The  Precepts  of  the  Bible.  By  Bev.  F.  0.  Morris.  1855. 
pp.  71. 

6.  The  Maxims  of  the  Bible.  By  Bev.  F.  0.  Morris.  1855. 
pp.  119. 

7.  A  Plan  for  the  Detection  of  Thefts  by  Letter  Carriers, 
read  before  the  British  Association  at  York  in  1844,  by  Bev. 
F.  0.  Morris,  B.A.  London,  Groombridge,  1850.  [Bellerby, 
printer,  Gazette  Office,  York.]   pp.  8. 

8.  The  "  Bitter  Cry  "  of  Children  Harrowed  to  Death  under 
Code  upon  Code.  By  a  County  Magistrate,  Manager  of  his 
Parish  School.  [Bev.  F.  0.  Morris.]  London,  Poole.  [York, 
printed  by  Ben  Johnson.]  2d.  18  pages ;  also  10  pages  of 
advertisements  of  Mr.  Morris'  books. 

9.  Account  of  the  Siege  of  Killowen,  now  first  published  (as 
printed  in  "  Blakestone's  Monthly  Magazine  ")  by  the  Bev.r. 


WITH    YORKSHIBE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  148 

Orpen  Morris,  from  the  original  MS.  in  the  Library  at  the 
King's  Inn,  Dublin.  London,  Groombridge,  1854.  8  pages, 
double  columns. 

10.  Account  of  the  Battle  of  the  Monongohela  River, 
[America,  1755,]  now  first  published  from  an  original  docu- 
ment. By  Bev.  F.  0.  Morris,  B.A.,  Beotor  of  Nunburnholme. 
London,  Groombridge,  1854,  8d.    10  pages. 

11.  Experiments  on  Living  Animals.    4  pages.    F.  0*  M. 

12.  A  Hundred  Seasons  against  the  Lakd  Craze.  By  the 
Rev.  F.  0.  Morris,  B.A.  London,  E.  Stock.  Id.  10  pages, 
with  6  pages  more  giving  a  list  of  Mr.  Morris*  works. 

18.  The  Ghost  of  Wesley.  By  the  Bev.  F.  0.  Morris,  B.A. 
London,  W.  Poole,  Id.  16  pages,  with  8  pages  more  of  adver- 
tisements. Our  worthy  Yorkshire  Beotor  is  not  only  a  volum- 
inous and  learned  author,  but  a  trenchant  satirist. 

14.  Is  Smoking  Tobacco  Injurious  ?  No.  A  Short  History  of 
Tobaooo,  with  its  effect  upon  the  general  health  and  its  in- 
fluence on  the  teeth.  By  Chas.  F.  Forshaw,  Doctor  of  Dentis- 
try, Bradford.    Clegg  and  Tetley,  1887.    24  pages. 

15.  Ditto.,  5th  edition,  with  reply  to  "  Is  Smoking  Tobacco 
Injurious  ?  Yes."    Stanningley,  Birdsall.  1887.  Id.  16  pp. 

16.  An  Account  of  Miss  Hannah  Dale,  the  Staffordshire 
Giantess,  [born  1881] ,  by  Dr.  C.  F.  Forshaw,  Dental  Surgeon. 
8  pages,  no  place  or  date. 

17.  Alcohol,  its  influence  on  the  body  and  mind,  its  uses,  &c, 
shewing  its  poisonous  effects  when  used  as  a  beverage.  A 
Lecture  by  Dr.  Forshaw,  Dental  Surgeon,  Id.  Stanningley, 
Birdsall,  1887.    16  pages. 

18.  A  few  Bemarks  on  Stammering  by  Dr.  Forshaw,  Dental 
Surgeon.    Stanningley,  Birdsall,  1887.    Id.     8  pages. 

19.  The  Teeth,  by  Dr.  Forshaw,  Dental  Surgeon,  Bradford, 
Woodhead,  [1885.]     87pp. 

20.  Eventide,  a  collection  of  Original  Poems  by  J.  Gaunt. 
Bradford,  T.  Brown,  52  pp. 

21.  The  66th  Beport  of  the  Whitby  Lit.  and  Phil.  Society, 
1888.    Whitby,  Newton,  16  pages. 

"Inactivity,"  with  abundance  of  money,  and  a  first-rate 
museum,  grates  on  our  ears.    Arise ! 

Yorkshire  Abohjeoloqical  &  Topographical  Journal.  Issued 
to  Members  only.  Part  XL.  completes  the  10th  Volume  of  this 
invaluable  series.  The  volume  contains  pp.  he,  592 ;  a  reason- 
able quantity  for  the  two  years'  subscription  (one  guinea),  but 
the  quality  raises  the  pecuniary  worth  at  least  double.  The 
Index  to  Paver's  Marriage  Licenses  appears  under  Paver,  but 
an  intimation  of  this  arrangement  should  appear  at  the  head 
of  the  Index.  These  Licenses  with  Mr.  Norcliffe's  Notes  afford  a 
rich  genealogical  hunting  ground.  Mr.  Brayshaw  completes 
his  Yorkshire  extracts  from  Leland's  "Itinerary;"  and  Mr. 


144  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 

Eskelby  his  Notes  on  the  Eskelby  family,  of  Exelby  and  Dish- 
forth.  Both  papers  are  exceedingly  valuable  and  suggestive. 
Mr.  Fowler  next  treats  ns  to  twenty  pages,  of  rich  Latin,  with 
English  Notes  on  "  Cistercian  Statutes.'*  Mr.  Richard  Holmes 
follows  with  Dodsworth's  Osgoldcross  Notes,  and  a  history  of 
Foulsnape  Hospital.  More  valuable  contributions  could  not  be 
printed. 

Moravian  Chapels  and  Preaching  Houses  in  London  and 
Di8tbict.  28  pen  and  ink  sketches  in  12  plates  by  an  Amateur, 
March,  1889,  2s.  6d.  With  a  short  sketoh  of  the  work  of  the 
Ancient  Episcopal  Moravian  Church,  or  United  Brethren,  in 
London  and  District,  from  1728.  12  pages.  Leeds,  Goodall 
and  Suddick,  for  the  Author. 

This  portfolio  forms  No.  18  of  the  series,  and  completes  the 
sketches  of  Moravian  Chapels,  Residences,  &o.  in  England  and 
Scotland.  We  congratulate  E.  M.  C.  of  Upper  Wortley,  Leeds, 
on  the  splendid  work  he  has  accomplished.  For  twenty  yean 
we  have  expressed  a  desire  to  see  the  materials  for  a  history  of 
the  Brethren  gathered,  and  now  to  our  gratification  find  it 
fairly  accomplished  by  one  anonymous  writer,  who  has  added, 
what  we  never  expected  to  see,  the  whole  of  the  historic  views. 
The  thanks  of  the  Synod,  full  as  they  must  be,  can  scarcely 
exceed  those  of  the  local  historian  and  topographer.  Our  next 
desire  is  to  see  the  early  Diaries  of  the  Brethren  as  preserved 
at  Herrnhut,  Ac,  made  public,  and  also  to  possess  the  Register 
of  Yorkshire  Burials,  &c.  to  1800. 

Mr.  John  Nicholson,  Hull,  Author  of  "Beacons  of  East 
Yorkshire,"  has  in  the  press  a  work  on  the  "  Folk  Speech  of 
East  Yorkshire."  A  work  of  this  kind  was  needed,  for  the 
East  Biding  dialect  is  slowly  but  surely  disappearing,  and  it 
has  had  a  very  scanty  literature  to  perpetuate  it.  Mr.  Nicholson 
has  not  compiled  a  Glossary  only,  such  as  are  published  by  the 
Dialect  Sooiety,  but  deals  largely  with  the  every-day  expressions 
of  the  people.  Words  relating  to  fighting  and  quarrelling,  such 
as—bray,  bunch,  skelp,  &c.  are  dealt  with,  and  the  rather 
lengthy  Glossary  that  is  given  is  illustrated  by  quotations  from 
old  writers,  to  show  that  dialect  words  are  not  necessarily 
wrong,  but  only  old.  There  are  several  original  dialect  stories, 
and  a  Bibliography  of  dialect  pieces  and  publications. 

Chxjbgh  Plate.  Several  Members  of  the  Yorkshire  Archaeo- 
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WITH    YORKgHTBE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  145 

%*tgbl*g  (Qiutktr  fUgisttr* 

Continued  from  page  96. 
[Note :  On  p.  89  read  "Bogger  Shackleton,  son  of  Richard  S."] 

Mabbiaoeb. 
[Note  :    Many  of  these  are  recorded  at  full  length,  being  in 
fact  copies  of  the  Marriage  Certificate  usually  drawn  up  among 
Quakers.    The  majority  have  also  the  names  of  the  .witnesses 
attached,  but  for  brevity's  Bake  they  are  omitted.] 
Yeab.  Day.  Month. 
1661      21        2        Dyonis  Gockshutt  &  Ann  Smith  dau.  of 

Robert  Smith 
1666      24      12        William  Clayton  of  Stanbury  &  Sarah  Smith 
dau.  of  Christopher  Smith  of  Stanbury 
in  Haworth  parish  at  the  house  of  Joseph 
Smith  of  the  same 

1670  28  2  Thomas  Brigg  of  Coversett  hill  in  Eeighley 
(according  to  the  p'ish  the  younger  &  Xsabell  Bothamley 
English  account)           of   Wilsden    at   the   house  of   Joshua 

Dawson  at  Jackfield  (Intention  to  marry 
published  on  the  2nd  day  of  the  month 
at  the  house  of  John  Brooksbank  of 
Lacocke) 

1671  27        6        William  Jowett  &  Jane  Shawe  at  Stubbin 

house 
1677        2        7        Robert  Hudson  and  Mary  Hombler  (or 
(or  1679).  Ambler)  of  Steeton  dau.  of  Henry  Ambler 

at  the  house  of   Will.  Clayton    near 

Stanbury 

1679  11      11        Thomas  Eastburae  (or  Eastber)  of  Swathes 

in  Kighley  p'ish,  clothier,  and  Sarah 
Sugden  of  Heaton-roads  in  p'ish  of 
Bradford,  spinster,  at  the  house  of  Tho : 
Taylor  of  Laioock 

f,  24  2  Thomas  Pearson  of  Keigley<fc  Grace  Vipond 
the  dau.  of  John  Vipond  of  Britcliffe  in 
Burnley  p'ish  in  Lankishire  at  the  house 
of  John  Vipond 

„  9        8        William  Smith  of  Clow-banke  and  Susana 

Smith  dau.  of  Jonas  Smith  of  Stanbery 
at  the  house  of  Jonas  Smith  of  the  same 
place 

1680  9      11        John  Wade  of  Steeton  in  p'ish  of  Kildwick 

clothier,  and  Margrett  Brigg  the  dau.  of 
Thomas  Brigg  of  Calversike-hill  at  the 
house  of  Thomas  Brigg,  yonger 
y.n.q.  x 


146       YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 

Ybab.  Day.  Mokth. 

1682  last  9  Richard  Shackleton  of  Harding  in  the 
p'ish  of  Bingley,  Bachlor,  and  Sarah 
Brigg  dau.  of  Thomas  Brigg  of  Caher- 
sike-hill,  spinster,  at  the  house  of  the 
said  Thomas  Brigg 

1685  18  10  John  Hird  of  Braithwaite  in  the  pish  of 
(called  December)  Kighley,  Batchlour,  and  Ann  Briggs  of 
the  p'ish  of  Kighley,  dan.  of  Henry 
Briggs  of  the  p'ish  of  Sladebern  co.  York 
spinster,  at  the  house  of  Will :  Claiton 
of  Btandberry  in  the  p'ish  of  Haworth 

1687  15       11        John  Smith  of  Clough-bank,  Batchlour, 

and  Mary  Taylor  dau.  of  Thomas  Taylor 
of  Lacock  at  the  house  of  Thomas  Brigg 
of  Calversike-hill  near  Kighley 

1688  2        6        Thomas  Musgrave  of  Brathwate  in  the 

(called         p'ish  of  Kighley,  Batchlour,  &  Hannah 
August.)        Gockshaw  of  Clough-bank  in  the  same 
p'ish  at  the  house  of  Robert  Hudson  of 
Steeton 
1690      28      10        Jerimie  Brigg  of  Calversick  hill  in  the  p'ish 
of  Kighley,  Bachlour,  &  Elizabeth  Davy 
the  dau.  of  Will:  Davei  (or  Davy)  of 
Whitley-head    in    p'ish    of    Kildwiek, 
spinster,  at  the  house  of  Richd.  Shackle- 
ton  in  Harden  * 
,,  5      12        William  Davie  of  Wittley-head  in  the  p'ish 

of  Kildwiek,  &  Hannah  Roberts  dau.  of 
Lawrence  Roberts  of  Cunendley  in  the 
p'ish  of  Kildwiek,  spinster,  at  the  house 
of  Henry  Wood  at  Grange  Wood-side  in 
the  p'ish  of  Kildwiek 

1694  24        4        Zachriah  Yewdall  of  Idle,  son  of  Zacriah 

Yewdall  of  the  same,  (within  Yewdall 
sic  Bawdon,  meeting),  &  Martha  Pearson, 
(within  Kighley  meeting,)  of  Close  head 
near  Thornton  in  Bradford  p'ish,  at  the 
house  of  Timothy  Maud  at  Castle  field 
near  Bingley,  within  Kighley  meeting 

1695  28        4        William  Wade  of  Steeton  or  Steven  in  the 
(called  June)        p'ish  of  Kildwiek,  Batchlour,  son  of 

Dennis  Wade  deceased  &  Agnes  his 
wife,  &  Elizabeth  Atkinson  of  the  p'ish 
of  Kildwiek  &  dau.  of  Robert  &  Agnes 
Atkinson  of  Ringston  hill  in  the  p'ish 

•  [Marriage  Certificate  in  my  possession.] 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LOBE    JOURNAL.  147 

Yeab.  Day.  Month. 

of  Couln  &  county  of  Lancaster,  a 
young  woman  at  the  house  of  Richd. 
Shackleton  in  Harden 

1696  2  5  Richard  Thompson  of  Emsey  near  Skipton 
in  the  county  of  York,  widdow,  &  Mary 
Hudson  of  Brathwait  in  the  p'ish  of 
Kighley,  widdow  of  Robt.  Hudson  of 
Bteeton  at  the  house  of  Henry  Wood 
near  Eildwick 
„  9       12        John  Wildman  son  of  John  Wildman  of 

Mewith  in  the  p'ish  of  Bentham  &  co. 
of  York,  &  Mereoie  Mann  of  Greenhouse 
in  the  p'ish  of  Kighley,  young  woman, 
at  the  house  of  Henry  Wood,  near 
Eildwick 

1698      18        6        James   Hustler   of   Bingley,  yeoman,   & 

(called  July).        Elizabeth    Rawson    of    Stubbin-house 

near  Bingley,  widdow;  at   the  Public 

Meeting-house  at  Rawden.     (Intention 

published  at  Brathwaite) 

1701  5        1        Dennis  Davie  of  Reedcarr  in  the  p'ish  of 

Eildwick,  &  Martha  Bell  dan.  of  Adam 
&  Mary  Bell  of  Wirersden  near  Thorn- 
ton in  the  p'ish  of  Bradford  at  the 
house  of  Henry  Wood  near  Eildwick 

1702  28        8        Thomas  Brigg  Junr.  of  Calversike-hill  & 

Ruth  Hopwood  (agreed  to) 
„  17       10        David  Davie  a  member  of  this  meeting  & 

Mary  Sutcliffe  a  member  of  Trawden 
meeting  &  Marston  monthly  meeting  in 
Lancashire  (Intention  to  marry  pub- 
lished) 

1708      20        4        Robert  Smith  &  Anna  Taylor  (agreed  to). 

1704  24  8  Jonathan  Tayler  a  member  of  this  meeting 
&  Lidia  Tennand  a  member  of  Fairfield 
meeting  (Intention  to  marry  published) 

1706  2  8  Thomas  Blakey  a  friend  of  Fairfield  nieet- 
ing  living  in  the  town  of  Silsden  &  p'ish 
of  Eildwick  &  Ann  Hird  a  friend  of 
Kighley  meeting,  living  at  Uttley,  in  the 
p'ish  of  Kighley,  at  a  meeting  at  Steeton 
(Intention  to  marry  published  at  the 
last  monthly  meeting  at  Askwith  the 
28th  of  the  1st  month,  commonly  called 
March) 


148        YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 

Year.  Day.  Month. 

1706  9        4        James  Ramsden  son  of  James  Ramsden  of 

Braithwaite  in  the  p'iah  of  Kighley, 
yeoman,  &  Agnes  flird,  dau.  of  John 
Hird  of  Braithwaite  afsd.  yeoman  at  the 
house  of  John  Hird  at  Braithwaite 
(Marriage  certificate  in  my  possession) 

1707  80        2        Henry  King  son  of  Henry  King  of  Oakcliff 

in  the  p'ish  of  Carlton  belonging  to 
Thornton  within  Settle  monthly  meet- 
ing, &  Luce  Smith  dau.  of  John  &  Mary 
Smith  of  Lacock  in  the  p'ish  of  Kighley 
at  the  house  of  John  Binns  at  Farnhill 
Cragg-top  in  the  p'ish  of  Kildwick 

1710      18        7        Joshua  Walker  son  of  John  Walker  of 

(called  September)  Bowling  in  the  p'ish  of  Bradford, 
clothier,  a  member  of  Bradford  meeting 
&  Isabell  Bothomley  one  of  the  daus.  of 
Jonathan  Bothomley  of  Wilsden  in  the 
p'ish  of  Bradford  at  the  public  meeting- 
place  in  Kighley 

1712        4        4        James  Wilcock  of  the  parish  of  Calverky 
(called  June)  &  county  of  York,  Broad  clothier,  son 

of  John  Wilcock  of  Maningham  in  the 
p'ish  of  Bradford,  Broad  Clothier,  and 
Phebe  Heaton  dau.  of  Jeremiah  Heaton 
of  Ravenroid  in  the  p'ish  of  Bingley, 
Kersey-maker,  at  the  public  meeting- 
place  at  Kighley 
,,  10  6  Joseph  Leach  of  Lacock  in  the  p'ish  of 
Kighley  and  Sarah  Hustler  dau.  of 
Jeremiah  Hustler  of  Steeton,  at  meeting 
house,  Kighley 

1718  29  8  Wm.  Hustler  a  member  of  this  meeting  4 
Jane  Jowett  a  member  of  Bradford 
meeting  (agreed  to) 

1714  2      12        Robert  Walker  of  Healey  in  the  p'ish  of 

Batley  &  county  of  York,  a  member  of 
Bridge-house  meeting,  and  Ruth  Maud, 
dau.  of  Timothy  Maud  of  Crossfiatts  in 
the  p'ish  of  Bingley  at  the  house  of  the 
sd.  Timothy  Maud 

1715  28        1        Thomas    Waddington,    mason,    son    of 

Richard  Waddington  of  Calversyke  hill 
in  the  township  of  Kighley,  &  Hannah 
Blakey  dau.  of  Thomas  Blakey  of 
Silsden  in  the  p'ish  of  Kildwick,  yeoman 
at  the  Meeting-house  in  Kighley 


WITH    YORKSHIBE    FOLKLORE    JOURNAL.  149 

Yeak.  Day.  Month. 

,,  9        9        James  A6holl  son  of  John  Asholl  within 

the  township  of  Kighley  &  Martha 
Graven  dau.  of  Joseph  Craven  of  Keigh- 
ley  at  the  meeting-house  in  Kighley 

,,  9        9        Wm.  Lister  of  this  meeting  &  Ellinore 

Dickinson  a  member  of  Leeds  meeting 
(agreed  to) 

1717  17         1        William  Waddington  of  this  meeting  & 

Beatrice  Overend  a  member  of  Bradford 
meeting  (agreed  to) 
20      12        Richard    Wadington    &    Mary    Prockter 
(agreed  to) 

1718  9        8        John   Wade   of  Steeton  in   the  p'ish  of 

Kildwick,  widdower,  &  Mary  Holms  of 
the  same,  young  woman,  at  the  meeting 
house  in  Kighley 
1721  26  5  Joseph  Blakey  a  member  of  this  meeting 
&  Mary  Elam  a  member  of  Hallifax 
meeting  &  Brigg-house  monthly  meeting 
(Intention  to  marry  published) 

1728  4      12        Thomas    Procter    of    Sherburn,    son    of 

Stephen  &  Sarah  Procter  of  Tadcaster 
in  the  county  of  York,  members  of 
Weatherby  meeting  &  York  monthly 
meeting,  &  Margarett  Waddington, 
younger  dau.  of  Richard  &  Margarett 
Waddington  of  Kighley  meeting  and 
Knaresborough  monthly  meeting  at  the 
meeting-house  in  Kighley 
Henry  King  &  Timothy  Maud,  4  or  5  mo : 
1725,  wanting  (on  a  slip  of  paper) 

1725  26        8        Timothy    Maud    Juni.    &    Ann    Walker 

(Intention  to  marry  published) 

1726  9        4        William  Smith  son  of  Robert  &  Hannah 

Smith  of  Clough-bank  in  the  pish  of 
Kighley  &  Martha  Riley  dau.  of  Benja- 
min Ryley  of  Lower  Holm-house  in  the 
p'ish  of  Kighley  afsd.  at  the  meeting- 
house in  Kighley 

1727  Samuel  Grimsha,  son  of  Edwd.  Grimsha 

of  Rawdon  &  Mary  Wade  dau.  of  Wm. 
&  Eliz.  Wade  of  Steeton  in  the  p'ish  of 
Kighley  at  meeting-house  in  Kighley 
(on  a  loose  slip  of  paper) 

1729  Thomas  Foster  son  of  Christopher  Foster 

of  Rilstone,  &  Mary  Lister  dau.  of  Wm. 
Lister  of  Bingley  (on  a  Ioobo  Blip  of  paper) 


150        YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 

Ybak.  Day.  Month. 

1782  4        4        Thomas  Brigg  son  of  Jeremiah  Brigg  of 
(called  Jane)  Laycock,  yeoman,  &  Judith  Hardcastle, 

dan.  of  Thomas  Hardcastle  of  Hard- 
castle-garth  in  Hartwith,  p'ish  of  Kirby- 
Malzeard,  county  of  York,  at  the  public 
^  meeting-place  at  Daker  pasture  in  the 

township  of  Daker-cum-Burely,  p'ish  of 
Bippon,  (from  marriage  certificate  in 
my  possession) 

»,  26  5  William  Lister  Junr.  &  Elizabeth  Jackson 
dau.  of  Henry  Jackson  and  a  member 
of  Woodall  meeting  and  Pontefract  mo: 
meeting  (agreed  to) 

9,  29  1  Dennis  Ambler,  son  of  Dennis  &  Dorothy 
Ambler  of  Silsden  in  the  p'ish  of  Kild- 
wick  &  Susannah  Wardale  of  the  same, 
dau.  of  James  Wardale  of  Sorby-bridge 
in  the  p'ish  of  Hallifax  at  the  meeting- 
house in  Kighley 

m  7      10        Jonas  Adcock  son  of  John  &  Mary  Adcock 

of  Wroaae  in  the  p'ish  of  Calvcrley  & 
Ann  Denbigh  late  of  Kighley,  dau.  of 
William  Denbigh  of  Windale  in  the 
p'ish  of  Calverley  at  the  meeting-house 
in  Kighley 

1783  8        5        Jonathan   Hardcastle  son  of  Thomas  k 

Lidia  Hardcastle  of  Hardcastle-garth  in 
the  township  of  Buerley  &  p'ish  of 
Bippon,  &  Elizabeth  Davie,  dau.  of 
William  &  Hannah  Davie  of  Whitley 
«  head  in  the  p'ish  of  Kildwick  at  the 
meeting-house  in  Kighley 

I*  28  8  John  Stansfeild  son  of  Joshua  Stansfeild 
of  8andbed8  in  the  p'ish  of  Bingley  & 
Deborah  Maud  dau.  of  Timothy  & 
Esther  Maud  of  Gauthorp-hall  near 
Bingley  at  the  public  meeting-place  at 
Spring-head  near  Bingley 

jt  7      12        John  Boulton  of  Elslack  in  the  p'ish  of 

Broughton  &  co.  of  York,  &  Mary  Leach 
dau.  of  Joseph  &  Sarah  Leach  of 
Steeton  in  the  p'ish  of  Kildwick  at  the 
meeting-house  in  Kighley 

„  24  July  Joshua  Brigg  son  of  Thomas  Brigg  of 
Calversike-hill  parish  of  Kighley,  yeo- 
man, &  Isabel  Dryver  dau.  of  John 
Dryver  of  Weatley ,  within  the  monastery 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  151 

Ykab.  Day.  Month. 

of  Sawley,  county  of  York,  yeoman,  at 
the  public  meeting-place  at  Newby, 
parish  of  Gisburn.  (From  marriage 
certificate  in  my  possession) 

1786  27  8  Abraham  Millner  a  member  of  Bawdon 
meeting  &  Isabell  Lister  a  member  of 
this  meeting  (agreed  to) 

1738  22  8  Richard  Hoyle  of  Leeds  meeting  k  Mary 
Hobkins  of  this  meeting  (agreed  to) 

1742  20  12  David  Davie  k  Mary  Wadkinson  of  Went- 
worth  Woodhonse  a  member  of  Baulby 
mo :  meeting  (agreed  to) 

1748  24        5        George  Adkinson  of  Hull  &  Sarah  Blakey 

a  member  of  this  meeting  (agreed  to) 

1749  22        8        George  Aspdin  &  Sarah  Blakey  (agreed  to) 
1751       21         2        David  Davie  &  Frances  Atkinson  of  Sauley 

Grange  (agreed  to) 
1758      17      12        Thomas  Webster  a  member  of  Brighouse 
mo :  meeting  &  Sarah  Slater  a  member 
of  this  meeting  (agreed  to) 
Caleb  Stansfield  &  Ann  Riley  (agreed  to)  - 
Joseph  Jowet  &  Bethiah  Brigg  (agreed  to) 
Richard    Jowet    of    Brighouse    monthly, 
meeting  &  Paulina  Brigg  (agreed  to) 
1766      26        8        William  Aldam  a  member  of  Balby  meet- 
ing &  Mary  Davie  (agreed  to) 
1772      15        8        Abraham    Stansfield  and   Sarah  Wilson 
(agreed  to) 


It 

22 

10 

1761 

22 

11 

1768 

The  following,  taken  from  the  Minute  Book  of  the  Eeighley 
meeting,  are  those  who  were  testified  against  and  expelled  from 
the  Society  for  marrying  against  rule,  i.e.  with  a  priest  or  with 
one  outside  the  Society : — 
Yeab.  Day.  Month. 

Mary  Ambler  &  Elizabeth  Wilson 

Thomas  Masker 

William  King 

Ruth  Whitley,  formerly  Buth  Walker 

Luce  Smith 

Ann  Lister 

Henry   &  Joseph   King  6ons  of  Henry 
King 

Hannah  Garnit  late  Lister 

Hird  Ram8den 

Thomas  Brigg  son  of  Thomas  &r  Judith 
Brigg 


1724 

8 

10 

1785 

26 

9 

1786 

28 

5 

it 

29 

11 

1737 

23 

8 

1788 

23 

5 

1743 

1748 

18 

7 

1752 

21 

1 

1759 

19 

8 

152  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 

Yj&ab.  Day.  Month. 

,,  ,,         „  Ruth  late  Cooper 

1792        6        6  Grace  Davy  dau.  of  Joseph  Davy 

,,  „         „  Ann  Davy  dan.  of  William  Davy 

1798      10        8  William  Davy  of  Whitley  head  (2nd 
marriage) 

,,  1       12   -  Abraham  Davy 


Deaths. 
[Note  :  The  most  part  of  the  burials  took  place  at  Calver- 
sike  hill  in  Kighley,  being  the  burial  ground  already  referred 
to :  but  a  few  occurred  at  the  meeting-house  yard ;  &  some  at 
friends'  burial  grounds  at  Grossflatts  near  Bingley;  &  at 
Stanbury.  The  items  marked  Q.B.Y.  are  obtained  from  an 
extract  furnished  by  the  Officials  at  York  of  the  Interments  at 
Galversike  hill.] 

TH. 

William  Brigg 

Anthony  Moore   (of  Oakworth,  p'ish  of 

Kighley,  Q.B.Y.) 
Ellen  Smith 

Suzanna  Staveley  dau.  of  James  Staveley 
Bobert  Taylor,  son  of  Thomas  Taylor 
Alice  Walker,   dau.  of  John  Walker  of 

Steeton 
Agnes  Tayleor  dau.  of  Thomas  Tayleor 
William  Taylor  son  of  Thomas  Tayleor 
Elizabeth  Byns,  dau.  of  Abraham  Byns  of 

Oakeworth  in  the  p'ish  of  Kighley 
Isabell  Taylor  dau.  of  Thomas  Taylor 
Isabell    Bothomley    the    wiffe   of   Jonas 

Bothomley  of  Wilsten  (Wilsden) 
Dynis  Gockshott  the  faither  late  of  Laicoek 
Dynis  Gockshott  son  of  the  said  Dynis 

Gockshott  (of  Kighley,  Q.B.Y.) 
Isabell  Moore  late  of  Oakeworth 
Bobert  Smith  of  Cleugh  bank 
Ann  Waide  dau.  of  Dyonis  Waide 
Jennet  Moore  late  of  Oakworth  in  Keigh- 

ley  p'ish 
Agnes  Clough,  widow,  late  of  Keighley 
Michaell    Bamsden    (of  Galversike   hill, 

Q.B.Y.) 
„         14        1        Elizabeth  Smith,  dan.  of  Bobt.  Smith  of 

Cleugh  bank 
1678      19      10        Luce  Smith,  do.  do. 


Year. 

Dat. 

Month 

1658 

26 

7 

1660 

22 

11 

$9 

26 

10 

1661 

8 

5 

.»» 

8 

6 

>> 

81 

5 

»» 

6 

6 

>> 

18 

11 

1662 

9 

1 

1665 

14 

10 

1667 

29 

9 

»> 

18 

1 

166A 

19 

1 

1670 

25 

8 

ft 

8 

6 

9* 

20 

2 

»9 

26 

8 

99 

18 

6 

1671 

22 

6 

WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  158 

"Yeab.  Day.  Month. 

1675        5        6        John  Dawson  son  of  Joshua  Dawson  of 
Jackfeild  in  Bingley  p'ish,  b&  at  Cover- 
sett  hill  on  the  7th 
„  9      11        Joseph   Smith  of  Stanberry,   b^   in  the 

burying  place  at  Stanberry  on  the  21st 
„  9        Ann  Bamsden  (of  Calversike  hill,  Q.B.Y.) 

1677      12        2        Jonas  Bothamley  son  of  Jonas  Bothamley 
of  Willston,  bd-  at  Caullversik-hill  on 
the  14th 
,,  25        1        Grace  Wade  of  Steeton 

, ,         18        8        Mawde  Barraclough  wife  of  Averrey  Barra- 
clough  (of  Harrogate  Q.B.Y.) 

1680  5        7        John  Brookbank  of  Laicocke,  bd-atCau- 

versike  hill  on  the  7th 
„         20      11        Henery  Ambler  of  Steeton  \fi-  at  Cauver- 

sike  hill  on  the  22nd 
„  12        1         John  Brigg  son  of  Thomas  Brig  seiner,  of 

(called  July)  Calversick-hill,  b*-  at  Calversick-hill  on 

the  14th 

1681  (the  month      Agnes  Hird  of  Braithatt 
called  April) 

1682  21     (Nov.)    George  Millner,  son  of  John  Millner  of 

Harding,  b*-  at  Calversick-hill  on  the  • 
23rd 

1684  17      11        John  Widdopp,  son  of  John  Widdopp  in 

Felloone,  bd-  on  the  18th 
,,  18        1        Susanna    Smyth,  the  wife  of   Willyam 

Smyth,  b*  on  the  16th 

1685  15      12        Ann  Eastbouren,  the  wife  of  John  East- 
(or  8)  bouren,  bd  on  the  17th  (of  Swaths  near 

Kighley,  Q.B.Y.) 

1686  6        Jennet  Laicock,  wife  of  John  Laicock  of 

Kighley 

1687  6        Martha  Judson  dau.  of  James  &  Agnes 

Judson  of  Kighley 

1688  19        2        Sarah  Eastburn  the  wife  of  Thomas  East- 

burn,  bd  on  the  21st  (of  Kighley  Q.B.Y.) 

1689  2   „    9        Anthony  Browen  of  Harding  in  the  p'ish 

of  Bingley  b4*  at  Calversik-hill  on  the 
5th 

1690  4        2        Thomas  Brigge  'the  anohan t'  (of  Calversike 

hill  Q.B.Y.)  b4-  on  the  6th 
„         16        6        Mary  Talyer  the  wife  of  Thomas  Talyer 

of  Lackock  b4  on  the  18th 
„         27        6        Mary  Smith,  dau.  of  Robert  Smith  of 

Cleugh  bank  (who  died  1670) 


154  YORKSHIRE    MOTES    AND    QUERIES, 

Tkab.  Day.  Month* 

1690  17        2        John  Brigg,  son  of  Jeremiah,  of  Laycock 

(Q.E.Y.) 
,,         15        4        Jo :  Walker  of  Steeton 
„         16         4        Jo :  Eastburne  of  Kighley  (of  Swaiths  nr. 

Kighley  Q.R.Y.) 
„         17      10        Robt.  Hudson  of  Steeton  in  the  p'ish  of 

Kildwiek 
,,         29      10        Joshua    Dawson    (late    of   Addingham, 

Q.R.Y.) 

1691  17  or  24   1        James  Judson  of  Kighley,  b*-  on  the  24th 
„  5    '    Dennis  Wade  of  Steeton 

1692  9        2        Mary  Dawson  wife  of  the   said  Joshua 

Dawson  (late  of  Addingham,  Q.R.Y.) 
„       2  or  12     1         William  Davie  son  of  William  &  Hannah 

Davie  of  Whitley-head  in  Kildwiek  p'ish 
„  8        2        Thomas  Wade  of    Steeton  in    Kildwiek 

p'ish,  bd  on  the  6th 
Thomas  Talyer  of  Lacock,  b*  on  the  10th 
Mary  Clough  of  Brathwait  in  the  p'ish  of 

Kighley,  bd-  on  the  81st 
William  Roulson  of  Kighley,  bd  on  the  11th 
John  Laicock  of  Kighley 
Moses  Mawd,  son  of  Timothy  &  Esther 

Mawd  of  Castlefield  near  Bingley 

1696  80        5        Lace  Smith  of  Clough-bank,  widdow  of 

Robert  Smith,  supposed  to  be  near  one 

Hundred  years  of  age,  for  she  lived  to 

the  fourth  generation 
„         22        7        Agnes   Wood,   wife   of  Henry  Wood  of 

Cragg-top  near  Kildwiek 
„         25       10        Rose  Walker  of  Steeton,  widdow  of  John 

Walker 
169?         2      11        Joshua  Brigg,  son  of  Thomas  &  Isabell 

Brigg  of  Calversik-hill,  bd-  on  the  5th, 

aged  18  years,  1  month,  4  days 

1697  80        1        Isabell  Brigg  wife  of  Thomas  Brigg  of 

Calversike-hill,  b*-  on  the  2nd  of  the 

2nd  month 
1699      16        1        Jonathan  Mann  (of  Greenhouse,  p'ish  of 

Kighley,  Q.R.Y.) 
„         80        1        Elizabeth  Brigg,  wife  of  Jeremy  Brigg  of 

Steeton,  bd-  on  the  1st  of  the  2nd  month 
„         25        6        Hannah  Mawd,  dan.  of  Timothy  &  Esther 

Mawd  of  Castlefield,  near  Biqgjey,  b4- 

on  the  27th 


1698 

6 

6 

1694 

28 

8 

»? 

9 

8 

»» 

8  or  2 

11 

1695 

6 

8 

WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  155 

Yeab.  Day.  Month. 

1609      26        6        AgnesWaddington,a.of  Richard  &  Margaret 

Waddington  of  Calversikehill,  bd*  on  the 

28th,  aged  about  1  year  &  8  months 
,i        20      12        John  Bothomley  son  of  JohnathanBothom- 

ley  of  Wilston  in  the  p'ish  of  Bradford, 

bd-  on  the  24th 

1700  8  2  Elizabeth  Shackleton  of  Harden,  widdow, 
b*  on  the  12th,  an  aged  woman 

27  2        Agnes  Judson,  widdow  of  James  Jndson 
of  Eighley,  b*-  on  the  29th    Aged 

19        4        Ann  Wade,  widdow  of  Dennis  Wade  of 

Bteeton,  b*-  on  the  28rd    Aged 
4        6        Margrett  Jndson,  dan.  of  James  &  Agnes 

Judson  of  Eighley,  a  young  woman 
12  7  Elizabeth  Widdoop,  wife  of  John  Widdoop 
of  Felloan  (Fell  lane,  Q.R.Y.)  in  the 
p'ish  of  Eighley,  b*-  on  the  15th  In  years 
14  or  2  8  Susanna  Brooksbank,  widdow,  of  Swaith, 
b*-  on  the  10th     Aged 

28  10        Timothy  Mawd,  son  of  Timothy  &  Esther 
Mawd,  of  Castlefield  near  Bingley,  b*- 

on  the  27th  at  Calversike  hill  (aged  2 
months  Q.R.Y.) 

1701  last      2        Sara  Davie  dau.  of  William  &  Hannah 

Davie  of  Whittley-head,  in  the  p'ish  of 
Eildwick,  bd  on  the  2nd  of  8rd  month, 
(aged  6,  Q.R.Y.) 

»  18  5  Robert  Wright  of  Lacock  in  the  p'ish  of 
Eighlev,  bd-  on  the  21st     A  young  man 

,,  29  9  Mary  Mawd,  child  of  Timothy  &  Esther 
Mawd,  aged  11  days.  First  that  was 
buried  at  Crossflatts 

708  11  12  *  Grace  Estbern,  dau.  of  Thomas  Estbern 
of  Eighley,  b*-  on  the  18th  in  friends' 
burying  place  at  the  desire  of  her  father 

„  15  12  *  Thomas  Estbern  aforesaid,  b*-  in  friends' 
burying  place  on  the  19th  at  the  desire 
of  his  son 

„  26  1  *  Christopher  Wilsha  "who  had  formerly 
gone  among  friends,  but  going  out  to 
the  priest  for  a  wife  &  having  been 
severall  years  maintained  by  the  parish 
box,  he  dye  the  26  of  the  first  month. 
His  son-in-law  desired  to  bury  him  in 
friends'  burying  ground,  and  said  it  was 
his  mind  to  be  buried  there  " 

*  "  These  buryed  at  the  request  of  relation,  bo  not  recorded  in  y«  monthly 
meeting  book." 


156  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 

Year.  Day.  Month. 

1708  8  2  Mary  Brigg,  widdow  of  Thomas  Brigg,  the 
antientest  of  Calversike-hill,  b4,  on  ike 
7th  Aged 
,,  28  2  Sarah  Shackleton,  wife  of  Richard  Shack- 
leton  of  Harden,  in  the  p'ish  of  Bingley 
b4-  on  the  2nd  of  the  8rd  month,  aged 
45  years,  5  months 
,,  2        4        John  Taylor  son  of  John  Taylor  of  Hill- 

end  in  Harden,  in  the  p'ish  of  Bingley: 
was  buried  on  the  6th  in  a  p'cell  of 
ground  belonging  to  Timothy  Mawd  at 
Cross-flatt,  near  Bingley,  about  28  yean 
of  age 

1704  24      10        Richard    Shackleton    son    of   Richard  k 

Sarah  Shackleton  of  Harden,  in  the 
pish  of  Bingley,  b4-  the  28th  at  Cross- 
flatt  near  Bingley    16  years  of  age 

1705  15        4        Sarah  Davy  dau.  of  William  &  Hannah 

Davy  of  Whitley-head,  b4-  on  the  17th 
(Aged  2  years,  4  months :  Q.R.Y.) 

„  29  1  Richard  Shackleton  of  Harden  in  the  p'iah 
of  Bingley,  b4-  on  the  1st  of  the  2nd  at 
Cross-flatt,  near  Bingley,  above  middle 
age 

„  18  9  Agnes  Atkinson,  widdow,  of  Calversike- 
hill,  in  the  township  of  Kighley,  b4-  on 
the  20th,  in  friends'  burying  place  at 
Calversike-hill  About  the  71st  year  of 
her  age 

„  19  11  Isabell  Wright  of  Hollins  in  the  p'ish  of 
Kildwick,  b4-  on  the  22nd,  a  young 
woman 

,,  9      12        Stephen  Wade  of  Steeton  in  the  p'ish  of 

Kildwick,  b4-  on  the  12th 

1706  29        2        Jonathan  Taylor  son  of  Jonathan  &  Lidya 

Tayor  of  Ravenroid  near  Bingley,  b4  on 
the  2nd  of  the  8rd  month  at  Crossflaftt 
near  Bingley,  about  82  years  of  age 

„  9        4        Elizabeth  Bothomley,  dau.  of  Jonathan  k 

Mary  Bothomley  of  Wilsden,  in  the  p'ish 
of  Bradford  &  coy.  of  York,  b4-  on  the 
12th  at  Calversike-hill,  a  young  woman 

„  11  11  Jonas  Bothomley  of  Wilsden  in  the  p'ish 
of  Bradford  b4-  on  the  16th  at  Calversike 
hill,  about  97  years  of  age 

1707  80        1        Thomas  Brigg  of  Calversikehill,  in  the 

township  of  Kighley,  b4*  on  the  3rd  of 


WITH  YORKSHIRE  FOLK-LORE  JOURNAL.     157 

Yzab.  Day.  Month. 

the  2nd  month  at  Calversikehill,  74 
years  of  age 

1707  24        8        Jonathan  Taylor  of  Ravenroid  near  Bing- 

ley,  b*-  on  the  28th  at  Crossflats,  about 
82  years  of  age 
8        5        William  Leach  of  Lacock,  within  the  p'ish 
of  Kighley,  bd-  on  the  6th  at  Calversike- 
hill,  being  aged 
Michael  Pighels,  child,  of  Ha  worth,  was 
bd*  on  the  16th  day  of  the  8th  month  at 
Calversike-hill 
22        6        Mary  Brooksbank  of  Calversik-hill,  near 
Kighley,  b4-  on  the  25th  at  Calversike- 
hill 
12        7        John  Smith  of  Lacock,  within  the  p'ish  of 

Kighley,  bd-  on  the  16th  Aged 
6  12  Mary  Coats,  widdow,  of  Croos-moor  in  the 
p'ish  of  Kildwick,  b*-  on  the  9th  Aged 
170«  9  1  Hannah  Town,  dau.  of  Henry  &  Grace 
Town  of  Silsden,  bd*  on  the  11th,  about 
8  years  of  age 

1708  5        4        Mary  Wilman,  widdow,  of  Kighley,  b4  on 

the  9th,  about  72  years  of  age 
„  5        5        Dennis  Ambler  of  Silsden,  within  the  p'ish 

of  Kildwick,  bd-  on  the  8th 
„         24       10        Mary  Thompson,  widdow,  late  of  Kighley, 

bd-  on  the  27th    Aged 

1709  22        1        Joseph  Blaikey  son  of  Thomas  k  Ann 

Blaikey  of  Utley,  in  the  township  of 
Kighley,  b4-  on  the  24th  (aged  4  months 
Q.R.Y.) 

,9  A  child  of  Robert  &  Hannah  Smith  of 

Clough  bank,  within  the  p'ish  of  Kigh- 
ley, was  born  the  27th  of  the  3rd  month 
&  dyed  the  80th.  Buried  the  2nd  day 
of  the  4th  month 

,,         25        7        James  Hustler  of  Bingley,  b4  on  the  28th 
Aged 

„  7        8        Hannah  Smith  of  Clough  bank,  in  th& 

p'ish  of  Kighley,  bd-  on  the  11th  A 
young  woman 
1711  6  2  Elizabeth  Green,  wife  of  John  Green,  of 
London,  departed  this  life  with  her 
daughter  at  Car-head  in  the  p'ish  of 
Kildwick,  b*-  in  the  meeting-house  yard 
at  Kighley  on  the  9th,  about  54  year* 
of  age 


158        YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIE8, 

Yeab.  Day.  Month. 

„  16  2  Thomas  England  of  Lees  in  the  p'ish  of 
Bingley,  b**  in  the  meeting-house  yard 
at  Kighley  on  the  19th    Aged 

,,  19  6  Martha  Davy,  wife  of  Dennis  Davy  of 
Clayton  heights,  in  the  p'iah  of  Bradford 
b*-  at  Calversike  hill 

,,  80  5  Henry  Wood  of  Button  in  the  p'ish  of 
Kildwick,  bd-  on  the  2nd  of  the  6th 
month  at  Calversike  hill    Aged 

„  7      11        William  Smith  Dr.  of  Clough  bank,  in  the 

p'ish  of  Kighley,  b*-  on  the  10th  at 
Calversike  hill,  80  years  of  age  or  up- 
wards 
1712  5  1  Mary  Asholl  wife  of  John  Asholl  of  High- 
field  near  Kighley,  b*-  on  the  9th  in 
friends'  burying-place  in  Kighley 

„  1        Adam  Bell  of  West  Scoles  in  the  p'iah  of 

Bradford,  b*-  on  the  21st  at  Calversike 
hill,  aged,  (of  Thornton  Q.R.Y.) 

„  19  2  Frances  Myers,  widdow,  of  Crossflatts 
near  Bingley,  bd-  on  the  23rd  at  Cross- 
flats    Aged 

,,  24  2  Mary  Millner,  wife  of  John  Milner  of 
Harden,  in  the  p'ish  of  Bingley,  b4-  on 
the  27th  at  Calversike  hill    Aged 

,,  6        4        Bachell  Brigg,  dau.  of  Thomas  &  Both 

Brigg  of  Calversike  hill  in  the  township 
of  Kighley,  b*<  on  the  7th  at  Calversike 
hill,  seven  days  old 

„  A  child  of  John  &  Sarah  Lee  of  Braithwat 

in  the  p'ish  of  Kighley  was  buried  on 
the  22nd  of  the  4th  month  at  Calversike 
hill,  being  still-born 

„  21  4  Mary  Anderson  of  Hollins  in  the  p'iah  of 
Kildwick,  bd-  on  the  24th  at  Calversike 
hill 
1718  17  2  John  Brigg  son  of  Jeremiah  Brigg  of 
Lacock  in  the  p'ish  of  Kighley,  b*-  on 
the  21st  at  Calversike  lull,  aged  21 
years,  1  month 

„  14  4  Thomas  Blaikey  son  of  Thomas  &  Ann 
Blakey,  within  the  township  of  Kighley 
b*«  on  the  17th  in  friends'  burying- 
ground  at  Kighley 

„  24  7  Samuell  Lister  son  of  William  Lister  of 
Bingley,  bd-  on  the  27th  in  friends' 
burial-ground  at  Kighley,  9  months  old 


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Year.  Day.  Month. 
„  9      12        Jeremiah  Brigg,  son  of  Jeremiah  Brigg,  of 

Lacock  in  the  p'ish  of  Kighley,  bd-  on  the 
13th  in  friends*  burying  ground  at  Calver- 
sike  hill    In  the  18th  year  of  his  age 

1714  2        8        Susanna  Ambler,  dau.  of  Dennis  &  Dorothy 

Ambler  of  Silsden  in  the  p'ish  of  Kild- 

wick,  b3-  on  the  6th  in  friends'  burying- 

place  at  Calversike  hill 
„  8        2        Hannah  Davy,  dau.  of  William  &  Hannah 

Davy  of  Whitley-head  in  the  p'ish  of 

Kildwick,  b*  on  the  6th  at  Calversike  hill 
„  2        8        Samuel  Ambler  of  Silsden  (Q.R.Y.) 

,,  5        4        Sarah  Crossley  of  Steeton  in  the  p'ish  of 

Kildwick,  bd-  on  the  8th  at  Calversike 

hill,  a  young  woman 
„         10      11        Elizabeth  Bamsden  of  Braithwait  in  the 

p'ish  of  Kighley,  widdow,  bd  on  the  14 

at  Calversike  hill    Aged 
,,  17        Dennis  Davy  of  Law-close  in  the  p'ish 

of  Kildwick,  b*-  on  the  4th  at  Calversike 

hill,  about  46  years  of  age 
„         16        7        Mercy  Sharp  of  Kighley,  M-  on  the  17th 

in  friends'  burying-place  in  Kighley,  a 

young  woman 

1715  20        8        Susanna  Smith,  dau.  of  Robert  &  Hanna 

Smith  of  Clough  bank,  in  the  p'ish  of 
Kighley,  bd  on  the  24th  in  friends' 
burying-place  in  Kighley 

1716  20        4        Sarah     Bothomley     dau.    of    Jonathan 

Bothomley  late  of  Hainworth  in  the 
p'ish  of  Bingley,  bd  on  the  24th  at  Cal- 
versike hill 
„  27  9  Margrett  Wade  wife  of  John  Wade  of 
Steeton  in  the  p'ish  of  Kildwick,  bd-  on 
the  80th  at  Calversik-hill,  aged  62  years 

1717  6        6        Hannah  Town  dau.  of  Henry  &  Grace 

Town,  of  Silsden  in  the  p'ish  of  Kild- 
wick, b4-  on  the  8th  in  friends'  burying- 
place  in  Kighley  < 
„  80  8  John  Wade,  son  of  William  &  Elizabeth 
Wade,  cf  Steeton  in  the  p'ish  of  Kild- 
wick, bd-  on  the  3rd  of  the  9th  in  friends' 
burying-place  in  Kighley 

1718  1        4        Benjamin  Ambler  son  of  Dennis  &  Dorothy 

Ambler  of  Silsden  in  the  p'ish  of  Kild- 
wick, bd-  on  the  3rd  at  Calversike-hill, 
15  years  of  age 


160  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 

Yeab.  Day.  Month. 
I  „         12        8        Mary  Smith,  widdow,  of  Lacock  in  the 

|  p'ish  of  Kighley,   b*  on  the  16th  at 

|  Calversike-hill    Aged 

1719  2        8        Ruth  Brigg  dau.  of  Thomas  k  Ruth  Brigg 

of  Calversike-hill  in  the  township  of 
Kighley,  bd-  on  the  5th  at  Calversike- 
hill,  aged  11  years,  2  months 

„  29  1  Thomas  Hopwood  late  of  Calversike  hill 
within  the  township  of  Kighley,  b*-  on 
the  1st  of  the  2nd  month  at  Calversike 
hill,  aged  82  years 

„  8        7        Esther  Bothomley,  dan.  of  Jonathan  & 

Mary  Bothomley  of  Hainworth  in  the 
p'ish  of  Kighley,  b*-  on  the  11th  at  Cal- 
versike hill,  a  young  woman 

„  10  8  Sarah  Waddington,  dau.  of  Mary  & 
Richard  Waddington  of  Kighley,  b*-  on 
the  12th  at  the  meeting-house  in  Kigh- 
ley, aged  4  months 

„  80  8  Martha  Blakey,  dau.  of  Thomas  &  Anne 
Blakey  of  Kighley,  bd-  on  the  1st  of  the 
9th  month  in  the  burying  place  at 
Kighley,  aged  10  months 

1720  24        8        Thomas  Leach  son  of  Joseph  &  Sarah 

Leach  of  Steeton  in  the  p'ish  of  Kildwick 
bd-  on  the  26th  in  the  burying  place  in 
Kighley,  8  years  of  age 
„  8        6        John  Widdoop  of  Kighley,  b*-  on  the  10th 

at  Calversike  hill    Aged 

1721  28      12        James  Ramsden,  child  of  James  &  Agnes 

Ramsden  of  Braithwaite  in  the  p'ish  of 
Kighley,  bd-  on  the  2nd  day  of  the  1st 
month  at  Calversike  hill,  aged  7  months 

„  12  6  Ann  Hird  of  Braithwait,  widdow,  in  the 
p'ish  of  Kighley,  bd-  on  the  16th  at  Cal- 
versike hill,  aged  66  years 

9>  80  11  Thomas  Couling  of  Broomthwaite  in  the 
p'ish  of  Kildwick,  bd-  on  the  2nd  of  the 
12th  month ;  b**  at  the  meeting-house 
in  Kighley,  of  middle  age 

1722  6        7        Sarah  Waddington,  dau.  of  John  &  Lidia 

Waddington,  of  Kighley,  b*-  on  the  8th 
in  friends'  burying-place  in  Kighley,  8 
years  &  8  months  of  age 

To  be  continued. 


Scarborough  Congregational  Cjmrtl). 

J.  P.  Pbitchett,  Archt. 


J.  P.  Pbitchktt,  Abcht. 


Dtllbous*  Congregational  <£bttrcb. 

J.  P.  Pbxtchett,  A»CHT. 


•<fio%tbam  Congregational  Cljjurc^. 

J.  P.  P&XTCHETT,  ABCHT. 


Howley  :     Errata. 


P.  105,  Note  *,  for  Edmund,  read  Edward. 
„      Note  (e),  add,  See  App.,  Xo.  HI. 
115,  line  15,  for  wife,  read  will. 
121,  line  18,  add,  Xo.  111. 

„     „     for  II  Hen.  Ill,  read  11  Hen.  III. 

„    84,  add,  Xo.  IV. 

„    87,  for  1219,  read  1275. 


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169 


Fbee  Tradb  Tract.  An  esteemed  antiquary  forwards  this 
rare  tract  of  four  pages,  small  4to.,  for  publication.  As  it  bears 
the  signature  K,  it  seems  to  have  formed  part  of  a  volume  of 
tracts.  Mr.  Sykes  was  a  Leeds  merchant,  and  ancestor  of  the 
Baronets  of  Sledmere.  He  died  in  1652.  Besides  its  local 
interest,  the  pamphlet  is  of  value  as  the  earliest  advocacy  we 
have  seen  of  the  principles  of  Free  Trade. 


To  the  Eight  Honorable  the  high  Court 
of  Parliament. 

The    humble    Remonstrance    of    William     Sykes 

Merchant,  for  free  Trade  in  transporting  &  importing 

of  lawfull  and  ncedfull  commodities. 

WHereas  of  late  the  Remonstrant,  and  Thomas  Johnson 
Merchant,  for  themselves,  and  on  the  behalfe  of  all 
the  free-men  of  England,  did  petition  botli  Houses  of 
Parliament  for  Free  Trade;  which  they  are  confident  is  the 
Common-wealths  BIRTH-RIGHT,  and  reparations  for 
wrongs  done  by  tJiose  Ingrossers  and  Monopolizers,  who  by  vertue  of 
Patents,  have  been,  and  are  sellers  of  that  heredi table  right,  as 
the  Company  of  MercJiant- Adventurers  have  done  to  Citizens  for 
100. 1.  a  man,  and  to  Countrey  people  for  50.  1.  a  man.  The 
like  may  be  said  of  the  Company  of  East-countrey  Merchants, 
Muscovia  Merchants,  Turkie  Merchants,  and  other  Companies  of 
Merchants,  who  have  for  a  long  time  practised  this  way  of  trade- 
selling,  and  Monopolizing,  to  the  great  grievance  of  the  people, 
*  and  detriment  to  FREE  TRADE,  both  at  home  and  abroad. 
^  Which  Petition  was  presented  to  most  Members  of  both  Houses. 
fend  dispersed  into  the  several  Counties  of  England,  that  this 
honorable  Court  may  no  longer  delay  the  discharge  of  their 
ist,  but  speedily  improve  their  power  to  rescue  FREE 
IADE  from  such  Liberty-destroyers  and  Trade-ingrossers,  and 
it  the  people  may  the  better  know  for  what  end  and  purpose 
By  have  adventured  their  lives  and  estates  in  these  present 
rres. 

let  the  said  Petition  is  not  so  much  as  publickly  read  in 

ier  House  of  Parliament,  far  lesse  debated  or  answered, 

ragh  the  Common-wealth  be  so  much  concerned  in  it,  as  in  nothing 

Ore,  if  the  people  knew  their  right  and  freedome,  which  this 

esent  Parliament  hath  confirmed,  by  the  confirmation   of 


170  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 

Magna  Charta,  and  by  the  executing  of  justice  on  the  Earle  of 
Strafford  for  his  exercising  arbitrary  government  against  the  freedom 
of  England ;  therefore  the  Remonstrant  doth  conceive,  that  hee 
is  bound  in  duty  to  follow  the  said  petition  with  this  Remonstrance, 
which  he  was  emboldned  to  present  for  these  two  ensuing 
reasons,  and  to  answer  some  objections,  referring  the  conclusion 
to  a  serious  resolution. 

Reas.  1.  The  first  reason  is  drawn  from  tJie  second  Table  of  Gods 
law,  which  commands  us  to  love  our  neighbour  as  our  selves: 
This  BIRTH-RIGHT  OF  FREE  TRADE  being  as  well 
our  neighbours  right  as  our  oicn,  therefore  we  petitioned  as  well 
for  our  neighbours,  as  for  our  selves. 

Reas.  2.  The  second  reason  is  drawn  from  the  intent  of  the  Pro- 
testation, which  we  solemnly  took  in  the  presence  of  Almighty 
God,  To  maintain  the  right  and  pnriledge  of  the  people  with  our 
lives  and  estates;  this  Free  trade  being  all  mens  rigltt  and pririledge 
as  well  as  our  own,  upon  that  ground  we  were  moved  to  petition 
as  well  for  their  right  of  Free  "Trade,  as  for  our  own. 

Obj.  1.  But  these  Companies  have  been  of  long  standing. 

Ans.  So  have  the  Prelats,  and  so  much  the  more  wrong  done 
to  the  Common-wealth,  and  therefore  so  much  the  greater  need 
to  be  put  down.  For  although  robbing  and  taking  of  purses  upon 
the  high  way,  be  of  ancient  standing,  yet  it  doth  not  thereupon 
follow  that  such  a  practice  is  ever  the  lawfuller. 

Ob.  2.  But  Magna  Charta  doth  continue  Bishops.  (But  I  say, 
Magna  Charta  doth  not  establish  Bishops,  but  onely  the  liberties 
and  rights  of  the  Church  of  England :  and  what  those  are,  the 
Scripture  doth  best  tell  us.  And  although  BishopB  be  taken  away, 
yet  the  liberties  of  the  Church  established  by  Magna  Charta,  to 
this  very  day  remain,)    And  admits  transportation  of  wooll. 

Ans.  It  is  one  thing  to  pull  down  Bishops,  and  make  an  Act 
against  transporting  of  wool,  being  the  desire  and  for  the  good  of  all; 
but  it  is  another  thing  to  take  awag  the  peoples  BirtJi~right9  FREE 
TRADE,  without  their  consent,  and  to  their  prejudice,  yea  and 
against  many  petitions  of  many  thousands  in  many  Parliaments 
preferred  for  the  rescuing  of  that  right,  and  reparations  for  the 
countries  wrongs. 

Obj.  8.  But  Free  trade  will  be  destructive  to  ilie  Common-wealth. 

Ans.  It  will  bee  no  more  destructive  to  Eastland,  Muscoria, 
Turkie,  the  Low-Countnes,  and  other  places,  then  it  is  for  France, 
Spain,  Ireland,  Portugal,  and  Scotland,  which  is  none  at  all. 

Obj.  4.  But  C loath  is  of  another  and  better  nature  then  Wine, 
Ac.  which  are  forraigne  commodities. 

Ans.  The  greater  is  the  wrong,  it  being  the  grand  inland  com- 
modity, so  that  all  other  Patents  and  Monopolies  may  bee  better 
renewed,  then  this  continued. 

Obj.  6.  But  Clothiers,  and  the  like  men,  have  not  knowledge 
to  manage  this  Free  Trade. 


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Ans.  If  it  were  bo  (as  it  is  not)  yet  the  same  is  occasioned  by 
these  themes  and  robbers,  that  cunningly  and  secretly  by  a  faire 
but  unjust  and  deceitfull  pretence,  steale  the  Common-wealths 
right,  so  as  they  are  deprived  of  that  opportunity  to  educate 
their  children  and  servants,  which  may  enable  them  to  manage 
that  priviledge  of  Free  Trade. 

Obj.  6.  But  they  are  against  government,  and  would  walk 
disorderly. 

Ans.  No,  we  would  have  both  government  and  order  in  a  solid 
and  just  way,  but  we  are  against  hellish  oaths,  unlawful  fines, 
sin  full  orders,  fake  imprisonment,  law  and  right  sellers,  all 
which  are  practised  by  these  Trade-ingrossers,  as  will  appeare  by 
good  testimony. 

Obj.  7.  But  no  man  hath  followed  the  petition. 

Am.  Is  it  not  the  duty  of  every  Trustee  in  the  House  of 
Commons  to  prosecute  the  Common-wealths  light,  and  peoples 
priviledge  ?  But  if  that  be  the  hindrance,  it  is  the  humble  desire 
of  the  Remonstrant,  that  Mr.  Rigby,  and  Mr.  Martin  may  be  ap- 
pointed to  draw  up  a  full  Ordinance  without  delay,  that  hee  or 
they,  whosoever  they  be,  under  what  pretence  or  fraud  soever, 
may  bee  accursed  that  removes  his  neighbours  land-mark  (his  Birth- 
right, or  Free  trade)  and  that  the  Commons  house  may  approve 
themselves  faithfull,  and  worthy  the  Common-wealths  trust,  and 
according  to  the  solemne  protestation,  to  bring  to  exemplary 
and  condigne  punishment,  those  who  have  been  theeves  and 
robbers  in  this  kind ;  and  according  to  an  order  made  this  pre- 
sent Parliament,  it  is  earnestly  desired,  that  the  House  may  be 
purged  of  all  such  as  are  Patentees,  Monopolizers,  Trade- 
ingrossers,  Sellers  of  peoples  right,  and  destroyers  of  the  Free 
Trade. 

And  also  out  of  all  other  places  of  publick  trust  under  the  Par- 
liament, whether  in  the  Custome-house,  Commission  of  Excise, 
Committees  in  City  or  Countrey,  Soldiery,  or  other  government,  as 
Sheriffs,  Treasurers,  Mayors,  Aldermen,  and  the  like,  who  are  not 
worthy  to  be  continued  in  any  Common-wealtlis  trust ;  &  so  much 
the  more,  by  how  much  the  longer  they  have  practised  such  de- 
ceitfull robbery,  and  to  let  all  such  as  have  been  wronged  by  these 
kind  of  men,  have  freedom  with  respect  and  countenance,  to 
prosecute  against  these  Caterpillers,  for  due  reparations,  ac- 
cording to  the  wrongs  done  by  them  and  their  Predecessors. 

And  if  the  Parliament  would  have  the  free  people  to  fight  for 
them,  as  they  have  willingly  done,  by  venturing  their  liveB  and 
estates  freely,  to  maintain  their  power  and  priviledge  against  the 
common  enemy ;  then  let  that  power  bee  improved  and  laid  out 
again  for  tJie  right  and  priviledge  of  tlie  said  people,  to  rescue  and 
recover  their  Birth-right  (Free  Trade)  out  of  the  hands  of  those 
rj reedy  and  subtile  spoylers,  yea  and  grinders  of  the  faces  of  tlie  poore. 


172  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 

If  any  farther  objection  be  made  against  Free  trade ;  then  it 
is  earnestly  desired  that  the  House  of  Commons  would  answer  it 
themselves,  as  parties  in  behalfe  of  the  free  people,  who  have  called 
them  to  tliat  trust  for  tJiat  end ;  or  otherwise  let  the  mind  k  sense 
of  the  common  people  in  every  County  and  Corporation  (all  England 
over)  be  produced,  and  let  it  go  upon  that,  in  which  way  the 
Remonstrant  is  perswaded,  that  a  hundred  to  one  will  bee  for 
Free  Trade. 

So  hoping  this  high  and  Honorable  Court  will  have  due  respect 
to  the  premises,  in  all  dutifull  acknowledgement ;  the  Remonstrant 
shall  desire  to  prove  himselfe  the  Common-wealths  servant, 

March  20.  1645.  William  Sykes. 

FIXIS. 


Old  "  Strikes."— Hull.— 

Kingston  upon  Hull, 

1st  of  March,  1798. 

WHEREAS  for  some  Days  pa6t,  there  has  been  tumultu- 
ous Assemblies  of  Seamen  belonging  to  the  different 
Ships  fitting  out  for  the  Greenland  Seas  at  this  Port,  and  by 
their  threats  have  deterred  the  well-disposed  from  doing  their 
duty, 

Xotice  is  hereby  given, 
That  if  they  do  not  instantly  disperse,  and  repair  to  their 
respective  Stations,  proper  steps  will  be  taken  to  preserve  the 
Peace,  and  punish  the  Offenders. 

«J.  Sykes, 

MAYOR. 

Printed  by  W.  Bawson,  Printer  of  the  Hull  Advertiser. 


A1 


HULL, 

1st  March,  1798. 
T  a  Meeting  of  the  Owners  of  the 
GREENLAND 
SHIPS, 

held  this  oat,  it  was  unanimously  resolved,  THAT  if  the  Boat- 
steerers  and  Line-Managers  do  not  immediately  repair  to  their 
respective  Ships,  and  fulfil  their  Engagements  with  Government 
and  their  Owners,  their  Bonds  will  be  put  in  foroe,  and  their 
Protections  will  no  longer  secure  them  from  the  Impress. 


Printed  by  W.  Bawson,  Printer  of  the  Hull  Advertiser. 

C.  Dack,  Peterboro*. 


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178 


WLintsttab    Cljtrrrlj. 

reproduce,  as  a  valuable  contribution  to  local  archaeo- 
logy,   the  following  speech  of  Sir  Albert  E.  Rolliti 
vI.P.,  delivered  at  the  opening  of  the  Bazaar  in  aid  of 
cl  for  the  Restoration  of  Winestead  Church. 
212 ing  the  proceedings 

Mr.  J.  T.  Hildyard  said  that  at  the  earnest  request  of 
lay  friends,  and  of  none  more  so  than  himself,  his  friend 
3rt  Rollit  had  very  kindly  consented  to  open  that  bazaar 
say  a  few  words.     He  thought  he  might  dare  to  predict 


The  Chinch  of  St.  Germaine,  Winestead.     (Present  condition,  1888.) 

i  not  only  would  the  eloquent  words  of  their  friend  touch 
r  hearts,  but  what  was  far  more  difficult,  would  loosen  their 
ses,  so  that  those  who  had  laboured  at  that  work,  as  they 
Id  see  by  looking  around,  so  industriously  and  with  all  their 
rts,  would  not  only  be  rewarded  for  their  labours,  but  that 
restoration  of  the  church  of  Winestead,  of  what  he  might 
1  dear  old  Winestead,  might  be  a  success  far  beyond  their 
st  sanguine  hopes.  (Applause.)  Ho  then  introduced  Sir 
>ert  Bollit. 

Sir  Albert  Rollit   said  that  he  appreciated  very  much 
ving  been  asked,  in  so  complimentary  and  kindly  a  manner, 


174  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 

by  Mr.  Hildyard  to  open  the  bazaar,  and,  having  regard  to  his 
own  family's  association  with  Winestead,  it  was  a  great  pleasure 
to  him  to  undertake  that  duty.    Naturally  his  first  expression 
on  such  an  occasion  was  one  of  regret  that  the  rector,  the  Rev. 
Mr.  Mellish,  who  had  taken  so  devoted  an  interest  in  the  object 
they  had  in  view,  was  absent  owing  to  indisposition ;  but  be 
was  glad  to  hear  that  his  health  was  improving,  and  he  hoped 
that  improvement  would  be  increased  by  the  news  which  his 
family  would  be  able  to  take  him  that  the  bazaar  was  a  great 
success,  and  conducive  to  the  object  which  he,  and  all  of  them, 
had  in  view.     (Applause.)    It  was  not  necessary  to  endeavour 
to  add  to  the  enthusiasm  and  interest  of  those  who  were  present ; 
that  interest  was  evidenced  by  the  admirable  collection  of  stalls 
and  the  articles  upon  them.    It  was,  indeed,  a  beautiful  and 
tasteful  scene  which  surrounded  them,  but  the  drama  would  not 
be  complete  until  the  transformation  scene,  in  which  he  hoped 
the  goods  now  before  them  would  be  transformed  into  the  pre- 
cious metals.     (Laughter.)     The  fair  alchemists  who  presided 
at  the  stalls  were  quite  capable  of  effecting  this  change  without 
any  help  from  him,  but  he  would  remind  them  of  an  incanta- 
tion of  the  alchemists  of  old,  who  under  similar  circumstances, 
cried  'silvertudine-gold-if-you-can-di-bus' — a  charm  which  he 
hoped  might  not  be  without  effect  on  the  present  occasion. 
(Laughter.)    But,  great  as  was  their  enthusiasm,  it  was  neces- 
sary to  add  to  it  on  the  part  of  others,  and  he  should,  he  thought, 
best  serve  the  interests  of  the  bazaar  by  recounting  some  few 
reasons  why  they  might  fairly  hope  that  the  people  of  Hall 
would  lend  them  their  help  to  achieve  the  object  they  had  in 
view.      And  the  help  they  required  was  that  of  practical 
sympathy — not  the  help  of  such  philanthropists  as  the  one  who 
boasted  that  what  he  gave  to  the  poor  was  "nothing  to  nobody'* 
— (laughter) — or  such  help  as  that  of  those  who  gave  nothing 
to  charity  one  year  and  doubled  it  the  next — (laughter) — not 
such  help  as  the  letter-writer  who  expressed  every  sympathy 
with  a  benevolent  cause,  and  then  concluded  the  page  with  the 
words :  "  I  beg  to  subscribe  " — and  on  the  next  leaf:  "  myself 
your  obedient  servant."     (Laughter.)    What  they  needed  was 
gold  and  silver;  the  "oil  and  twopence;"  and,  though  they 
trusted  in  Providence,  they  did  not  trust  so  far  as  to  think 
Providence  would  do  the  work  for  them.    His  first  claim  for 
help,  then,  was  based  upon  the  religious  character  of  their 
object.    He  should  of  course  say  no  single  word  politically,  bat 
they  might  depend  upon  it  that,  in  perhaps  even  the  near  future, 
their  Church  would  be  judged  by  the  work  which  it  was  doing 
and  had  done  for  God  and  for  the  people,  and,  without  this,  no 
antiquity,  no  authority,  no  prestige,  and  no  Establishment 
would  save  it.    For  the  object  of  a  State  Church — though  not 
to  make  the  Church  political— was  to  make  the  State  religious, 


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3  it  subserved  this  end  it  would  be  judged — and  fall, 
moment  was  one  in  which  he  might  warn  them  that 

to  deal  much  with  irrehgion  in  various  forms.  In 
ligion  was  designed  and  thoughtful ;  in  more  it  was 
t  of  carelessness;    and  in  many  even  of  affectation. 

it  might  be  true  that,  in  one  sense,  there  were  as 
igions  as  there  were  thoughtful  minds,  this  was  a  broad 
sh  often  ended  in  irreligion— in  irreligious  nihilism. 
the  present  moment,  a  more  dangerous  attack  than 
L,  he  thought,  been  made  upon  revealed  religion.    In 

Elsmere  "  there  was  a  book  marked  by  very  great 
>y  the  charms  of  language  and  of  literary  style,  and  by 
;ight  into  human  character ;  yet  this  book,  from  its  very 
>ns,  was,  he  thought,  an  insidious  attack  upon  their 

that  it  sought  to  strengthen  religion  by  the  destruction 
hief  evidences.  He  did  not  for  a  moment  say  that,  for 
son,  they  were  not  to  read  it ;  for  he  had  no  sympathy 
oughtless  faith ;  but  it  must  be  read  carefully  if  at  all, 
eemed  to  him  to  mark  an  epoch  in  the  irreligious  ten- 

of  modern  life — to  which  one  of  the  best  answers  and 
es  was  the  completion  of  such  a  work  as  that  in  which 
ere  engaged.  (Applause.)  And,  perhaps,  the  chief  local 
.  upon  which  help  might  be  claimed,  was  that  Winestead 

I  was  at  once  a  religious  and  historical  memorial.  Her 
tes  were  the  glory  of  Holderness.  Patrington,  that 
id  specimen  of  the  Decorated  style,  had,  by  the  efforts  of 
of  them,  been  restored  to  its  former  self,  and  its  spire, 
had  been  for  ages  one  of  the  landmarks  of  mariners 

Lg  for  Hull — one  of  the  signs  of  haven,  and  home,  and 
would  endure  again  for  centuries  to  come.  (Applause.) 
same  the  turn  of  the  more  lowly  Winestead.  And  here 
was  indeed  need  of  new  work.     They  could  hardly  fail  at 

to  think  with  pride  of  the  great  architects  and  masons  of 
ast,  who  had  spread  such  splendid  monuments  of  work  and 
free  throughout  the  land ;  yet,  just  as  they  saw  the  Monu- 

in  London — even  the  work  of  a  Wren — gradually  falling 
pieces,  so  the  more  ancient  edifices  must  even  more  require 
vation.  At  Winestead  the  south  aisle  had  wholly  gone,  and 
irehes  were  embedded  in  the  present  external  wall.  And 
ywhere  decay  was  obtrusively  evident.  What  they  proposed 
a  really  conservative  restoration,  the  literal  reproduction 

II  that  was  good  in  the  ancient  edifice,  and  the  introduction 
lothing  which  was  not  consistent  with  the  former  fabric— 
4 19th  Century  Gothic  "  which  was  not  in  accordance  with 
best  architectural  skill  and  taste.  They  had  the  guarantee 
iliis  in  the  architect,  Mr.  Temple  Moore,  and  affairs  were  so 
leful  that  of  the  total  cost  of  about  £1,800  the  committee  had 
eady  secured  more  than  £1,000.    But  there  were  other  and 


176  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 

even  stronger  local  claims.   Winestead  Church  was  the  mother- 
church  of  the  Marvels.    The  parish  register  recorded  the  induc- 
tion of  the  father  as  rector,  and  the  baptism  of  the  son — Hull's 
greatest   son — (applause) — and    the    font    in    which  he  was 
baptised,  and  which  had  served  as  a  horse-trough,  had  been 
recovered  and  would  be  restored  to  its  original  position  and 
purpose  in  the  church.    The  church  was  thus  the  monument  of 
Marvel,  the  poet ;  of  Marvel,  the  political  satirist  who  influenced 
the  morals  of  an  immoral  age ;  and  of  Marvel,  the  statesman, 
who  was  incorruptible  in  corrupt  and  venal  times.    He  remem- 
bered that,  in  preaching  the  Jubilee  sermon  before  the  House 
of  Commons,  the  learned  and  eloquent  Bishop  of  Ripon  had 
illustrated  English  statesmanship  by  two  Hull  names — Marvel 
and  Wilberforce — the  names  of  men  who  were  great  in  states- 
manship because  they  placed  before  themselves  the  noble  aim 
of  the  greatest  good  of  their  country,  and  the  welfare  of  the 
poorest  and  humblest  of  their  fellow-men.    (Applause.)    These 
were  the  remembrances  of  Marvel  which  they  could  not  too 
often  recall,  but  he  was  reminded,  as  a. member  of  Parliament, 
that  there  were  incidents  in  the  times  of  Marvel  which  were 
unfortunately  beyond  recall — for  instance  the  early  hours'  of 
which  Marvel  lamented  that  the  sittings  of  the  House  of  Com- 
mons were  so  protracted  that  they  sometimes  rose  so  late  as 
six  in  the  afternoon, — (laughter) — and  some  of  them,  Marvel 
among  them,  were  paid  for  this— (laughter).   Again,  the  history 
of  church  was  the  history  of  the  Hildyards — a  family  who  were 
helping  them  that  day,  and  one  which  well  illustrated  the  con- 
tinuity of  English  history.     For  they  had  been  associated  with 
the  church  since  at  least  the  reign  of  Henry  V. — for  some  four 
centuries  and  a-half,  and  even  earlier,  through  the  Hiltons, 
with  whom  they  intermarried  and  who  went  back  nearly  to  the 
Conquest.     There  was  a  brass  effigy  in  the  church  of  the  hero 
of  one  of  the  most  attractive  stories  of  English  history — of  that 
Hildyard,  who,  as  Eobin  of  Biddlesdale,  fought  well  in  the 
Wars  of  the  Roses,  and  even  sheltered  his  sovereign,  Queen 
Margaret ;    another    recumbent    statue,  that  of  Christopher 
Hildyard,  was  one  of  the  most  perfect  and  beautiful  examples 
of  renaissance  art ;    and  there  were  alao  memorials  of  other 
members  of  a  family,  some  of  whom  distinguished  themselves 
in  the  Civil  War  fighting  for  their  King ;  some  of  whom  lived 
in  Hull  in  the  Lowgate  Palace  of  the  De  la  Poles ;  others  of 
whom  married  daughters  of  the  Mayors  of  Hull ;  and  one  of 
whom  stepped  forth  from  the  English  army  at  the  challenge  of 
a  Scotch  giant,  and  like  one  of  the  Horatii  or  Curiatii  put  the 
fortunes  of  two  armies  to  the  touch  of  single  combat,  and,  like 
a  David,  slew  his  man  and  returned  a  victor  and  a  knight 
banneret  to  the  English  ranks.     (Applause.)    Others  of  the 
same  distinguished  family  had  been  antiquarians  and  authors, 


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177 


e  tilings  bad  been  one  of  tbe  inducements  to  bimself 
rs  to  help  to  make  tbeir  cburcb  a  worthy  memorial  of 
g,  lusty,  and  learned  lineage.  (Applause.)  Might  he 
just  one  word  to  remind  them  that  he  and  others  had 
•  claim  upon  them,  and  as  great  an  inducement,  in  the 
b  those  whose  memories  were  dear  to  them  had  also 
ociated  with  Winestead  Church ;  that  there  were  lying 
cue  who  represented  the  modern,  as  others  the  ancient, 
English  progress,  some  in  whom  they  took  pride  for 
borious  ascent,  as  others  were  rightly  proud  of  their 
scent,  of  the  ancestors  who  had  gone  before  them? 
se.)     Lastly,  there  was  a  claim  for  help  which  was  at 


'he  Church  of  St.  Germaine,  Winestead.    (Proposed  Restoration.) 

local  and  general.  There  was  no  more  remarkable  scene 
istory  than  that  one  in  the  market  place  at  Eome,  when 
9  Gregory  asked  who  were  those  fair-haired  captives  that 

been  carried  into  slavery?  To  the  reply,  "They  are 
;lish,"  he  returned:  " Non  Angeli,  sed  Angli," — ("Not 
rlieh,  but  Angels ;")  and  when  he  was  told  they  were  from 
ra— " Not,"  said  he  "from  Deira,  but  de  irk — saved  from 

wrath  of  God  to  the  salvation  that  is  to  come."  Hence 
ang  the  mission  of  St.  Augustine,  and  so  the  evangelisation 
England,  and  through  England  of  the  world.  Aid  it  was 
ibably  from  our  own  Holderness  that  such  captives  had  been 

f.N.Q.  M 


178  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 

taken.  Surely  such  a  history  merited  some  return ;  surely  it 
called  for  some  memorials  in  the  very  cradle  of  English  Christ- 
ianity !  (Applause.)  One  such  they  now  sought  to  restore  in 
Winestead  Church.  And  for  this  they  asked  their  aid,  they 
begged  even  the  smallest  aid,  from  all.  The  Christian  Legend 
told  of  the  reward  of  such  humble  help.  An  Emperor  built  his 
church— the  great  memorial  of  his  life.  The  inscription  of  his 
name  was  to  tell  this  to  all  time.  But  all  in  vain.  Amid  the 
blast  of  trumpets  and  the  march  of  men,  one  name  blazed  forth 
in  letters  of  golden  light— Euphrasia.  The  whole  city  had  to 
be  searched  to  drag  to  light  the  poor  widow  whose  name  had 
thus  supplanted  that  of  Justinian,  and  her  contribution  to  St. 
Sophia  was  found  to  be  only  this — that  she  had  cast  one  6traw 
before  the  oxen  which  had  dragged  the  marble  to  the  temple. 
So  here,  and  in  all  such  works,  the  humblest  offering  was  ac- 
ceptable to  God,  and,  though  many  had  done  much,  and  while 
he  himself  had  been  asked  to  put  the  final  and  the  smallest 
touch  to  others'  labour,  they  begged  the  many  to  open  their 
hearts,  and  to  take  their  part  with  them  in  the  great  and  good 
work  of  restoring  a  memorial  and  memorable  church.  (Load 
Applause.) 

The  Bazaar  realized  its  object,  and  secured  the  Restoration 
of  the  Church. 

The  Restoration  Committee  consists  of  the  following  gentle- 
men: 

WALTER  S.  BAILEY,  Esq.,  D.L.  J.P. 

J.  B.  T.  HELDYARD,  Esq.,  J.P. 

REV.  H.  MAISTER,  M.A. 

WALTER  MARSHALL,  Esq., 

REV.  W.  J.  MELLISH,  M.A. 

SIR  ALBERT  K.  ROLLIT,  LL.D.  M.P. 

REV.  C.  J.  WALL,  M.A. 

CAPTAIN  T.  C.  DOUGLAS  WHITMORE. 

[Reprinted  by  permission   from  "  The  Hull  Christmas  Annual,  I888.'n 
Hull,  Tutin. 


Winestead,  near  Hull,  was  held  ten  generations  by  the  Hiltons, 
until  by  failure  in  the  male  line  it  passed  by  a  coheiress  to  the 
Hildyards,  temp.  Hy.  V.  The  arms  of  the  Hildyards  are  azure, 
three  mullets,  or.  The  crest  was  originally  a  reindeer  proper 
on  a  wreath,  but  now  it  is,  On  a  wreath,  a  cock,  sable,  beaked, 
legged  and  wattled,  gu.,  which  is  said  to  have  been  granted  for 
bravery  at  Cockbridge,  or  Towton.  A  long  and  interesting 
account  of  the  family  is  given  by  Poulson,  (Holdtimess,  Vol.  H.l 
The  Hiltons  bore  two  bars  azure,  Argent.  These  will  be  found 
on  the  magnificent  monument  and  windows.  Near  Sir  Chris- 
topher Hildyard's  altar  tomb  is  a  mutilated  stone  effigy  of  an 


Winestead  Church,  1820. 


Hildyard. 


Hildyard. 


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YORK8HIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 


Effigy,  at  Winestead. 


A.  Marvel,  M.P. 


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181 


^^W    ^^B^^_   d      - 


ecclesiastic,  both  his  hands 
clasped  in  prayer,  and  a 
crockelled  canopy  over  his 
head. 

The  great  Andrew  Marvel 
was  born  here;  his  father 
being  Rector,  but  removed  in 
1624  to  become  Eeader  at 
Trinity  Church,  Hull. 

As  will  be  seen  by  the 
names  of  the  Committee,  the 
old  families  are  still  to  the 
fore. 


Rollit  Crest. 


Jltxttbtimljolttu   Cross. 

I  send  you  the  following  account  of  a  very  curious  and  most 
ancient  cross,  which  I  have  had  recently  set  up  in  the  Church 
yard  here. 

The  history  of  it,  as  far  as  I  am  concerned,  is  this — 

It  consists  of  two  portions,  and  I  think  there  may  have  been 
a  third,  now  embedded  somewhere  in  one  of  the  walls  of  the 
Church. 

I  could  not  but  be  aware  of  its  previous  existence  from  the 
first  day  I  came  here,  for  one  portion  of  it  was  built  side-ways 
into  the  then  antique-modern  tumble-down  Porch,  and  the 
second  was  found  in  restoring  the  walls  of  the  Church  when  I 
had  it  restored  by  Mr.  Gilbert  Scott  (his  father's  son,)  and 
thoroughly  well  done,  with  new  roof,  solid  oak  pews  to  the 
nave,  choir*  stalls,  pulpit,  reading  desk,  communion  table,  etc. 

Mr.  Charles  H.  Wilson,  of  Warter  Priory,  kindly  had  it  set 
up  for  me,  on  a  good  basement  stone,  by  his  masons,  then 
working  at  the  Priory,  and  the  son  of  one  of  them  being  very 
clever  at  drawing  made  me  the  copies  which  I  enclose  herewith. 

I  send  the  letters  of  three  clergymen,  all  of  them  being  learned 
in  such  matters.  F.  0.  Morris. 

Cambridge, 

September  8rd,  1887. 
Dear  Sir, 

I  looked  at  the  sketches  before  reading  your  attribu- 
tion of  the  subjects.  We  agree  as  to  Aaron  and  the  Virgin  Mary. 
It  occurred  to  me  that  No.  2  with  the  fully  developed  pair  of 
horns  might  mean  Moses,  but  the  Virgin's  hair  is  almost  as 
much  like  a  pair  of  horns;  and  (remembering  a  remarkable  font 
near  Mr.  Mant's)  that  the  seated  figure  might  mean  Herod 
drawing  his  sword  for  the  slaughter  of  the  young  child.     If  the 


182  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 

numbers  1,  2,  8,  and  4,  correspond  to  successive  faces,  yon 
would  then  have  the  usual  arrangement,  Christian  subjects  on 
two  opposite  faces,  and  other  subjects  on  the  other  pair  of  faces. 

I  do  not  know  what  the  traditional  belief  of  Coifi's  appear- 
ance in  sacerdotal  vestments  may  have  been  in  your  neighbour- 
hood ;  possibly  No.  4,  represents  the  pagan  and  priest,  and  No. 
2,  may  have  some  characteristic  feature  which  the  draughtsman 
has  missed,  with  a  pagan  reference :  in  that  case  8  would  be 
the  Virgin  and  Christ,  and  one  might  be  Edwin.  One  natural- 
ly looks  for  some  local  reference.  I  should  suspect  the  thing 
in  the  arch  above  the  head  of  the  un-characteristic  figure  in  No. 
2,  of  being  a  dragon  lying  on  its  back ;  if  that  is  so  the  pagan 
reference  on  No.  2  and  4,  would  be  rather  strong,  perhaps  not 
strong  enough  to  upset  Aaron. 

If  the  scrolls  and  trumpets  (?)  in  the  spandrils  are  correctly 
shewn,  the  work  looks  late  and  the  bosses  on  the  pillars  and 
arch  and  ties  in  No.  2  look  like  the  period  of  Anselm's  work  at 
Canterbury :  I  have  however  found  bosses  in  earlier  work  than 
that,  and  I  think  that  Anglian  sculptors  used  them  sometimes. 

The  scrolls  in  the  head  of  8,  with  the  birds,  ace  probably  not 
correct ;  they  should  be  more  continuous,  wrapping  round  the 
wings  and  passing  on  unbroken.  This  particular  piece  of 
work  would  probably  help  to  the  date  as  well  as  any  other  part. 

Mr.  Collins  referred  some  questions  on  his  K.  Burton  cross 
to  me  some  time  ago.  I  have  written  a  good  many  papers  on 
the  subject  of  these  long  stones,  and  I  have  no  doubt  that  some 
at  least  were  originally  preaching  crosses.  But  yours  looks  to 
me  decidedly  later  than  that. 

Canon  Raine  has  a  good  many  fragments  in  the  Hospitium. 

It  is  very  interesting  to  learn  that  there  is  such  a  stone  on 
your  side  of  York.  When  Ooodmanham  Church  is  restored,  I 
quite  expect  they  will  find  very  interesting  Anglian  remains. 
When  I  drove  a  year  or  two  ago  to  Goodmanham  and  on  to 
Pocklington,  we  passed  a  church  with  its  roof  off,  Skelton— I 
think,  where  they  had  found  remarkably  massive  early  corbels, 
built  into  the  walls.  But  I  know  of  no  sculptured  stones  in 
your  sector  of  the  circle  round  York.  The  Wharfe  abounds 
in  them. 

I  do  not  understand  whether  the  drawings  you  sent  are  of 
one  only  of  the  pieces  you  have.  Next  time  I  come  to  York,  I 
I  must  try  to  get  over.  The  upper  parts  of  No,  1,  2,  4,  are  un- 
like all  of  the  large  number  of  stones  I  know. 

Yours  truly, 

G.  F.  Bbowke. 

The  Rev.  R.  Collins,  Kirkburton,  concurs  in  Mr.  Browne's 
statements. 


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Wbeay  Vicarage,  Carlisle, 

September  25th,  1888. 

I  send  you  my  interpretation  of  the  carvings  as  I  gather 
their  meaning  from  the  drawings  you  have  sent  me.  I  take 
the  subjects  in  the  order  you  give* 

No.  I. — The  seated  figure  represents  S.  James  the  Great  to 
whom  the  Church  is  dedicated.  After  his  murder  by  King 
Herod  Agrippa,  his  body  was  miraculously  conveyed  to  Spain, 
and  enshrined  at  Compostella,  which  from  that  circumstance 
became  a  great  resort  of  pilgrims.  He  is  generally  depicted  in 
pilgrim's  weeds,  flapped  hat,  wallet,  bourdon  or  staff,  and  scallop 
shells,  and  as  a  young  man,  with  thin  beard  and  a  family  like- 
ness to  our  Lord.  Here  we  find  him  as  a  young  man,  with  thin 
beard,  large  flapped  hat,  his  short  pilgrim  staff  between  his  legs, 
and  the  sword  of  his  martyrdom  in  his  left  hand.  The  tight- 
fitting  trousers,  cocked  hat,  and  sturdy  stick  remind  one  of  a 
picture  of  a  pilgrim  in  Erasmus's  "  Mora  Encomium." 

The  sides  of  the  compartment  are  formed  by  pilgrims'  staffs 
and  shells,  and  at  the  top  we  have  a  combination  of  shells  and 
staffs  foreshortened  so  as  to  fit  the  space. 

No.  II. — In  accordance  with  the  subjects  on  Nos.  VI.  &  Vlf., 
I  take  this  to  be  a  representation  of  S.  Margaret  of  Antioch. 
Why  she  should  be  here,  I  know  not,  possibly  because  her 
festival  (July  20th)  fell  within  a  week  of  S.  James1  Day.  She 
was  a  very  popular  saint,  and  very  many  Churches  are  dedicated 
to  her.  Long  Marten  in  Westmorland  is  to  her  and  S.  James' 
the  Less ;  and  both  saints  are  indicated  in  the  carvings  on  the 
Tympana  of  two  Norman  doors  there.  The  interpretation  of 
these  stones  I  laid  before  the  Cumberland  and  Westmorland 
Antiquarian  Society  in  January,  1881.  A  portion  of  the  legend 
of  S.  Margaret  will  be  found  under  VI.  &  VII.  The  horse-shoe 
nimbus  is  found  on  Scottish  stones  and  has  recently  been 
discovered  on  a  Hog-back  stone  in  Lowther  Church-yard,  West- 
morland. Over  the  arch  which  surmounts  the  figure,  in 
a  horse-shoe  shaped  compartment,  we  have,  I  think,  a  repre- 
sentation of  the  hydra  or  water  snake  emerging  from  the  jaws 
of  the  crocodile.  Ancient  Bestiaries  say  that  in  the  Nile  there 
is  deadly  feud  between  these  two.  The  hydra  rolls  itself  in  the 
mud,  and  enters  the  sleeping  crocodile's  jaws,  who  unconsciously 
swallows  it.  Then  the  hydra  bursts  the  crocodile  asunder  and 
comes  forth  alive.  This  is  a  parallel  story  to  S.  Margaret's 
escape  from  the  Dragon.  Both  may  be  regarded  as  parables  of 
our  Saviour's  bursting  the  bonds  of  Hades  at  His  resurrection. 

No.  III.— The  Virgin  and  Child.  The  Virgin's  Head  is  sur- 
mounted by  a  nimbus  similar  to  that  in  No.  II.  Over  the  arch 
are  two  bird-like  figures.  These  may  represent  the  two  turtle- 
doves offered  at  our  Lord's  presentation  in  the  Temple.    If  the 


186        YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 

figures  are  compound,  birds*  beads  and  serpentine  bodies,  they 
may  signify  tbe  christian  character  combining  the  wisdom  of 
the  serpent  with  the  harmlessness  of  the  dove.  Possibly  photos, 
or  better  drawings  might  enable  one  to  speak  more  certainly  on 
this. 

No.  IV. — This  may  be  intended  for  Aaron ;  but  why  he 
should  be  here  I  cannot  tell,  unless  it  be  that  he  was  the  first 
High  Priest  of  the  Old  Covenant,  as  6.  James  was  the  first  of 
the  Apostles  to  die.     Shells  and  bourdons  are  in  the  spandrils. 

No.  V. — S.  James  in  sacred  robes,  not  pilgrim  garb.  From 
his  neck  is  suspended  a  "  Rationale  "  or  "  Pectoral " — a  square 
plate  of  gold  or  silver,  jewelled  and  enamelled,  sometimes  worn 
by  Bishops  on  the  breast  over  the  chasuble  at  Mass,  till  the 
14th  century.  It  is  found  in  Bishop  Gyffard's  effigy  at  Worcester, 
and  in  that  of  Laurence  St.  Martin,  Bishop  of  Rochester,  a.d. 
1274.  It  took  the  place  of  the  Jewish  High  Priest's  breastplate. 
It  is  still  used  in  the  Holy  Eastern  Church.  Eusebius  tells  us 
that  S.  John  wore  the  plate  of  gold,  and  Epiphanius  says  the 
same  of  S.  James.  Below  the  Pectorale  hangs  the  pilgrim's 
wallet  with  pendent  scallop  shells.  Between  these  last  appear 
a  curious  article  which  I  am  inclined  to  think  is  a  "Monstrance." 
On  an  incised  12th  century  slab  at  Marrick  in  Yorkshire,  we 
have  a  similar  object  combined  with  Chalice,  Book,  and  Corporas 
Case  or  square  Patten.  It  appears  again  between  the  feet  of 
the  cowled  figures  in  No.  VIII. 

The  lower  half  of  this  compartment  represents  a  scene  from 
the  2nd  and  3rd  Lections  for  S.  James's  Day  in  the  York 
Breviary.  There  we  are  told  that  Hermogenes,  a  Magian,  sent 
his  disciple  Philetus  to  dispute  with  S.  James  the  truth  of  the 
true  Sonship  of  our  Lord.  The  apostle  converted  Philetus  to 
the  Faith;  and  Hermogenes  in  consequence  bound  him,  and 
said  to  him  "  Let  us  see  if  thy  James  can  loose  thee  from  these 
bonds."  News  of  this  reaching  S.  James,  he  immediately  sent 
his  "  sudarium  "  by  means  of  which  Philetus's  bonds  fell  from 
him,  and  he  was  released.  The  dexter  naked  figure  represents 
Philetus,  the  sinister  clothed  one,  S.  James,  between  them  is  a 
desk  on  which  a  copy  of  the  gospels  is  displayed,  and  over  the 
figures  appear  the  bonds  of  Philetus  curling  away  in  the  air. 
The  two  insect  looking  figures  in  tbe  lower  corners  may  be 
intended  for  the  demons  whom  Hermogenes  afterwards  sent 
against  James  and  Philetus ;  and  who  were  bound  by  an  angel 
and  tortured. 

No.  VI. — Here  again  we  have  S.  James,  as  a  pilgrim,  sitting 
in  a  chair,  holding  the  book  of  the  gospels  in  his  hand.  In 
front  appears  his  staff,  longer  than  in  the  other  instances,  and 
his  wallet  partially  appears  on  the  margin  of  the  compartment. 

The  figure  below  is  intended  to  represent  S.  Margaret  of 
Antioch  bursting  out  from  the  Demon  who  had  devoured  her. 
See  No.  II.    The  story  is  continued  in  the  next  panel. 


WITH    Y0RK8HIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  187 

No.  VII. — The  lower  portion  gives  us  another  phase  of  the 
Margaret  legend.  We  see  her  sitting  in  prison  (whither  she 
had  been  committed  by  the  tyrant  Olybrius) ;  and  the  devil  is 
appearing  to  her  as  a  dragon,  but  cannot  frighten  her.  She 
overcame  him  by  the  power  of  the  cross.  One  version  of  the 
story  makes  him  swallow  her,  and  she  bursts  forth  from  his 
body,  as  pictured  on  No.  VI.  After  sundry  tortures  S.  Margaret 
was  decapitated  and  her  soul  escaped  from  her  body  in  the  form 
of  a  dove.  This  accounts  for  the  bird  in  the  upper  portion  of 
this  panel. 

No.  VIII. — Two  cowled  naked  figures  sitting  opposite  each 
other  on  stools,  and  each  holding  an  inverted  pastoral  staff  in 
his  hand.  Above  are  three  short  staffs.  Between  the  feet  of 
the  figures  stands,  what  I  have  supposed  in  No.  V.,  to  be  a 
41  Monstrance." 

Here  we  have,  I  think,  an  allusion  to  local  history.  I  take 
the  figures  to  be  intended  for  S.  Chad  and  S.  Bosa,  both  natives 
of  the  district,  who  held  in  turns  the  see  of  York  in  the  absence 
of  the  turbulent  Wilfrid.  Each  in  turn  on  Wilfrid's  return  from 
exile,  was  stripped  of  the  Bishopric,  and  this  is  indicated  by 
their  being  represented  naked  with  reversed  staffs.  Chad  be- 
came ultimately  Bishop  of  Lichfield,  and  Bosa  resumed  York. 
These  changes  may  be  indicated  by  the  Crosiers  which  seem  to 
be  floating  in  the  air. 

I  trust,  my  dear  sir,  you  may  find  this  or  some  portion  of  it 
a  satisfactory  explanation  of  the  venerable  relic. 

Thomas  Lees. 

November  29th,  1888. 
The  last  of.  the  series  which  the  mason  represents  as  two 
naked  cowled  Monks,  Mr.  Hall  renders  in  such  a  way  as  to 
make  it  look  like  the  temptation  of  Adam.  This  is  a  common 
subject  on  such  crosses.  I  take  the  work  to  be  12th  century, 
and  of  the  time  when  the  Church  was  appropriated  to  Wartre. 
Possibly  the  original  Church  was  dedicated  to  St.  Margaret; 
and  St.  James  was  added  as  being  the  Patron  of  the  Monastery. 

Thomas  Lees. 


Cattail's   |tark  Coins* 

A  Catalogue  by  Richard  Gough,  Esq.,  (4 to.,  23  pages, 
London,  1777,  with  folding  plate,)  gives  the  following  Yorkshire 
particulars.  He  says,  "  Mr.  White  has  six  or  seven  coins  of 
Canute ;  of  which  five  varieties  on  both  sides  are  ranged  at  the 
bottom  of  the  annext  plate.  He  has  communicated  to  me  the 
mint-masters  and  places  on  others  which  have  passed  through 
his  hands.    Mr.  Bartlett*  has  two.     The  Puke  of  Devonshire, 

i  — • 

*A  celebrated  numismatist  of  Bradford,  Yorkfl. — J.H.T. 


188        Y0RK8HIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 

thirty-eight.  Dr.  Hunter,  twenty- eight.  The  British  Museum 
has  fifteen."  "A  Danish  medallist  has  observed  that  no  coins 
of  Canute  are  to  be  met  with  of  any  other  than  English  mints, 
notwithstanding  he  reigned  two  years  longer  in  his  own  country 
than  over  England,  which  he  governed  nineteen  years.  He 
sometimes  used  Rex  Anglorum,  to  court  the  good-will  of  his 
new  subjects,  and  he  also  engaged  more  mint-masters  and 
places  than  any  other  King,  probably  with  the  same  object." 

Mr.  Gough  gives  engravings  of  about  fifty  coins,  which  in- 
clude the  following  York  specimens. 

9.  10.  9  CRINVLF    ON    E-OF  [The  letters  in  It- 

11.  *  IFVLNOTfl     ON    EOFE  alios  we  have  sub- 

12.  |J<  OTjHIN    ON    EOFERJFI  stituted  for  Saxon 
18.  ^  tfODMAN    ON    EORC  characters.] 

On  the  title  page  is  the  engraving  of  a  coin  bearing  Canute's 
head  and  sceptre  :  ►£<  CNYT  R  EOFE ;  and  at  page  10 
is  another  engraving :  >$<  CETELM  -  OEFRJPIC ;  annulets  in 
centre,  to  form  the  usual  cross. 

In  1774  a  large  number  of  Canute's  coins  were  discovered 
near  Kirkwall  in  Orkney,  amongst  which  were  found  87  York 
examples:  EOF.  (24).  *RE0X 

(1)  COLfflRIM)^  Wn   . 

(2)  CRVCAN    |Dr-  Hunter 
(8)  CRINVLF 

(1)  EEWINE 
(5)  EGELT^INE 

(2)  ELFJFINE  q.  Elfnan  mo  Eofr.,  Drake  88. 
REECX  (1 )  FERjTH  EIN  Farthein  mo  Eofr.,  Drake  82. 
REC'X             (1)  RODMAN 

REX  (7)  NILDVLF 

(1)  THEOR&IGE 

Earngrim  on  Eo  )  also  given  by  Keder, 
Outhgrim  mo  Eof)  Drake,  Spelman. 
EOFE.  (29).  CNVT    R  [EOFE]  J 

(2)  COLGRIM 
(1)  RODMAN 

RECX  (1)  EtfELTFINE 

(1)  VBITHCOL 
REX  (8)  GRVCAN        Recx  A 

CRVCA  mon  Eofe.,  weight  16  gr. 
in  the  possession  of  Francis  Smith, 
Esq.,  York,  (a  numismatist  of  re- 
pute,) and  of  Duke  of  Devonshire. 
(2)  NILDVLF 

♦CNVT  is  given  each  time  before  REX. 
\  King  of  York  is  too  good ;  it  is  probably  a  mere  repetition  of  the  place  of 
mintage,  as  in  the  following  one  EORC. — J.H.T. 


WITH    YORKSHIBE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL. 


189 


BECX 


BECX    g| 
BEECX  £l 


(7) 
(1) 

&} 


NLDVLF 

BEFEN 

RINVLF    Dr.  Hunter  gives 

Ti/VRIN 

TtfVRtfRIM 

WYL-mTH 


CINVLF  ON 
[EOFE. 


BE  CX 

BEX 

BECX 

BEX  AN 


Sunolf  mo  Eofr.,  Drake  81. 
(one  has  BECX  A) 
Keder,  149. 
„      186- 


Roefen,  Drake  84. 


EOFEB  (25)  BECX    (4)  BEORN 
(2)  GODMAN 
(5)  cRVCAN 
(2)  OTtfAN 
(2)  OTHW 
(4)  OTHTHIS 

(1)  BEFEN 
(8)  VGEDE 

(2)  WVLNOT/f  Wulfnoth,  Drake,  &e. 

Bedrn  on  Eofr.    Edinburgh. 
Getel  o  Eoferw.    Ketel. 
Cetel  mo  Eofrwic,  wt.  16J  gr. 
Mr.  Smith  of  York;  Gross  of 
Annulets. 
Grinan  mo  Eofr.  Devonshire, 

Drake. 
Grimolf  mo  Eofr.    Eetel. 
Hildulf  on  Eofer.    Bodleian 
Hildulf  mo  Eofer.     Wormii 
Wulstan  mo  Eofr.    Late  Mr. 
Fleming  of  Wakefield. 
EOFEBTKI  (8)  BECX    (1)  0THI8 

(7)  BEFEN 
EOBC  (1)  CNVT    B[EOFE]   GODMAN 

Leodmer  on  Rue,  noted  by  Spelman,  may  be  Line,  Wine,  or 
Richmond.  Mr.  Thoresby  had  the  coin,  Due  Lead,  p.  847.  It 
is  now  in  Mr.  White's  collection. 

The  Duke  of  Devonshire  has  one  of  Canute's  coins, .  .  .  Bipo. 
Withrin  mo  Eofrw.    Gnut  Bex  Angl. 
Yulemer  on  Eofr.    Gnut  Bex  Anglor. 
Arncetel  o  Eo. 
Wulnoth  mo  Eoferw.  Gnut  in  field  of  Corn. 


Beported  in  Lane- 
rent  z  en's  Jacob* 
Mus.  Begium. 


Hob*  (tote  (Sill  or  Itotohir  (gill  (ftatrcrtt. 

Thinking  my  description  of  this  cave  which  appeared  in  the 
"Kendal  Mercury  and  Times"  of  the  27th  of  April,  1888,  might 
interest  your  readers  and  be  an  addition  to  the  former  notices  of 
the  kind,  I  take  the  liberty  of  forwarding  it  with  slight  altera- 
tions. Not  being  aware  of  any  prior  publication  noticing  it,  I 
should  be  pleased  by  information  on  this  point. 


190  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 

Though  not  possessing  the  greater  sublimity  of  its  larger 
brethren,  Dove  Cote  Gill  affords  the  most  imposing  specimen 
of  its  kind  in  the  district. — Two  or  three  smaller  ones  are  -with- 
in a  mile  of  it,  but  of  much  inferior  ffimensions ;  one  or  two 
may  be  found  in  Dent.*  I  do  not  remember  any  within  the 
strict  boundary  enclosing  the  Lake  District.  That  these  remarks 
may  lead  to  approximate  correctness  of  idea  I  give  my  measure- 
ments, which  if  taken  by  another  would  vary  very  little.  This 
cavern  of  carboniferous  limestone  formation  is  about  three  miles 
distant,  in  an  easterly  direction,  from  Sedbergh  Station,  on 
the  London  and  North  Western  Railway,  and  two  miles  beyond 
the  ancient  market-town  of  Sedbergh.  Dove  Cote  Gill  Farm 
is  in  the  Sedbergh  hamlet  of  Dowbiggin,  a  mile  up  the  left 
hand  lane  which  joins  the  Sedbergh  and  Kirkby  Stephen  high- 
way at  the  bridge  (Straight  Bridge)  over  the  River  Rawthey,  a 
tributary  of  the  Lune.  "  Leaving  the  hard  beaten  track  the 
traveller  is  amply  repaid  for  his  labours,  &c,"  is  the  registered 
phraseology  used  in  sketches  of  this  kind.  I  do  not  apply  it  to 
the  present  case,  yet  my  imperfect  account  must  nevertheless 
suffice  to  form  a  judgment  from.  A  small  stream  finds  its 
way  through  this  underground  curiosity,  and  for  a  quarter  of  a 
mile  below  its  exit,  traverses  most  interesting  scenery  of  well 
wooded  gill,  rocky  waterfall,  and  dell,  before  amalgamating  its 
waters  with  the  Clough,  otherwise  the  Garsdale  stream  which 
joins  the  Rawthey  a  little  below  Straight  Bridge.  The  course 
of  water  before  entering  the  cave  for  a  much  shorter  distance, 
commencing  at  Baugh  Fell  Common,  is  an  irregular  rocky 
gulley.  This  end  of  the  cavern  whether  viewed  from  its 
interior,  or  from  edge  of  precipice  far  exceeds  in  picturesque- 
ness  the  lower  extremity.  Before  entering,  notice  the 
tower-like  portions  of  this  rocky  cavity,  one  covered  with  fern, 
moss  and  ivy,  on  the  left ;  the  foliage  of  overhanging  trees 
above  gully  and  well  of  entrance ;  and  the  almost  perpend- 
icular sides  of  cave,  coated  with  moss  and  lichen,  beautify  the 
Dantesque  grandeur  of  the  massive  entrance.  This  opening  is 
some  82  feet  in  height  and  12  to  15  feet  in  width.  For  190 
feet  these  dimensions  lessen  almost  imperceptibly,  and  the 
floor  of  cavern  gradually  slopes.  The  two  passages  in  this 
length  will  be  noticed  later  on.  Declevity  of  outlet  is  not  so 
sudden,  and  two  or  three  times  longer ;  the  bed  of  stream,  less 
confined,  here  and  there  is  a  large  detached  piece  of  rook  which 
have  apparently  fallen  from  the  rock  face  round  entrance,  into 
the  stream  or  on  its  banks.  The  usual  hazel  bushes,  &c,  are 
not  wanting  for  completing  this  choice  picture.    At  the  foot  of 

•Of  these  one  is  at  Hebblethwaite  Hall,  some  (scarcely  deserting  the  name) 
are  on  the  banks  of  the  Clough  where  it  joins  tne  Frostbrow  Common.  Be- 
yond the  mile  radius  of  Dove  Cote  Gill  is  one  of  little  moment  at  Gibbs  Hall, 
in  Dent,  I  believe. 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  191 

an  almost  vertical  narrow  face,  composed  of  rock,  shale  and 
earth,  this  outlet  appears.  From  here  for  the  sake  of  ease,  and 
other  end  exhibiting  the  more  pleasing  exit,  will  determine  the 
order  of  particularizing  its  internal  arrangement,  also  for  conven- 
ience my  description  will  be  in  three  sections.  The  total  length 
of  this  limestone  cavern  is  (roughly)  820  feet,  and  those  willing 
to  submit  to  the  uncomfortable  position  it  occasionally  affords, 
will,  I  imagine,  be  gratified  by  its  picturesqueness.  What 
extra  difficulty  is  caused  in  traversing  the  confined  central 
chamber  will  give  a  relish  to  the  superb  effect  of  the  ending. 

Fibst  Section, 
Of  145  feet  in  length,  has  a  gravelly  base,  its  rocky  bottom 
shewing  to  a  trifling  extent ;  now  and  then  the  rounded  corners 
of  sides  abruptly  protrude,  their  surfaces  occasionally  covered 
with  incrustation,  though  the  stalactitic  pendants  and  pillars 
are  wanting.  Bather  nearer  outlet  than  halfway  is  a  skylight 
(or  series  of  lights  when  a  cavity  at  the  ground  above  is  clear 
of  debris)  on  left  hand  side,  15  feet  to  outside.  The  sloping 
bottom  of  this  opening  permits  creeping  to  the  open  air  (being 
oblique,  the  distance  is  35  feet).  (When  facing  the  two  apert- 
ures, above  cavity  is  the  left-hand  one  as  viewed  from  the 
outside.  In  clearing  this  cavity,  which  goes  about  a  dozen  feet 
into  the  rock,  a  quantity  of  bones  were  found  deposited  in  the 
damp  soil  of  its  floor,  and  intermixed  with  loose  fragments  of 
rock.  Chiefly  being  those  of  domestic  animals  and  game,  it 
pointed  to  the  surmise  that  at  some  period  it  had  been  the 
habitat  of  one  of  the  smaller  carnivora.)  About  112  feet  from 
entrance  is  a  gently  slanting  rock  on  left  hand  side.  From  this 
point  of  vantage,  rays  of  light  can  be  seen  coming  into  the 
cave,  through  opening  of  roof  on  each  side  of  this  position,  and 
also  from  entrance.  The  direction  of  this,  145  feet  is  almost 
straight,  making  allowance  for  a  little  meandering,  and  only 
occasionally  the  slightest  stooping  is  necessary. 

Second  Section, 
This  is  the  least  tempting  portion  to  venture  through,  and 
from  its  confined  nature,  and  difficulties  to  be  surmounted, 
most  people  decline  continuing  their  explorations  and  return 
the  same  way  as  they  came.  From  right  hand  light  which 
terminates  last  section,  the  present  one  takes  a  direct  line  to 
to  the  left,  at  a  little  less  than  a  right  angle  to  first  section. 
The  commencing  27  feet  is  an  extremely  limited  rocky  gallery, 
with  smooth  sides,  &c,  not  sufficiently  high  to  stand  upright 
in,  its  slanting  sides  make  the  water-way  narrow,  and  oblige 
the  use  of  shoulders  and  arms  to  prevent  getting  the  feet  wet, 
as  well  as  aiding  in  locomotion.  Towards  its  termination,  or 
rather  at  ending  of  the  27  feet,  is  a  large  piece  of  rock  across 
lower  part  of  cavity,  the  water  at  its  foot  is  slightly  wider  and 


192  YORKSHIBE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 

of  increased  depth.  It  varies  from  a  foot  to  4  feet  6  inches  or 
so.  After  not  a  little  stretching  to  get  over  the  rock,  yon  enter 
a  12  feet  gravelly  passage,  in  which  things  do  not  much  im- 
prove, the  feet  being  released  is  compensated  by  less  room  for 
body.  This  passage  terminates  in  a  sanded  np  crevice,  similar 
to  others  in  cave.  On  right  hand  side  a  yard  or  two  from  the 
end  the  last  section  begins. 

Thibd  Section, 

After  a  search  at  a  right  angle  to  above,  the  unenticing 
escape  from  its  enchantment  presents  itself.  In  availing  of 
this  escape  the  explorer  finds  it  necessary  to  all  but  creep  the 
first  yard  or  two,  as  the  roof  is  low  and  gravel  accumulated. 
This  section  is  about  180  feet  long  and  19  feet  from  creeping 
place,  the  cavern  separates  into  two  passages.  The  left  hand 
and  larger  one  at  midway  has  a  sudden  step  in  its  floor  with 
pool  at  base,  making  it  not  so  suitable  for  exit  as  the  smaller 
passage,  the  end  of  which  rises  possibly  as  much  as  the  step, 
but  dispenses  with  pool  and  is  more  gradual  in  its  ascent.  At 
the  conclusion  of  junction  of  these  80  feet  long  passages  com- 
mences the  admirable  effect  mentioned  in  the  earlier  portion  of 
this  article.  Some  85  feet  to  40  feet  farther  on  the  right  hand 
is  the  outlet  for  finishing  this  journey.  Its  use  was  formerly 
very  incommodious,  as  the  greater  portion  of  the  opening  in 
the  12  feet  thickness  of  rock  was  barely  sufficient  to  allow  a 
person  to  squeeze  through. 

Permission  to  see  the  cave  can  be  obtained  from  Mr.  8.  Udale 
at  the  farm-house.  By  his  instructions  the  exit  has  been 
greatly  facilitated,  and  to  get  outside  a  little  stooping  is  all 
that  is  necessary.  Mr.  G.  Nelson,  stonemason,  Sedbergh,  took 
the  contract  for  making  this  improvement.  After  working  with 
his  men  for  some  time,  blasting  the  rock  proved  rather  tedious 
so  he  threw  the  job  up,  but  his  son  James  with  the  able  aid  of 
his  uncle  James  exhibited  the  proverbial  Yorkshire  pluck  and 
energy  by  carrying  out  Mr.  Udale's  instructions  to  a  successful 
issue.  The  cavern  makes  a  most  peculiar  turn  in  its  last  two 
sections  as  found  by  comparing  inside  by  outside  measurements. 
From  skylight  dividing  first  and  second  sections  to  renovated 
exit,  the  inside  is  some  140  feet  long,  while  the  outside  is  only 
88  feet.  The  general  contour  is  in  a  south-westerly  direction 
This  interesting  curiosity  is  in  a  district  celebrated  for  the 
romantic  beauty  of  its  natural  features.  The  present  one 
would  quite  hold  its  own  by  the  side  of  Stock  Gyll  Force  or 
Dungeon  Gill. 

Another  type  of  refreshing  scenery  in  this  locality  is  Cantley 
Scarr  and  Waterfall,  which  are  within  easy  distance  of 
Sedbergh. 

T.  Hbwetson,  Weabdale,  Ravenstonedal*- 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  198 

SOME    ACCOUNT    OP    THE 
PARISH    CHURCH    OF    ST.    MARY'S,    HONLEY; 

By  Mbs.  Mary  A.  Jagger. 
"  The  decent  Church,  that  topt  the  neighbouring  hill."— Goldsmith. 

Antiquarians  have  been  accused  of  making  something  out  of 
nothing,  and  sauce  to  it.  Perhaps  what  often  passes  for  truth 
may  only  be  conjectures ;  but  the  suppositions  cf  a  thinking 
and  penetrating  mind  may  in  time  become  undoubted  truths. 
Even  if  wonderful  traditions  are  now  accepted  with  reserve, 
they  are  helpful  in  forming  our  opinions ;  and  though  we  live 
not  in  the  dark  ages,  when  people  "  held  each  strange  tale  de- 
voutly true,"  yet  traditions  and  superstitions  are  like  the  dragon 
— hard  to  kill,  and  when  supposed  to  be  killed  still  crawls  on. 
As  far  as  possible  I  shall  endeavour  not  to  stumble  upon  many 
errors ;  nor  quote  from  mythical  authorities.  Even  with  these 
precautions,  mistakes  may  occur ;  and  acute  people,  who  are 
now  more  rank  than  those  whose  ancient  faith  knew  no  guile, 
may  pounce  down  upon  me. 

The  Jews  kept  the  registers  of  their  genealogies, — the  pedi- 
gree of  the  house  of  their  fathers ;  and  if  every  family  had  done 
the  same,  what  a  halo  of  romance  would  rest  over  those  old 
chronicles !  what  a  grand  biography  of  the  past  and  gone  !  Did 
not  the  Jews  write  down  each  detail  relating  to  their  temples, 
and  forms  of  worship  ?  Almost  every  girl  and  boy  in  my  village 
could  tell  me  something  about  the  building  of  Solomon's 
Temple,  with  its  vast  army  of  labourers — hewers  of  stone  and 
wood,  skilful  artificers  in  precious  stones,  gold  and  brass.  Are 
not  the  cedar  and  fir  trees  of  Lebanon  used  in  its  construction 
as  familiar  to  them  by  description,  as  the  trees  of  their  own 
hill-sides  ?  Have  they  not  read  of  that  great  and  solemn  feast 
— the  Dedication  of  the  Temple  to  God's  worship  and  glory  ? 
Could  they  give  me  an  outline  of  the  history  of  their  own 
Temple, — the  village  Church — under  whose  shadow  they  first 
drew  breath  ?  I  trow  not,  for  we  are  apt  to  look  upon  things 
that  daily  life  has  made  familiar  to  us  with  indifference.  It  is 
only  when  like  the  aged  prophet  we  say — 
"  But  as  for  me 

I  would  that  I  were  gathered  to  my  rest," 
that  we,  too,  think  of  the  past,  that  now  out  of  reach  misty  be- 
hind.    How  many  a  weary  Pilgrim  repeats  the  request  of  the 
aged  Jacob — "  Bury  me  with  my  fathers !  " 

The  history  of  a  Church  is  the  history  of  a  place ;  for  the 
associations  that  cling  around  an  ancient  edifice,  are  closely 
interwoven  with  the  lives  of  the  people  around  it.  Those  who 
worship  one  Master,  though  they  cannot  consent  to  do  so  in 
company,  must  agree  with  me  on  this  point. 

Y.N.Q.  N 


194        YORKSHIKE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 

We  will  take  a  retrospect  of  those  old  memories  that  entwine 
themselves  around  our  own  Church. 

St.  Mary's  Church  has  not  that  mellow  tint  npon  its  walls 
that  old  age  alone  can  bestow.  No  hanging  ivy,  or  many 
coloured  lichens  creep  around  the  tower.  No  storied  windows 
of  dead  and  gone  heroes  cast  their  opal  lights  upon  the  aisles 
below ;  nor  are  banners  and  gauntlets,  once  trophies  and  chal- 
lenges of  chivalrous  combat,  suspended  from  its  walls.  A 
stranger,  on  entering  the  9acred  edifice,  would  at  once  know 
that  the  present  Church  is  a  comparatively  modern  building, 
whose  architecture  is  of  a  plain  but  pure  style.  What  history 
then  can  this  modern  erection  possess  ? 
Is  there  not  a  "  tale  in  everything  ?  " 

This  is  the  third  edifice  built  upon  the  old  foundation,  that 
has  looked  down  upon  the  changes  of  the  village. 

In  Domesday-book  (Bawdwen's  Translation)  we  read— "In 
Haneleia  and  Meltham  (Honley  and  Meltham)  Cola  and  Suuen 
held  four  Carucates  of  land  to  be  taxed,  where  three  ploughs 
might  be  employed.  Ilbert  now  has  it,  but  it  is  waste.  T.R.E., 
value  forty  shillings.  Wood-pastures  two  miles  long,  and  a 
mile  and  a  half  broad." 

Suuen  was  a  Thane;  a  term  signifying  one  of  the  Saxon 
nobility.  He  appears  to  have  been  deprived  of  his  lands  at 
Honley  by  the  Norman  invaders.  The  Ilbert  named  was  the 
great  and  powerful  Ilbert-de-Laci,  unto  whom  Suaen's  lands 
were  given. 

As  the  village  had  not  a  tribe  like  unto  Zebulun  who  "  handle 
the  pen  of  the  writer"  my  information  of  Honley  about  this 
time  is  very  scanty.  Unless  I  quote  from  self,  the  reader  must 
take  a  leap  to  the  time  of  Edward  III.  We  then  read  of  a 
Richard  Waley,  the  Lord  of  Honley.  He  joined  in  the  rebellion 
against  Edward  III,  and  followed  the  most  powerful  nobleman 
of  that  period, — The  Earl  of  Lancaster.  The  latter  wan  be- 
headed in  his  own  Castle  at  Pontefract ;  but  Richard  Waley, 
Lord  of  Honley  was  pardoned.  His  life,  however,  was  only 
spared  on  condition  that  he  became  a  faithful  and  obedient 
subject.  Richard  Waley  had  all  his  lands  confiscated,  and  was 
fined  2,000  marks. 

If  Honley  came  under  the  critical  survey  made  by  William 
the  Conqueror,  it  must  have  been  of  some  importance ;  and  no 
doubt  a  religious  edifice  of  some  kind  stood  in  the  village.  The 
highways  leading  into  the  place,  still  designated  as  "  gates/*  all 
point  to  the  Church  as  the  common  centre  to  which  they  led ; 
also  the  field-paths  leading  from  some  isolated  house,  fold,  or 
hamlet,  now  merged  into  public  roads, — "  rights  of  way  M  for 
ever  to  the  inhabitants.  Honley  Feast  whose  origin  was  the 
festival  of  the  dedication  of  the  Church,  is  still  faithfully 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  195 

honoured  by  the  inhabitants.  During  the  time  of  the  Com- 
monwealth it  was  not  discontinued;  though  bo  many  wakes 
and  feasts  were  then  prohibited. 

The  origin  of  the  earliest  Chapel  dedicated  to  St.  Mary,  is 
however  lost  in  the  mist  of  antiquity.  It  can  be  proved  that  it 
existed  before  the  Eeformation,  and  was  then  an  Oratory,  or  a 
place  for  private  devotion.  The  first  document  relating  to  this 
structure  is  a  Latin  Faculty,  granted  by  Archbishop  Savage, 
Primate  of  England.  The  following  is  a  translation  of  this 
quaint  faculty,  originally  written  in  Dog-Latin. 


"Faculty  for  the  Celebration  op  Mass  in  the  Chapel  of 
Honley,  18th  Year  of  Henry  VII,  A.D.  1508. 

"Thomas,  by  Divine  permission  Archbishop  of  York,  Primate 
of  England,  Legate  of  the  Apostolic  See,  to  the  beloved  children 
in  Christ  the  natives  of  the  Villages  or  Hamlets  of  Houndsley, 
Meltham  and  Crossland,  (Honley,  Meltham  and  Crossland)  in 
the  parish  of  Almondbury,  in  the  Diocese  of  York,  to  the 
inhabitants  greeting,  in  our  Saviour's  embrace.  Since  we  have 
had  lately  information  from  true  source,  that  the  real  Parish 
Church  of  Almondbury  aforesaid  is  far  distant  from  the 
places  or  hamlets  aforesaid,  and  that  there  are  natives  or  in- 
habitants of  the  Villages  and  Hamlets,  broken  down  with  age 
and  held  with  various  diseases,  moreover  women  labouring 
with  child,  and  several  others  of  them  being  far  distant,  are  by 
no  means  able  to  be  present  to  celebrate  Mass  on  Holy  and 
other  festivals  of  the  Saints,  and  at  the  Canonical  hours  in  the 
said  Church,  in  the  Parish  of  Almondbury.  We  desiring  to 
relieve  such  persons,  and  other  inhabitants  of  the  Villages  and 
Hamlets  aforesaid  from  a  great  and  heavy  labour  of  continually 
visiting  the  aforementioned  Parish  Church  of  Almondbury, 
hoping  to  maintain,  that  they  may  more  frequently  offer  the 
accustomed  offerings  at  the  Divine  Services,  and  for  the  rest 
may  be  free  to  attend  the  offices.  In  order  that  in  the  Chapel 
of  the  Blessed  Virgin  Mary  of  Houndsley  aforesaid,  founded 
and  erected  of  old,  the  Mass,  the  Canonical  hours,  and  other 
Divine  offices,  may  be  freely  and  lawfully  celebrated  in  a  low 
voice  by  some  proper  Chaplain  or  proper  Chaplains,  the  various 
vestments  and  expenses  being  furnished  and  found,  ye  may 
have  power,  and  such  man  may  have  power,  while  however 
from  thence  there  shall  be  no  injury  to  the  Parish  Church 
of  Almondbury  aforesaid.  To  you  and  your  children  and 
servants  for  the  hearing,  and  to  the  Chaplain,  or  Chaplains 
aforesaid,  that  the  Celebration  of  the  Mass  and  other  offices 
may  be  carried  out,  Licence  by  the  tenour  of  these  presents 
we  grant.  May  it  be  confirmed  by  commendation  to  our 
Spiritual  Benediction.    Given  under  our  Seal  in  our  Castle  of 


196  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 

Cawood  on  the  last  day  bat  one  of  March  in  the  year  of  our 
Lord  One  Thousand  Five  Hundred  and  Three,  and  the  Third 
Year  of  our  translation." 

This  building  sufficed  for  the  spiritual  needs  of  three  town- 
ships, viz: — Honley,  (which  then  comprised  Netherthong), 
Meltham  and  Grassland.  It  was  known  in  the  village  as  "  the 
three-nooked  Chapel,"  and  was  a  plain  flat  building  with  three 
corners.  One  corner  pointed  towards  Meltham,  the  other  in 
the  direction  of  Crossland,  and  the  remaining  corner  signified 
the  claim  of  Honley  along  with  the  other  two  townships,  to  its 
worship  ;  at  least  these  three  angles  suggested  that  idea  to  the 
villagers. 

The  late  Canon  Hulbert  in  his  history  of  Almondbury,  says, 
"  that  from  a  MS  in  the  British  Museum,  these  verses  were 
formerly  written  in  painted  glass  under  the  Kayes'  arms  in 
this  Chapel :  "— 

"  I  John  Eaye,  Esquire,  and  Justice  of  the  Peace 
The  ground  of  this  Isle  doth  freely  release, 
To  joyn  to  this  Chapel  for  ever  and  aye 
That  the  people  may  have  the  more  room  to  praye, 
Iff  wicked  laws  come  to  pull  the  Chapel  down 
Then  witness  I  give  to  the  poor  of  the  town. 

The  Following  is  Anotheb  Copy  fbom  an  Old  Parish  Ac- 
count Book.     The  Book  beabs  Date  1778. 

"  I  John  Eaye,  Esquire,  and  Justice  of  Peace 
The  ground  of  this  Chappell  I  do  freely  release, 
This  I  do  give  for  ever  and  aye 
That  people  may  have  more  room  tp  pray. 
Iff  wicked  laws  do  pull  this  Chappell  down 
Then  witness  I  give  to  the  poor  of  the  town." 

Even  after  the  Reformation  penance  was  performed  in  this 
Chapel.  An  old  person  still  living  in  the  village  and  now  close 
upon  ninety  years  of  age,  has  heard  her  father-in-law  give  an 
account  of  his  flight  to  London,  rather  than  submit  to  the  or- 
deal of  penance  in  the  old  Oratory.  Then  the  distance  to 
London  was  considered  of  more  importance  than  a  journey 
to  the  Antipodes  would  be  to  day.  Another  account  is  also 
given  of  a  young  woman  who  had  proved  frail.  To  escape  the 
indignity  of  public  penance  on  the  Sunday,  she  left  the  village 
on  the  previous  Saturday  evening,  and  walked  to  York  Castle, 
(where  her  father  was  incarcerated)  with  her  illegitimate  child 
strapped  upon  her  back. 

It  is  interesting  to  know  that  after  the  Reformation,  the 
Roman  Catholics  of  Honley  retained  their  Chaplain,  and  met 
together  for  worship  in  a  building  situated  behind  the  present 
row  of  shops,  erected  on  the  left  side  in  Church  Street  going 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  197 

towards  the  Church.  Images  stood  upon  the  mantle-shelf  in 
the  room  where  they  assembled,  as  well  as  other  tokens  of 
Boman  Catholic  worship.  There  are  many  people  yet  living, 
who  will  remember  the  massive  old  buildings  that  were  used  for 
the  business  of  tallow-chandling,  before  the  present  modern 
erections  took  their  place.  To  many  will  also  come  a  memory, 
that  the  overhanging  gabled  fronts  of  those  old  buildings,  and  . 
their  general  architecture,  gave  unmistakable  proofs  of  having 
once  been  a  noble  Hall.  The  buildings  were  formerly  occupied 
by  the  Nettletons,  one  of  the  family  of  the  Thornhill  Nettletons; 
and  great  benefactors  to  Almondbury  and  Honley.  There  was  a 
tradition  handed  down  in  the  family  of  the  late  owner  of  the 
property,  that  a  petty  "King  had  once  occupied  the  house.  I 
should  say  that  it  might  have  been  the  residence  of  the  once 
Lord  of  Honley — Richard  Waley ;  or  perhaps  further  back,  the 
simple  wooden  dwelling  of  Suuen  the  Saxon  Thane  stood  upon 
this  place.  At  one  time  the  Hall  must  have  held  a  command- 
ing situation,  and  overlooked  a  valley  of  rare  beauty  and  sylvan 
repose. 

The  old  chapel  also  must  have  looked  down  outside  upon 
scenes  of  violence  and  sometimes  bloodshed.  Imagination  can 
picture  those  perilous  times.  Only  a  mile  across  the  valley  (as 
the  crow  flies)  stands  Castle  Hill.  Here  are  the  remains  of  an 
ancient  fortification.  A  grim  Castle  once  frowned  down  upon 
the  little  hamlets  lying  at  its  feet ;  and  tradition  says  that  dark 
and  cruel  deeds  were  performed  in  its  underground  dungeons. 

This  Castle  was  burnt  down  in  the  wars  between  Ceadwall 
the  Briton,  and  Penda  the  Mercian.  Afterwards  a  castle  was 
built  by  King  Stephen  who  gave  it  to  Henry  Lacy. 

Almost  a  stones-throw  from  the  old  chapel  would  be  Cross- 
land  Hall,  where  the  feud  between  Beaumont  and  Elland  had 
such  a  tragic  ending ;  (the  present  Hall  stands  not  far  from  the 
original  site). 

In  the  still  night  when  Elland  of  Elland  had  led  his  retain- 
ers to  Crossland  Hall,  the  cries  of  warfare  would  be  wafted  over 
the  unenclosed  wood  that  only  intervened  between  the  old 
Chapel  and  the  Hall. 

The  wide  open  upland  known  as  Honley  Moor,  was,  until 
the  year  1788  an  unenclosed  moor  covered  with  mountain  fir 
trees.  Cultivation  does  not  always  mean  improvement ;  and 
its  original  romantic  beauty,  was  preferable  to  the  present  un- 
picturesque  stone  walls;  set  out  with  chess-board  monotony. 
Formerly,  Honley  Moor  was  a  thick  forest,  tenanted  only  by 
wild  animals.  In  the  time  of  Edward  III,  both  red  and  fallow 
deer  were  hunted  there.    Wolves  also  inhabited  the  moorlands, 

•Hugh  de  Quarmby,  slain  by  Sir  John  de  Eland,  is  now  spoken  of  as  the 
Xing  of  Quarmby.— J.H.T. 


198  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 

for  their  haunts  are  still  pointed  oat  like  those  of  the  stags ; 
and  kept  in  memory  by  their  names. 

The  freeholders  of  Honley  claimed  the  privilege,  or  right,  of 
cutting  timber  for  house-boot,  hainboot,  plough-boot,  cart-boot, 
and  fire-boot ;  and  also  the  getting  of  stones  and  slate,  from 
these  moorlands  until  the  year  1788.  For  this  privilege,  they 
were  required  to  keep  the  mill-dam,  and  dam-stakes  of  Honley 
old  water  corn-mill  in  repair ;  (better  known  as  Honley  Mill). 
In  1788,  the  Freeholders  were  exonerated  from  making  any 
repairs  to  the  mill,  on  condition  that  they  abolished  their  rights 
in  respect  to  the  cutting  of  timber  in  the  lands  of  the  Lord  of 
the  Manor.  They  were  however  allowed  to  get  stone  and  slates 
in  the  Delf-spring,  and  the  old  Wood ;  better  known  to  the 
present  generation  as  Scot-gate-head  quarries. 

On  the  heights  around  lies  many  a  brave  warrior ;  and  over- 
topping all,  like  grim  sentinels,  are  the  huge  stones,  supposed 
to  be  the  remains  of  Druidical  worship.  I  say  supposed ;  for  to 
me  nature  appears  to  have  been  the  sculptor  of  those  massive 
stones;  and  cycle  after  cycle  of  time,  with  fierce  action  of 
storms  and  winds,  their  labourers.  Whatever  conjectures  have 
been  formed  about  them,  generation  after  generation  have  pass- 
ed away,  and  on  the  conspicuous  moorland  known  as  West 
Nab,  are  still  laid  these  huge  stones. 

Not  far  away  from  West  Nab,  overlooking  the  neighbouring 
valley,  is  the  supposed  ruined  Temple  of  the  Druids,  with  its 
wonderful  rocking-stone. 

Pestilence,  famine,  and  war,  have  gathered  about  the  walls 
of  the  old  Chapel.  We  may  be  sure,  that  in  the  great  strife 
between  the  Yorkists  and  Lancastrians,  many  of  the  staunch 
yeomen  of  Honley  would  not  hold  themselves  aloof.  White- 
gate,  an  ancient  bridle  and  pack  way,  tradition  says,  was  once 
held  by  the  followers  of  the  White  Rose. 

Again  in  the  great  civil  warfare  between  Royalists  and 
Roundheads,  when  kindred  were  slain  by  kindred ;  the  village 
would  send  many  a  sturdy  volunteer  to  take  part  in  these 
bloody  battles.  As  at  present,  the  fringe  of  Whitley  woods  was 
in  view  of  the  old  Chapel ;  and  the  brave  Beaumont,  who  fought 
so  gallantly  for  his  King,  must  have  had  many  a  Honley  youth 
in  his  train.  Charles  Nettleton  of  Honley,  who  was  a  compan- 
ion of  Captain  Horsfall  of  Storthes  Hall,  was  in  Sir  John 
Ramsden's  regiment.  He  fought  for  the  Royal  cause  at  the 
battle  of  Marston  Moor.  Those  who  took  the  side  of  the 
Parliament,  would  fight  as  nobly  in  its  cause.  We  could  fancy 
how  the  village  folks,  all  more  or  less  akin,  as  they  are  to  this 
day,  would  watch  the  departure  of  their  warriors;  wishing 
them  God  speed  and  victory.  Then  we  can  imagine  the  sor- 
row and  silence  of  the  welcome  back  to  those  defeated  cavaliers, 


WITH  YORKSHIBE  FOLKLORE  JOURNAL.      199 

perhaps  many  of  them  who  had  set  out,  left  dead  on  the  battle- 
field of  Marston  Moor.  And  many  a  good  yeoman's  family, 
would  welcome  back  their  Roundhead  son  who  bad  been  spared 
to  them ;  or  mourn  over  one  also  left  dead  on  Marston  Moor ; 
the  summer's  moon  shining  down  upon  the  white  upturned 
faces  of  both  Cavaliers  and  Roundheads.  I  cannot  think  that 
the  sturdy  yeomen  of  Honley,  who  took  part  in  the  great  civil 
strife,  either  sung  many  battle- psalms,  or  sported  any  love-locks. 

Again  dismay  and  consternation  would  fill  the  minds  of  the 
village  people,  when  it  was  known  that  the  Scotch  Pretender 
intended  marching  down  upon  them.  The  furthest  point 
to  which  the  Army  advanced  is  still  pointed  out ;  and  known 
as  Scot-gate  head ;  and  the  defile  below  is  named  the  "  sentry  " 
because  it  was  guarded  by  sentries  during  that  unquiet  period. 

According  to  history,  the  followers  of  the  Scotch  Pretender 
did  not  advance  so  far.  Probably  some  stray  soldiers  might 
have  been  seen  in  the  neighbourhood,  and  thus  give  rise  to  this 
belief.  As  Honley  is  not  rich  in  historical  possessions ;  I  have 
no  wish  if  history  has,  to  rob  it  of  this  little  joy ;  but  "  facts 
are  stubborn  things/1 

It  is  said  that  in  fear  of  the  invasion,  bags  of  wool  barricad- 
ed this  still  precipitous  road  known  as  the  "  Sentry "  that 
extends  to  the  church-doors.  On  the  heights  above  the  defile, 
watchful  sentries  scanned  the  approaches  to  the  village. 

I  feel  great  admiration  for  the  practical  characteristic  nature 
of  those  old  Honley  clothiers  ;  who  brought  their  bags  of  wool 
for  such  a  purpose.  The  writer,  when  a  child,  once  saw  6ome 
dilapidated  military  garments  worn  by  one  of  those  who  ans- 
wered to  the  call  of  the  constable  to  help  to  defend  his  village. 
The  coat  was  of  red  cloth  of  a  now  antiquated  pattern ;  and 
trimmed  with  brass  buttons.  A  band  of  yellow  lace  adorned 
the  hat. 

If  the  times  were  perilous  tho  inhabitants  had  their  pastimes 
and  recreations.  What  crowds  of  people  would  press  up  the 
village  street,  on  their  way  to  the  scene  of  bull-baiting  and 
other  sports !  These  sports  took  place  every  Honley  Feast  in 
Thirstin  ;  until  made  illegal  by  law. 

(In  all  old  documents  Thirstin  is  spelt  Thurstan.) 

The  merry  village  maidens  would  dance  around  the  May-pole, 
that  stood  on  the  Village-green.  This  open  space  in  the  centre 
of  the  village,  has,  I  am  sorry  to  say  had  its  old  name  modern- 
ized to  "  Town -gate."  Amongst  the  old  inhabitants  it  still 
retains  its  original  name  of  "  May -pole-hill."  I  hope  that  its 
proper  title  may  neither  be  forgot  nor  ignored  by  the  present 
inhabitants. 

During  the  disturbed  period  when  King  Charles  was  behead- 
ed ;  it  speaks  well  for  the  religious  zeal  of  the  neighbourhood 
that  a  Church  was  erected  at  Meltham.     The  erection  of  this 


200       YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 

Church  (or  more  properly  speaking  Chapel)  in  the  year  1651, 
caused  the  withdrawal  of  its  inhabitants  from  the  worship  at 
Honley  Chapel.  This  structure  at  Meltham  was  built  through 
the  influence  of  the  mother  of  William  Woodhead.  This  old 
lady  had  a  dread  of  Popery.  Her  great  age  prevented  her  from 
coming  to  Honley  Chapel  by  a  foot-road  across  Harden  Clough, 
still  called  "  Chapel-gate  "  !  It  is  said  that  this  old  lady  on  her 
way  to  Honley  was  occasionally  pelted  with  sods  by  the  youths 
of  Meltham. 

Godfrey  Beaumont  of  Crossland,  gave  to  Honley  and  Melt- 
ham Chapels,  certain  lands  by  will  dated  81st  March,  1672. 
He  was  of  that  noble  class  of  Yeomen  now  so  fast  dying  out ; 
a  class  that  answered  to  the  name  of  "  free  born  Englishmen." 
Such  as  these,  have  handed  down  to  us  our  hearths  and  homes, 
our  faith  and  fatherland.     But  to  return  to  Honley. 

The  old  Oratory  had  no  doubt  beeu  frequently  altered  to 
meet  the  needs  of  Divine  worship.  There  are  deeds  to  prove 
that  both  alterations  and  additions  took  place  in  1507  and  1660. 
In  the  year  1760  the  Chapel  had  been  entirely  rebuilt,  bat 
most  of  the  old  material  had  been  used  in  its  re-construction. 
Though  dedicated  like  its  predecessor  to  the  Virgin  Mary,  it 
was  known  to  the  inhabitants  as  the  "  Old  Peg." 

I  have  never  been  able  to  gain  any  correct  information  why 
it  should  lay  claim  to  this  appellation.  Some  people  say  be- 
cause  of  the  cracked  tone  of  the  old  bell  that  hung  in  the 
cupola. 

This  building  was  a  plain  structure  without  a  tower.  There 
was  a  small  cupola  at  the  West  end,  in  which  the  bell  was 
hung.  In  the  interior  was  suspended  a  large  brass  chandelier. 
This  was  considered  a  magnificent  piece  of  workmanship ;  and 
was  only  required  when  the  short  winter  Sunday  afternoons 
closed  in  early ;  and  tallow  dips  were  then  inserted  in  its  scones. 

This  chandelier  has  a  little  history  of  its  own.  It  was  form- 
erly suspended  in  Huddersfield  Parish  Church.  After  some 
alterations  there,  it  was  purchased  by  the  late  Miss  Armitage, 
and  given  to  Honley  Church.  It  was  hung  both  in  the  old 
Chapel  and  the  present  edifice.  When  gas  was  introduced  at 
Honley,  the  chandelier  was  sent  to  Brockholes  Church.  After 
gas  was  put  into  Brockholes  Church  the  chandelier  was  sent 
back  to  Honley ;  and  is  now  suspended  after  having  been  divid- 
ed, in  the  central  room  at  the  National  8chools. 

On  the  North  and  West  walls  of  the  Chapel  were  two  life-size 
oil  paintings  of  Moses  and  Aaron.  When  the  old  building  was 
pulled  down,  these  pictures  were  removed  to  the  National 
Schools ;  but  at  the  last  enlargement  of  the  School,  they  were 
destroyed.  This  is  to  be  regretted,  as  they  were  not  only  very 
ancient  but  of  great  merit.  How  many  a  grey-headed  man 
and  woman  who  have  passed  the  time  meted  out  to  man,  will 


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think  with  a  sigh  of  regret  about  those  two  well  known  pict- 
ures !  In  their  long  past  youth,  have  they  not  whiled  away  many 
a  tedious  sermon  by  holding  imaginary  conversations  on  the 
merits  of  the  nose  of  Moses,  and  the  beard  of  Aaron  ?  The 
Royal  Coat  of  Arms  was  in  front  of  the  East  gallery.  The  pews  were 
of  black  oak ;  of  an  antiquated  pattern ;  and  adorned  with  the 
signs  of  ownership.  Many  of  them  were  in  the  "  three-nooked 
Chapel/'  as  it  was  named  by  the  inhabitants ;  and  on  many 
were  carved  the  initial  letters  of  the  names  of  the  owners,  with 
dates  of  an  early  period.  At  that  time,  the  bindings  of  books 
were  too  precious  to  be  handled ;  and  the  books  laid  in  the 
corners  of  the  old  pews,  protected  with  their  various  coloured 
coverings  of  Kersey  cloth  or  other  materials.  These  coverings 
were  of  home-manufacture,  and  made  by  the  Honley  clothiers 
with  the  intention  of  never  wearing  out.  The  old  Bibles,  Prayer- 
books,  or  Version  of  the  Psalms,  contained  homely  entries  of 
births,  marriages,  and  deaths, — date  of  purchase, — poetry  as  to 
the  ownership  of  the  books,  generally  of  a  threatening  character. 
We  then  could  boast  of  a  local  poet  of  no  mean  name, — William 
Crosley  of  Honley. 

The  pulpit  was  long  and  upright,  commonly  called  a  "  three 
decker."  It  was  covered  by  a  huge  carved  oak  canopy,  or 
"  sounding-board."  At  that  time  Honley  must  have  been  far 
in  advance  of  the  times,  for  an  organ  stood  at  the  east  end  of 
the  Chapel.  The  mother  Church  of  Almondbury  was  behind 
her  daughter,  for  she  could  only  lay  claim  even  until  the  year 
1826  to  a  bass  viol.  We  know  that  organs  were  both  rare  and 
expensive  in  earlier  days.  According  to  the  entries  in  the  old 
Parish  book,  this  organ  not  only  cost  a  large  amount  of  money; 
but  was  always  out  of  order ;  and  required  much  attention.  It 
was  like  an  ailing  patient,  and  different  kinds  of  physic  were  in 
constant  request. 

The  Chapel  had  three  galleries,  or  lofts,  as  they  were  named 
by  its  worshippers.  These  were  known  as  the  red-loft,  white- 
loft,  and  singing  loft.  The  red-loft  was  situated  over  the  East 
end,  the  white-loft  over  the  North,  and  the  singing  loft  over  the 
Communion  table.     There  was  no  gallery  over  the  South  side. 

Still  the  old  Chapel  was  in  the  midst  of  unrest.  Napoleon 
threatened  to  invade  England, — the  great  Napoleon, — the 
gloom  of  whose  glory  says  Lord  Byron — 

"  Arose,  and  o'ershadowed  the  earth  with  her  name." 

The  writer  has  often  heard  old  people  tell,  how  on  each 
evening,  their  parents  were  wont  to  go  to  the  end  of  the  village, 
and  watch  with  trembling  hearts  for  the  lighting  of  the  beacon- 
fire  on  Castle  Hill.  Its  blaze  was  to  be  the  signal,  that 
Napoleon  and  his  army  had  already  landed  on  English  soil. 
The  flare  of  the  late  beacon-fire,  lighted  in  honour  of  our 
Queen's  jubilee,  must  have  caused  very  different  feelings  from 
what  existed  then.  To  be  continued. 


202  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIE8, 

Burning  Women. — A  Newspaper  of  the  last  century  contains 
the  following  announcement  of  the  burning  of  a  woman  at 
York:— 

York,  March  29,  1757.  Yesterday,  Mary  Ellah,  who  was 
convicted  of  the  murder  of  her  husband,  Thomas  Ellah,  was 
burnt,  pursuant  to  her  sentence.  She  confessed  the  crime  for 
which  she  suffered,  and  died  penitent. 

The  last  woman  burned  alive  was  Catherine  Hayes,  for 
murdering  her  husband.  The  rope  intended  to  strangle  her 
was  burnt,  and  she  was  actually  burnt  alive.  Thackeray's 
"  Catherine,"  was  founded  on  this  event. 

C.  W.  S.,  Northallerton. 


Register  Wants  :  Baoe.  I  offer  £10  for  baptism  certificate 
of  Joseph  Bage,  born  1748-8,  or  marriages  of  George  Bage, 
senior,  1720-45.  J.  D.  Whyte,  M.A. 

Benson.   Robert  Benson,  bap.  1744-5,  Wharfedale  or  Airedale. 

Horsfall.  Abraham  Horsfall,  bap.  1675-88,  Calder  or  Colne 
Valleys.  *  *  * 

Hargreaves.  Wanted  the  Certificate  of  Birth,  of  John  Har- 
greaves,  born  at  Bowdish,  or  Rawtenstall  about  1798,  fine 
Cotton  Spinner  by  trade,  married  a  Miss  Barrett,  of  Yorkshire, 
both  died  at  Manchester  about  1848. 

F.  Hilditch,  16,  Parfitt  Road,  South  Bermondsby. 

Yorkshire  Chap-books.  Mr.  H.  Speight  has  again  forwarded 
a  batch  of  Chap-books  for  which  we  are  very  grateful.  The 
following  is  the  list. 

1.  The  Bloody  Tragedy,  or  a  dreadful  warning  to  disobedient 
children  ...  an  account  of  John  Gill,  of  Woborn,  Bedfordshire. 
.  .  .  [ending  with  'dying  speech  at  his  execution'] .  J.  Eendrew, 
Printer,  Collier  Gate,  York.     8  pages  on  very  coarse  paper. 

2.  Moll  Flanders,  printed  at  Burslem.  8.  Jack  the  Giant 
Killer,  part  I,  24  pages  only,  title  lost,  (see  No.  6). 

4.  A  Pious  Exhortation  delivered  in  a  prison  by  an  Innocent 
Sufferer.     Huddersfield,  J.  Brook,  (about  1800),  8  pages. 

5.  The  Village  Tragedy,  or  Murder  upon  Murder,  written 
....  against  Seduction  which  proved  so  fatal,  a  few  weeks  ago 
to  a  Young  Woman  near  York,  who  ....  murdered  her  new 
born  child,  and  ....  drowned  herself  in  the  Foss  Navigation. 
York,  J.  Kendrew,  Collier  Gate,  Id.,  8  pages  of  doggerel  verse. 

6.  The  History  of  the  Marquis  of  Salus,  or  Patient  Grissel, 
(Vignette,  a  nosegay.)  Wakefield,  Rowland  Hurst,  at  the  Star 
Office,  23  pages.  On  the  24th  page  we  read  "  Shop-keepers 
and  Hawkers  supplied  at  the  Star  Printing  Office,  Wakefield, 
with  all  sorts  of  Testaments,  Beading  Easys,  Spellings,  Battle- 
dores;   also   Godly  Books,  Songs   and   Histories,  viz:   Fair 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE    JOURNAL.  208 

Rosamond,  Sleeping  Beauty,  A  Groats  Worth  of  Wit  for  a 
Penny;  the  King  and  Cobbler,  Parts  I  and  II;  Robin  Hood; 
Robinson  Crusoe ;  The  Old  Woman  of  Ratcliffe  Highway ;  Jack 
the  Giant  Killer,  Parts  I  and  II ;  Mother  Bunch,  Parts  I  and 
II ;  The  Gipsy's  Fortune  Teller ;  The  Fortune  Teller  by  Tea- 
Cups;  Bateman's  Tragedy,  &c,  &c." 

7.  Cobbler  and  Parson,  printed  by  Appleton,  Darlington. 

8.  Collin  and  Phoebe,  Spiritualized.  By  a  Blind  Man, 
Foster,  Kirkby  Lonsdale. 

9.  A.  Groatsworth  of  Wit  for  a  Penny,  or  the  interpretation 
of  Dreams. 

Printed  and  sold  in  London,  24  pages.  This  seems  older  issue 
than  Hurst's,  see  No.  6.  It  treats  of  signification  of  Moles.  "A 
Mole  on  the  neck,  he  shall  become  rich !  but  behind  the  neck  it 
demonstrates  that  he  shall  be  beheaded,  except  God,  thro1  ear- 
nest prayers  prevent  the  same."  Born  under  the  12  Signs. 
Drawing  blood.  Comets.  Night  Spells.  Colour  of  Hair. 
Shape  of  the  head,  forehead,  nose.      Eyes. 

10.  A  similar  book,  two  leaves  missing,  matter  differs  con- 
siderably. 

11.  A  Good  Wife  ....  and  Persecuting  Butcher.  8pp, 
London,  Evaus.     Id. 

12.  Three  True  Stories,  Murderer,  &c.  8pp.  London,  Evans, 
Id. 

18.  Singular  Sufferings  of  Two  Friends  who  had  lost  them- 
selves in  an  American  Forest.  8pp.  York,  C.  Croshaw, 
Coppergate.     Id. 

14.  Scientific  Astrologer,  or  Universal  Fortune  Teller, 
Charms,  Ceremonies,  Cards.    York,  C.  Croshaw.     Id.  8pp. 

15.  A  Parallel  between  Alex,  the  Great  and  a  Highwayman. 
York,  Croshaw.     Id.  8pp.      [Alex,  is  the  greater  rogue.] 

16.  A  Visit  to  a  Witch,  (Moll  White).  York,  Croshaw.  Id. 
8pp. 

17.  Pathetic  Sufferings  of  Louisa  Harwood  who  was  seduced 
by  Lieut.  Harris,  &c.     York,  Croshaw.     Id.  8pp. 

18.  Holcome  Monster,     ( an  Otter.)    Printed  at  Bury. 

19.  Ducks  and  Pease,  or  the  Newcastle  Rider.  A  Farce  of 
One  Act.  Founded  on  Fact.  Scene  Harrogate.  Stockton,  J. 
Appleton.     16  pages. 

"-O 

j&otifts  of  Jhta  Snoks.  * 

A  List  of  Parish  Churches  retaining  Special  Mediaeval 
Features,  glass,  vestments,  plate,  &c.  Compiled  by  H.  Little- 
hales.     London,  Bivingtons,  1889.     Is.  48  pages. 

The  Compiler  asks  for  additional  instances,  so  we  print  his 
short  Yorkshire  list  that  our  readers  may  favour  him  and  us 
with  a  more  elaborate  one.     It  is  a  neat  brochure,  and  worthy 


204       YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 

of  an  enlarged  edition.  Yorkshire  plate  is  being  attended  to, 
but  lists  of  piscinas,  sedilias,  curfew-bells,  pancake-belle,  and 
similar  customs,  garlands,  hatchments,  effigies,  font-covers, 
sun-dials,  church-yard  crosses,  Easter-sepulchres,  &c,  ad  infin. 
may  be  well  recorded. 

Hazlewood.    Ancient  Roman  Catholic  Church. 

Kildwick.  Glass  Shields  from  Fountains  and  Bolton. 
"  Lang  Church  of  Craven." 

Sprotborough.  Ancient  bier. 

Bolton-by-Bolland.     Font. 

Aldneld  cum  Studley.  The  font  is  a  copy  of  the  Stonp  at 
Fountains. 

Fishlake.  Alms-dish,  fifteenth  century.  Fragment  of  a 
processional  cross  (?) 

Harewood.      Tombs ;  one  of  Judge  Gascoigne. 

Thornhill.    Glass. 

Beswick.     Chalice,  c.  1500. 

Patrington.  Ancient  steps  of  altar.  Easter-sepulchre  rest- 
ing place.  Pendant  for  a  light.  Western  aisles  to  transepts. 
Hood  moulding  to  transept  entrance. 

Hedon.     Sculpture. 

Tanfield.     Confessional  (?).  Herse. 

Bedale.     Herse.  Altar. 

Hinderwell,    Chalice,  c.  1490. 

Aysgarth.     Rood  screen  from  Jervaulx  Abbey. 

Eirkdale     A  Saxon  sun-dial.* 

Goathland.     Chalice,  early  fifteenth  Century. 

Almondbury.  On  the  walls  of  the  Nave  are  some  very 
beautiful  verses  of  the  sixteenth  century. 

Beverley  (Minster),  -f Sanctuary  seat.  Stalls.  Staircase. 
Tombs ;  one  of  a  priest,  with  the  amice  drawn  over  the  head. 
Parapets. 

Beverley  (St.  Mary's).     Minstrels'  pillar. 

York  (St.  Martin's).     Glass. 

Bridlington.     Stone  offertory  box. 

Campsall.     Rood-loft,  with  inscription. 

The  Lost  Towns  op  the  Humber  ;  with  introductory  chap- 
ter on  the  Roman  Geography  of  South  East  Yorkshire.  By  J. 
R.  Boyle,  F.S.A.  Hull,  A.  "Brown  &  8ons,  1889.  Map  and 
folding  pedigree  of  the  De  la  Mare,  or  Atte  See  family ;  pp.  xii, 
102.  400  copies,  demy  8vo.;  100  copies,  royal  4to.;  25  copies, 
royal  4 to.,  hand-made  paper. 

It  has  been  a  blessing  to  Yorkshire  topography  that  Mr. 
Boyle  has  had  a  residence  (alas !  too  short,  for  he  now  resides  at 
Gateshead,)  in  Hull.  "  The  Lost  Towns  of  the  Humber''  will 
be  a  work  sought  after  for  ages,  as  it  is  replete  with  information 

•Part  XV,  Y.  N.  &  Q.        t Vol.  I,  Y.  N.  <*  Q. 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE    JOURNAL. 

culled  from  all  available  sources.  The  work  fills  a  place 
hitherto  vacant  in  Yorkshire  topography  and  history,  and  we 
are  delighted  to  see  that  a  twin-volume  is  promised  on  the  sub- 
merged villages  of  the  Holderness  Coast. 

An  elaborate  index  consummates  our  indebtedness  to  the 
author  and  publisher  of  this  useful  and  beautiful  volume. 

Bacon* s  Yorkshibe.  Map  on  4  sheets,  each  li  X  1  ft.,  divided 
into  five-mile  squares,  and  coloured  to  shew  the  present  Parl- 
iamentary Divisions.    London,  Bacon,  Strand. 

The  map  may  also  be  had  plain  ;  or  the  four  sheets  may  be 
mounted  on  canvas,  with  roller.  The  roads  and  names  are 
well  defined. 

Rochdale  Parish  Registers.  1617-1641.  Edited  by  Henry 
Fishwick,  F.S.A.  Rochdale,  James  Clegg,  1889.  Privately 
printed  for  subscribers.     (10s.  6d.).    pp.  iv.,  864. 

We  gladly  hail  the  second  volume  of  Rochdale  Registers,  and 
have  nothing  but  praise  for  the  editorial  and  publishing  labour- 
ers. Three  or  four  pages  from  the  earliest  found  Todmorden 
Chapel  Registers  are  appended.      The  index  covers  fifty  pages. 

Birthday  of  the  State  of  Connecticut.  Celebration  of 
the  250th  Anniversary  of  the  Adoption  of  the  First  Constitution 
of  the  State  of  Connecticut,  by  the  Conn.  Hist.  Soc,  &c,  Jan. 
24,  1819.     Hartford,  Conn.,  1889. 

This  beautiful  memorial  volume,  of  98  pages,  stirs  our  Puri- 
tan proclivities,  and  gives  us  a  longing  to  be  American  as  well 
as  English,  as  the  story  unites  England  and  America.  It 
augurs  well  for  the  States  that  the  inhabitants  are  proud  of  the 
Fathers  and  Founders  thereof :  we  are  proud  to  own  the  kinship. 

The  Folk  Speech  of  East  Yorkshire.  By  John  Nicholson, 
Hull.  Printed  by  Thomas  Holderness,  Driffield.  Ded.  to  Wm. 
Andrews,  Esq.  8vo.,  pp  xii,  110.  8s.  One  hundred  copies  4to. 
with  rubricated  title,  have  also  been  printed ;  5s. 

Paper,  printing  and  binding  are  admirable ;  and  Mr.  Nichol- 
son's original  labours  are  conspicuous  on  every  page.  The 
work  is  not  a  mere  glossary,  for  the  author  has  coupled  the 
modern  dialect-word  and  phrase  with  the  customs  and  literature 
of  a  by-gone  age.  Scarcely  a  word  is  given  that  is  not  accom- 
panied by  an  early  use,  culled  from  such  works  as  the  "  York 
Mystery  Plays,"  "Havelok,"  "Hampole,"  &c.  We  congratu- 
late the  author  on  the  production  of  one  of  the  best  Yorkshire 
dialect  works,  in  beautiful  garb,  at  the  lowest  possible  price. 

A  Series  of  Papers  prepared  for  the  use  of  the  Bradford 
Historical  and  Antiquarian  Society,  on  the  occasion  of  their 
visit  to  Pontefract.  July  18,  1889.  By  Thos.  Wm.  Tew,  J.P. 
and  Richard  Holmes.  Printed  by  B.  Holmes,  '/Advertiser 
Office,"  Pontefract.  1889.  108  pages.  Frontispiece,  Bubwith 
House. 


206  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 

A  more  delightful  half-day  we  have  scarcely  ever  enjoyed, 
and  it  was  marred  only  by  the  brevity  of  time.  Mr.  Tew'a 
princely  entertainment  of  about  150  persons,  mostly  strangers, 
will  never  be  effaced  from  our  memories.  Kindness  met  the 
visitors  at  every  turn. 

Index  to  the  Fibst  Volume  of  the  Parish  Registers 
of  Gainford,  in  the  County  of  Durham.  Part  I.  Baptisms, 
1560-1784.    London,  Elliot  Stock,  1889. 

This  title  is  misleading,  for  the  volume  consists  of  the  Gain- 
ford  baptisms  for  two  centuries,  arranged  in  the  form  of  an  index, 
and  a  very  capital  arrangement  we  regard  it.  The  late  Vicar 
of  Otley  compiled  a  similar  transcript  of  his  Parish  Registers, 
which,  at  our  suggestion,  he  offered  to  the  Yorkshire  Archae- 
ological Association  for  publication.  The  copy  is  now  at  the 
Parish  Church,  with  the  rest  of  the  Registers.  The  Gainford 
volume  bears  no  name  of  editor,  but  we  are  pleased  to  see  in  the 
preface  that  the  Yicar  offered  to  print  the  work  at  his  own  ex- 
pense. Well  done !  we  have  met  with  vicars  who  would  neither 
do  this,  nor  allow  anyone  else  to  do  it.  Of  the  work  under  re- 
view we  note  with  pleasure  that  it  is  carefully  edited,  clearly 
arranged,  beautifully  printed  on  hand-made  paper,  neatly  bound, 
and  is  to  be  followed  by  "  Marriages,"  now  in  the  press,  and 
"Burials,"  ready  for  the  press.  The  price  is  not  stated.  Pp.  iv. 
184. 

The  P.  P.  Index.  A  Monthly  record  of  Leading  Subjects  in 
Periodical  Literature.  No.  2,  June  15th,  Is.  London,  Triibner 
&  Co.     This  is  now  to  be  issued  as  an  annual. 

A  New  Religion,  called  "  Undenouinationalism."  A 
Sermon  preached  at  Mill  Hill  Chapel,  Leeds,  by  Charles  Har- 
grove, M.A.,  July  21,  1889;  being  a  reply  to  certain  remarks 
made  by  the  Bishops  of  Chester  and  Wakefield,  at  York  Convo- 
cation, July  17.     Leeds,  "Express  Office,"  1889.    pp.    11. 

The  Bishops  were  wrongly  informed,  for  it  is  not  true  that 
"  the  moral  tone  of  Board  School  children  was  surely  deterior- 
ating."    So  much  and  no  more,  in  the  pages  of  our  Quarterly. 

The  Eiffel  Toweb,  and  other  Poems.  By  C.  W.  Craven. 
Eeighley,  E.  Craven.     1889.     15  pages. 

These  are  French  reminiscences,  a  short  poem  being  "  On 
Querol's  Bust  of  Mr.  H.  I.  Butterfield,  [of  Keighley,]  in  the 
Paris  Exhibition  of  1889."     We  notice  a  slip  in  one  line : 
"  Tis  but  a  poorish  substitute  of  lie  who  lives." 

Old  Bradford.  Mr.  Scruton,  West  Bowling,  has  added  to 
the  numerous  illustrations  promised,  a  fine  series  of  portraits, 
including  Mr.  Forster,  Mr.  Seebohm,  Lord  Cranbrook,  and  eight 
or  nine  others.  The  volume  is  nearly  ready,  and  will  be  soon 
out  of  print. 

Vestiges  op  old  Newcastle  and  Gateshead.  ByW.H. 
Knowles,  and  J.  R.  Boyle.    Newcastle,  Andrew  Beid.    4to.  1ft 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  207 

of  the  22  parts  are  now  ready  at  Is.  6d.  each.  Each  part  con- 
tains three  artistic  plates,  with  other  illustrations,  by  Mr. 
Knowles,  and  twelve  pages  of  history  from  the  able  pen  of  the 
Rev.  J.  B.  Boyle,  formerly  of  Hull.  The  whole  will  form  a 
most  delightful  volume.  Artist,  author,  and  typographer  alike 
deserve  the  highest  praise. 

Brown's  Illustrated  Guide  to  Hull.  By  Edmund 
Wriggles  worth.  Is.  Hull,  Brown  &  Sons.  224  pages  of 
clearly,  closely-printed  matter,  profusely  illustrated.  This 
wonderfully  cheap  book  is  a  picture  gallery,  as  well  as  concise 
guide  and  terse  history ;  and  therefore  is  a  book  that  should  be 
in  the  hands  of  every  Hull  visitor  and  inhabitant,  and  also  in 
the  library  of  all  Yorkshire  collectors.  Mr.  Wrigglesworth 
knows  his  ground  thoroughly,  and  possesses  the  enthusiasm 
and  ability  of  a  wise  cicerone.  Besides  a  plan  and  four  insert- 
ed plates,  there  are  views  of  all  the  public  buildings,  &c,  of  the 
town. 

Salem  Chapel  and  Independency  in  York.  A  Retrospect, 
by  J.  Viokery.  York,  Ben  Chapman,  Blossom  Street.  Price 
4d.     68  pages. 

In  choice  and  vigorous  language,  Mr.  Yickery  not  only  tells 
the  story  of  York  nonconformity  since  1662,  especially  the  life 
labours  of  James  Parsons,  but  with  a  masterly  hand  delineates 
the  inner  religious  experience  of  last  century  and  the  advanc- 
ing theology  of  the  present.  The  pamphlet  is  a  history  of 
religious  thought,  and  therefore  of  wider  interest  than  the 
title  indicates. 

List  op  the  Writings  of  John  Eglington  Bailey,  F.S.A. 
By  Ernest  Axon.  Reprinted  from  the  Transactions  of  the  Lane- 
ashire  and  Clieshire  Antiguanan  Society.  Manchester,  1889.  22 
pages. 

We  do  not  know  which  to  admire  most,  Mr.  Bailey's  versat- 
ility or  Mr.  Axon's  bibliographical  omniscience.  Amongst  the 
420  items  are :  John  Dawson  of  Sedbergh ;  Andrew  Marvell,  a 
Botanist ;  Wakeman  at  Ripon ;  Harrogate  Spa ;  Oliver  Hey- 
wood's  works ;  Visit  to  the  Rev.  John  Watson,  Stockport ;  Jo- 
seph Moxon  ,F.R.S.;  Rev.  Edmund  Brooks ;  Jer.  Horrox  and 
Wm.  Crabtree;  Marvell  and  Greatraks ;  Wm.  Meek's  Diary, 
Skipsea ;  Archdeacon  Goodman,  Richmond. 

Model  Relief  Map  of  Yorkshire.  Mr.  Reynolds,  Thack- 
ley,  Bradford,  has  issued  an  excellent  Map,  primarily  intended 
for  elementary  Schools,  but  of  great  service  to  all  teachers,  and 
a  useful  ornament  for  public  and  private  libraries.  Every  care 
has  been  taken  to  give  true  notions  of  the  contour  of  the 
County,  and  we  believe  its  accuracy  is  as  near  perfection  as  it 
is  possible  to  attain.  Having  traversed  the  whole  Yorkshire 
coast  line  and  pedestrianized  the  West  Riding  dales  particular- 
ly! we  speak  the  more  confidently,  but  any  one  who  sees  this 


208       YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 


work  of  art  will  be  struck  with  its  merits,  while  the  price 
(16/6)  is  very  moderate  indeed.  The  Map  is  composed  of 
fibrous  plaster,  without  brittleness,  comparatively  light  and 
therefore  portable,  and  neatly  framed.  Its  dimensions  are 
2ft.  9in.  by  2ft.  2in. 

Antiquarian  Jottings  relating  to  Bromley,  Hayes,  Keston, 
and  West  Wickham,  in  Kent.  By  George  Clinch,  of  the 
Department  of  Printed  Books,  British  Museum.  Printed  for 
the  author,  Addiscombe,  Surrey,  1889.  5s.  Illustrated ;  pp. 
191,  small  4to. 

We  have  been  delighted  with  this  neat  volume,  for  it  is  full 
of  local  antiquarian  jottings  that  illustrate  the  general  history 
of  the  country,  and  the  style  is  finished  yet  not  pedantic. 
There  is  not  a  dull  page  in  it,  and  it  is  sequentially  arranged 
without  betraying  formality.  Amongst  the  uncommon  items, 
we  note  a  church-yard  umbrella  to  shield  the  clergyman  on  wet 
days  at  funerals.  The  Rev.  Francis  Fawkes,  M.A.  was  Rector 
of  Hayes  from  April,  1774,  to  his  death,  August  26th,  1777. 
His  works  were,  Translations  of  Anacreon,  Sappho,  Bion, 
Moschus,  Musseus,  Theocritus,  and  Apollonius  Rhodius;  The 
complete  Family  Bible,  1761 ;  Original  Poems  and  Translations, 
1761 ;  Partridge  Shooting,  an  Eclogue,  1767;  Poetical  Calendar, 
1768. 

Another  Yorkshire  item  is  from  a  brass  in  West  Wickham 
Chancel : 

IOHN  LANG  BORNE  AT  RICHMOND  IN  YE  COVNTY 
OF  YORKE  Was  afterwarde  one  of  the  Fellowes  of  St.  Iohn's 
Col :  in  Cambridge,  by  the  space  of  IX  yeares ;  from  thence  he 
was  lawfvlly  &  freely  called  to  be  Parson  of  this  Parish  of 
Westwickham,  where  he  continved  resident  the  whole  time  of 
xxxij  yeares  and  more  who  lived  heere  with  the  good  report  & 
likinge  of  those  Yt  did  feare  God  and  in  an  assvred  hope  of  a 
better  life  after  this  in  Ye  kingdome  of  Heaven ;  this  memorial! 
of  him  was  made  in  A°  1610  an  in  the  77th  yeare  of  his  age. 

Mr.  Clinch  presumes  the  inscription  was  written  in  Parson 
Lang's  lifetime. 

Helmsley,  or  Reminiscences  of  100  Yeabs  Ago,  to  which  is 
added  a  Guide  to  the  Locality,  with  Descriptive  Notes  by 
Isaac  Coopeb.    Price  6d.    York,  Gazette  Office.     55  pages. 

We  wish  there  was  a  Mr.  Cooper  in  every  village  to  link  this 
century  with  the  last.  The  great  Kyedale  flood  of  1754  is  Mr. 
Cooper's  starting  period,  and  the  sad  story  is  fully  traced. 
Originality  and  accuracy  mark  the  scores  of  incidents  that  are 
narrated,  and  the  future  local  historian  will  gladly  testify  to 
Mr.  Cooper's  good  services  to  topography  and  folk-lore.  We 
urge  our  readers  to  gratify  themselves,  and  gratify  the  aged, 
talented  bookseller,  by  sending  for  a  copy  of  "  Helmsley." 


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$b*rburn  £djool  JUgiafer, 

Communicated  by  G.  W.  Marshall,  Esq.,  LL.D.,  Rouge  Crou\ 

Laurence  Weather  hill,  son  of  Laurence  Weatherill,  of  Sher- 

burn,  was  borne  August  11th,  1662. 
John   Pattison,  son   of  Roger  Pattison,  of  Sandhutton,  was 

borne  September  ye  2d,  1664. 
Balph,  ye  son  of  Thomas  Holmes,  of  Yorke,  was  baptized  ye 

15th  of  January,  1664. 
John,  ye  son  of  Henry  Calvert,  of  Sherburne,  was  baptised  14th 

day  of  August,  1664. 
Richard,  ye  son  of  Anthony  Letham,  of  Sherburne,  was  bap- 
tized the  24th  of  August,  1667. 
John,  ye  son  of  Simon  Barnby,  of  Sherburne,  was  baptized  ye 

10th  day  of  May,  1666. 
Jolin,  ye  son  of  John  Simpson,  of  Yorke,  was  born  the  20th 

day  of  Feb.,  1668. 
John  Partrage,  son  of  John  Partrage,  of  Yorke,  was  borne  the 

2d  day  of  June,  1669. 
John  Topham,  son  of  Josiah  Topham,  of  Yorke,  was  borne  the 

7th  day  of  September,  1666.     He  went  to  Cambridge. 
Christopher  Hopwood,  son  of  Christopher  Hopwood,  of  Yorke, 

was  borne  the  1st  day  of  1668. 

John  Mudde,  son  of  Thomas  Mudde,  of  Saxton,  was  borne  ye 

80th  day  of  October,  1669. 
John  Lacock,  son  of  Robert  Lacock,  of  Saxton,  was  borne  ye 

18th  day  of  June,  1665. 
Henry  Topham,  son  of  Josiah  Topham,  of  York,  was  borne  yo 

4th  day  of  April,  1669. 
John  Dunconn,  son  of  Nicholas  Dunconn,  of  Yorke,  was  borne 

ye  28th  day  of  January,  1667. 
Nathaniel  Ingram,  son  of  Peter  Ingram,  of  Yorke,  was  borne 

ye  24th  day  of  March,  1669. 
Benjamin  Wilstrop,  son  of  Bartholomew  Wilstrop,  of  Yorke, 

was  borne  ye  8th  day  of  December,  1667. 
Wm.,  ye  son  of  Sam"  Dobson,  Baptd-  March  ye  29th,  1668. 
Tho.,  ye  son  of  Richd-  Loft,  of  Saxton,  Baptd-  May  ye  8th,  1678. 
Andrew,  ye  son  of  Tho.  Slayter,  of  Sherburne,  Bapt*-  9*-  ye 

20th,  1678. 
Mark,  ye  son  of  Henry  Hurd,  of  York,  Baptd  May  ye  8th,  1678. 
John,  ye  son  of  John  Bernard,  of  Sherburne,  Bapt^  9br<  ye  80th, 

1672. 
Matt.,  ye  son  of  Henry  Hobson,  York,  Baptd-  May  ye  8t,  1668. 
John,  Jre  son  of  Wm.  Hall,  of  Saxton,  Baptd-  April  ye  9*  1675. 
Nathan,  ye  son  of  Peter  Ingram,  of  York,  Baptd-  March  ye  24fc» 

1668. 
Tho.,  ye  son  of  John  Smith,  of  York,  Baptd  June  ye  24*.  1678. 

Y.N.Q.  a 


210  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 

Tho.,  ye  son  of  W™-  Hague,  of  Sherburne,  born  April  ye  10* 

1676. 
John,  ye  son  of  Peter  Bewley,  of  York,  Bapt4-  May  ye  5*-  1675. 
Tho.,  ye  son  of  Andrew  Squire,  of  Sandhutton,  April  ye  21* 

1675. 
Wm»  son  of  John  Hodgson,  of  Sherburn,  Bapt*-  Feby.  1^ 

1677. 
John  Hessle,  of  York,  Baptd-  April  ye  10th*  1677. 
Bichd-  ye  son  of  John  Pierson,  of  Yorke,  Baptd-  June  ye  17** 

1682. 
George  Wheatley,  son  of  George  Wheatley,  of  York,  was  Bapt1 

Novembr-  ye  14th-  1680.     He  went  to  Cambridge. 
Francis,  ye  son  of  Wm-  Watson,  of  York,  Bapt*  9te-  ye  221- 

1680. 
Thomas,  ye  son  of  Wm-  Bolton,  of  Sherburn,  Baptd-  October  ye 

80th-  1688.     Admitted  May  ye  1st,  '91. 
John,  ye  son  of  John  Sadler,  of  Sherburn,  was  Bapt**  June  ye 

25th*  1688.     Admitted  May,  '91. 
Francis,  ye  son  of  William  Park,  of  Sherburn,  Bapt**  May  ye 

15,  1684.    Admitted  November  ye  22**  '91. 
George,  ye  son  of  Wm*  Heward,  of  York,  Bapt4-  Ap'll  ye  10th- 

1681.    Admitted  Novemb'-  '01. 
John,  ye  son  of  Xtopher  Brown,  of  Sherburn,  Bapt*-  August 

ye  10th*  1682.    Admitted  Feb.  9£. 
Michael,  ye  son  of  Malacai  Otley,  of  York,  Bapt*-  Mrch  ye  7th* 

1681.     Admitted  Feb.  9*. 
James,  the  son  of  John  Hodgson,  of  Sherburn,  Bapt*-  June  ye 

Twentyth,  1682.     Admitted  Feb.  9* 
Rob*-  ye  son  of  John  Walker,  of  York,  Baptd-  Feb.  ye  19th- 

1679.  Admitted  Mrch  9*. 

John,  the  son  of  James  Smith,  of  York,  Bapt*-  ye  29th-  of  Jany. 

1681.  Admitted  at  Martinmas,  '92. 

Rich*'  ye  son  of  Riohd-  Jackson,  of  York,  Baptd-  ye  12th  of  7te» 

1682.  Admitted  at  Martinmas,  92. 

John,  ye  son  of  John  Harrison,  of  Sandhutton,  Bapt*-  April  ye 

18th*  1684.     Admitted  in  May,  92. 
Timothy,  the  son  of  Richd-   Webster,  of  York,  Bapt*-  7bar  ye 

fourteenth,  1682.    Admitted  at  May  day,  1698. 
William,  the  son  of  Thomas  Sykes,  of  York,  Bapt4-  Apr11  ye  4th* 

1680.  Admitted  at  May-day?  1698. 

Thomas,  son  of  Thomas  Gilliam,  of  Sherburn,  Baptiz*-  Mreh  ye 

84*  1685.     Admitted  May,  1698. 
Joshua,  ye  son  of  James  Dobson,  of  Sherburn,  Bapt*-  Aug*-  ye 

21st*  1684.    Admitted  at  Gandlemass,  169},  by  ye  order  of 

Dr.  Tob.  Wickham,  Dean  of  York. 
Charles  Sharpie*,  of  York,  born  y«  14th  day  of  Feby,  1678. 
Henry  y#  son  of  Gressy  Alder  son,  of  York,  Baptd  91*  y*  1st, 

1685.    Admitted  at  Lamas.  1694. 


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Michaell,  y«  son  of  Tho.  Dyke,  of  York,  Bapt*  Augst  y6  18th, 

1662. 
Alvary,  y  son  of  Bichd.  Webster,  of  York,  Bapt4  Feb'ry  ye 

23d,  1684. 
John,  y*  son  of  Matthew  Stead,  of  Sherburn,  Bapt*  Apr*U  ye 

16th,  1689.    Admitted  May  y  1st,  1696. 
Henry,  son  of  John  Thirkell,  of  Sherburn,  Baptd  Feb.  The  22d, 

1688.  Admitted  in  May,  1696. 

John,  son  of  Wm.  Bell,  of  Sherburn,  Bapt*  yt  6t  day  of  Sept- 
ember, 1688.    Admitted  in  May,  1696. 

Joshua,  son  of  Joseph  Bateliffe,  of  Sherburn,  Bapt*  July  the 
18th,  1689.    Admitted  in  May,  1697. 

Wm.  Harrison,  son  of  John  Harrison,  of  Sandhutton,  Baptd 
March  y«  25t,  1669.    Admitted  May  y«  8d,  1697. 

Bichd,  son  of  Wm.  Brusby,  of  York,  was  Baptized  January  y* 
80th,  1665.    Admitted  May  y  1st,  1697. 

Jon,  ye  son  of  Obadiah  Casson,  of  York,  Baptd 168  .  . 

Admitted  at  May  day,  1697. 

Bamll,  son  of  Jon.  Turpin,  of  Sherburn,  Baptd  Aprill  The  80th, 
1690.    Admitted  at  Martinmas,  1697. 

Tho.,  son  of  Jon  Pullan,  of  Lewerton,  Baptized  Augst  The  18th, 

1689.  Admitted  Mrch  y«  29th,  1698, 

Jon,  son  of  John  Brown,  of  York,  Bapt*  Septbr  ye  18th,  1688. 

Admitted  at  May  day,  1697. 
Peter,  son  of  Henry  Allen,  of  York,  Bapt4  Deoembr  y    25t, 

1687.  Admitted  May  y«  1st,  '98. 

Jeremiah,  y6  son  of  Wm.  Wheatley,  of  York,  Bapt*  Ootobr  y# 

16th,  1687.    Admitted  at  Martinmass,  1698. 
Francis,  son  of  Thomas  Gary,  of  York,  Bapt*  June  y*  7t,  1689. 

Admitted  at  Xmas,  98. 
Phillip,  son  Peter  Pier  son,  of  York,  Bapt*  Feby  y«  lit,  1688. 

Admitted  at  Martinmas,  1699. 
Benjamin,  son  of  Timothy  Turner,  of  York,  Bapt*  July  y*  6t, 

1688.  Admitted  at  Martinmas.  1699. 

John,  son  of  John  Turpin,  of  Sherburn,  Bapt*  Deoembr  22d, 

1692.    Admitted  at  May  day,  1700. 
Hugh,  son  of  William  Jewitt,  of  Sherburn,  Bapt* Ad- 
mitted at  May  day,  1700. 
John,  son  of  Wm.  Bell,  of  Sherburn,  Bapt*  7br  y  6t,  1688. 

Admitted  in  May,  1699. 
Edward,  son  of  Joshua  Turner,  of  York,  Bapt*  8br  y  29t,  1690. 

Admitted  at  Lamas,  1700. 
William,  son  of  John  Bawden,  of  York,  Bapt*  Augst  y«  lit, 

1692.    Admitted  at  Gandlemass,  1700. 
William,  son  of  Bichd.  Garter,  of  York,  was  Bapt*  ye  10th  of 

April,  1691.    Admitted  9br  y  H*  1701. 
Cornelius,  son  of  Edmund  Benson,  of  Sandhutton,  Bapt* 

March  y  12th,  1692.    Admitted  at  May  day  1702. 


212  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 

Tho.  son  of  Tho.  Cruttenden,  of  York,  Bapt*  7br  9t,  1688. 

Tho.  Adcock  Hutchinson,  of  York,  Baptd  lObr  y  6t,  1692.  Ad- 
mitted Jany  y  14th,  1708. 

Thomas  Jarviss,  of  York,  Baptd  July  y  20th,  1698.  Admitted 
at  Michaelmass,  1704. 

Wm.  Bentley,  of  York,  Baptd  Augst  y  26t,  1691.  Admitted  at 
Michaelmas,  1704. 

Kichard  Smith,  of  York,  Baptiz'd  May  y  12th,  1698.  Admitted 
at  Candlemas,  1704. 

William  Clerk,  of  Sandhutton,  Aged  Twelve  Years,  Aprill  y 
14th,  1705.    Admitted  at  May  day,  1705.* 

Oeorge  Benson,  of  Sandhutton,  Aged  Nine  Years,  Aprill  y  27t, 
1705.    Admitted  at  May  day  1705. 

Joseph  Stephenson,  of  Sandhutton,  Aged  Ten  Years,  Jany.  y 
18th,  1704.    Admitted  June  y  18th,  1705. 

James  Stephenson,  of  Sandhutton,  Aged  Twelve  Years,  Augst 
y  15t.    Admitted  Augst  y  28th,  1705. 

Thomas  Hick,  of  Lotherton,  Bapt*  Feb.  y*  28rd,  1695,  admitted 
Feb.  ye  12th,  1706. 

John,  son  of  Bartholomew  Hollin worth,  of  Sherburn,  Baptd  . . . 
Admitted  Feb.  y  12th,  1706. 

John  Chapman,  of  York,  Bapt4  December  y  1st,  1696.  Ad- 
mitted Feb.  y«  28th,  1706. 

Christopher  Akrid,  of  Stanford  Brigs,  Bapt*  May  y  2d,  1698. 
Admitted  at  May  day,  1707. 

Hugh  Walker,  of  Sherburn,  Baptd  March  y*  14th,  1696.  Ad- 
mitted May,  1705. 

William  Booth,  of  York,  Baptd  Feby.  y  18th,  1698. 

John  Pollard,  of  York,  was  born  7br  y  21st,  1698. 

John,  son  of  Robt.  Bond,  Usher  of  Sherburn,  Baptd  March  7t, 
1698. 

John,  son  of  John  Hamond,  Baptized  Novemb.  15,  1702,  aged 
7  years  and  ±.    Admitted  at  Lamas,  1709. 

Thomas  Mason  of  York,  aged  8  years.  Admitted  at  Lamas, 
1709. 

Caesar  Chamberlane,  of  Sherburn,  aged  7yrs  &  £.  Admitted 
7br  y  8d,  1709. 

Matt.  Hutchinson,  of  Albaford,  aged  10  years.  Admitted  lObr 
27th,  1709. 

William  Chamberlane,  aged  18J.  Admitted  April,  1711.  He 
filled  y  vacant  place  of  Tho.  Boswell  deceased. 

Jon.  Wellburn,  of  Sandhutton,  aged  8&+.  Admit.  Mart.  1711. 

Christopher  Cave,  York,  aged  10  &£.    Admit.  Mart.  1711. 

Wm.  Fentiman,  of  Sherburn,  aged  8  years.  Admitted  at  Mart. 
1712. 

Tho.  Bolton,  of  Barstow,  aged  Eight  years.     Admit,  at  Mart. 

Edwd.  Wood,  of  York,  aged  8  years  &  £*  Admitted  at  Candle- 
mass. 


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1718. 

Tho.  Richardson,  of  Sherburn,  aged  104,  admitted  at  May  day. 

Jno.  Stainmer,  of  Sherburn,  aged  9  &  ±,  admitted  at  Mart. 

1714. 

George  Fentiman,  of  Sherburn,  aged  7  &  £,  admitted  at  May  day, 

Tho.  Butler,  of  Sherburn,  aged  11,  adm.  at  Martinmas. 

William  Brooke,  of  Sherburn,  aged  18,  admitted  at  Martinm. 

1715. 

William  Higgins,  of  Saxton,  aged  9  &  £,  admitted  at  May  day. 

Tho.  Brooke,  of  Sherburne,  aged  ....  admitted  at  May  day. 

Tho.  Shepherd,  of  Sherburn,  aged  11  years  }  admitted  at  Mart- 
inmas. 

Benj.  Whiteoak  of  York,  aged  10  years,  admitted  at  Candlemas. 

1716. 

Arthur  Cunningham,  of  York,  Baptd  the  Fourth  of  Octob., 
1704.    Admitted  at  Martinmas. 

Thomas  Chamberlain,  of  Sherburn,  Baptized  the  25th  of  Octob., 
1706.  Admitted  at  Christmas  in  the  room  of  Tho.  Brooke, 
deceased. 

William  Higgin9,  of  Saxton,  readmitted  at  Candlemas. 

1717. 

John  Smelt,  of  York,  Baptized  the  Sixth  Day  of  August,  1707. 
Admitted  at  May  day. 

William  Shepherd,  of  Uandhutton,  Bapt*  March  18,  1706.  Ad- 
mitted May  the  16th. 

John  Terry,  of  York,  in  the  Parish  of  St.  Martins,  in  Mickle- 
ga,te,  Baptized  the  4th  of  March,  1706.  Admitted  ye  17  of 
June. 

John  Mason,  of  ye  Parish  of  All  Sts,  Northstreet,  in  York, 
Baptized  Sept.  2,  1704.     Admitted  June  24. 

John  Hollingsby  of  All  Sts.  Pavement,  in  York,  Bapt 

Admitted  the  First  of  July. 

John  Holmes,  of  the  Parish  of  St.  Marys,  Bishophil  Seniors,  in 
York,  Bap.  July,  1710.     Admitted  at  Martinmass. 

Elnathan  Coulton,  of  St.  Michael's  Parish,  York,  Bapt.  June 
20,  1707.    Admitted  ye  14th  of  January. 

1718. 

Tho.  Cunningham,  born  y6  Tenth  of  June,  1708.  Admitted 
the  Tenth  of  June. 

John,  the  son  of  John  Whitehead,  Baptd  May  the  21,  1710. 
Admitted  Feb.  10th. 

John  Brook,  of  Sherburn,  Bapt*  Feb.  18,  1711.  Admitted  at 
Martinmans,  1718. 

1719. 

Christopher,  the  son  of  Rowland  Richardson,  Baptd  Mar.  16, 
170".    Admitted  at  May  day. 

Tho.  the  son  of  John  Bunnil,  of  Shereburn,  Born  the  Twenty- 
Second  of  December,  1711.    Admitted  at  May  Day. 


214  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 

Will,  y*  son  of  James  Calverley.    Admitted  at  May  Day  Last, 

1719,  born  at  Sherburn,  bapt.  March  28,  1711. 

1720. 
Richard,  y*  son  of  Richard  Harrison,  baptised  Sept.  21st,  1712. 

Admitted  May  y  10th,  1720. 
Michael,  jr»  son  of  Thomas  Goswell,  baptised  May  22d,  1718. 

Admitted  June  16th,  1720. 
Samuel,  y*  son  of  Samuel  Gosling,  baptised  Septber.  80ih, 

1711,    Admitted  at  Martinmass. 
Matthew,  son  of  Robert  Hall,  of  Saxton,  Bapt.  March  9th, 

1709. 
John,  y*  son  of  Tho.  Pundar,  of  Barkston,  Bapt.  March  26, 

1709. 
James,  son  of  James  Calverley,  bapt.  July  9,  1714. 
John,  son  of  James  Scot,  of  Sherburn,  bapt.  Oct.  14,  1713. 
John,  son  of  Mephiboseth  Bonnell,  bapt.  Jan.  1,  1718. 
Thos.,  son  ofWm.  Walker,  of  Sherburn,  bapt.  July  1, 1711. 

1721. 
Thomas,  y6  son  of  James  Doyl,  baptised  November  y6  29th, 

1718.    Admitted  June  y»  6th. 
John,  y6  son  of  Rowland  Richardson,  baptised  Octber  y*  80th, 

1718.    Admitted  at  May  day. 

1722. 
Willm.  son  of  Tho.  Stanidge,  of  Sherburn,  deceased,  bapt 

June  6,  1708.     Admitted  November  21. 
William,  y*  son  of  John  Brooks,  of  ye  parish  of  St.  John's,  in 

York, deceased,  bapt.  February  y«  27, 1714.  Admitted  9br,  26. 
John,  y*  son  of  Wm.  Paver,  of  Lumley,  deceased,  Baptised 

June  19, 1715.    Admitted  December  4. 

1728. 
John*  son  of  Francis  Whitfield,  late  of  Saxton,  baptized  Octo- 
ber ye  17th,  1714.    Admitted  8br  18,  1728. 
John,  son  of  Andrew  Slater,  of  Sherburn,  bapt.  June  20, 1714. 

Admitted  at  Candlemas  instead  of  Sam.  Gosling,  who  died 

in  y*  Hospital. 

1724. 
James,  son  of  George  Dobson,  of  Sherburn,  Baptized  October 

14,  1711.    Admitted  at  Martinmass. 
Hannover  Hill,  son  of  Thos.  Hill,  of  ye  parish  of  All  Saints,  in 

Pavement,  York,  Baptized  lObr  20,  1715.    Admitted  Jan. 

21,  1724. 

1726. 
Rowland,  y6  son  of  Rowland  Richardson,  of  York,  Baptised 

March  j*  4th,  1715.     Admitted  at  May  day. 
Mark,  y  son  of  George  Conn,  of  ye  parish  of  St.  Michael  Le 

Belfreys,  aged  10  years,  Admitted  at  May  day. 
Wm.,  son  of  Francis  Whitfield,  of  Saxton,  Baptized  March  f 
'    29th,  1716.    Admitted  at  Martinmas. 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  216 

John,  son  of  George  Dobson,  of  Sherburn,  Baptized  Jan.  9tb, 
1717.    Admitted  at  Martinmas. 

John,  son  of  John  Thorp,  of  Wilborth,  aged  10  years.  Admit- 
ted at  Martinmas.  John  Thorp  left  y#  School  immediately 
after  admission  and  was  succeeded  by  James  y6  son  of  James 
Barnes,  of  Heck,  who  was  baptized  Feb.  8th,  1714. 

[1726.] 

John,  son  of  Matthew  Sampson,  of  Abberforth  in  ye  par.  of 
Sherburn,  Baptized  Nov.  10th, 1717,  admitted  at  May  day  1726. 

John,  son  of  John  Barber,  of  York,  Baptized  January  10th, 
1716,  admitted  November  y  4th. 

1727. 

Wm.  y«  son  of  Tho.  Wright,  of  York,  Baptized  November  ye 
24th,  1716,  admitted  August  6th,  1727. 

Charles,  son  of  James  Barnes,  of  Heck,  Baptized  y*  3rd  of  9br, 
1710,  admitted  at  Martinmass. 

Tho.  y*  son  of  John  Barber,  of  York,  Baptized  September  ye 
24,  1719,  admitted  at  Martinmass. 

Francis,  y«  son  of  John  Brooks,  of  York,  Baptized  July  29, 
1720,  admitted  at  Candlemas. 

1728. 

John,  y»  son  of  Wm.  Cooper,  of  Sandhutton,  Baptized  Nov.  4, 
1716,  admitted  at  May  day. 

son  of  Wm.  Chamberlayne,  of  Sherburn,  Baptized  Nov- 

embr  the  ISteenth,  1720,  admitted  November  ye  22d,  1728. 
-Daniel  Walker,  of  Towton  in  y6  parish  of  Saxton, 


9br  26, 1721,  admitted  lObr  2d. 

1729. 
John,  y*  son  of  Tho.  Herlegrove,  of  Saxton,  baptised  Feb.  28, 

1717,  admitted  at  Martinmass. 
John,  y6  son  of  John  Bannister,  of  Sherburn,  Baptized  Feb. 

8th,  1718,  admitted  at  Martinmass. 
Tho's.  son  of  Tho.  Wilkinson,  of  Barkston,  aged  10  years,  ad- 
mitted at  Martinmass. 

1780. 
John,  son  of  John  Mountain,  of  Saxton,  Baptized  July  26, 

1728,  admitted  October  27,  1780. 
Christopher,  son  of  Christopher  Fothergil,  of  Eippax,  Baptized 

July  25th,  1721,  admitted  Jan.  22nd. 
David,  son  of  Christopher  Fothergil,  of  Kippax,  Baptized  June 

y6  11th,  1728,  admitted  at  Candlemas. 

1781. 
Tho.  Frier,  son  of  Tho.  Frier,  of  York,  baptized  Augt.  12,  1722, 

admitted  April  27. 
John  Tenant,  son  of  Charles  Tenant,  of  York,  Baptized  July 

16,  1721,  admitted  April  27. 
Wm.,  son  of  Wm.  Standen,  of  York,  Baptized  June         1728, 

admitted  at  May  day. 


216  Y0RK8HIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 

Annanias,  son  of  Annanias  Bothomley,  of  York,  Baptized  Nov- 

ember  ye  3d,  1720,  admitted  May  y  8th. 
Richard,  son  of  Richard  Harwood,  Bapt.  April  y«  18th,  1721, 

in  St.  Olave's  parish,  York,  adm.  att  Whitsuntide. 
Thos.  son  of  John  Honseman,  of  Sherburn,  Baptized 

admitted  Nov.  12th. 

1782. 
William,  y«  son  of  William  Foster,  of  Newthorp,  Baptiz'd  Ap. 

1,  1724,  admitted  June  6,  1782. 
Thomas  Nickson,  of  St.  Martin's  cum  Gregory,  in  York,  Nine 

Years  old  in  October,  1732,  was  admitted  June  27,  1782. 
John  Hayes,  the  son  of  John  Hayes,  of  St.  Helens,  in  York, 

baptizd  probably  March  10,  1721,  (his  name  is  omitted  in  ye 

Register  ye  Clark,  dying  about  yt  Time,)  admitted  Jan.  26, 

1732. 
Thomas,  the  Son  of  Thomas  Eliot,  of  y«  Parish  of  St.  John's 

in  York,  baptiz'd  April  14,  1721,  admitted  Jany.  26,  1782. 
Samuel,  Son  of  Robert  Hick,  of  Abbaford,  in  y6  Parish  of  Sher- 
burn, bapt.  8ber  26th,  1723,  admitted  May  2d,  1788. 
John  Son  of  John  Foster  of  Saxton,  was  baptized  May  31st,  in 

year  of  our  Lord  1725,  admitted  at  Martinmass,  in  y*  year 

1783. 
Mathew,  son  of  Richard  Lidgley,  of  Quarry  Closes,  near  Whit- 
Church,  aged  Eleven  years,  admitted  at  Martinmass,  1783. 
Lancelot,  Son  of  Thomas  Foster,  of  Sherburn,  aged  eight  years, 

Jan.  1738,  admitted  at  May  Day,  1734. 
John,  son  of  Tho.  Ellet,  in  the  Parish  of  St.  Martin's  cum 

Gregory,  in  York  was  baptized  on  the  second  Day  of  June, 

1724.    Admitted  October  the  Sixth,  1785. 
William,  the  son  of  John  Smith,  in  the  Parish  of  St.  Lawrence's 

of  York,  was  baptized  on  the  thirteenth  Day  of  August,  1726. 

Admitted  at  Martinmass,  1785. 
John,   Son  of  Richd.  Herwood,  deceased,  was  baptized  the 

eighteenth  of  June,  1728,  in  St.  Olave's  Parish,  York.    Ad- 
mitted July  y«  24th,  1785. 
George,  the  Son  of  John  Sheppherd,  late  of  Sherburn,  (hi* 

Name  being  omitted  in  the  Register,)  was  born  probably  the 

twenty -eighth  day  of  September,  1728.    Admitted  Febry  y* 

2d,  1785-6. 
John  Son  of  Jabez  Manning,  of  York,  was  baptized  y*  12th  of 

July,  1726.    Admitted  at  Michaelmass,  1786. 
William,  8on  of  William  Joy,  Waterman,  of  York,  baptized 

November  the  twenty-seven,  1726.     Admitted  Febry  y*  M 

teenth,  1786-7. 
Edwd.  the  Son  of  George  Dolphin,  of  York,  Weaver,  baptized 

October  y»  10th,  1725.     Admitted  May  the  thirteenth,  1787. 
William,  son  of  Sylvan  Austine,  of  York,  Weaver,  baptized 

Janry  y«  4th,  1726.    Admitted  July  the  fourteenth,  1737. 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  217 

John  Ealand,  son  of  Elizabeth  Ealand,  of  York,  was  baptized 
.    Febry  9th,  1726,    Admitted  Augt.  the  thirtieth,  1787. 
Robt.  Eccles,  ye  Son  of  Mary  Eccles,  of  Tow  ton,  was  baptized 

May  y«  Uteenth,  1727.     Admitted  at  Candlemas,  1787-8. 
Tho.  the  Son  of  Richd.  Heaton,  of  York,  was  baptized  ye  28d, 

of  Ootober,  1728.    Admitted  September  y°  17th,  1787. 
William,  the  Son  of  Tho.  Higgins,  of  Saxton  was  baptized  May 

y«  10th  1780.    Admitted  May  y«  2d,  1788. 
William,  the  son  of  Widow  Stephenson,  of  Towton,  was  bap. 

Aug.  2,  1780,  admitted  May  y«  1,  1788. 
John,  the  son  of  John  Winterburn,  of  Newthorpe,  admitted 

October  the  2d,  1788. 
William,  Son  of  Richd.  Thackra,  was  baptized  November  19th, 

in  Bp  Hill  the  elder,  1729.    Admitted  on  May  day,  1789. 
John,  Son  of  Wilfred  Rothwell,  of  Batley,  was  Baptized  Feb- 
ruary 2d,  1781.    Admitted  July  the  20th  1789. 
John,  son  of  Joseph  Calvert  of  Saxton,  was  baptized  March  y» 

6th,  1729.    Admitted  at  Michaelmas,  1789. 
William  Bateman,  son  of  William  Bateman  of  York,  was  born 

in  ye  year  1780.    Admitted  at  Michaelmas,  1789. 
George,  son  of  George  Ledger  of  Ullerskelf,  was  baptized  on  the 

fourth  day  of  September,  in  the  year  1782.      Admitted  at 

Candlemas,  in  y*  year  1789-40. 
John,  son  of  John  Bobinson,  in  Castle  Gate,  York,  was  baptized 

the  15th  day  of  October,  in  the  year  1781.    Admitted  at  Lady 

Day  in  ye  year  1740. 
Charles  Kippling  of  Parish  of  St.  Michael's,  York,  was  baptized 

19th  of  December  1781.    Admitted  at  Whitsuntide  in  y°  year 

1740. 
Edward,  son  of  Edward  Taylor  of  Trinity  Parish,  York,  baptized 

June  y«  4th,  1781.     Admitted  Candlemas,  1740-1. 
John,  son  of  William  Clough,  was  baptised  ye  18th  day  of  Feb- 
ruary, 1782.    Admitted  Lammas,  1741. 
John,  son  of  John  Illingworth,  of  Whitley,  in  the  Parish  of 

Kellington,  was  baptized  May  20th,  1784.   Admitted  Lammas 

1741. 
Robert  the  son  of  Richard  Smith,  of  Milford,  in  y«  Parish  of 

Shereburn,  was  baptized  Ootober  y*  18th,  1781.     Admitted 

Candlemas,  1741-2. 
Thomas,  son  of  John  Stephenson,  of  Towton,  in  ye  Parish  of 

Saxton,  was  baptized   Janry  the    28th,   1782.      Admitted 

Candlemas,  1741-2. 
Tho.  Son  of  George  Ledger,  of  Ullerskelf,  was  baptized  Sept- 
ember 15th,  1784.     Admitted  July  10th  1742. 
Francis,  son  of  John  Sharp,  was  baptized  on  June  ye  8th,  1784. 

Admitted  Lammas,  1742. 
Joseph,  Son  of  Joseph  Calvert,  of  Saxton,  was  baptized  on 

May  y«  4th,  1785.    Admitted  September  y«  Cth,  1742. 


220        YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 

Robert,  son  of  William  Biscomb,  of  Saxton,  baptized  June  28. 

Admitted  October  18,  1755. 
Bobt.,  son  of  Robt,  Clayton,  of  Sherburn,  Baptiz'd  Jany.  29, 

1747.    Admitted  Jany.  26,  1756. 
David,  son  of  Andrew  Joy,  of  Sherburn,  Baptiz'd  May  14, 1746. 

Admitted  Jany.  26,  1756. 
Thos.,  son  of  Thos.  Summers,  of  Sherburn,  Baptiz'd  June  20, 

1746  or  thereabouts.     Admitted  August  the  18,  1756. 
Thos.,  son  Robert  Clayton,  of  Sherburn,  Baptiz'd  November 

the  21,  1748.     Admitted  Sepbr.  the  9,  1756. 
Thos.,  son  of  John  Bolton,  of  Sherburn,  Baptiz'd  Sepbr.  29, 

1745  or  thereabouts.    Admitted  March  the  28,  1757. 
Thos.,  son  of  Thomas  Smith,  of  the  Parish  of  All  Saints,  in  the 

City  of  York,  Baptiz'd  Feby.  17,  1747.    Admitted  Novbr.  the 

4,  1767. 
Thos.,  son  of  Thos.,  Hanson,  in  the  Parish  of  Saxton,  Baptiz'd 

March  the  18,  1749.     Admitted  Novbr.  the  4,  1757. 
Thos.,  son  of  Thos.  Brown,  in  the  Parish  of  Sherburn,  Baptiz'd 

April  the  15,  1750.     Admitted  November  the  4,  1757. 
Joshua,  son  of  Thos.  Hope,  of  Sherburn,  Baptiz'd  May  the  7, 

1749.  Admitted  Jany.  18,  1758. 

Thomas,  son  of  Bobt.  Lee,  of  Sherburn,  Baptiz'd  Feby.  14, 

1747.    Admitted  February  the  6,  1768. 
George,  Son  of  William  Bates,  of  Sherburn,  Baptiz'd  Sepbr. 

16,  1750.    Admitted  April  24,  1758. 
Annanias,  Son  of  Annanias  Bothomly,  of  St.  Mary's,  Bishop 

Hill  Junior,  in  the  City  of  York,  was  baptiz'd  July  18, 1748. 

Admitted  April  24,  1758. 
Edmund,  Son  of  Robert  Leach,  of  Aberford,  in  the  Parish  of 

8herburn,  Baptiz'd  March  18,  1747.     Admitted  April  84, 

1758. 
Thos.,  Son  of  William  Jackson,  of  the  Parish  of  St.  John's, 

York,  Baptized  January  the  26,  1760.    Admitted  August  the 

12,  1758.     By  reason  of  Holidays  in  Harvest. 
Wm.,  son  of  Richard  Hild,  of  the  Parish  of  St.  Sampson,  in 

the  City  of  York,  was  Baptized  Novbr.  7,  1748.    Admitted 

Janry  81,  1769. 
Wm.  Son  of  Jno.  Simpson,  of  Sherburn,  was  baptiz'd  March 

the  19,  1750.    Admitted  Janry  81,  1759. 
Jas.,  Son  of  Wm.  Pate,  of  Sherburn,  was  baptiz'd  July  25, 

1750.  Admitted  January  81,  1759. 

Thos.,  Son  of  Francis  Hudson,  of  St.  Michael  le  Belfry,  in  the 

City  of  York,  was  baptized  Janry  15,  1760.    Admitted  Jane 

18,  1769. 
Jas.,  Son  of  Miohl.  Stoner,  of  Sherburn,  was  baptiz'd  May  20, 

1750.     Admitted  September  14,  1759. 
Wm.,  Son  of  Wm.  Settle,  of  Bridlington,  Baptiz'd  April  80, 

1749.     Admitted  Janry  1,  1760. 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE    JOURNAL.  221 

Ingram,  Son  of  Samuel  Lapish,  of  Saxton,  Baptiz'd  Septr.  9, 

1750.     Admitted  May  26,  1760. 
George,  Son  of  Simon  Brown,  of  Newhall,  Baptiz'd  March  the 

28,  1761.    Admitted  Janry  11,  1761. 
John,  Son  of  Thomas  Groves,  of  Sherburn,  was  baptized  Janry 

6, 1758.    Admitted  24  of  June,  1761. 
Jno.,  Son  of  Bobt.  Clayton,  of  Sherburn,  was  baptized  May  4, 

1752.    Admitted  y*  6  of  October,  1761. 
Thomas,  Son  of  Henry  Lonsdale,  of  the  Parish  of  St.  Cruse  in 

the  City  of  York,  Baptiz'd  May  6,  1753.    Admitted  May  17, 

1768, 
Bobert,  Son  of  Annanias  Bothomley,  of  the  Parish  of  St.  Johns 

in  the  City  of  York,  Baptiz'd  26, 1752.  Admitted  May  17, 1762. 
Bartholomew,  Son  of  Bobt.  Clayton,  of  Sherburn,  was  baptized 

y«  9  of  September,  1764.    Admitted  the  20  of  Feb,  1768. 
Joseph,  Son  of  Joseph  Bradley,  of  Towton  in  ye  Parish  of  Sax- 
ton,  was  baptized  24  Feb.,  1762.    Admitted  y*  28  Feb.,  1768. 
Henry  Todd,  was  admitted  the  21  day  of  March,  1768,  aged 

Nine  Years  yQ  4th  Instant,  March. 
Henry,  Son  of  John  Wetherill,  in  Petergate,  York,  Bricklayer, 

baptized  July  12,  1752.    Admitted  20  September,  1768. 
John,  son  of  John  Spencer,  of  Biggin,  was  baptized  August  24, 

1756.    Admitted  4  Jan.,  1764. 
John,  Son  of  John  Middlebrook,  of  Saxton,  was  baptized  10  of 

March,  1756.    Admitted  4  Jan.,  1764. 
William,  Son  of  John  Folken,  of  Barkstone,  was  baptized  Sepbr 

28,  1754.    Admitted  y6  Second  Day  of  November,  1764. 
William,  Son  of  Joshua  Todd,  of  Sherburn,  was  baptized  August 

y«  8, 1726.    Admitted  y«  2  Day  of  November,  1764. 
Mathew,  Son  of  Thos.  Brown  of  Milford,  was  baptized  June 

12,  1767.    Admitted  y»  17  Day  of  January,  1765. 
John,  Son  of  George  Nournvale,  Bapd  July  y*  4,  1755.    Admit- 
ted the  First  day  of  November,  1764. 
Lancelot  Simpson,  aged  ten  years  Novr.  last  past,  was  admitted 

y«  18th  April,  1766. 
William  Blackburn,  aged  twelve  years  July  last,  admitted  18 

April,  1766. 
Thos.  Barker,  aged  nine  years,  Feb.  17,  1765,  was  admitted  18 

Feb.,  1765. 
William,  Son  of  John  Summers,  aged  8  years  May  last,  was 

admitted  9  of  November,  1765. 
George,  Son  of  George  Middlewood,  of  Saxton,  aged  Eleven 

Years  June  last,  was  admitted  9  of  November,  1765. 
James,  Son  of  Jeremiah  Shaw,  Senr.,  aged  Seven  Years  Sep- 
tember last,  was  admitted  2  December,  1765. 
Edward,  Son  of  John  Spencer,  of  Sherburn,  was  baptized  8 
.  July,  1769,  and  was  admitted  the  25  Day  of  November,  1766. 

This  Boy  died  Sep.  25,  1771. 


222  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 

John  Bothamley,  Son  of  Ananias  Bothamley,  aged  about  nine 

Years,  was  admitted  the  13  Day  of  January,  1767. 
Michael  Belerby,  Son  of  Will.  Belerby,  of  y*  City  of  York,  aged 

about  Eleven  years,  was  admitted  29  Jan.,  1767. 
John,  Son  of  Sarah  Stead,  of  Sherbnrn,  born  1759,  aged  seven 

years  August  last,  was  admitted  80  January,  1767. 
Matthew,  Son  of  George  Middlewood,  of  Saxton,  born  1759, 

aged  seven  Years  April  last,  was  admitted  80  January,  1767. 
James,  Son  of  William  Gill,  of  Sherburn,  aged  seven  yean  Ap- 
ril last,  was  admitted  80  Jan.,  1767. 
William,  Son  of  William  Storey,  of  York,  baptis'd  1  June, 

1760,  was  admitted  22  Day  of  June,  1768. 
Jonathan,  Son  of  William  Bates,  of  Sherburn,  aged  eight  years 

January  last  past,  was  admitted  22  Day  of  June,  1768. 
John,  Son  of  Thos.  Foster,  aged  seven  Years  August  last,  was 

admitted  Sep.  8, 1768. 
John,  the  Son  of  Nathan  Wright,  of  Sherburn,  born  1761,  aged 

Seven  Years  August  last,  was  admitted  Sep  8,  1768. 
Nathan,  Son  of  Nathan  Wright,  of  Sherburn,  deceased,  born 

1759,  aged  Ten  Years  April  last  past,  was  admitted  the  15 

of  December,  1769. 
John,  Son  of  John  Johnson,  of  Sherburn,  aged  Seven  Years 

January  last  past,  was  admitted  the  28  Day  of  March,  1770. 
Stephen,  Son  of  John  Summers,  of  Sherburn,  deceased,  born 

May  8,  1761,  was  admitted  December  y«  28,  1770. 
John,  Son  of  Bobt.  Clayton,  of  Church  Fenton,  bap.  Decbr  31, 

1762,  was  admitted  December  y  28,  1770. 
William,  Son  of  John  Spink,  of  Sherburn,  bap.  Jan  28, 1768, 

was  admitted  Dec.  the  28,  1770. 
Joseph,  Son  of  George  Middlewood,  of  Saxton,  was  bap.  August 

y*  10,  1760,  admitted  December,  y  28,  1770. 
Thomas  Shaw,  of  Sherburn,  bap.  Sep.  27,  1762,  was  admitted 

at  Martinmas,  1771. 
George  Williamson,  of  York,  bap.  Oot.  18,  1768,  was  admitted 

at  Martinmas,  1771. 
Bobert  Bolton,  of  Sherburn,  bap.  Jan.  8, 1764,  was  admitted 

Martinmas,  1771. 
Bichard,  son  of  William  Etherington,  of  Kippax,  baptised  Sep- 
tember ya  80,  1761,  admitted  for  the  Parish  of  Saxton,  April 

24,  1772. 
Thomas,  son  of  Bichard  Goft,  of  Sherburn,  bap.  July  the  9th, 

1764,  admitted  Ap.  24,  1772. 

John  Shelton,  of  Sherburn,  baptized  July  81, 1766,  was  admit- 
ted, July  9,  1778. 

John,  son  of  John  Higgins,  of  Saxton,  bap.  May  1, 1768,  was 
admitted  July  9,  1778. 

Joseph,  son  of  Widow  Shaw,  of  Sherburn,  bap.  26th  September, 

1765,  admitted  July  9,  1778. 


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chard,  son  of  William  Johnson,  of  Sherburn,  baptized  Aug. 

17,  1766,  was  admitted  Sep.  18,  1776. 

enry,  son  of  Joseph  Baynes,  of  York,  baptized  November  19,. 

1765,  was  admitted  May  1,  1775. 

chard,  son  of  John  Higgins,  of  Saxton,  was  baptized  May  2, 

1765,  admitted  May  1,  1775. 

lomas,  son  of  Richard  Smith,  of  Sherburn,  was  bapt.  ApriL 

29,  1764,  admitted  May  1,  1775. 

lomas,  son  of  John  Burton,  of  Sherburn,  was  baptized  Oct. 

21,  1768,  admitted  Jan.  10, 1776. 

chard,  son  of  William  Baildon,  bap.  Ap.  8,  1769,  as  appears 

by  the  Register  of  the  Parish  of  St.  Denis  of  y6  City  of  York^ 

admitted  June  25,  1776. 

hn,  son  of  Robert  England,  of  Saxton,  bap.  January  15, 1766,. 

admitted  June  25,  76. 

illiam,  son  of  Thomas  Fawcet,  of  Sherburn,  bap.  June  9, 1766, 

admitted  Aug.  18, 1776. 

seph,  son  of  Joseph  Copley,  of  Lumby,  bap.  Sep.  9,  1769,. 

admitted  Sep.  9,  1776. 

illiam,  son  of  John  Brown,  of  Milford,  bap.  July  80,  1769, 

admitted  Martinmas,  1776. 

Uliam,  son  of  William  Dawson,  of  York,  baptized  October  8, 

1766,  admitted  at  Christmas,  1777. 

tomas,  son  of  Robert  England,  of  Saxton,  bap.  Oct.  24, 1767 r 

admitted  Midsummer,  1777. 

iorge,  son  of  John  Pickering,  of  Sherburn,  bap.  Oct.  29, 1769,. 

admitted  Sep.  80, 1777. 

seph,  son  of  John  Copley,  of  York,  born  June  19,  1769, 

admitted  Nov.  2,  1778. 

shard,  son  of  Thomas  Knowlson,  late  of  York,  was  born  Jun& 

20,  1768,  admitted  Jan.  25, 1779. 

omas,  son  of  Richard  Gill,  of  Sherburn,  bap.  Dec.  17,  1770, 

was  admitted  June  1, 1779. 

seph,  son  of  John  Brown,  of  Sherburn,  bap.  Feb.  14,  1772, 

was  admitted  June  1,  1779. 

;hard,  son  of  William  Milner,  of  Towton,  bap.  March  27, 

L769,  was  admitted  June  1, 1779. 

Illiam,  son  of  Matthew  Kidd,  late  of  York,  born  August  ya  7th,. 

L769,  was  admitted  August  20,  1779. 

omas  Fountain,  of  Milford,  bap.  25th  June,  1772,  was  admitted 

March  4,  1780. 

lliam,  son  of  Thomas  Knowlson,  late  of  York,  was  born  Sep. 

28,  1769,  was  admitted  April  10,  1780. 

lliam,  son  of  Richard  Jackson,  late  of  York,  bap.  Feb.  16, 

L771,  admitted  May  the  1st,  1780. 

omas  Hudson,  son  of  Thomas  Hudson,  late  of  York,  bap. 

Dctober  20,  1771,  admitted  May  the  12th,  1780. 

mes  Duke,  son  of  Michael  Duke,  late  of  York,  bap.  July  the 

3th,  1770,  admitted  June  1,  1780. 


224  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 

John,  Son  of  William  Fountayne,  late  of  Saxton,  was  baptized 

March  the  7,  1770.     Admitted  Feb.  12,  1781. 
William,  son  of  William  Fountayne,  late  of  Saxton,  was  bap- 
tized October  the  18,  1772.    Admitted  Feb.  12,  1781. 
Richard,  Son  of  Thos.  Shuttle  worth,  of  Sherburn,  was  born 

March  ye  8,  1771,  was  admitted  March  12,  1781. 
Joshua,  Son  of  John  Houseman,  of  Barkston,  was  baptised 

Oct.  1,  1772,  was  admitted  into  this  School,  May  22,  1781. 
Thomas  Eempeman,  of  Sandhutton,  was  born  Feb.  12,  1774. 

Admitted  into  this  School,  June  the  12,  1781. 
William,  Son  of  Jonathan  Tattershall,  of  York,  born  August  16, 

1774,  was  admitted  June  10,  1782. 
John,  Son  of  Robert  Knowles,  of  York,  baptized  May  25,  1778, 

was  admitted  September  28,  1782. 
William,  Son  of  William  Dobson,  of  Milford,  was  baptized  the 

9  of  July  1776,  was  admitted  Sep.  16,  1788. 
William  Thompson,  Son  of  William,  late  of  Huddleston,  bap. 

August  2,  1774.    An  Orphan  by  the  death  of  his  Mother, 

was  admitted  Sep.  24,  1788. 
William  Marshall  Son  of  William,  of  York,  born  May  80,  1772. 

An  Orphan  by  the  Death  of  his  Mother,  was  admitted  July 

8,  1788. 
William,  Son  of  John  Baker,  of  Sherburn,  baptized  December 

8,  1775,  was  admitted  27  of  September,  1788. 
George  Thompson,  Son  of  John  of  Sherburn,  bap.  Aug.  2, 1775, 

was  admitted  Feb.  8,  1784. 
William  Richardson,  Son  of  Joseph  of  Sherburn,  was   bap. 

Decbr.  2,  1776,  was  admitted  Feb.  8,  1784. 
John,  Son  of  Thos.  Gill,  of  Sherburn,  was  baptized  December 

28, 1775,  was  admitted  May  1,  1784. 
William  Duke,  son  of  Michael  Duke,  of  York,  deceased,  was 

baptized  October  18,  1772,  was  admitted  June  25,  1784. 
George  Calvert,  son  of  William,  of  Sherburn,  was  baptized 

December  11,  1776,  was  admitted  Sep.  7,  1784. 
John  Strickland,  son  of  Joseph,  of  Sherburn,  was  baptized 

August  10,  1776,  was  admitted  at  Midsummer,  1785. 
James,  son  of  James  Smith,  of  Milford,  was  bap.  October  9, 

1777,  admitted  Sep.  19,  1785. 
James,  son  of  Mark  Ambler,  of  Milford,  was  born  Oct.  16, 1778, 

admitted  Oct.  17,  1785. 
Rowland,  son  of  Mr.  John  Booth,  of  Gottingley  Bridge,  was 

baptized  September  28,  1776,  as  appears  by  the  Register  at 

Bingley,  was  admitted  May  1,  1786.    Left  y*  School  zmas, 

1789. 
Thomas  Dimier,  of  York,  was  born  May  11,  1776.    Admitted 

Oct.  20,  1786. 

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lUtgljbg  <8uah*r  fUgis&r. 

Continued  from  page  160. 
Deaths. 

sab.  Day.  Month. 

22  21  7  Thomas  Blakey  son  of  Thomas  &  Ann 
Blakey  of  Kighley,  bd-  on  the  28rd  of 
the  same  in  friends'  burying  place  in 
Kighley,  aged  10  yearB  &  6  months 

,  1        8        John  Blakey  son  of  Thomas  &  Ann  Blakey 

of  Kighley,  bd*  on  the  3rd  in  friends' 
burying-ground  in  Kighley,  aged  1  year 

7  months 

24  21  12  Hannah  Waddington  dan.  of  Thomas  & 
Hannah  Waddington  of  Galversike  hill 
in  the  township  of  Kighley,  bd-  on  the 
28rd  in  the  burying-place  in  Kighley, 
aged  5  years,  6  months 
21  12  Thomas  Blakey  of  Silsden  in  the  p'ish  of 
Kildwick,  bd-  in  the  grave-yard  at  Kigh- 
ley on  the  28rd,  about  80  years  of  age 

15  20  1  Bichard  Waddington  of  Kighley,  b*-  on 
the  23rd  in  friends'  burying-place  in 
Kighley 

J6       26      12        David  Waddington    son    of   Richard    & 
Margaret  Waddington  of  Kighley,  bd-  on 
the   1st  of  the   1st  month  in  friends' 
burying-place  at  the  meeting-house  in 
Kighley,  about  24  years  of  age 
11         4        Joseph  Ashold  son  of  James  &  Martha 
Ashold  of  Kighley,  b*-  on  the  12th  in 
the  friends'  burying-place  at  the  meet- 
ing house  in  Kighley 
25        4        Sarah  Ashold  dau.  of  James  &  Martha 
Ashold  of  Kighley,  bd-  on  the  26th  at 
friends'  burying-place  at  the  meeting- 
house in  Kighley 
5        5        Joseph  Town  son  of  Henry  &  Grace  Town 
of  Silsden  in  the  p'ish  of  Kildwick,  b*- 
on  the  7th  at  friends'  burying-ground 
at  the  meeting-house  in  Kighley,  aged 

8  years 

8  6  William  Davy  son  of  William  &  Hannah 
Davy  of  Whitley-head  in  the  p'ish  of 
Kildwick,  bd-  on  the  6th  in  friends' 
burying-place  at  Galversike  hill,  near 
20  years  of  age 


YOBXSHIBE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 


Yeah.  Day. 
1726      18 


12 


Month. 


18      12 


1727      29 


28        6 


2       12 


9      12 


21       12 


1729      24 


Jonathan  Ashold,  son  of  James  &  Martha 
Ashold  of  Kighley,  b*-  on  the  14th  in 
friends'  burying-place  at  the  meeting- 
house in  Kighley,  about  5  months  of  age 

Elleanor  Lister  wife  of  William  Lister  of 
Bingley,  b*-  on  the  16th  with  friends  at 
Whitby 

Thomas  Blakey,  son  of  Thomas  &  Ann 
Blakey  of  Kighley,  bd-  on  the  21st  in 
friends'  burying-place  at  the  meeting- 
house in  Kighley 

Alice  Davy,  dau.  of  William  &  Hannah 
Davy  of  Whitley-head  in  the  p'ish  of 
Kildwick,  b*-  on  the  1st  of  the  4th  at 
Calversike  hill,  in  the  86th  year  of  her  age 

Thomas  Murgatroid  of  Boid-house  in  the 
p'isli  of  Haworth,  b**  on  the  12th  in 
friends'  burying-place  at  the  meeting- 
house in  Kighley.    Aged. 

John  Wade  of  Steeton  in  the  p'ish  of 
Kildwick,  bd*  on  the  25th  in  friends' 
burying-place  at  the  meeting-house  in 
Kighley.    Aged. 

Wood  of  Galversike-hill  within  the 
to\vSHi?*P  °*  ^*&klev»  bd"  on  *^e  *>th  at 
Calvers5&e"^»  aSe*  79  years 

Lawrence  Ku&\son  of.?enjy  &  !*<»?"* 
of  Oakcliff  in  thiV  !*  ?f  c^lton;  b*  on 
the  22nd  in  frieSOf  bury^"Place  m 
Louthersdale,  aged  IV  months 

Jonathan  Bothomley  of 1^™*  **  the 
pish  of  Binglev,  b*-  o^#  th°  ?*  " 
friends'  burying-place  ii\  Kei8hley- 
Aged  79  years.  \bv 

James  Bamsden  of  Brathwate  in  k    ° p  ^ 
of  Keighley,  b*  on  the  : 
hill,  near  49  years 

Sarah  Boads  of  Lees  i 
ley,  b*  on  the  28rd~in  friends'  burying- 
place    in   Keighley.      Aged    above   80 
years. 

Jonathan  Scott  of  Wilsden  in  the  p'ish  of 
Bradford,  b*  on  the  26th  in  the  friends' 
grave-yard  at  the  meeting-house 
Keighley. 


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WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  227 

Yeab.  Day.  Month. 

1729  28  9  Jonas  Hanson  of  Kighley,  b*-  on  the  1st 
of  the  10th  month  in  friends'  burying- 
place  at  the  meeting-house  in  Keighley 
,,  18  10  Abraham  Butler  of  Birch-head  near 
Wilsden  in  the  p'ish  of  Bradford,  bd-  on 
the  17th  at  Cross-flatts  near  Bingley. 
Aged  70  years 
,,  19  10  Hannah  Sharp,  a  child  of  William  & 
Hannah  Sharp  of  Kighley,  bd-  on  the 
21st  at  the  meeting-house  in  Keighley 

1780  11      5        Mary  Smith,   dau.  of  Bobert  &  Hannah 

Smith  of  Laycock  in  the  p'ish  of  Keigh- 
ley, b*-  on  the  15th  at  the  meeting  house 
in  Kighley.    Aged  15  years 

1781  80        2        Sarah  Davy  dau.  of  William  &  Hannah 

Davy  of  Whitley-head  in  the  p'ish  of 
Kildwick,  bd-  on  the  3rd  of  the  3rd 
month  at  Calversike-hill.  Aged  28  years 
„  15  4  Dennis  Davy  son  of  William  &  Hannah 
Davy  of  Whitley-head  in  the  p'ish  of 
Kildwick,  b**  on  the  18th  at  Calversike- 
hill.    In  the  21st  year  of  his  age 

1782  9        2        Lidia  Davy  of  Wedding-hall  in  Lothersdale 

in  the  parish  of  Carlton,  bd-  on  the  12th 
at  Calversike-hill.  In  the  80th  year  of 
her  age 

„  17  8  Ruth  Brigg,  wife  of  Thomas  Brigg  of 
Calversyke-hill  in  the  township  of  Kigh- 
ley, bd-  on  the  20th  at  Calversike-hill. 
About  the  59th  year  of  her  age 

„  1       10        Robert  Walker  of  Bingley,  b*-  on  the  4th 

in  his  orchard  at  Bingley.  About  40 
years  of  age 

„         18      10        William  Waddington  son  of  John  &  Lidia 
Waddington  of  Kighley,  bd-  on  the  20th 
in  friends'  burying-place    in   Kighley. 
About  7  years  of  age. 
1788  1        Judith  Stansfield,  dau.  of  Joshua  Stans- 

field  by  his  first  wife  of  Sand-beds  in 
the  p'ish  of  Bingley,  bd-  on  the  28rd  at 
the  meeting-house  in  Keighley.  In  the 
17th  year  of  her  age 

,,  2        Jeremiah  Heaton  of  Ravenroid  near  Bing- 

ley, bd-  on  the  29th  at  Cross-flatts. 
Aged  about  80  years. 

„  4        8        Mary  Blakey,  widdow  of  Thomas  Blakey 

of  Silsden  in  the  p'ish  of  Kildwick,  b*- 


228  Y0RK8HIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 

Year.  Day.  Month. 

on  the  6th  in  friends'  burying-ground  in 
Eighley.     Aged  about  BO  years 
1788       18        8        John  Ashold  of  Kighley,  b*-  on  the  15th  at 
the  meeting-house  in  Eighley.   Aged  83 
years. 

,,  19  4  Robert  Smith  of  Lacock  in  the  p'ish  of 
Kighley,  b4-  on  the  21st  at  the  meeting- 
house in  Kighley.  In  the  52  year  of  his 
age 

„  8        4        Joseph  Holmes  of  Brathwaite  in  the  p'iah 

of  Kighley,  bd-  on  the  10th  in  friends' 
burying-place  at  Farr-field  at  Farr-field 
meeting-house.  In  the  24  or  25  year  of 
his  age 

„  80  8  John  Baxter  of  Clough-bank  in  the  p'ish 
of  Kighley,  bd-  on  the  1st  of  the  9th 
month  at  the  meeting-house  in  Kighley. 
Being  24  or  25  years  of  age. 

„  20  9  Bobert  Smith  son  of  William  &  Martha 
Smith  of  Clough-bank  in  the  p'ish  of 
Keighley,  bd-  on  the  22nd  at  the  burying- 
place  at  the  meeting-house  in  Kighley. 
Aged  6  years 

1784  8        1        Mary  Ashold   dau.   of  James   &  Martha 

Ashold  of  Keighley,  b**  on  the  11th  in 
friends'  burying-place  at  the  meeting- 
house in  Keighley.  In  the  17th  year  of 
her  age 

„  18  8  Timothy  Maud  of  Gauthorp  Hall  near 
Bingley,  bd*  on  the  16th  at  the  burying- 
place  at  Cross-flatts.  In  the  78rd  year 
of  his  age 

„  21  8  Sarah  Heaton,  widow  of  Jeremiah  Heaton 
of  Ravenroid  in  the  p'ish  of  Bingley, 
bd-  on  the  28rd  in  the  friends'  burying- 
place  at  Crossflatts  near  Bingley  Aged 
88 

1785  14      8        Margarett  Hird,  a  widdow  of  Utley  in  the 

township  of  Kighley,  b4-  on  the  16th  in 
friends'  burying  place  at  the  meeting- 
house in  Kighley.  In  the  84th  year  of 
her  age 
,,  10  7  Thomas  Brigg  Dr  (sic)  of  Calversike-hill, 
bd>  on  the  13th  at  Calversike-hill.  In 
the  63rd  year  of  his  age 

1786  20        8        Lois  Brigg  dau.  of  Joshua  &  Isabell  Brigg 

of  Calversike-hill  in  the   township  of 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL. 

bab.  Day.  Month. 

Kighley,  bd-  on  the  22nd  at  Calversike- 
hUl.     (aged  4mo.  18  days,  Q.R.Y.) 

87  5        1        Lydia  Hardcastle  wife  of  Thomas  Hard- 

castle  (late  of  Hardcastle  Garth,  died  at 
Laycock  in  the  parish  of  Kighley,  bd- 
at  Calversike-hill,  (aged  70  Q.R.Y.) 
,  12        2        Hannah  Davies,  wife  of  William  Davys  of 

Witlow-head  in  the  parish  of  Kildwick, 
bd-  on  the  15th  at  CaJversikehill.  Aged 
68 

88  10        7        Jonas  Suttclife  of  Haworth  in  the  p'ish  of 

Bradford,  bd-  on  the  18th  in  friends' 
burying-place  at  Kighley.    Aged  68. 

89  11        4        Thomas  Brigg  of  Laycock  in  the  parish  of 

Kighley,  b*-  on  the  14th  at  Calversike- 
hill.     (aged  46±,  Q.R.Y.) 
,    '     18        4        Jeremiah  Brigg,  b4-  on  the  21st  at  Calver- 
sike-hill, (of  Laycock  aged  79) 

41  18       11        Joseph  Leach  of  Steeton  in  the  parish  of 

Kildwick,  b4-  on  the  17th  in  friends' 
burying-ground  at  Kighley.  Aged  74 
years  old 

42  8        1        Dorathy  Ambler  late  of  Silsden,  but  last 

of  Midleton,  bd-  on  the  11th  at  Calver- 
sike-hill.   Aged  near  78  years 

,  28        8        Judith  Brigg  of  Lakack,  bd-  on  the  26th  at 

Calversike  hill,    (aged  41,  Q.R.Y.) 

48  15  2  William  Wade  of  Steton,  bd-  in  friends' 
burying-yard  at  Kighley 

,  22        8        Grace  Murgitroyd  late  of  Rodhon  in  p'ish. 

of  Br'fd.  b*  on  the  25th  in  friends' 
burying-yard  at  Kighley 

,  14       12        Joshua  Stansfould  in  p'ish.  of  Kighley,  b** 

on  the  17th  in  friends'  burying-yard  at 
Kighley 

16  2        7        Ruth  Brigg  of  Kighley  dau.  of  Joshua  & 

Isabel.    Aged  2  years  7  mos.  Q.R.Y. 
7        8        Deborah  Brigg,  dau.  of  Thomas  &  Judith. 
Aged  18  years  8  mos,  Q.R.Y. 

17  19        2        William  Davy  of  Whitley  Head.   Aged  81, 

Q.R.Y. 

48  8        0        Mary  Davy  of  Whitley  Head.     Aged  80, 

Q.R.Y. 

49  14        8        Mary  Brigg,  died  at  Laycock.    Bd-  on  the 

16th  at  Calversike  hill  in  the  73rd  year 
of  her  age. 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 

Yeab.  Day.  Month. 

1751      19        8        Lydia  Waddingion.    B*-  on  the  22nd  in 
the  burying  place  at  Kighley 
,,9        8        Hanah  Bamsden.      B*-  on  the  12th  at 

Calversikhill 
,,         29        9        Agnes  Bamsden  her  sister.    Bd  on  the 
2nd  of  the  10th  at  Calversikhill 
1753        9        2        Thomas  Brigg,  son  of  Joshua  and  Isabell 
New  style.  Brigg,  of  Calversikehill.    Died  in  Sigh- 

ley.    Bd-  on   the   11th.    Age  4  years. 
(8  years  4  mos.  Q.R.Y.) 
1759      28        6        Thomas  Blakey  of  Kighley.    B*-  on  the 
80th  in  friends'  burying  place  at  Kighley 

1762  80        4        David  Davy    of   Whitley-head,    died   at 

Whitley -head  in  8  tee  ton,  in  the  p'iflh 
of  Kildwick.    Bd   at  Calversikehill  on 
the  2nd  day  of  the  5th  month.    Aged 
about  47 
8        6        Mary  Davy  of  Whitley  Head.    Aged'65 

1763  26        6        Ann  Davy,  dau.  of  David  and  Mary  Davy 

of  Whitley  head  in  Steeton,  in  the  pish 
of  Kildwick.    Bd-  at  Calversikehill  on 
the  29th.    Aged  about  17  years 
,,         22        7        James  Husler  died  at  Dub  near  Bingley. 
Bd  in  friends  burying  ground  at  Cross- 
flatts  near  Bingley.    Aged  about  85 
,,         24       10        Dionis  Ambler  of  Silsden  in  the  p'ish  of 
called          Kildwick.   Bd  on  the  26th  at  Calversike 
October         hill,  aged 

1764  6    July        Thomas  Brigg  of  Guard  house,  son  of 

Thomas  Brigg  of  Laycock.  Aged  29  years 
(not  in  a  contemporaneous  Jutiid.) 

1765  25      10        Cornelia  Horsefall  of  Haworth  &  dau.  of 

Joshua  Brigg  of  Calversike  hill.  Bd  on 
the  27th,  aged  28  years.  She  was  wife 
of  William  Horefall  of  Howarth 

1766  11       11        Cornelia  Horsefall,  dau.  of  William  Horsfall 

of  Howarth.  B*-  on  the  12th  at  Calver- 
sikehill, aged  1  year  1  month 

1774  25      12        Isabell  Brigg  wife  of  Joshua  Brigg,  b4-  no 
(12  Q.R.Y.)  the  28th  at  Calversike  hill,  aged  65 

1775  18        2        Hannah  Taylor  died  at  Bedcar  in  the  p'ish 

of  Kildwick.    Bd-  on  the  16  in  friends' 
burying  ground  at  Kighley.    Aged  85 
1789      29     Sept.      Joshua  Brigg  of  Calversike-hill  (Apothe- 
cary Q.R.Y.)  in  the  84th  year  of  his  age. 
Bd-  at  Calversike  hill 
„  7        5        William  Davy  of  Whitley  Head,  aged  18, 

Q.R.Y. 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  281 

car.  Day.  Month. 

89       15        5        David  Davy  of  Braithwaite,  aged  2,  Q.B.  Y. 

'91         2   October  David  Brigg,  grandson  of  Thomas  Brigg 

of  Guardhouse  (who  d.  1764)  &  son  of 

Thomas  Brigg  of  Guardhouse  (aged  8 

weeks,  Q.B.Y.)  {written  at  a  later  date.) 
(02      20     May     William  Davy  of  S  tee  ton,  in  the  58th  year 

of  his  age,  b*-  at  Galversike  hill 
Paulina  Davy  of  Steeton,  dau.of  the  above 

William  Davy,  b*-  at  Galversike  hill 
(17       28     Jan.      Thomas  Brigg  of  Guard  house  in  his  54th 

year,  bd-  at  Calversike  hill 
(18        1      May     William  Davy  of  Steeton  the  younger,  in 

his  22nd  year,  b**  at  Calversike  hill 
„  8      May      Sarah  Bobinson  of  Steeton,  dau.of  William 

Davy  the  older,  in  her  25th  year,  b*»  at 

Calversike  hill 
(22        9      Feb.     Thomas  Brigg  of  Guardhouse,  the  younger, 

aged  25  years,  b**  at  Calversike  hill 
,,         28      May     Barnard  Brigg  of  Guardhouse,  aged  12 

years,  b*-  at  Calversike  hill 
(89      80      Nov.  .    Sarah  Davy  of  Steeton,  aged  71  years 

Dennis  Davy  of  Steeton 
(40        6      July      Isable  Brigg  of  Guard  house,  relict  of  the 

late  Thos.  Brigg,  in  her  71st  year 
(45       11      Jan.      Henry  Marriner  Brigg  of  Guard  house, 

son  of  Jno.  &  Margaret  Ann  Brigg,  aged 

5  months,  b*-  at  Calversike  hill 
„         22      Jan.      Benjamin  Brigg  of  Guard  house,  son  of 

Jno.  &  Margaret  Ann  Brigg,  aged  4  years, 

b*-  at  Calversike  hill 
,,  6      May     Ann  Isabella  Brigg  of  Guard  house,  dau. 

of  John  &  Margaret  Ann  Brigg,  aged  15 

years,  6  months,  b**  at  Calversike  hill 


jltanlrarg  (gttahtrs'  Hartal  <Br0tm&. 

In  Part  I.  of  York*.  N.  d-  Q.  there  is  a  reprint  of  the  Quakers9 
egister  at  Stanbury,  near  Haworth.  Tha  following  particulars 
3  to  the  Burying  place  there  are  taken  from  original  documents. 

1670.  15.  of  the  first  month  called  March.  Lease  for  999 
aars  from  William  Clayton  of  Stanbury  in  the  parish  of  Brad- 
mi,  yeoman  to  Christopher  Smith  &  Jonas  Smith  his  brother 
F  the  same  place  clothiers,  &  Joseph  Smith  of  the  same 
lace,  blacksmith,  "for  the  true  &  entire  love  &  zeal  which 
e  hath  &  beareth  unto  the  truth  of  God  &  his  people"  & 
>r  divers  other  considerations,  of   one  piece  or  parcel  of 


YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 

land  commonly  called  Horton  Croft  situate  at  the  Townend 
of  Stanbury  aforesaid  &  "adjoining  from  &  to  the  common 
thereof  on  the  North  West  &  East  part  now  in  the  inheritance 
&  occupation  of  the  said  William  Clayton  "  To  Have  &  to  hold 
the  same  as  a  grave  yard  or  Burying-place  at  the  rent  of  one 
penny  a  year  to  be  due  at  the  feast  of  Pentecost,  permission 
being  reserved  to  the  said  William  Clayton  &  Sarah  his  wife 
for  their  lives  &  the  life  of  the  longer  liver  to  have  the  herbage 
&  grass  &  to  put  in  at  their  will  &  pleasure. 

signed        William  Claytok. 
witnesses  (not  legible.)    N.B.  This  is  a  copy  on  paper. 

22  Nov.  1710.  Lease  from  Timothy  Maud  of  Crosflats  in  the 
parish  of  Bingley  &  county  of  Yorke  yeoman  &  Jeremy  Brigg  of 
Laycook  in  the  parish  of  Eighley  &  same  county  yeoman 
on  behalf  of  the  assembly  of  the  people  called  Quakers  which 
assembleth  at  their  publick  meeting  house  at  Kighley  to  Mary 
Smith  of  Stanbury  in  the  parish  of  Bradford  &  said  county 
widdow  at  the  yearly  rent  of  two  shillings  and  sixpence  payable 
at  the  time  called  Penticost  for  21  years  from  the  2nd  of  Feb- 
ruary last  past  of  all  that  parcel  of  ground  commonly  called 
Horton  Croft  at  Stanbury  town,  now  in  the  tenure  of  the  said 
Mary  Smith.  Always  excepting  &  saving  to  the  said  Timothy 
Maud  &  Jeremy  Brigg  for  &  on  behalf  of  the  assembly  abovesaid 
liberty  to  *  interr  &  buery'  therein  the  bodies  of  such  persons 
when  &  so  often  as  they  or  any  other  person  or  persons  elected 
&  assigned  by  the  said  assembly  in  their  stead  shall  think  proper 
with  liberty  for  all  persons  whatsoever  to  enter  the  said  parcel 
of  ground  at  all  times  of  such  burials,  &  also  liberty  for  the  said 
people  called  Quakers  to  meet  once  or  twice  a  year  or  oftener 
in  the  said  ground  in  order  to  perform  worship  to  God  accord* 
ing  to  their  persuasion  with  liberty  to  all  persons  to  enter  at 
such  times  as  aforesaid.  Covenants  by  Mary  Smith  to  pay  the 
rent,  not  to  plow  sow  or  turn  over  any  part  of  the  ground  &  to 
repair  and  maintain  the  wall  belonging  to  the  premises. 

Signed  T     her  mark 

Mary    |    Smith 
Witnesses 

John  Bamsden.    (autog.) 
Easter  Y  her  mark  Wildman 
Bichard  Wadington  junr.  (autog.) 
(on  paper.) 

Mention  of  Stanbury  Croft  &  of  the  letting  of  it  is  found  in 
the  Minute  Books  up  to  1800. 


WITH    YORKSHIKE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  288 

SOME    ACCOUNT    OF    THE 

PARISH    CHURCH    OF    ST.    MARY'S,    HONLEY; 

By  Mrs.  Mary  A.  J  agger.     Continued  from  paye  201. 

It  is  of  interest  to  note  that  the  year  of  our  Queen's  jubilee, 
was  also  the  Centenary  of  the  Commutation  of  Tithes  due 
from  Honley  to  Almondbury;  and  the  enclosing  of  Honley 
Moor. 

Evidently  the  people  of  Honley  had  both  morals  and  manners. 
The  Rev.  John  Wesley  records  preaching  at  Honley  about 
eleven  o'clock  on  80th  April,  1788.  The  Rev.  John  Alexander, 
M.A.,  read  the  prayers.     John  Wesley  writes  as  follows : — 

"  After  the  Curate  had  read  prayers  to  a  large  and  serious 
congregation,  I  preached  on  the  text  "It  is  appointed  unto  all 
men  once  to  die."  I  believe  many  felt,  as  well  as  heard,  the 
word." 

The  writer  has  heard  old  people  say,  that  John  Wesley 
preached  in  the  Churchyard ;  and  that  he  wore  a  black  surplice. 
As  a  result  of  his  preaching,  a  year  afterwards  Deanhouse 
Chapel  was  erected,  the  first  Wesleyan  Chapel  built  in  the 
Valley  of  the  Holme.  The  cushion  that  was  used  by  John 
Wesley  when  he  preached  at  Deanhouse,  was  preserved  by  the 
Rev.  Charles  Drawbridge,  Incumbent  of  Honley.  It  occupied 
a  place  in  his  study,  and  he  was  very  proud  of  the  relic. 

A  spirit  of  insubordination  now  began  to  manifest  itself 
amongst  the  people.  Work  was  scarce  and  food  dear.  Large 
bodies  of  misguided  men  assembled  by  night,  for  the  purpose 
ef  breaking  obnoxious  machinery,  that  they  thought  would  take 
the  bread  out  of  their  mouths.  The  characteristic  Yorkshire 
Clothmakers,  however,  refused  to  be  intimidated  by  the  threats 
of  their  workpeople.  Once,  creeping  stealthily  around  the 
walls  of  the  old  Chapel,  the  "  Luddites  "  were  intent  on  taking 
dire  vengeance  upon  one  who  had  dared  to  bring  into  use  the 
hateful  machines,— the  late  Mr.  William  Leigh.  His  house 
was  opposite  the  old  Chapel-door.  The  family  were  aroused 
from  their  sleep  by  the  report  of  a  pistol  outside.  One  of  the 
sons  of  the  village  had  been  chosen  by  drawing  lots  to  shoot 
Mr.  William  Leigh ;  and  with  loaded  gun  he  awaited  the  es- 
cape of  this  gentleman  by  the  back  entrance  of  his  house ;  whilst 
others  were  trying  to  batter  down  the  front  door  with  huge 
stones ;  so  as  to  force  him  to  escape  by  the  back  door.  The 
clank  of  the  accoutrements  of  the  cavalry  sounding  distinctly 
in  the  distance,  prevented  further  outrage.  The  "  Luddites  " 
passed  up  the  village  street,  as  silently  as  they  had  come ;  and 
Mr.  Leigh  was  left  unharmed,  though  his  windows  were  broken. 
Many  a  mother's  heart  must  have  ached  with  apprehension  and 
dread,  as  she  knelt  in  the  old  Chapel,  for  Honley  had  many  of 
her  sons  engaged  in  this  insurrection.    Transition  in  crime  is 


286        YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 

We  have  noticed  the  sturdy  traits  of  the  congregation ;  but 
there  is  also  a  humorous  side.  The  quaint  and  pithy  sayings 
of  the  people  are  proverbial ;  and  the  presence  of  neither 
"Parson  nor  Clerk"  has  any  influence  to  overawe  Honley 
psople  if  they  wish  to  speak.  When  they  removed  the  pulpit  it 
necessitated  the  alterations  of  some  pews. 

After  the  alterations,  an  aggrieved  pew-owner  refused  to  sit 
only  in  the  same  place  where  his  pew  had  been  previously 
located.  As  the  pulpit  occupied  that  site,  this  was  impossible. 
He  was  not  to  be  propitiated  by  the  offer  of  another  seat  in  a 
more  agreeable  situation,  and  he  was  wont  to  stalk  up  the 
middle  aisle  with  his  three-legged  stool  under  his  arm.  Look- 
ing around  upon  the  congregation  he  would  exclaim,  "I  wonder 
if  there  is  room  here."  Then  putting  down  the  stool  in  the 
middle  aisle,  he  would  sit  down  upon  it.  Certainly  it  is  more 
profitable  and  easy  to  have  a  grievance  than  to  redress  one,  and 
I  hope  that  conspicuous  self-chosen  Martyr  was  happy  with  his. 

After  the  alterations,  a  resident  of  Netherthong  also  con- 
sidered herself  wronged  with  regard  to  the  part-ownership  of  a 
pew.  The  rightful  owner  not  only  refused  to  allow  the  native 
of  Netherthong  to  share  her  pew,  but  debarred  her  from  enter- 
ing, by  having  a  padlock  put  upon  the  door.  Nothing  daunted, 
this  lady,  on  each  successive  Sunday,  climbed  over  the  sides  of 
the  pew,  and  defiantly  sat  in  the  disputed  place.  It  must  have 
been  very  edifying  to  witness  this  performance,  and  the  woman 
would  certainiy  have  been  more  benefited  in  following  John 
Buskin's  advice,  to  go  and  pray  behind  a  hedge. 

Another  local  worthy  constituted  himself  into  a  watchful 
sentinel  upon  the  actions  of  his  Clergyman.  The  latter  was 
not  so  punctual  at  Church  as  he  ought  to  have  been.  If  by 
any  chance  he  was  seen  to  hurry  up  tho  pulpit  stairs  a  few 
minutes  late,  the  punctual  and  alert  worshipper  would  cry  out, 
"  What !  late  again,  lad,  late  again  !  " 

The  Parish  Clerk  was  a  conspicuous  figure,  both  in  the  old 
Chapel  and  in  the  present  Church.  One  noted  character,  whilst 
half  asleep,  jumped  up  in  the  middle  of  the  sermon,  and  cried 
out  "  Amen."  He  was  not  aware  of  his  precipitate  haste  until 
rebuked  from  above  by  the  Clergyman.  A  strange  Clergyman 
who  had  been  preaching  one  Sunday  Morning  was  fishing  for 
compliments  about  his  Sermon  from  this  old  clerk.  His  reply 
was  not  at  all  flattering,  for  the  old  clerk  was  as  destitute  of 
compliments  as  the  present  Honley  dyke  is  of  fish.  It  was  as 
follows : — "  Yore  Sarmon,  Maister,  is  wa'ar  nor  weak  broth, 
an1  cowder  nor  Nan-hob  watter."  (Nan-hob,  a  beautiful  spring 
of  water  in  the  township).  On  one  occasion,  when  the  congre- 
gation was  small  on  account  of  the  day  being  cold  and  stormy, 
this  old  clerk  invited  the  said  preacher  to  mount  upon  the  vestry 
table,  and  discourse  to  them  from  there,  whilst  the  congregation 
sat  around  the  vestry  fire  for  greater  comfort. 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  287 

Extremes  meet,  and  the  old  clerk,  from  being  too  alert,  one 
Sunday  during  the  sermon,  overslept  himself.  The  congregation 
waited  impatiently  for  the  number  of  the  concluding  hymn,  but 
the  old  clerk  slept  on,  calmly  unconscious  of  his  duty.  Another 
old  Honley  worthy  cried  out  testily,  "  Waken  that  sleepy  clerk." 

The  love  and  cultivated  taste  for  music  in  the  district  is  well 
known,  being  literally  a  land  of  song.  Who  has  not  heard  the 
strains  of  sweet  music,  all  the  parts  blending  together  in  perfect 
harmony,  from  some  Village  Church  or  hill- side  Chapel  ?  At 
that  time  Honley  possessed  some  of  the  best  singers,  and 
performers  upon  various  instruments  in  the  neighbourhood. 
Musical  gatherings  took  place  at  each  other's  homes,  dark 
nights  and  long  walks  proving  no  obstacles.  The  largest 
gathering  was  on  Honley  Feast  Sunday,  when  in  the  old 
Chapel,  "  Great  Sings,"  as  they  were  called,  were  held.  Old 
local  musicians  will  recall  the  memory  of  these  wonderful 
gatherings.  Vast  crowds  assembled  to  listen,  not  only  the 
Church  being  filled  to  overflowing,  but  the  grave-yard  and 
street  were  crowded  with  listeners.  Oratorios  and  other  kinds 
of  sacred  music  were  sung,  reinforced  by  instrumentalists,  and 
a  charge  for  admission  was  made.  This  custom  was  discon- 
tinued when  the  late  Mr.  Drawbridge  became  the  incumbent, 
of  whom  more  will  be  said.  The  influence  of  Mr.  Drawbridge 
must  have  been  considerable,  when  an  old  village  custom  could 
be  thus  discontinued  without  some  more  forcible  remonstrance 
than  words.  At  one  of  these  "  Great  Sings,"  a  famed  local 
vocalist  mounted  the  high  singing  gallery.  She  had  been 
absent  from  it  for  many  years  on  account  of  maternal  duties. 
As  it  was  the  Sunday  after  the  Battle  of  Waterloo  (and  Honley 
had  many  of  her  sons  engaged  in  that  battle),  she  was  requested 
to  sing  "  Lovely  Peace."  So  well  was  this  sung  that  enthusiastic 
musicians  were  with  difficulty  restrained  from  loudly  applaud- 
ing her.  On  another  occasion  when  the  Church  was  crowded, 
a  favourite  singer  warbled  forth,  "  Angels  ever  bright  and  fair, 
Take,  0  take  me  to  your  care."  An  old  native,  whose  ardent 
love  for  music  broke  the  bounds  of  decorum,  cried  out,  "  Aye, 
that  they  will,  lass,  for  such  a  sweet  voice  as  that  can  never  go 
to  the  devil." 

We  know  that  harmony  is  apt  to  breed  discord,  and  many  a 
feud  has  been  fought  out  in  the  high  singing  loft  of  the  old 
chapel.  The  book  of  Psalms  by  Sternhold  and  Hopkins  was  in 
use.  The  singers  wished  to  adopt  the  new  version,  composed 
by  Nahum  Tate,  the  then  Poet  Laureate,  and  set  to  music  by 
Brady.  This  change  was  not  allowed  without  much  contention 
and  hard  words.  Another  Clergyman,  a  Mr.  Stafford,  like  the 
Puritans,  preferred  sour  solemnity  to  the  singing  of  God's 
praises;  (least  history  informs  us  that  this  was  a  Puritanical 
trait).    Mr.  Stafford  thought  that  a  joyful  noise,  at  the  best, 


288  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 

was  only  the  singing  of  songs  and  ballads,  that  tended  to  the 
nourishing  of  vice,  or  the  corrupting  of  youth.  Mr.  Stafford 
refused  to  allow  either  the  Psalms  or  Canticles  to  be  sung. 
Taking  little  heed  of  this  refusal,  the  Choir  after  the  first  lesson 
chanted  the  Te  Deum.  After  the  second  lesson,  however,  Mr. 
Stafford  was  too  quick  for  the  singers,  and  succeeded  in  reading 
the  Jubilate  himself.  This  victory  was  followed  by  a  defeat 
When  the  number  of  the  hymn  was  given,  neither  organist  nor 
singers  answered  to  the  call.  They  sat  in  defiant  silence,  and 
during  the  rest  of  the  service  Mr.  Stafford  had  the  pleasure  of 
listening  only  to  his  own  voice.  At  this  time,  to  keep  the  peace 
between  Clergyman  and  Singers,  the  services  of  both  Constable 
and  Churchwardens  were  required. 

As  we  are  on  the  subject  of  music,  it  will  not  be  out  of  place 
to  bring  before  the  readers  the  well-known  anecdote  of  the 
Organist  and  his  Blower.  I  have  often  noticed  that  this  anec- 
dote has  been  claimed  as  belonging  to  other  parishes,  but  the 
writers  have  been  misinformed.  The  circumstance  occurred  at 
Honley,  the  Organist  being  John  Hirst,  and  his  blower,  Joseph 
Bradbury,  but  known  in  the  village  by  the  cognomen  of  Joe 
"  Sprod."  A  previous  rehearsal  of  the  music  to  be  sung  at  one 
of  the  "Great  Sings"  had  so  elated  the  Organist,  that  he  added 
his  own  praises.  This  self-praise  on  the  part  of  the  organist 
did  not  please  Joe,  who  listened  in  sulky  silence.  "  Of  what 
use  were  all  the  clever  performances  on  the  organ  if  he  did  not 
blow?"  thought  Joe  to  himself.  No  sweet  sounds  could  be 
heard  if  he  did  not  supply  the  wind  !  Joe  waxed  wroth  at  the 
slight  put  upon  his  performances.  On  the  following  Sunday, 
at  a  most  critical  part  of  a  difficult  accompaniment,  the  organ 
suddenly  became  silent  for  lack  of  breath.  "Blow,  blow/' 
loudly  whispered  the  enraged  organist.  "  Is  it  we  then  ?"  said 
the  blower.  The  wits  of  the  organist  were  like  some  of  his 
notes,  sharp,  and  he  instantly  replied  "  Yes,  we  Joe — go  on." 

It  was  the  custom  in  the  old  chapel,  that  when  any  member 
of  the  congregation  died,  to  sing  Luther's  hymn.  The  singing 
was  reinforced  after  each  verse  by  three  loud  blasts  from  a 
trumpet.  It  is  recorded  that  once  a  Clergyman  came  to  preach 
who  was  unaware  of  this  custom.  What  was  his  consternation, 
not  unmixed  with  terror,  to  hear  the  powerful  blasts  from  the 
trumpet,  sent  forth  by  the  trumpeter,  James  France.  The 
singing  of  this  venerable  melody,  and  the  sound  of  the  trumpet 
had  always  a  very  powerful  effect  upon  the  congregation. 

We  must  now  take  a  farewell  of  the  old  chapel  and  its 
congregation,  all — except  some  of  the  youthful  members — 
lying  quietly  at  rest  in  the  church-yard  or  cemetery.  The 
old  building  had  now  begun  to  totter  with  age.  The  rafters 
were  rotten,  the  oak  pews  were  in  a  ruinous  condition,  and 
one  day,  from  the  outside,  the  roof  was  observed  to  sink  in 


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some  parts.  It  was  thought  advisable  to  consult  Mr.  Chantrell, 
the  eminent  architect,  of  Leeds.  He  suggested  that  the  build- 
ing "  should  be  taken  down,  and  a  New  Church  built  upon  the 
old  foundation."  Having  had  bitter  experience  with  regard  to 
the  expenses  of  the  litigations  at  York,  the  Congregation,  before 
acting  upon  Mr.  ChantrelTs  suggestion,  ascertained  if  sufficient 
funds  would  be  forthcoming  to  accomplish  the  work.  This 
being  found  practicable,  they  at  once  made  preparations  to 
commence  the  re-building. 

On  Sunday,  January  9th,  1842,  the  Church  was  closed.  A 
large  congregation  assembled  for  the  last  time  in  the  Old 
Chapel.  The  Eev.  Charles  Drawbridge,  who  had  officiated 
there  as  Curate  for  nineteen  years,  preached  from  Psalm  xxxvi, 
8  verse — "  Lord,  I  have  loved  the  habitation  of  Thy  house/' 
He  divided  his  sermon  into  two  parts ;  in  the  first,  noticing  the 
past  history  of  the  sacred  building ;  and  in  the  second,  examin- 
ing the  testimonies  of  our  love  for  the  Lord's  house.  From 
an  extract  in  the  parish  book,  it  is  written  that  "  the  occasion 
was  felt  to  be  a  very  solemn  one  by  the  numerous  congregation 
assembled." 

The  people  could  not  look  for  the  last  time  upon  the  old 
building  without  feelings  of  regret.  It  had  been  associated 
with  all  that  was  best  and  dearest  in  their  lives;  and  the 
ancient  landmark  was  to  be  removed.  What  mattered  their 
old  contentions  of  who  should  be  first,  or  who  last  ?  Like  the 
old  edifice,  they  too  would  "  have  their  day  and  cease  to  be." 

According  to  the  entry  in  the  parish  book,  written  by  Mr. 
Drawbridge,  it  says — "On  the  following  Monday  morning, 
January  10th,  1842,  the  Contractors  entered  the  building,  and 
begun  dismantling  and  throwing  down." 

The  present  and  third  edifice,  built  upon  the  same  foundation 
as  previous  structures,  can  now,  since  the  death  of  Canon 
Hulbert  in  March,  1888,  claim  the  title  of  Parish  Church.  It 
was  one  year  and  eight  months  in  building.  The  Foundation 
Stone  was  laid  by  the  late  Thomas  Brooke,  Esq.,  of  Northgate 
House,  Honley,  on  February  14th,  1842.  The  Church  was 
opened  for  Divine  worship  on  Thursday,  Oct.  26th,  1848.  The 
Rev.  Hugh  Stowell,  of  Manchester,  and  the  Rev.  Josiah  Bate- 
man,  Vicar  of  Huddersfield,  preached  the  two  opening  sermons. 
The  Rev.  Chas.  Drawbridge  who  had  preached  the  last  sermon 
in  the  old  chapel,  also  preached  on  the  first  Sunday  in  the  new 
building.  The  subject  taken  for  this  sermon  was  from  Exodus 
xx,  24  verse,—"  In  all  places  where  I  record  My  name,  I  will 
come  unto  thee  and  bless  thee."  There  has  been  no  record 
kept  of  the  other  sermons. 

The  style  of  the  present  Church  is  Gothic,  and  it  is  a  noble 
and  lofty  edifice.  It  has  capacious  galleries  on  three  sides,  and 


240        YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 

the  organ  with  singing-seat  at  the  West  end.  The  nave  is  -sus- 
tained by  six  arches,  and  in  length  measures  seventy-eight  feet, 
and  in  breadth,  including  aisles,  forty-seven  feet.  The  square 
lofty  tower  which  is  105  feet  high,  contains  a  clock,  with  four 
dials,  and  two  bells.  The  present  Organ  that  took  the  place  of 
the  old  one,  was  given  by  Miss  Marshall,  who  at  that  time  re- 
sided at  Northgate  Mount.  It  was  opened  on  December  17th, 
1858,  by  Mr.  George  Allen  Beaumont,  a  clever  young  organist. 
This  promising  musician  died  at  the  early  age  of  nineteen.  The 
crowd  at  the  opening  of  this  organ  was  so  great  that  it  partook 
of  the  nature  of  the  vast  gatherings  that  were  wont  to  assemble 
at  the  "  Great  Sings." 

The  staves  that  were  formerly  in  more  use  than  at  present, 
belonging  to  the  Constable  and  Churchwardens,  still  stand 
upright  at  the  entrance  of  the  Church.  At  the  re-building, 
they  were  painted  afresh,  and  one  bears  date  1848,  the  other 
1880.  The  font  is  a  piece  of  fine  massive  stone,  and  chastely 
carved.  It  now  stands  in  the  Baptistry,  that  was  until  lately, 
the  pew  occupied  by  the  Churchwardens  and  Constable.  The 
font  has  a  bell-shaped  canopy  of  carved  oak,  presented  by  the 
present  Vicar.  The  wood  was  taken  from  an  old  Oak  tree  that 
stood  on  the  top  of  Timinets-Brow. 

Under  the  three  aisles  of  the  Nave,  the  Tower,  the  East  and 
West  aisles,  as  well  as  under  the  Chancel,  are  buried  many  of 
the  old  families  of  Honley.  Some  of  these  names  are  mentioned 
in  the  Poll-tax  of  King  Richard  II.  and  are  still  represented  by 
living  descendants.  Their  sound  is  familiar  to  the  ear,  for  they 
are  like  the  Saxon  words — homely,  and  of  native  grit.  Under 
modern  sanitary  ideas,  the  custom  of  burying  the  dead  inside 
the  Church  is  objectionable.  As  our  feet  walk  over  their 
remains,  we  almost  forget  that  fact  in  the  many  thoughts  that 
those  old  records  suggest. 

The  Chancel  is  very  lofty,  and  it  has  three  windows.  It 
contains  the  Communion  Table  and  two  antique  Oak  Chairs, 
given  by  the  late  Miss  Armitage.  Against  the  walls  are  the 
Ten  Commandments,  the  Apostle's  Creed,  and  the  Lord's  Prayer. 
Over  the  Communion  Table  is  written  "  I  am  the  Bread  of  Life/' 
The  Monumental  Tablets  on  the  walls  will  be  desoribed  more 
fully  later  on.    There  is  a  pulpit,  reading,  and  Clerk's  Desk. 

In  1887,  the  Church  Plate  was  augmented  by  the  presentation 
of  a  gold  and  silver-gilt  Paten  and  Chalice  by  Miss  Siddon  and 
Miss  0.  Brooke.  Miss  Siddon  also  gave  new  white  Altar-cloths, 
and  Miss  0.  Brooke  an  Alms  Dish  and  Offertory  Bags  at  the 
same  time. 

To  he  continued. 


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Cmti's  fgorh  Coins* 


By  the  Bev.  G.  F.  Crowther,  M.A.,  Member  of  the  Council 
of  the  Numismatic  Society,  and  Author  of  a  "Guide  to  English 
Pattern  Coins." 

The  reprint  of  the  chapter  on  Cnut's  York  coins,  which 
recently  appeared  in  "Yorkshire  Notes  and  Queries,"  extracted 
from  a  catalogue  by  Bichard  Gough,  Esq.,  (London,  1777), 
reminds  us  that  the  science  of  numismatics  was  then  in  its 
infancy. 

To  one  who  has  never  given  any  special  study  to  this  subject 
it  must  seem  "  passing  strange  "  that  the  same  coin  reading 
LEODMEB  ON  BVC  should  have  been  variously  attributed 
to  Lincoln,  Winchester  and  Bichmond.  But  those  conversant 
with  this  period  of  our  coinage  Will  be  more  amused  by  the 
statement  that  on  a  coin  reading  PVLNOD  SR)  EOFEBP, 
the  king  is  depicted  in  the  midst  of  a  "field  of  corn'1!  He 
might  as  well  have  been  described  as  among  the  brambles 
gathering  blackberries ;  or,  better  still,  as  surrounded  by  the 
waves  of  the  sea  shore.  This  latter  description  would  at  least 
have  seemed  to  rest  on  some  historic  basis.  Evidently  a  few 
flaws  in  the  metal  have  led  astray  some  collector  with  ji  vivid 
imagination. 

Such  an  eccentric  description  as  that  referred  to  above  will 
not  be  thought  deserving  of  serious  refutation  in  the  present 
day.  The  attribution  however  of  the  coin  of  LEODMEB  to 
the  town  of  Bichmond  in  Yorkshire  cannot  be  so  lightly  dis- 
missed. 

Those  who  wish  to  claim  for  Yorkshire  the  honour  of  an 
additional  mint  will  possibly  ask  to  what  other  place  this  coin 
can  be  ascribed,  ibid  the  question  is  not  unfair.  Those 
persons,  however,  who  maintain  that  the  coin  was  struck  at 
Bichmond  should  bear  in  mind  that  Gough  was  by  no  means 
so  positive  on  this  point  as  they  themselves  are.  And  we  must 
not  forget  that  we  have  many  early  coins,  of  which  it  is  not  yet 
possible  for  us  to  be  certain  from  what  mint  they  emanated. 
A  penny  of  iEthelraed  II.  in  my  own  collection  will  illustrate 
my  meaning.  The  coin  reads  LEOPBIC  llo  LIMNA,  and 
appears  to  have  been  struck  in  Kent,  either  at  Lyminge  or  at 
Limne.  In  those  days  Lyminge  seems  to  have  been  rather  the 
more  important  of  the  two  towns,  and  chiefly  for  that  reason  I 
am  inclined  to  attribute  my  coin  to  that  place.  But  the 
evidence  for  this  attribution  is  not  sufficient  to  amount  to 
certainty ;  and  further  evidence  might  prove  that  the  coin  was 
struck  at  Limne.  Now  with  regard  to  Yorkshire,  there  does 
not  seem  to  be  any  external  evidence  that  a  mint  ever  existed 
either  at  Bichmond  or  Bipon.    No  such  mint  is  mentioned  in 

T.N.Q.  Q 


442        YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 

any  of  the  standard  works  on  the  subject.  In  th6  "  Annals  of 
the  Coinage  "  (3rd  ed.,  1840),  the  Rev.  B.  finding  states  that 
some  coins  of  Cnut  read.  RlL,  BIV,  .RING :  bnt  gives  no  sug- 
gestion as  to  the  place  whence  they  were  issued.  In  the 
"  Silver  coins  of  England  "  (8rd  ed.,  1887),  by  Edw.  Hawkins, 
revised  by  Mr.  Kenyon,  the  coin  reading  RI<7  is  doubtfully 
attributed  to  Castle  Rising :  and  one  reading  RVI  to  Romney : 
but  of  that  reading  RINC  (now  in  Mr.  Rashleigh's  collection) 
no  explanation  is  suggested. 

In  "  Anglosachsiska  Mynt "  (2nd  ed.  1881],  a  Swedish  work 
by  B.  E.  Hildebrand,  keeper  of  the  royal  collection  of  medals 
at  Stockholm,  all  varieties  of  Saxon  coins  which  have  been 
found  in  Sweden  are  carefully  noted.  The  Stockholm  museum 
contains  as  many  as  3869  coins  of  Cnut,  each  differing  from  sll 
the  others  in  some  minute  particular.  If  we  compare  the 
numbers  struck  at  each  town,  we  shall  see  that  London  heads 
the  list  with  1010  specimens,  while  York  ranks  second  with  448, 
and  Lincoln  third  with  886  specimens.  Of  coins  whioh  might 
be  claimed  for  Richmond  or  Castle  Rising,  Hildebrand  describes 
three,  reading, 

*ZIRI(7    ON    RICYEBH 
ZIRIC    ON    RINE 
VLF    ON    RICZZA 

In  the  text  of  his  work  Hildebrand  says,  these  are  "probably 
of  Rising  Castle  in  Norfolk,  or  of  Richborough  in  Buckingham- 
shire." So  of  the  three  standard  authorities  on  this  period, 
one  mentions  the  coins  without  stating  where  they  were  struck, 
another  hesitatingly  suggests  Castle  Rising,  and  the  third, 
while  thinking  that  suggestion  probable,  is  of  opinion  that  they 
might  owe  their  origin  to  Richborough  in  Buckinghamshire. 

Two  then  out  of  the  three  authorities  on  this  period  are  in 
favour  of  the  attribution  of  these  coins  to  the  Castle  Rising 
mint:  and  their  opinion  is  endorsed  by  the  curators  of  the 
collection  in  the  British  Museum.  A  coin  of  Cnut,  in  that 
collection,  reading, 

CNOFLNEN     ON    RIC 
is  catalogued  as  of  the  Castle  Rising  mint. 

It  may  seem  surprising  to  some  readers  that  numismatists 
should  speak  with  certainty  of  a  mint  having  been  at  work 
in  a  little  Norfolk  village,  the  inhabitants  of  which  scarcely 
number  three  hundred  aud  fifty;  while  those  same  numismatists 
doubt  that  coins  were  ever  struck  in  the  town  of  Richmond. 
But  nevertheless,  a  penny  of  Stephen,  now  in  the  collection  of 
Mr.  Montagu,  on  which  the  name  of  the  mint  is  given  in  fall, 
establishes  beyond  a  doubt  the  fact,  that  moneyers  worked  in 
Stephen's  reign  at  Castle  Rising,  t    Possibly  it  may  be  replied, 

♦All  the  Z'b  Bhould  be  reversed,  the  perpendicular  line  sloping  contrary  way. 
t  Mr.  Montagu's  penny  of  Stephen  reads  HIVN  ON  RI8INGE. 


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248 


that  from  the  reign  of  Cnut  to  that  of  Stephen  is  a  long  inter- 
val; and  proof  that  moneyers  worked  at  Castle  Rising  in 
Stephen's  reign  is  not  proof  that  they  worked  at  the  same  place 
in  the  reign  of  Gnnt.  We  are  well  aware  of  that ;  but  still,  as 
evidence  bearing  on  the  respective  claims  of  Castle  Rising, 
Bichborough  and  Richmond  is  so  scanty,  the  coin  of  Stephen 
renders  the  antecedent  probability  very  great  that  many  of  the 
pennies  in  question  were  struck  at  Castle  Rising. 

What  has  been  stated  above  with  regard  to  these  coins  may 
be  summed  up  Anus  in  a  few  words : — 

Those  pennies  of  Cnut  reading  RIC  may  be  of  the  Castle 
Rising  mint. 

The  penny  reading  RIV  (given  by  Ruding)  is  probably  the 
same  as  that  reading  RYI  (given  by  Hks.);  and  if  so,  of  the 
Romney  mint. 

Ruding's  RING'  and  Hildebrand's  RINE  may  be  the  same : 
and  are  possibly  blundered  coins  of  Lincoln  (LINC)  or  Win- 
chester /PINT).  Ruding's  may  even  be  the  same  coin  as  that 
said  by  (rough  to  read  "-RIPO,  which  he  stated  was  in  the 
Duke  of  Devonshire's  collection.  No  such  coin  was  noted  in 
the  sale  catalogue  of  his  collection. 

Now  with  respect  to  the  York  mint.  The  coins  mentioned 
by  Gough,  which  have  the  name  of  the  mint  on  the  obverse  as 
well  as  on  the  reverse  are  remarkable.  They  are  also  noted  in 
Hks.,  so  possibly  specimens  are  still  known.  The  list  of 
moneyers  who  worked  at  York,  as  given  by  Gough,  can  be 
largely  supplemented.  In  the  following  list,  taken  from  Hilde- 
brand,  I  have  tried  to  the  best  of  my  ability  to  eliminate  mere 
repetitions  of  the  same  name  in  other  forms,  so  as  to  give  some 
idea  of  the  number  of  moneyers  who  worked  at  York  in  Cnut's 
reign.  By  looking  through  the  York  coins  in  the  British 
Museum,  I  have  been  able  to  add  a  few  names  not  given  by 
Hildebrand,  and  have  noted  my  authority  for  this  by  placing 
the  letters  [B.M.]  after  these  names. 


List  of  Cnut's  York  Moneyers. 


iEtfELPINE 

.ELFERE 

iEDELPINE 

ABNCETEL 

ARNOLF  [B.M.] 

AZCVTR 

AZFERD 

AZtfOD 

AZtfOVT 

BEORN 

BIRHTNOZ) 

BRAND 


S3versed  Z's.) 
TN07) 
BRETECOL 
BRVNIC 
CETEL 
COLtfRIM 
CRINAN 

CRINVLF  (Gough) 
ORVCAN 
(7RVRN 
CYTEL 
DAHFIN 
DEORZI6HE  [B.M.] 


EARN CYTEL 

EARNtfRIM 

EIMVLF  [B.M.] 

ELFZTAN 

ELF  PINE  (Gough) 

E7)ELPINE 

FyER7)EIN 

FARtfRIM 

FRIOCOL 

OIMVLF 

RODMAN 

(?RIMAN  [B.M.] 


244 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 


♦GODNA  [G.F.C.] 
(7RIMOLF 
GRVRN 
tfVNHPAT 
HEARDECNVT 
HILDOLF 
(NILDVP  Gough) 
HILDRED 
IBE 

LEFPINE 
OZGOT 
ODIN 
OVZTMAN 


OVDtfRIM 
REFEN 

RINVLF  (Gough) 
SCVLAA 
SELECOL 
ZERTINE.(Hil) 
ZVRITINE  [B.M.] 
ZNECOL 
STIRC 
STIRCER 
STIRCOL 
ZVNOLF 
ZP-AZER 


8PEOEN 
BPERTINE 
DVRtfRIM 
DVRIM 
VCEDE 
VLFCETEL 
VLFGRIM 
PIPAN  [B.M.] 
PIDERINE 
(PIDB.UI) 
PVLFNOT) 
PVLZIGE 
PVLZTAN 


(VZTMAN) 

In  the  above  list  the  vowels  O  and  V  are  often  interchanged, 
the  same  man  spelling  his  name  at  one  time  with  the  ending 
OLF,  at  another  with  VLF.  The  coin  of  GODNA  in  my 
collection  is  by  an  unpublished  moneyer,  and  is  also  an  un- 
published variety.  It  is  like  Hks.  No.  218  and  Hildebrand 
type  G.,  but  has  no  sceptre  in  front  of  the  king.  It  is  of  aver- 
age weight,  17  grs.,  and  reads  GODNA  SR)  EOFER. 

The  great  number  and  variety  of  Cnut's  English  coins  is  a 
proof  of  the  wealth  of  the  country.  No  Danish  coins  of  this 
king  are  known.  Of  all  his  dominions  Cnut  prized  England 
most.  He  gave  it  the  place  of  honour  amongst  his  titles.  It 
was  his  favourite  place  of  residence.  In  everything  but  his 
birth  Cnut  was  an  Englishman,  and  he  had  at  heart  the  wel- 
fare of  the  country  over  which  he  ruled.  During  the  whole  of 
his  reign,  England  was  in  a  state  of  peace  and  prosperity. 
And  it  was  a  dark  day  for  England  when  Cnut  the  Great  died 
at  Shaftesbury  on  Nov.  11th,  1085. 


IjorkfifjtK  dittos 


in  Wabbueton  Collection,  Lansdowne  MBS.,  British  Musbtx. 

CONTRIBUTED  BT   Ml8S  E.   IjLOTD. 

John  Warburton,  ob.  1759.  Coll:  for  Yorkshire.  Lansdowne 
MS.  889-99 ;  895 ;  909 ;  914-17.  889— This  no.  and  the  10 
next  ensuing  form  Mr.  Warburton's  Coll :  of  Materials  for  the 
Hist,  of  Yorkshire,  partly  in  fragments  of  printed  books,  partlv 
in  MS. 

914, 4to,  contains  a  great  many  views  of  towns,  ruins,  gentle- 
men's seats,  etc.,  chiefly  pen  and  ink  sketches,  several  of  which 
are  very  neatly  executed. 

S.  Buck.  Engraving  of  Lazinby  Hall,  nr.  Northallerton,  in 
the  County  of  York,  one  of  the  seats  of  Henry  Pierse,  Esq.,  to 


WITH    YORKSHIBE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  245 

whom  this  plate  is  humbly  inscribed  by  his  obliged  friend  and 
servant,  John  Warburton,  Somerset. 

T.  Harris,  Sculp.,  Ex.  Coll.,  I.W. 
Pen  and  Ink.    Beverley  from  the  West. 
Bishop  Burton  Hall,  the  seat  of  Gee,  Esq. 
Beswick,  the  seat  of  Dan.  Draper,  Esq.,  to  the  West. 
The  North  Prospect  of  Watton  Abbey,  the   seat   of   Hugh 

Bethell,  Esq. 
Killick,  the  seat  of  John  Atkins,  Esq.,  to  the  South. 
Weighton,  to  the  North. 

Loansbrough,  the  seat  of  the  Earl  of  Burlington,  to  the  South. 
The  Prospect  of  Everingham,  seat  of  Sir  Mar:  Constable,  Bt. 
The  West  view  of  Hayton,  the  seat  of  Hen.  Cutler,  Esq. 
Warter,  the  seat  of  Joseph  Pennington,  Esq.,  to  the  S.  East. 
The  Prospect  of  Kildwick  Perse  as  improved  by  Sir  Edward 

Anderton,  Bart. 
The  East  Prospect  of  Pocklington,  Aldby,  the  seat  of  Henry 

Parley,  Esq.  to  the  South. 
The  seat  of  (Ld.  Erwin  ?  in  pencil),  in  Burdsall,  (very  slight 

sketch). 
North  Grimston,  the  seat  of  Tho.  Langley,  Esq.  to  the  East. 
The  East  Front  of  Burdsall,  the  seat  of  Tho.  Sowtheby,  Esq. 
Kirkham  Abby  in  the  County  of  York. 
K&apton,  the  seat  of  Tho.  Sutton,  Esq.  to  the  South. 
Malton  to  the  South. 

The  Buins  of  Kirkham  Priory  to  the  North. 
Howsome,  the  seat  of  Sir  John  Wentworth,  Bart.,  to  the  South. 
(  ),  seat  of  Tobi)  T„i-  a  t?0„ 

Robt.renkm8'Esq- 
The  S.E.  Prospect  of  Middlethorp,  the  seat  of  Fran.  Barlow. 
Naburn,  the  seat  of  George  Palmes,  Esq. 
The   S.   East  Prospect  of  Bella   Hall,   the   seat  of  Hewley 

Baines,  Esq. 
The  S.  Prospect  of  Moorby,  the  seat  of  Marm.  Lawson,  Esq. 
The  West  Prospect  of  Eexby,  the  seat  of  C.  Headlam,  Esq. 
The  South  West  Prospect  of  Thicket,  the  seat  of  Humph. 

Robinson,  Esq. 
The  Prospect  of  Bray  ton  Hall,  the  seat  of  Bob.  Pockley,  Esq. 
Burn,  the  seat  of  Bobt.  Mitford,  Esq. 
The   N.   West  Prospect  of    Cambleforth,   the   seat  of  John 

Addams,  Esq. 
The   South   West  Prospect   of    Bawcliffe   Hall,   the   seat  of 

Boynton  Boynton,  Esq. 
The  East  Prospect  of  Carlton,  the  seat  of  Hen.  Stapylton,  Esq. 
The  North  Prospect  of  Cowick,  the  seat  of  the  Lord  Yisct. 

Downe. 
Pontefract  to  the  South. 
The  South  West  Prospect  of  the  seat  of  J  Savile,  Esq. 


246  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 

The    South   Prospect    of    Woinersley,    the    seat   of   Tobtth 

Harvey,  Esq. 
The   South  Prospect   of    Stapleton  Hall,   the  seat  of  Sam 

Walker,  Esq. 
The    South    Prospect    of   Norton    Priory,  the  seat  of  John 

Bamsden,  Esq. 
The  North  Prospect  of  Campsall,  the  seat  of  Bichd.  Franks,  Esq. 
The   South   Prospect   of    Campsall   Hall,   the   Beat  of  Tho. 

Yarborough. 
The  South  Prospect  of  Wheatley,  the  seat  of  Sir  Geo.  Cook,  Bart. 
The  South  East   Prospect  of   Cudworth,  the  seat  of  Thos. 

Wright  son,  Esq. 
Prospect  of  the  seat  of  John  Batty,  Esq. 

The    South   Prospect   of  8prot borough,   the   seat  of  Lionel 

Copley,  Esq. 
The   North   E.   Prospect   of    Wad  worth,  the  seats  of  Will, 

Arthur  and  Lionel  Copley,  Esqs. 
The  Prospects  of  Eatlington  alias  Edlington,  the  seat  of  the 
Bight  Hon.  the  Lord  Molesworth. 

This  Monument  was  erected  by  the  Pres'*  Lord  Molesworth 
over  a  Favoret  Dogg,  and  inscribed  as  above.  It  is  of  white 
marble  and  placed  at  the  principal  center  of  the  Vista  in  his 
pine  woods  at  Edlington. 

Sisti  Viator  nee  mirard 
Supremo  Efferri  ?  honore       (or  Etterri  ?) 
Extinctum,  cattellum 
Sed  Qualem, 
Quern  forma  insinguis  modusq  candor 
Morum  gratia  ffacilesq  lusus 
Amo  obsequium  fides. 
Delicias  Domini  fecire 
Cujus  lateri  adhoesit  aflionus 
Conviva  sociusq  thori 

Illo  comite. 
Vis  animi  herelis  delassorta 
Ingenium  mentemq  novam  samebat 
Ictis  pro  miritis  non  ingratus  heras 
Memoria  hac  urna  mortuum 
Defleus  locavit 
B.  M.    F.  C. 
On  the  back  of  the  stones — 
Ingurioae  ne  Ped  Promas 
Stautom  Columnam. 
North  Prospect  of  Crookhill,  the  seat  of  Wm.  Woodyear,  E6q. 
North  Prospect  of  Bramley  Hall,  the  seat  of  Hen.  Eyre, Esq. 
The  South  Prospect  of  Bramley  Orange,  the  seat  of  Will: 

Spencer,  Esq. 
Thuroroft,  the  seat  of  Wm.  Beck  with,  Esq.,  to  the  South. 


WITH    YOBKSHIBE    FOLK-LOBE    JOURNAL.  247 

The  South  Prospect  of  the  seat  of  John  Hatfield,  Esq.,  ift 

Laughton-le-Morthen. 
North  Prospect  of  Slate  Horton,  the  seat  of  John  Mirfin,  Esq. 
Fountain's,  the  seat  of  John  Messenger,  Esq.,  to  the  South. 
Brampton,  .    of  John  Bradshaw,  Esq.,  to  the  8.  East. 

This  column  was  erected  in  the  Market  Place  at  Bipon  by 

the  Bt.  Hon.  John  Aislaby,  Esq.    An.  Dom.  17 — . 
Todwick  Hall,  the  seat  of        Garland,  Esq. 
The  South  Prospect  of  Fountain's  Abbey. 
Kiveton,  the  seat  of 

East  of  Aston  Hall.    E.  of  Holderness. 

8.  W.    Gillwaite  Hall,  Geo.  Westby,  Esq. 
N.  W.    High  House,  Geo.  Bainforth,  Esq. 
S.  W.    Whitley  Hall,  nr.  Sheffield,  Jno.  Shirediffe,  Esq. 
W.  Thundercliffe  Grange,  Wm.  Green,  Esq. 

S.  Howsley  Hall,  Howsley  Freeman,  Esq. 

S.  Wortley,  Hon.  Wortley  Montague,  Esq. 

E.  Hall,  Earl  of  Strafford. 

E.  Stainber 

S.  Bridge  House,  nr.  Sheffield,  T.  Wright,  Gent. 

Mr.  Bay's  new  house  at  Sheffield. 

Sheffield ;  including  the  Old  Church,  the  New  Church, 
Hospital,  Sheffield  Manor,  Sheffield  Castle,  Market 
Place,  Free  School. 
E.  Broom  Hall,  nr.  Sheffield,  Wm.  Jessop,  Esq. 

N.  Sheffield  Manor,  D.  of  Norfolk. 

N.  Moorgate  Hall,  John  Fookes,  Esq. 

Rothbbham. — Double  page  with  Coat  of  Arms  in  corner,  and 
dedication  to  Thos.  Wentworth,  Esq.  of  Wentworth  Woodhouse, 

P.  T.  Warburton,  and  signed  Saml.  Buck,  deli  et ,  1728. 

S.  W.    Carrhouse  Grange,  Westby  Gill,  Esq. 

N.  W.    Aldwarke  Hall,  Fran.  Foljamb,  Esq. 

8.  Bawmarsh  Hall,  Edwd.  Goodwin,  Esq. 

N.  Wentworth  wood  house,  Tho.  Wentworth,  Esq. 

E.  Wombwell  Hall,  Wombwell,  Esq. 

P.  of  Barnsley. 
N.  Worsper  Village.     [Worsborough.] 

Glen  House,  nr.  Barnsley,  Hen.  Carrington,  Gent. 
8.  Banks  Hall,  Wm.  Green,  Esq. 

A  distant  8.  W.  view  of  Monk  Bretton  Priory. 
8.  Cannon  Hall,  J.  Will.  Spencer,  Esq. 

S.  Burtwaite  Hall,  John  Silvester,  Esq. 

8.  Haigh  Hall,  Wm.  Westby  Cotton,  Gent. 

Bretton  Hall,  Sir  Willm.  Wentworth,  Bart. 

Seats  of  Mr.  Nicho.  Burley,  in  Woolly. 
S.  Woolley  Hall,  Wm.  Wentworth,  Esq. 

Chapelthorpe,  Thos.  Beaumont,  Esq. 
S.    Pr[ospect]  of  Wakefield. 


£48  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 

E.  Heath,  Sir  Chas.  Dalston,  Bart. 

S.  Heath,  John  Smith,  Esq. 

Hauley  ?  Sir  Lionel  Pilkington,  Bt. 

Mr.  Clark's  house  in  [  ]  near  Wakefield. 

Mr.  Hatfield's  house  near  Stanley. 

Lupset  Hall,  Rich.  Wit  ton,  Esq. 
S.  Mr.  Bawson's  house  in  Bradford. 

S.  Bradford. 

S.  Boiling  Hall,  Fran.  Lindley,  Esq. 

8.  North  Bierley,  Bichd.  Richardson,  Esq. 

Roads  Hall,  Willm.  Rookes,  Esq. 

High  Fearnley,  John  Richardson,  Esq. 
S.  Ryshworth,  Wm.  Bnsfield,  Esq. 

N.  E.      Riddlesden  Hall,  Starkey. 
S.  Eildwiok,  Hen.  Gurrer. 

N.  view  of  Skipton  in  Craven. 
N.  W.    Broughton  Hall,  Stephen  Tempest,  Esq. 
W.         Barnoldswick,  Wm.  Drake,  Esq. 
S.  Marton  Hall,  Thos.  Heber,  Esq. 

E.  Horton,  Edwd.  Hoyle,  (?)  Gent. 

S.  Guisburn  Hall,  Henry  Marsden. 

E.  Weston  Hall  in  Craven,  Tho.  Lister. 

E.  Bolton  Hall,  Ambrose  Pudsey,  Esq. 

S.  Parker's  Hospital  in  Waddington. 

Bashall,  Wm.  Ferrers,  Esq. 
E.  Broxholme  Hall  in  Bolland,  Edwd.  Parker,  Esq. 

Dunnag  Hall,  near  Slatebum,  Slinger,  Esq. 

Slateburn   Free   Schoole,  founded  and  endowed  by 
Brennand,  late  collector  in  the  excise. 

Slateburn  Town  Head,  the  seat  of  Mr.  Hen.Wiglesworth. 

Hammerton  Hall  in  Craven,  heretofore  the  seat  of  Mr. 
Hammerton,  bnt  now  belonging  to  Chetham'fl  Coll: 
in  Manchester,  Lancashire. 
S.  Rushton  Grange,  Alan  Johnson,  Esq. 

S.  Catterick  Hall,  near  Settle,  Chas.  Harris,  Esq. 

Langcliffe  Hall,  near  Settle,  Wm.  Dawson,  Esq. 

The  Ebbing  and  Flowing  Well,  nr.  Giggleewick. 

The  W.  Prospect  of  Settle  in  Craven. 

Holling  Hall. 

Chapelside  Hall. . 
E.  Beamsley  Hill,  John  Morton,  Gent. 

Bolton  Free  School,  founded  and  endowed  by  Robert 
Boyle,  Esq. 
S.  E.      Ruins  of  Bolton  Abbey  in  Craven. 

Distant  view  do. 

8.  Denton  Hall,  Sam.  Ibbetson,  Esq. 

E.  Burley  Hall. 

Wesston  Hall,  Wm.  Vavasour,  Esq. 


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Prospect  of  Otley. 

Newel,  Edmd.  Barker,  Esq. 
Farnley,  Fran.  Fawkes,  Esq. 
W.    Learley  (Leathley),  Bobt.  Hitch,  Esq. 
Cookridge,  Rev.  Wm.  Lumley. 
Hawksworth,  Sir  Walter  Hawkesworth. 
Horsforth,  John  Staqhope,  Esq. 
Leeds. 
Do.  con. 
Y.    The  Vioaridge  erected  by  the  Corporation  of  Leeds. 
Major  Thornton's  ?        in  Leeds. 
Methley  Hall,  Hen.  Savile,  Esq. 
The  New  Dogg  Kenel  erreoted  in  Methley  Park. 
V.    Mr.  Shann's  house  at  Methley. 

Kippax  Park,  Sir  John  Bland,  Bt. 
7.    Ledstane,  The  Lady  Eliz.  Hastings. 
7.    Eippax  Hall,  Sir  Reginald  Graham,  Bt. 
Temple  Newsam,  Ld.  Visct.  Irwin. 
Byrom  Hall,  Sir  Wm.  Ramsden,  Bt. 
Scardingwell,  Gapt.  Hannan. 
.  of  Tadcaster. 

Huddleston,  Sir  Fr.  Hnngate,  Bt. 

Grimston,  Langdale  Stanhope,  Esq. 

Benningborough,  John  Bouchier,  Esq. 

Distant  view  of  the  Red  house,  Sir  Thos.  Slingsby,  Bt. 

Nun  Monkton  Priory,  Nath.  Payne,  Esq. 

Hulton  Banks  ?  Roundell,  Esq. 

Marston  Hall,  Edwd.  Thompson,  Esq. 

Enaresborough. 

Do.  Con.  (Castle),  Fran.  Trappes,  Edq. 

Nydd  Hall,  Hodges,  Esq. 

Colgrave  Hall,  Sir  Thos.  Tancred,  Bt. 

Brampton  Hall. 

N.  P.  Boroughbridge. 

The  Devil's  Arrowes. 

Newby  Hall,  Sir  Wm.  Robinson,  Bt. 

(?  Pencil  sketches  of  a  recumbent  knight  on  a  tomb). 

Altar  lately  found  at  Ilkley  with  an  insc. 

8.  P.  of  Consborough  Castle  where  Hengist  the  famous 

Saxon  General  is  said  to  have  been  killed. 
Ravenfield,  Thos.  Weston,  Esq. 
Engraving  of  the  Ichnography  or  Platform  of  the  Cath: 

Ch  :  of  St.  Peter's  in  York. 
House  on  grey  paper. 
Farnley  Hall,  Abstrupus  Danby,  Esq. 
Bedall  Church, — Pencil. 
Agness  Burton,  Sir  Griff.  Boynton,  Bt. 
S.  P.  Bedall. 


B50  .      YOBKBHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 

Vignettes  6  in  a  page  of  Towton  Hall,  nr.  Tadcaater ; 
Buines  of  Spofforth  Manor ;  Smawa  Hill,  nr.  Tad- 
caster;  Oglethorp  Hall,  nr.  Tadoaster;  Plumpton 
Tower ;  Newton  Kine.  .     . 

Bowdon,  Ellis,  Esq. ;  Wodsome,  Kay,  Bt. ;  Rudston 
Roman  monuments ;  Middllm  St.  George ;  Farnhill? 
Hall  in  Craven;  Ld.  Bingley;  Kirby  Overblow; 
Galverley;  Ellerbnrn;  MalhamCave;  The  Chapel 
nr.  Knaresbro'  cut  out  of  the  rock ;  Mr.  Studley's* 
lodge  nr.  Ukley ;  The  ruins  of  Harewood  Castle. 
Double  page— rS.  Prospect  of  Yarm,  Guisborough,  from 

the  AJlom  Bocks. 
Osmotherley  in  Cleveland. 
Stockesley  Town  at  distance. 
Buines  of  Seamer  nr.  Scarborough. 
E.  Duncomb  Park,  Tho.  Duncomb,  Esq. 

N.  Newborow,  Ld.  Visct.  I'alcon(berg) 

S.  Bushton,  Bobt.  Bobinson,  Esq. 

S.  Wyckham  Abbey. 

S.  Ebberston  Lodge,  Wm.  Thompson,  Esq. 

S.  Brompton,  Sir  Ar.  Caley,  Bt. 

Thornton,  John  Hill,  Esq. 
S.  Welburn,  Gibson,  Esq. 

N.  Nunnington,  Jno.  Jackson,  Esq. 

Nunnington  Hall,  Ld.  Visct.  Preston. 
W.         Ness,  Balph  Crathorne,  Esq. 

Oswald  Church,  Wm.  Moor,  Esq. 
S.  Ganton,  Sir  Thos.  Legard,  Bt. 


Thomas  de  Escrik,  chaplain,  by  William  de  Hodelston  his 
attorney,  complained  of  Robert  atte  Welle,  of  Ilkelay,  Robert 
del  Ker,  Walter  son  of  Isolda,  Bichard  del  Holyns,  Thomas  le 
Maohoun,  John  Elyotson,  Alan  le  Suur,  Gilbert  Pek,  Roger  le 
Diker,  Robert  Hardy,  Hugh  Stevenson  and  Peter  del  Stede, 
that  they  with  force  and  arms  had  seized,  imprisoned  and  ill- 
treated  the  said  Thomas  de  Escrik  at  Ilkelay,  and  had  taken 
and  carried  away  his  goods  and  chattels  there  found  to  the 
value  of  £10. 

•   De  Banoo  Boll,  Trin.  7  Edw.  II,  No.  86,  [A.D.  1814.]  m. 
185  d. 

Assize,  10  Edw.  III.     Skirack.    Adam  le  Wod  of  Skibdon 

was  indicted  for  stealing  fourteen  shillings  of  silver  from  John 

le  Sotherne,  on  Bumbelesmore,  near  le  Hyngandstan,  on  the 

Saturday  next  after  the  feast  of  Holy  Trinity  in  the  9th  year 

•  Myddelton  Lodge,  at  Stuhham,  near  Ukley. 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE    JOURNAL.  251 

F  the  reign  of  our  present  King  (1885).   He  pleaded  not  guilty 
ad  was  aoquitted. 

N  ) 
Assise  Boll,  York  1       1,  m.  3d. 

27  j 
These  two  notes  are  interesting  for  the  early  local  names 
hich  they  contain.  In  the  first  we  may  especially  note  "  atte 
Telle"  and  "del  Holyns."  The  "well"  is  possibly  the  one 
iown  now-a-days  as  the  "  White  well " ;  and  there  seems  no 
ason  to  doubt  that  the  "Holyns"  here  mentioned  gave  a 
ime  to  "Holins"-hall,  or  Hollinghall.  In  the  second  note 
is  interesting  to  find  mention  of  "le  Hyngandstan,"  the 
ime  of  which  is  still  preserved  in  "  Hangingstone  Book." 

W.  Palsy  Baildon. 


Puritan  Emigration. — I  wish  to  inquire  through  the  pages 
'  your  valuable  periodical  whether  any  of  its  readers  have 
und  in  contemporary  letters  or  documents,  or  in  any  book 
•inted  before  1650,  any  reference  to  the  embarkation  of  Sir 
atthew  Boynton,  a  Yorkshire  baronet;  John  Hampden, 
liver  Cromwell,  Sir  Arthur  Hazelrig,  and  Sir  William 
Dnstable,  or  any  of  them,  for  New  England.  These  are  the 
arsons  concerning  whom  much  has  been  written,  who  are 
id  to  have  gone  on  board  ships  in  1688,  bound  for  New 
ngland,  but  were  prevented  from  proceeding  on  their  voyage 
r  the  Council  who  ordered  a  stay  of  the  vessels.  There  is 
idence  of  the  stay  of  the  vessels,  but  no  contemporary  proof 
is,  to  my  knowledge,  been  produced  that  any  of  these  persons 
3re  in  the  vessels. 

Cotton  Mather,  in  his  Magnalia  (book  8,  page  102),  states 
at  the  Bev.  Ezekiel  Bogers,  of  Bowley,  in  Yorkshire,  was  to 
ive  been  accompanied  in  his  emigration  to  New  England  by 
x  William  Constable  and  Sir  Matthew  Boynton;  and  it  is 
ipposed  that  this  clergyman  was  in  London  early  in  the  year 
which  the  ships  were  stayed  by  the  Council,  as  in  the  calen- 
ir  of  State  papers,  Colonial  series,  edited  by  Mr.  Sainsbury, 
>1.  1,  page  268,  under  date  of  Feb.  15, 1688,  reference  is  made 
a  proposition  by  the  Court  of  Providence  Island  that  "  Mr* 
tiaucy  and  Mr.  Bogers  be  moved  to  divert  their  intended 
>yages  from  New  England  to  Providence." 
I  am  acquainted  with  the  common  authorities  on  this 
lestion,  and  twenty-four  years  ago  collected  the  various 
atements  together  and  printed  them  in  the  New  England 
istorical  and  Genealogical  Begister  for  April,  1866.  I  could 
>t  then  find  in  any  contemporary  letters  or  documents,  nor 
any  book  printed  near  the  time  of  the  Order  in  Council,  any 
ention  of  the  embarkation  of  any  of  the  persons  named,  and, 


352  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 

in  the  almost  quarter  of  a  century  that  has  elapsed  since,  I 
have  found  none. 
Boston,  Mass,  U.S.A.  John  Ward  Dbax. 


CENTENARIANS. 

The  newspapers  of  the  past  few  weeks  record  the  deaths  of 
three  Yorkshire  Centenarians.  T.,  Jan.  1890. 

Funeral  of  Mrs.  Lanchester. — The  remains  of  Mrs.  Lan- 
Chester,  who  was  one  of  the  Queen's  oldest  subjects,  were 
interred  in  Manfield  Churchyard  on  the  3rd  inst.,  in  the  pre- 
sence of  numerous  relatives  and  some  very  old  friends.  The 
deceased,  who  was  in  the  107th  year  of  her  age,  was  born  at 
G allow  Hill,  Yorkshire,  on  the  29th  of  May,  1788,  and  was 
baptised  at  Bowes  Church,  near  Barnard  Castle.  She  breathed 
her  last  at  the  home  of  her  son,  Mr.  George  Lanchester,  at 
West  Auckland,  on  Tuesday,  after  some  four  or  five  days'  ill- 
ness. The  late  Mrs.  Lanchester  spent  a  large  portion  of  a 
happy  and  healthful  life  at  the  residence  of  Mrs.  John  Procter, 
her  daughter,  and  widow  of  the  late  Mr.  John  Procter,  at 
Hunton,  a  village  situated  in  the  centre  of  Richmondshire, 
about  equal  distances  from  the  three  chief  agricnltural  towns 
of  Richmond,  Leyburn,  and  Bedale.  At  hay -time  and  harvest 
she  for  years  walked  to  the  farm  and  took  a  delight  in  assisting 
her  children  and  grand-children.  This  she  continued  to  do 
until  a  year  or  two  ago.  The  eldest  of  her  sons,  who  dwells  in 
Northumberland,  did  not  get  to  the  funeral,  but  her  venerable 
sons  and  daughters,  Mr.  Geo.  Lanchester  and  Mrs.  Procter,  the 
nine  grand-children  from  Hunton,  Catterick,  Auckland,  and 
Jarrow,  respectively,  and  a  great-grand-daughter,  Agnes, 
daughter  of  Mrs.  Johnson  (formerly  Miss  Agnes  Procter,  of 
Hunton)  were  present.  Many  people  were  accustomed  to  walk 
or  drive  to  Hunton  specially  to  see  the  aged  lady,  whose 

Shotograph  formed  a  prominent  feature  in  the  recent  In- 
ustrial  Exhibition  at  Richmond. 

A  woman  named  Ann  Hunter,  an  inmate  of  the  "Whitby 
Union  Workhouse,  has  just  attained  her  100th  year.  She  is  a 
widow,  her  husband,  who  was  also  a  pauper,  having  died  a  few 
months  ago,  aged  90. 

The  death  was  announced  on  Saturday  last,  December  20th, 
1889,  of  a  man  named  John  Turner,  of  85,  West  street,  Hull, 
at  the  age  of  104  years.  Four  years  and  a  half  ago,  or  within 
six  months  of  attaining  his  100th  birthday,  he  insured  in  the 
Prudential  Company,  and  his  friends  thereby  became  entitled 
to  the  amount  of  his  policy. 

March  8,  1888,  Mrs.  Kilner  celebrated  her  hundredth  birth- 
day at  Mexborough. 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  258 

May,  1888,  Mrs.  English,  Sheffield,  attained  her  101st  year, 
with  hearing  and  eyesight  excellent ;  and  in  good  health. 

Jas.  Hinchcliffe,  elothier,  Millshaw,  near  Leeds,  died  1812, 
aged  102.    Annual  Register,  p.  188. 


Ismay's  Dluuks. — Particulars  of  the  Rev.  J.  Ismay,of  Mirfield, 
part  of  whose  diary  was  published  in  Y.  N.  S  Q.  for  1868,  are 
desired.    Also  further  instalments.  F.  M.  R. 

Otley  Pabish  Registebs. — The  first  two  volumes  still  pre- 
served date  from  1564  to  1698.  These,  the  late  Vicar  (Rev.  S. 
R.  Anderson,)  transcribed  in  index  form  with  a  view  to  publica- 
tion, and  at  my  request  offered  them  to  the  Yorkshire  Archaeo- 
logical Association,  but  nothing  came  of  it.  The  transcript  is 
still  kept  in  the  vestry-  Qf  the  remaining  volumes,  although 
lately  re-bound,  two  are  in  a  confused  state.  The  volume  of 
Bap.,  Marr.,  and  Burials,  1694  to  1780,  as  those  before  and 
after,  contain  entries  of  the  Fairfax,  Fawkes,  Dyneley,  and 
other  historic  families.  Garnett,  Dade,  Thackray,  Stubbs, 
Jennings,  Glarkson,  Barker,  Curtis,  Glapham,  are  of  constant 
repetition.    The  remaining  vols.,  to  1800,  are: — 

(a)  Baps.  1781-1758;    Bur.  1781-1751 ;     Marr.  1781-50. 

(b)  „      1745-72;  „     1745-72;  „     1747-54. 

(c)  „      1772-1812;       „     1772-1812. 

(d)  „      1758-60,  1772-88 ;  Bur.  1678-92, 1752-60, 1772-83. 

(e)  Marr.  1754-1776.  [Marr.  1750-4. 


(f )  „  1776-17&4.  This  book  is  in  printed  form,  as  re- 
quired by  law,  and  was  printed  at  York,  in  Pavement,  but  no 
printer's  name  is  given. 

(g)  Marr.  1794-1809. 

A  list  of  the  trades  recorded  would  be  interesting ;  I  noticed 
paper-makers  and  dish-throwers  in  1723.  Solomon  Swale,  of 
Esholt,  was  cloth-maker  in  1725 ;  what  relation  to  Sir  Solomon  ? 
Christopher  Saxton,  labourer,  and  others  of  that  name  resided 
at  Bramhope  in  1728.  He  was  buried  April  12,  1746.  The 
usual  penalties  were  paid  for  not  burying  in  woollen,  Thomas 
Pullain,  of  Burley,  gent.,  May  26,  1709. 

Jeremy  Collier,  of  Esholt,  buried  by  leave  at  Guiseley,  paid 
the  fee  at  Otley,  4s.  6d.,  28  March,  1787. 

There  are  similar  entries  respecting  burials  at  neighbouring 
churches  and  chapels. 

Clarksons,  of  Bramhope,  frequent.    Wm.  s.  Thos.  C.  of  B.  bap. 
1696. 

Wm.  s.  Wm.  Logan,  a  dragoon,  Otley,  bap.  28  Jan.  1711, 

[bur.  1715. 

Is  this  the  Halifax  Centenarian  soldier  ?  see  gravestone  near 
south  door,  Hx.  Ch. 
Gervase  Margerison= Sarah  Lupton,  spinster,  8  Oct.  1787. 


254        YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES,   ' 

James  Margerison,  husbandman  =  Susanna  Heaton,  spinster, 

24  May,  1785. 
Lister  Cunliffe,  Ilkley,  gent.  =  Ann  Gill,  widow,  by  licence, 

6  May,  1772.     Witnesses— John  Margerison,  John  Boiling. 
Edwd.  Collyer,  Otley = Mary  Riley,  spinster,  22  Nov.  1778. 
Edmund  s.  Edmund  Jennings,  Mens  ton,  bap.  1780,  d.  1780. 
Edmund  Jennings = Margaret  Turner,  1726. 
Edmund  Jennings = Anne  Lamb,  21  Mch.  1786-7. 
Jacob  &  Esau,  sons  of   Edmund   Jennings,    Menston,  bap. 

July  1745. 
Ellis  Cunliffe,  Ilkley,  batchelor,  and  Elizabeth  Lister  of  Otley 

parish,  spinster,  married  by  licence,  Oct.  22,  1788. 
John,  son  of  Geo.  Trevylian,  Esq.,  bap.  Feb.  7,  1784. 
Rev.  Joshua  Crowther,  Vicar  of  Otley,  buried  Apr.  18,  1750. 
Ann,  dau.  Rev.  Mr.   Thomas  Hudson,  schoolmaster  of  Free 
School,  Otley,  bap.  Sep.  10, 1781.   She  was  buried  May  24, 1782. 
Thomas,  his  bon,  bap.  Sep.  8,  1788. 

Many  other  Vicars,  Curates,  Schoolmasters  and  Gentry  are 
mentioned. 

Mr.  John  Horsfield,  excise  officer,  Otley,  married  Mary 
Whitehead,  of  Otley,  Nov.  1704.  Their  children  were  baptised 
as  follows : — Christopher,  Jan.  6, 1705-6;  Mary,  1708;  Martha, 
1712 ;  Matthias,  1712-8.  Mary,  wife  Mr.  John  Horsfield,  Otley, 
bur.  1716. 

Timothy  Horsfall,  Bradford,  married  Sarah  Garnett,  of  Otley, 
August  8,  1785. 

The  plague  was  at  Otley  in  1604,  and  other  entries  in  the 
Registers  refer  to  the  great  flood  of  1678,  (when  nearly  all  the 
bridges  of  the  West  Riding  were  destroyed  or  damaged,)  to 
erecting  pews,  and  to  the  Fairfax  family.  Christopher  Cave 
had  a  licence  to  eat  flesh  during  Lent,  1658.  Thomas  Cave 
founded  the  Grammar  School,  on  which  was  the  fine  punning 
motto :  Deo  Pave,  Tomo  Cave.    (Fear  God;  mind  thy  book)* 

William  Hudson,  Vicar  of  Weston  and  Master  of  the  Qtley 
Grammar  School,  is  mentioned  1676. 

Mr.  Hole,  Curate  of  Guiseley,  1668 ;  Mr.  More,  Curate  of 
Baildon  and  Coley,  1664 ;  Mr.  Jeremy  Crosland,  Curate  of 
Bramhope,  1668,  are  also  noted. 


florksljire    Biahrt 

As  spoken  in  the  North  and  East  RidingB,  together  with 
Stories  illustrative  of  the  Yorkshire  Character. 

Those  who  have  made  a  study  of  the  English  Dialects,  and 
have  listened  attentively  to  them  as  they  have  been  spoken, 
cannot  but  have  noticed  that  a  considerable  change  has  taken 
place  in  the  ordinary  language  of  our  country  folk  during  the 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  255 

last  twenty  years.  The  North  and  East  Ridings  of  Yorkshire 
are  no  exception  to  the  role.  Railways  and  certificated  school- 
masters, despite  their  advantages,  are  making  sad  havoc  of 
much  that  is  interesting  and  worth  preserving  in  the  mother 
tongue  of  the  people.  This  is  to  be  regretted.  It  is  with  the 
object  of  collecting  any  suck  relics  of  the  past,  which  would  other- 
wise be  doomed  to  oblivion,  that  I  make  the  following  appeal 
to  my  brother  Yorkshiremen,  many  of  whom,  I  know,  must 
have  a  sort  of  affection  for  the  rich  and  powerful  Dialects  of 
the  Eastern  half  of  the  County.  These  sound  like  music  in  the 
ears  of  many  of  us.  I  am  well  aware  that  much  valuable  work 
has  been  already  done  in  this  direction,  and  that  by  more  able 
hands  than  mine.  The  English  Dialect  Society,  under  the 
editorship  of  the  Rev.  W.  W.  Skeat,  published,  among  others 
of  a  similar  kind,  a  copious  glossary  of  words  used  in  the 
Whitby  district, — a  part  of  the  county  especially  fertile  in 
dialectic  lore :  again,  the  Glossary  of  the  Cleveland  Dialect,  by 
the  Rev.  J.  C.  Atkinson,  is  a  work  full  of  learning  and  research ; 
as  any  treatise  of  the  kind  would  be  from  the  pen. of  that  writer. 
Scores  of  works,  of  greater  or  lesser  note,  have  been  written 
from  time  to  time  with  the  like  object,  as  may  be  seen  from 
Mr.  Skeat' s  bibliographical  list  of  those  published,  or  known  to 
exist  in  MS.,  illustrative  of  the  Yorkshire  Dialects,  among 
others.  Still  it  is  probable  that  the  mine  is  not  exhausted ; 
and  if,  as  Professor  Max  Miiller  observes  in  his  Lectures  on 
the  Science  of  Language,  "some  of  the  local  dialects  of  England, 
as  spoken  at  the  present  day,  are  of  great  importance  for  a 
critical  study  of  English,"  surely  no  stone  should  be  left  un- 
turned for  discovering  any  particles  of  precious  ore  which  still 
exist  in  out  of  the  way  places,  and  for  thus  rescuing  what  can 
still  be  saved  of  our  decaying  dialect. 

Not  only,  however,  am  I  desirous  of  gathering  together  any 
lingering  traces  of  bygone  wonky  but  also  of  collecting  peculiar 
Yorkshire  phrases,  sayings,  modes  of  expression,  and  grammatical 
usages.  Far  less  has  been  written  about  these  than  about 
mere  dialectic  vocabularies,  and  yet  I  think  it  will  be  admitted 
that  to  a  Yorkshireman,  at  all  events,  they  possess  a  certain 
interest.  There  are,  I  believe,  still  a  vast  number  of  such  more 
or  less  local  peculiarities  of  expression  which  are  worthy  of 
being  preserved.  To  detect  these  peculiarities  it  often  requires 
somewhat  close  attention  and  a  sensitive  ear :  many  persons 
would  be  surprised  on  being  told  that  certain  expressions  were 
peculiar  to  the  districts  in  which  they  live.  Let  me  give  only 
a  few  of  the  commonest  examples  of  what  I  mean.  In  this  part 
of  the  country,  for  instance,  a  Yorkshireman  would  not  say 
"  What  do  you  think  o/it?"  but  "to  it ;"  not  "Wait  till  I  come," 
but  "while  I  come;"  not  "I  saw  him  on  Saturday,"  but  "at 
Saturday ;  "    not  "  I  came  by  the  train,"  but  "  with  the  train ; " 


256  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 

not  "It  is  good  for  nothing/'  but  "to  nothing"  (good  ti  nowt); 
not  "  Of  no  use,"  but  "  to  no  use."  Again,  the  following  will 
be  familiar  to  all  of  us :  "  middlin,"  "  nobbut  middlin,"  "  nobbut 
varry  middlin ;"  "  badly  "  =  ill ;  "  quite  better  "  =  quite  well 
again;  "very  well "  =  very  much.  He  does  not  say,  "It  is 
impossible,"  but  "There  isn't  such  a  thing;"  not  "What  is 
your  name  ?"  but  "  What  do  they  call  you  ?"  not  "  Gome  with 
me  part  of  the  way,"  but "  Set  me  a  pieoe  of  way."  "  Obliged" 
with  us,  is  "  forced ;"  "  begin,"  is  "  start ;"  "  make  haste,"  is 
44 be  sharp;"  "don't  forget,"  is  "think  on;"  "bread  and  cheese," 
is  "cheese  and  bread ;"  &c,  &o.  How  expressive  are  such  words 
as  "insense,"  "daft,"  "waffy,"  "cobby,"  "roopy,"  "closed 
up,"  "fratch,"  "whisht,"  "uphod,"  "fend,"  " t'backend," 
"  lowzin-tahm,"  "  whemmle,"  "  forelders,"  "  degg,"  and  many 
more  that  might  be  named :  but,  perhaps,  the  few  instanoes  I 
have  given  will  suffice  to  make  clear  my  meaning,  and  may 
create  an  interest  in  the  object  I  have  in  view. 

But  there  is  a  further  branch  of  enquiry  whioh  is  worthy  of 
being  pursued.  It  has  been  said  that  every  other  Yorkshireman 
you  meet  is  a  character,  and  there  is  a  great  amount  of  truth  in 
the  remark ;  a  healthy  independence,  originality,  and  sense  of 
humour  meet  one  at  every  turn.  Many  are  the  Yorkshire 
stories  that  can  be  related  to  illustrate  such  independence  and 
originality— stories  which  have  never  yet  been  placed  on  record. 
Very  grateful  shall  I  be,  then,  to  those  of  my  brother  Yorkshire- 
men  who  will  be  good  enough  to  furnish  me  with  any  such,  together 
with  any  dialectic  peculiarities  that  come  before  their  notice ; 
and  in  the  case  of  these  latter,  it  will  add  greatly  to  their  value 
if  the  name  of  the  district,  or  better  still  the  exact  place  where 
they  are  known  to  have  been  used,  is  mentioned.  I  feel  sure 
there  is  sufficient  material  of  this  kind  to  fill  many  a  volume, 
if  only  it  could  be  collected.  Whether  it  will  ever  be  possible 
for  me  to  produce  such  a  volume  must  depend  mainly  upon  the 
extent  of  the  response  which  this  circular  meets  with,  and  upon 
the  kind  help  which  my  friends  may  be  willing  to  give  me. 

Mabmaduke  G.  F.  Mobbis. 
The  Vicarage,  Newton-on-Ouse,  York, 
May,  1889. 


Shipley  Dialect. — Dr.  Joseph  Wright,  M.A.,  of  Oxford,  a 
native  of  Thackley,  is  engaged  on  a  Dialect  Grammar  and 
Glossary  of  the  Shipley  speech,  to  be  published  by  the  English 
Dialect  Society.  He  will  limit  his  district  very  strictly,  for  a 
few  miles  removal  in  any  direction  lands  us  into  quite  different 
peculiarities  of  speech. 


WITH     YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL. 

IHKortainortir  in  fgorhsfrir*. 

By  J.  R.  Tutin, 

Compiler  of  the  "  Wordsworth  Birthday  Book," 
"  The  Bibliography  of  Wordsworth/'  <&c.t  Ac. 


257 


Kilnsey  Crag. 

"  He  had  trudged  through  Yorkshire  dales, 
Among  the  rocks  and  winding  soars ; 
Where  deep  and  low  the  hamlets  lie 
Beneath  their  little  patch  of  sky 
And  little  lot  of  stars.  —  Peter  Bell,  Part  1. 

Messrs.  Harrison,  the  printers  hereof,  we  are  indebted  for  the  illus- 
i  to  this  article.  ] 

ias  been  truthfully  observed  by  an  eminent  authority  on 
sworth*  that  no  British  poet  (not  even  Sir  Walter  Scott,) 
peculiarly  associated  with  locality  as  is  this  great  poet 
ived  nearly  all  his  life  among  the  lakes  and  mountains  of 
oaoreland  and  Cumberland.  His  own  neighbourhood  of 
jakes  is  described  in  his  works  to  a  greater  extent  than 
ither  part  of  our  Island ;  yet  we  may  affirm  that  some  of 
icenes  of  our  own  county  (Yorkshire)  have  been  the  in- 
tion  of  not  a  few  of  the  poet's  most  characteristic  and  best 
ances. 

te  object  of  this  short  article  is  not  to  impart  any  new 
mation  respecting  Wordsworth's  interpretation  and  des- 
ion  of  Yorkshire  scenes,  but  merely  to  bring  together  the 
is  (or  portions  of  them)  relating  to  places  in  our  county, 
a  few  short  topographical,  or  other  notes. 
uring  the  last  few  days  of  last  century,  Wordsworth  and 
sister  made  the  journey  on  foot  from  Sockburn-on-Tees  to 
smere.  In  the  recently  published  Recluse  f  the  poet  refers 
his  journey  in  the  following  lines : — 

Prof.  Knight,  LL.D.,  of  St.  Andrews.       f  London :  Macmillan  &  Co. 
.N.Q.  B 


J88  Y0RK8HIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIE8, 

Bleak  season  was  it,  turbulent  and  bleak, 
When  hitherward  we  journeyed  Ride  by  side 
Through  bursts  of  sunshine,  and  through  flying  showers; 
Paced  the  long  vales — how  long  they  were — and  yet 
How  fast  that  length  of  way  was  left  behind, 
Wensley's  rich  vale,  and  Sedbergh's  naked  heights. 
The  frooty  wind,  as  if  to  make  amends 
For  its  keen  breath,  was  aiding  to  our  steps, 
And  drove  us  onward  like  two  ships  at  sea, 
Or  like  two  birds,  companions  in  mid-air, 
Parted  and  reunited  by  the  blast. 
Stern  was  the  face  of  nature ;  we  rejoiced 
In  that  stern  countenance,  for  our  souls  thence  drew 
A  feeling  of  their  strength.    The  naked  trees, 
The  icy  brooks,  as  on  we  passed,  appeared 
To  question  us.    "  Whence  come  ye,  to  what  end  ?  " 
They  seemed  to  say,  "  What  would  ye,"  said  the  shower, 
"  Wild  wanderers,  whither  through  my  dark  domain  ?  " 
The  sunbeam  said,  "  Be  happy." 
On  their  way  they  passed  Hart-leap  Well,  a  small  spring  of 
water  on  the  road  side,  between  Richmond  and  Askrigg.    Near 
to  the  spring  he  entered  into  conversation  with  a  peasant,  who 
told  him  the  tradition  in  connection  with  the  spot ;  and  the 
poem,  "  Hart-leap  Well,"  was  composed  soon  after  his  settle- 
ment at  Grasmere.    I  quote  a  few  stanzas  of  the  poem  describ- 
ing the  scene  as  seen  by  the  poet : — 

"  As  I  from  Hawes  to  Richmond  did  repair, 
It  chanced  that  I  saw  standing  in  a  dell 
Three  aspens  at  three  corners  of  a  square ; 
And  one,  not  four  yards  distant,  near  a  well. 

*  *  *  * 

I  saw  three  pillars  standing  in  a  line — 
The  last  stone  pillar  on  a  dark  hill  top. 

*  *  *  $ 

I  looked  upon  the  hill  both  far  and  near, 
More  doleful  place  did  never  eye  survey ; 
It  seemed  as  if  the  Spring-time  came  not  here, 
And  Nature  here  were  willing  to  decay." 
The  prefatory  note  to  the  poem  states  that  "  its  name  is 
derived  from  a  remarkable  Chase,  the  memory  of  which  is  pre- 
served by  the  monuments  spoken  of  in  the  second  part  of  the 
...  poem,  which  monuments  do  now  exist  as  I  have  there 
described  them." 

In  the  summer  of  1881,  the  writer  visited  this  spot  which  ifl 
situate  about  three-and-a-half  miles  from  Richmond,  on  the 
Askrigg  road.  The  well  is  an  object  which  may  easily  be 
missed.  Very  near  to  it,  on  the  same  side  of  the  road,  is  a 
small  tree ;  on  the  opposite  side  the  road  is  walled  in,  while 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  259 

this  is  open  to  the  moor.  The  "  three  aspens  at  three  comers 
of  a  square "  were  gone,  as  well  as  the  "  three  stone  pillars 
standing  in  a  line  "  mentioned  in  the  poem,  but  the  "  cup  of 
stone"  was  still  there,  and  in  all  probability  the  same  that 
Wordsworth  saw  in  1799,  as  it  was  much  worn,  and  appeared 
to  be  of  very  long  standing.    The  lines — 

"It  seemed  as  if  the  Spring-time  came  not  here, 
And  Nature  here  were  willing  to  decay," 
is  an  apt  description :  it  being  barren  moor  for  miles  around. 

The  journey  of  Wordsworth  from  Sockburn  to  Grasmere  was 
also  the  inspiration  of  one  of  the  poet's  most  admirable  prose 
descriptions — a  letter  to  Coleridge  describing  his  journey.  The 
letter  is  printed  in  the  Prose  Works  of  the  poet,  in  the  memoirs 
by  the  late  Bishop  of  Lincoln,  and  in  Knight's  Life  of  Words- 
worth. It  is  much  too  long  to  quote  entire,  but  I  give  the 
concluding  portion  of  the  description  of  the  waterfall  at 
Hardraw  Soar,  in  Wensleydale: — "The  rocks  on  each  side, 
which,  joining  with  the  side  of  this  cave,  formed  the  vista  of 
the  brook,  were  chequered  with  three  diminutive  waterfalls,  or 
rather  courses  of  water.  Each  of  these  was  a  miniature  of  all 
that  summer  and  winter  can  produce  of  delicate  beauty.  The 
rock  in  the  centre  of  the  falls,  where  the  water  was  most 
abundant,  a  deep  black,  the  adjoining  parts  yellow,  white, 
purple,  and  dove  colour,  covered  with  water— plants  of  the 
most  vivid  green,  and  hung  with  streaming  icicles,  that  in  some 
places  seem  to  conceal  the  verdure  of  the  plants  and  the  violet 
and  yellow  variegation  of  the  rocks ;  and  in  some  places  render 
the  colours  more  brilliant.  I  cannot  express  to  you  the  en- 
chanting effect  produced  by  this  Arabian  scene  of  colour  as  the 
wind  blew  aside  the  great  waterfall  behind  which  we  stood,  and 
alternately: hid  and  revealed  each  of  these  fairy  cataracts  in 
irregular  succession,  or  displayed  them  with  various  gradations 
of  distinctness  as  the  intervening  spray  was  thickened  or  dis- 
persed. What  a  scene  too,  in  summer !  In  the  luxury  of  our 
imagination  we  could  not  help  feeding  upon  the  pleasure  which 
this  cave,  in  the  heat  of  a  July  noon,  would  spread  through  a 
frame  exquisitely  sensible.  That  huge  rock  on  the  right,  the 
bank  winding  round  on  the  left  with  all  its  living  foliage,  and 
the  breeze  stealing  up  the  valley,  and  bedewing  the  cavern  with 
the  freshest  imaginable  spray.  And  then  the  murmur  of  the 
water,  ther  quiet,  the  seclusion,  and  a  long  summer  day." 

On  the  18th  of  July,  1802,  Wordsworth  and  his  sister  crossed 
the  Hambleton  Hills  on  their  way  to  Gallow  Hill,  the  home  of 
the  Hutchinsons.  Dorothy  Wordsworth's  journal  supplies  the 
following  note  illustrative  of  this  walk  : 

"  On  foot  to  the  Hamilton  Hills Bivaux.    I  went  down 

to  look  at  the  ruins :  thrushes  singing,  cattle  feeding  amongst 
the  ruins  of  the  Abbey ;   green  hillocks  about  the  ruins ;    these 


260        YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 

hillocks  scattered  over  with  grovelets  of  wild  rosea,  and  covered 
with  wild  flowers.  I  could  have  stayed  in  this  solemn  quiet 
spot  till  evening,  without  a  thought  of  moving,  but  W.  was 
waiting  for  me." 

The  sonnet  commencing  "  Dark  and  more  dark  the  shades 
of  evening  fell/'  was  "  composed  after  a  journey  across  the 
Hambleton  Hills,  Yorkshire,"  made  on  the  4th  of  October  of 
the  same  year  as  the  previous  journey.      Wordsworth  was 
married  to  Mary  Hutchinson  on  this  day  in  the  ohuroh  of 
Brompton,  near  Scarbro*.    I  quote  the  sonnet  entire : — 
"Dark  and  more  dark  the  shades  of  evening  fell; 
The  wished-for  point  was  reached — but  at  an  hour 
When  little  could  be  gained  from  that  rich  dower 
Of  prospeot,  whereof  many  thousands  tell. 
Yet  did  the  glowing  west  with  marvellous  power 
Salute  us ;  there  stood  Indian  citadel, 
Temple  of  Greece,  and  minster  with  its  tower 
Substantially  expressed — a  place  for  bell 
Or  clock  to  toll  from !  Many  a  tempting  isle 
With  groves  that  never  were  imagined,  lay 
'Mid  seas  how  steadfast !  objects  all  for  the  eye 
Of  silent  rapture ;  but  we  felt  the  while 
We  should  forget  them ;  they  are  of  the  sky, 
And  from  our  earthly  memory  fade  away." 
How  graphically  is  the  evening  of  that  day  brought  home  to 
Ufl  in  the  above  sonnet !    .  The  following  is  also  on  the  same 

subject :— 

*  They  are  of  the  sky, 

And  from  our  earthly  memory  fade  away.' 

"  Those  words  were  uttered  as  in  pensive  mood 
We  turned,  departing  from  that  solemn  sight : 
A  contrast  and  reproach  to  gross  delight, 
And  life's  unspiritual  pleasures  daily  wooed  1 
But  now  upon  this  thought  I  cannot  brood ; 
It  is  unstable  as  a  dream  of  night ; 
Nor  will  I  praise  a  cloud,  however  bright ; 
Disparaging  man's  gifts,  and  proper  food. 
Orove,  isle,  with  every  shape  of  sky-built  dome, 
Though  clad  in  colours  beautiful  and  pure, 
Find  in  the  heart  of  man  no  natural  home : 
The  immortal  mind  craves  objects  that  endure : 
These  cleave  to  it ;  from  these  it  cannot  roam, 
Nor  they  from  it :  their  fellowship  is  secure." 
I  am  not  aware  that  Wordsworth  ever  visited  Malham  Cove, 
or  Gordale  Scar,  but  his  two  sonnets  on  these  places  are  most 
realistic ;  and  though  suggested  by  WestalTs  views,  we  must 
feel  that  the  Poet  has  interpreted  the  scenes  to  us  as  truthfully 
as  if  he  had  actually  seen  what  he  describes. 


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MALHAM    COVE. 
Was  the  aim  frustrated  by  force  or  guile, 
When  giants  scooped  from  out  the  rocky  ground, 
Tier  under  tier,  this  semicirque  profound  ? 
(Giants—  the  same  who  built  in  Erin's  isle 
That  causeway  with  incomparable  toil ! ) — 
0,  had  this  vast  theatric  structure  wound 
With  finished  sweep  into  a  perfect  round, 
No  mightier  work  had  gained  the  plausive  smile 
Of  all-beholding  Phoebus !  But,  alas, 
Vain  earth !  False  world !  Foundations  must  be  laid 
In  Heaven ;  for,  'mid  the  wreck  of  is  and  was, 
Things  incomplete  and  purposes  betrayed 
Make  sadder  transits  o'er  thought's  optic  glass 
Than  noblest  objects  utterly  decayed. 


Gordale  Scar. 


fi$2  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 

GORDALE. 
At  early  dawn,  or  rather  when  the  air 
Glimmers  with  fading  light,  and  shadowy  Eve 
Is  busiest  to  confer  and  to  bereave ; 
Then,  pensive  Votary !  let  thy  feet  repair 
To  Gordale  chasm,  terrific  as  the  lair 
Where  the  young  lions  couch ;  for  so,  by  leave 
Of  the  propitious  hour,  thou  may'st  perceive 
The  local  Deity,  with  oozy  hair 
And  mineral  crown,  beside  his  jagged  urn, 
Recumbent :  Him  thou  may'st  behold,  who  hides 
His  lineaments  by  day,  yet  there  presides, 
Teaching  the  docile  waters  how  to  turn, 
Or  (if  need  be)  impediment  to  spurn, 
And  force  their  passage  to  the  salt  sea  tides  1 

Lucy  Gray ;  or,  Solitude — one  of  the  best  and  most  popular  of 
Wordsworth's  shorter  pieces — was  founded  on  a  circumstance 
told  to  the  Poet  by  his  sister,  of  a  little  girl,  who,  not  far  from 
Halifax  in  Yorkshire,  was  lost  as  described  in  the  poe,m.  A 
contributor  to  Notes  and  Queries  believes  that  the  Mill-weir  at 
Sterne  Mill  Bridge,  near  Halifax,  was  the  scene  of  Lucy  Gray's 
death.  It  is  not  improbable  that  the  event  occurred  near  to 
the  place  referred  to,  but  I  cannot  wholly  accept  the  supposition 
of  the  contributor  to  Xotes  and  Queries.  For  one  reason:  Sterne 
Mill  Bridge  crosses  the  River  Galder,  whereas,  we  are  informed 
by  Wordsworth,  in  his  note  to  the  poem,  that  the  accident 
occurred  in  crossing  '  the  lock  of  a  canal.*  The  Galder  runs 
parallel  with  the  canal  near  Sterne  Mill  Bridge,  and  it  may  be 
that  the  circumstance  occurred  not  far  from  this  scene.  There 
are  several  clues  in  the  poem  to  the  scene,  which  would  lead  as 
to  the  belief  that  Lucy  Gray  lost  her  life  very  near  to  the  place 
referred  to  by  the  writer  in  Notes  and  Queries. 

In  the  Effusion,  in  the  Pleasure-ground  on  thr  Banks  of  the  Bran 
near  Dunkeld  (one  of  the  "  Memorials  of  a  Tour  in  Scotland, 
1814,")  there  is  a  full  description  of  the  image  which  is  carved 
in  the  rock  near  the  door  to  St.  Robert's  Chapel  at  Knaresbro' 
— a  cell  cut  out  of  the  solid  rock,  situate  on  the  east  bank  of 
the  River  Nidd,  very  near  to  the  bridge  crossing  the  river.  The 
following  are  the  lines  referred  to,  and  not  long  ago  the  writer 
took  the  trouble  to  verify  their  accuracy  as  a  description  of  the 
actual  object  and  scene : — 

The  Effigies  of  a  Valiant  Wight 
I  once  beheld,  a  Templar  Knight ; 
Not  prostrate,  not  like  these  that  rest 
On  tombs,  with  palms  together  prest, 
But  sculptured  out  of  living  stone, 
And  standing  upright  and  alone, 


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Both  bands  with  rival  energy 
Employed  in  setting  his  sword  free 
From  its  dull  sheath — stern  sentinel 
Intent  to  guard  St.  Robert's  cell ; 
As  if  with  memory  of  the  affray 
Far  distant,  when,  as  legends  say, 
The  Monks  of  Fountains  thronged  to  force 
From  its  dear  home  the  Hermit's  corse, 
That  in  their  keeping  it  might  lie, 
To  crown  their  abbey's  sanctity. 
So  had  they  rushed  into  the  grot 
Of  sense  despised,  a  world  forgot, 
And  torn  him  from  his  loved  retreat, 
Where  altar-stone  and  rock-hewn  seat 
Still  hint  that  quiet  best  is  found, 
Even  by  the  Living,  underground ; 
But  a  bold  Knight,  the  selfish  aim 
Defeating,  put  the  Monks  to  shame, 
There  where  you  see  his  Image  stand 
Bare  to  the  sky,  with  threatening  brand 
Which  lingering  Nidd  is  proud  to  show 
Reflected  in  the  pool  below. 
The  most  considerable  production  of  Wordsworth  associated 

ith  a  portion  of  our  county  is  The  White  Doe  of  Byhtone ;  or, 

ie  Fate  of  the  Norton*.     The  "  Advertisement "  to  the  Poem  is 

3  follows : — 
"  During  the  summer  of  1807, 1  visited,  for  the  first  time,  the 

eautiful  country  that  surrounds  Bolton  Priory,  in  Yorkshire ; 

ad  the  Poem  of  the  White  Doe,  founded  upon  a  tradition  con- 

ected  with  that  place,  was  composed  at  the  close  of  the  same 

Bar." 


Bolton  Priory. 


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YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 


It  is  outside  the  scope  of  this  article  to  narrate  the  story  of 
"The  White  Doe."  I  confine  myself  to  the  topographical 
allusions  which  it  contains.  The  opening  of  the  first  canto  is 
beautifully  descriptive  of  "  Bolton's  mouldering  Priory"  and  its 
surroundings.    The  "  Prior's  Oak  "  referred  to  in  Canto  I.  was 


felled  about  the  year  1720,  and  whereabouts  it  stood  is  not  now 
blown.  The  Historian  of  Craven  informs  us  that  "  it  stood  at 
a  small  distance  from  the  great  gateway. "  This  "  great  gate- 
way "  to  the  Abbey  was  through  a  part  of  Bolton  Hall  (now 
inhabited)  under  the  Tower. 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE    JOURNAL. 


Bolton  Hall. 


Bolton  Abbey :— "  The  Chapel,  like  a  wild  bird's  nest." 
The  "  Chapel,  like  a  wild  bird's  nest,"  is  the  Nave  of  the 
!hurch.      The   "vault,"  where,   according  to  tradition,  the 


Bolton  Abbey— East  Window. 


YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 


"  Claphams  and  Mauleverers  "  were  "  buried  upright/'  is  at  the 
East  end  of  the  North  aisle  of  the  Church. 

11  The  shy  recess 
Of  Barden'8  lowly  quietness/* 

is  an  apt  description  of  the  quiet  seclusion  of  Barden  Tower, 

which  is  beautifully  situ- 
ated on  the  west  bank  of 
the  Wharfe  about  three 
miles  from  Bolton  Priory. 
Of  "Rylstone  HalTrthere 
are  scarcely  any  remains; 
and  of  "  Norton  Tower" 
there  are  left  a  few  [roof- 
less walls.  Its  position 
and  surroundings  are 
thus  described  by  the 
Poet:— 
Barden  Tower. 

High  on  a  point  of  rugged  ground 
Among  the  wastes  of  Rylstone  Fell, 
Above  the  loftiest  ridge  or  mound 
Where  foresters  or  shepherds  dwell, 
An  edifice  of  warlike  frame 
Stands  single — Norton  Tower  its  name — 


Barden  Tower. 

It  fronts  all  quarters,  and  looks  round 
O'er  path  and  road,  and  plain  and  dell, 
Dark  moor,  and  gleam  of  pool  and  stream 
Upon  a  prospect  without  bound. 

The  writer  has  not  visited  "  lurking  Dernbrook's  pathless 
side,"  situate  "in  the  deep  fork  of  Amerdale,"  and  Words- 
worth's allusions  to  this  place  are  but  slight  and  incidental 
The  "  Amerdale  "  of  the  time  of  the  poem  (1569)  is  now  called 
Littondale,  a  branch  of  Wharfedale  with  the  Skirfare  running 
through  it. 


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267 


Associated  too,  with  this  part  of  our  county  is  the  poem— The 
Force  of  Prayer;  or,  TJie  Founding  of  Bolton  Priory.  The  Strid 
is  very  aptly  described  as 

"  that  fearful  chasm, 
How  tempting  to  bestride ! 
For  lordly  Wharfe  is  there  pent  in 
With  rocks  on  either  side." 

I  have  now  completed 
my  pleasant  task  of  in- 
troducing to  the  reader 
most  of   Wordsworth's , 
descriptions    of    York-  \ 
shire  scenes ;  and  which  . 
I    trust   may  in   some  i 
degree  help  those  who  ! 
are  familiar  with  York- 
shire to  realize  to  their 
*  inward  eye '  that  which 
they  have  before  seen  Qttid. 

with  their  outward  eyes  of  the  beauties  of  our  own  county. 


Tituimt  fUlics:    British  and  Koman. 

Mr.  Wardell,  in  August,  1852,  found  the  rude  flint  arrow 
head  depicted  (1),  in  a  barrow  at  Rookdale,  in  Winteringham, 
on  the  Western  slope  of  the  Wolds,  East  Biding.  The  barrow 
measured  about  twenty  yards  in  diameter,  but  was  only  four 
feet  above  the  surface  of  the  ground.  At  a  depth  of  two  feet, 
beneath  a  number  of  large  stones,  were  eighteen  skeletons,  of 
people  of  various  ages,  in  different  positions,  but  the  majority 
were  placed  with  the  head  towards  the  north  and  the  knees 
drawn  up  towards  the  chin,  after  the  most  primitive  mode  of 
burial.  No  urns  were  found,  nor  signs  of  cremation.  In  July, 
1858,  he  opened  an  adjoining  barrow,  400  yards  northwards. 
It  was  about  the  same  diameter,  and  almost  level  with  the 
ground.  A  few  bones  of  an  adult  and  infant  were  found.  Two 
flint  arrow  heads  of  the  rudest  description  were  found,  (2),  (4), 
a  flint  fragment  of  arrow  head,  (8),  and  a  flint  with  serrated 
edge  (5),  perhaps  fragment  of  a  saw.  The  drawings  are  full  size. 
Two  yards  eastward  a  small  ornamented  urn  (15)  was  found, 
4£  inches  high,  5  inches  diameter  at  the  top. 

In  1852,  a  villager  of  Sproatley,  near  Hornsea,  while  digging 
in  a  garden  about  800  yards  south  of  the  church,  turned  up 
twenty-six  bronze  celts,  and  the  remains  of  an  oaken  box,  at 
about  two  feet  depth.  Mr.  Wardell  obtained  three  of  the  best, 
one  of  which  is  represented  by  woodcut  ^6). 


Arrow  Head,  Winteringham,  (1.) 


Flint,  Winteringham,  (8.) 


Arrow  Head,  Winteringham,  (*.) 


Arrow  Head,  Winteringham,  (4.) 


Flint,  Winteringham,  (5.) 


Celt,  Sproatley,  (6.) 


Bronze  Celt,  Hnnslet,  (7.) 


Bronze  Celt,  Morley,  (8.) 


Bronze  Celt,  Hnnalet,  (9.) 


Bronze  Celt,  Hnnalet,  (10.) 


Bone  Spear,  SHpeea,  (11.) 


Stone  Hammer,  Chapeltown,  (12.) 


Roman  Altar,]Roundhay,  (14.) 


Urn,  WinteriDgkam,  (15.) 


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YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 


.'  In  May,  1881,  a  labourer  repairing  a  footpath  in  a  field  ad- 
joining Hunslet  Moor,  at  two  feet  deep,  came  upon  nine  bronze 
celts  from  6  to  7£  inches  long.    See  woodcuts  (7),  (9),  (10). 

Bronze  celts  have  been  found  at  Morley,  of  which  (8)  is  a 
specimen.  It  is  seven  inches  long,  and  was  in  Mr.  WardeH's 
collection. 

No.  11  represents  a  bone  spear  found  at  Skipsea,  in  the  cliff, 
where  remains  of  red  and  fallow  deer  are  also  found.  It  was 
described  by  Poulson. 

At  Chapel  town,  Leeds,  a  stone  hammer  head  (12)  was  dis- 
covered in  February,  1879,  whilst  a  drain  was  being  made.  It 
measures  8$  inches  in  length,  2|  inches  in  depth,  and  weighs 
SJlbs. 

No.  18  represents  a  fine  red  Samian  bowl,  now  in  the  York 
Museum,  but  formerly  in  Mr.  Wardell's  possession.  It  was 
found  in  1841  at  Clifton,  near  York,  and  when  found  shewed 
it  had  been  damaged  in  Roman  times,  but  was  so  prized  as  to 
have  been  repaired  and  jointed  with  pieces  of  lead.  It  measures 
8£  inches  in  diameter  at  the  top,  and  4}  inches  deep.  The 
potter's  mark  is  DIAIX.  The  designs  embossed  on  the  sides 
are  thought  to  represent  Minerva  bearing  a  shield,  Diana 
playing  with  a  fawn,  &c. 

Iji  May,  1881,  a  Roman  altar  (14)  was  found  in  front  of 
Elmete  Hall,  near  Leeds,  twenty-six  inches  high,  nine  inches 
broad. 

No.  16  represents  a  pot  vessel  found  in  April,  1881,  when 
excavating  for  the  large  reservoir  at  Fewston.  It  is  thought  to 
have  been  so  late  as  Norman  workmanship.  It  is  eleven  inches 
high,  and  is  partly  green  glazed,  and  comparatively  rude. 

This  bronze  spear  head  was  found  in  May,  1846,  when  the 

railway  was  being  made  at 
Churwell,  and  is  10}  inches  in 
length. 

Spear  head,  Churwell. 


At  Lingwell  Gate,  in  Roth- 
well,  Soman  Coin  mouldB, 
funnels  and  crucibles  have 
been  frequently  discovered. 
The  last  find  was  in  1880, 
one  of  the  articles  being  a 
baked-clay  funnel,  2J  inches 
long,  with  two  moulds  still 
adhering  to  it. 


Roman  Coining  FnnneL 


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.  Bey.  Bichabd  Vickebman  Taylor,  B.A. — Mr.  Taylor  is  the 
eldest  sou  of  Mr.  John  Taylor,  of  Leeds,  and  Ann,  his  wife, 
daughter  of  Mr.  Bichard  Yickerman,  of  Leeds,  and  formerly- 
of  Haddersfield.  He  was  born  at  Leeds,  October  10,  1880,  and 
when  about  six  years  of  age  he  hurt  his  knee  by  a  fall,  which 
rendered  him  partially  lame  for  life.  He  was  a  pupil  at  Leeds 
Grammar  School  for  nearly  eight  years,  and  in  1851,  after  a 
few  months  services  as  assistant  teacher  with  the  Bev.  A. 
Ibbotson,  of  Bawdon,  he  became  assistant  master  in  the  Leeds 
Grammar  School,  but  removed  in  1854  to  the  Classical  and 
Commercial  School,  Queen's  Square,  Leeds,  under  Mr.  Bichard 
Hiley,  the  author  of  several  educational  works.  In  1855  he 
served  in  schools  at  Bristol  and  London,  and  passed  the  London 
Matriculation  in  the  first  class.  In  1856,  he  was  Classical 
Master  at  Bramham  College,  under  the  Bev.  Dr.  B.  B.  Haigh, 
and  in  1858,  at  Wesley  College,  Sheffield,  under  the  Bev.  Dr. 
Waddy,  and  Dr.  Shera.  In  1859,  he  passed  the  B.A.  examina- 
tion, London  University.  In  1861,  he  became  Classical  Tutor 
at  Bipponden  College,  under  Mr.  Dove,  and  stayed  over  two 
years.  In  1860  he  married,  at  Bothwell  Church,  Caroline, 
daughter  of  David  and  Elizabeth  Franks,  of  Holbeck.  In  1868 
he  was  ordained  deacon,  and  became  curate  of  St.  Barnabas', 
Holbeck.  In  1865,  he  was  licensed  to  the  curacy  of  Wortley, 
near  Leeds,  removing  in  1867  to  become  curate  of  Alford-cum 
Bigsby,  Lincolnshire,  in  Oct.  1869,  to  become  curate  of  Bright 
side-cum-Grimesthorpe,  in  1871  that  of  All  Saints*,  Sheffield, 
In  1878,  he  was  curate-in-charge  of  Edlington,near  Botherham, 
and  had  also  private  pupils.  In  Jan.  1878,  he  became  incuin 
bent  of  Melbecks,  near  Bichmond,  Yorkshire,  where  he  still 
resides.  His  first  wife  died  in  August,  1888,  leaving  a  son  and 
a  daughter.  In  Nov.  1889,  he  married  Miss  Knowles,  of  Gorton 
Lodge,  Swaledale.  He  is  a  Fellow  of  the  Boyal  Historical 
Society;  a  member  of  the  Yorkshire  Archaeological  Association, 
&c.  We  conclude  this  brief  notice  by  giving  a  list  of  his  publi- 
cations, and  by  saying  that  he  is  like  an  "  index  to  everything 
in  Yorkshire."  Mr.  Taylor's  works  are : — 
Biographia  Leodiensis,  1865,  544  pages,  Cr.  8vo. 
Supplement  to  the  Ijeeds  Worthies,  1867,  164  pages. 
Church  Endowments.  A  lecture  pamphlet. 
EccUdm  Leodienses. 

Yorkshire  Anecdotes,  2  vols.,  1888,  1887. 

Numerous  articles  in  the  Warmsivorth  mid  Edlington  Parish 
Magazine,  the  Melbeclcs  Parish  Magazine,  the  Leeds  Mercury 
Supplement,  the  YorksJure  Notes  and  Queries,  YorksJure  Post, 
Scholastic  World,  Richmond  Herald,  Biograph,  Old  Yorkshire, 
Yorkshire  Archaeological  Journal,  &c,  &c.  From  these  we 
expect  several  more  handy  volumes,  and  also  "  Yorkshire,"  in 
two  vols.,  for  Mr.  Stock's  County  History  Series. 


272 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 


Bev.  Sabine  Baring  Gould. — Mr.  Gould  had  for  some  yean  a 
curacy  in  the  West  Biding,  and  has  also  by  his  two  volumes— 
"Yorkshire  Oddities,"  (a  work  that  has  reached  three  or  four 
editions),  further  strengthened  his  claim  to  be  portrayed 
in  our  gallery  of  Yorkshire  Authors.  Of  his  other  numerous 
and  popular  works  we  cannot  now  even  give  a  bare  list. 


■ 


Bradford  Market  Gross. — To  our  series  of  old  crosses,  we 
are  pleased  to  add  an  engraving  of  the  ancient  Bradford  Market 
Cross,  by  favour  of  Mr.  Bcruton.  After  serving  for  many 
centuries  as  a  conspicuous  land  mark  in  Bradford,  it  has  been 
removed  to  Peel  Park,  but  we  would  suggest  that  a  board,  or 
inscription  should  be  added  to  identify  it. 

Doncaster  Mayors. —  In  Miller's  History  of  Doncaster  (p. 
167)  there  is  a  List  of  all  the  Mayors  of  that  Town,  beginning 
with  Thomas  Pigborne,  Mayor  in  1498.  The  following  names 
have  been  met  with  in  charters,  deeds,  or  wills,  and  may  be 
prefixed  to  Miller's  list.  1416,  April  5,  Richard  Litster. 
1454,  Oct.  1,  Thomas  Phiiipson.  1455,  Sept.  80,  Robert 
Adamson.  1456,  Oct.  5,  John  Leeston.  1457,  Oct.  7,  Thomas 
Garford.  1464,  May  12,  Christopher  Friokley.  1481,  Aug. 
81,  Thomas  Vause.  3.  8.,  D. 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  278 

Communicated  by  6.  W.  Marshall,  Esq.,  LL.D.,  Rouge  Croix. 


[We  regret  to  say  that  owing  to  our  having  omitted  sending 
Dr.  Marshall  a  proof  of  this  Register  a  very  considerable 
number  of  errors  occur  in  it.  The  most  important  of  them  he 
has  corrected  in  the  following  errata,  having  compared  the 
printed  sheets  with  the  original  MS.] 

„        T .  ERRATA. 

Page.  Line. 

209  1.— For  '  Weathehill  •  read  « Wetherill/ 
„      10.— For  « August  *  read  4  October.* 

„      20.— To  '  1st  day  of "  add  '  9*'* 

„      28. — For  '  Lacock '  read  « Lay  cock.' 

210  6. — For  '  Hodgson  '  read  '  Dodgson.' 

„        8. — After  line  8  insert :  Rich'd  ye  son  of  Tho.  Stringer 
of  York,  Bapt'd  8br  ye  27,  1680. 
Joseph  ye  son  of  Rob't  Howdell  of  Sherburn,  Mrch 
29th  1678. 

„      21. — For  '  Lewerton '  read  « Leverton/ 

211  28.— For  '  1688 '  read  '  1688.' 
„      24.— For  '  1697 '  read  « 1698/ 

„  48. — For  '  Bawden  '  read  ' Rawden/ 

.212  88.— For  '  Alberford '  read  '  Abbaford/ 

,,  40. — For  '  Ghamberlane '  read  *  Chamberlaine.' 

„  46.— For  « Barstow '  read  4  Barston/ 

218  15.— For  '  Fourth '  read  «  Tenth/ 

„  80.— For  '  1704 *  read  « 1706/ 

„  88.— For  '  Seniors '  read  '  Senior.' 

„  84.— Insert '  17 '  after  July. 

„  85.— For  *  Coulton '  read  « Colton/ 

214  16.— Read  «  Mephibosheth/ 
„  28.— Read  ' Lumly/ 

215  8.— For  '  Wilborth '  read  «  Milborth/ 
„      14.— For  *  1716  •  read  « 1715/ 

,,      29. — Read  '  Herlegrave/ 
„      47.— After  ' June '  add  21. 

216  2.— For  « 1720 '  read  '  1728/ 

„  12.— For  '  Hayes '  read  '  Hays/ 

„  29.— For  '  1785 '  read  *  1785/ 

„  86.— For  '  Sheppherd '  read  *  Shepperd/ 

217  10.— For  '  May  ye  1 '  read  '  May  ye  8th/ 

„      11.— Dele  the  e  in  Newthorpe  and  add  "was  baptized 

July  16th,  1727." 
„      18.— For  '  Thackra '  read  « Thackera/ 
„      16.— For  '  20th '  read  <  26th/ 
„      85.— For  '  20th '  read  « 26th/ 

T.N.Q.  S 


274  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 

218  —     After  line  two  insert :  '  George  son  of  Silcock  in  ye 

Parish  of  St.  Michael's  York  was  baptized  May 
28th  1783.     Admitted  Sept.  8th  1742.' 

„      28.— For  « 1786 '  read  <  1789/ 

„      42.— For  « 1741 '  read  < 1748.' 

219  2.— After  '  February  28 '  insert  *  1740/ 
„      82.— For  <  1752 '  read  '  1758.' 

„     86.— For  '  1752 '  read  '  1758/ 

220  1.— After  ' June  28  •  insert ' 1748/ 

221  4.— For  « 11  "  read  « 18/ 

„  9.— For  *  Cruse  '  read  '  Crux.' 

„  18.— For  ' Baptiz'd  26 '  read  «  Baptiz'd  April  26/ 

„  15.— For  '  20  •  read  '  28/ 

„  17.— For  <  1762  *  read  '  1752/ 

„  24.— For  « Middlebrook '  read  « Middlewood/ 

222  —     Eighth  line  from  foot,  for  «  Goft '  read  «  Goff/ 
224  —     Fourteenth  line    from  foot,    for    ♦Calvert'   read 

« Colbert/ 


Continued  from  page  224. 

Benjamin  Connel  of  Micklefield,  an  Orphan  by  the  Death  of 

his  Father,  born  18th  April  1779,  was  admitted  Oct.  28th, 

1786. 
Matthew  Smith  of  Barkston,  was   bap.  March   26th,  1778, 

admitted  Ap.  25th,  1787. 
William  Mellard  of  Haele  was  bap.  July  4th,  1779,  as  appears 

by  the  Register  of  Wragby,  was  admitted  Nov.  25th,  1787. 
George,  2nd  Son  of  John  Thirkill  of  Sherburn,  Born  Oct.  11th 

Bap.  Dec.  11th,  1780.    Admitted  80  March,  1789. 
Bobt.  Richardson  of  Saxton,  Aged  about  9  years  and  an  half. 

Admitted  the  10th  of  May,  1790. 
Joseph  Gilliam  of  Saxton,  Born  5th  May  1782.    Admitted  May 

11th,  1790. 
John  Palmer  of  Milford,  an  Orphan  by  the  death  of  his  Mother, 

born  15th  of  August  1781,  was  admitted  the  80th  day  of 

March  1791. 
William  Howcroft  of  Aberford,  an  Orphan  by  the  death  of  his 

Father,  born  June  y*  9th  1788.    Admitted  80th  day  of  May 

1791. 
Mark,  Son  of  Mark  Ambler  of  Milford,  born  ye  1st  of  August 

1788,  was  admitted  ye  14th  day  of  October  1751,  (sic.) 
John,  Son  of  Thomas  Foster  of  Sherburn,  an  orphan  by  y* 

death  of  his  Mother,  born  the  16th  of  March  1784,  was 

admitted  the  14th  Octr.  1791. 
Thomas  No  well  of  Saxton,  an  Orphan  by  the  death  of  his 

Mother,  born  August  the  2nd  1788,  was  admitted  the  16th 

April  1792. 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  275 

Henry  Foster  of  Barwick,  an  Orphan  by  the  death  of  his  Father 

born  ye  24th  May  1781,  was  admitted  the  16th  April,  1792. 
John  Chapman  of  Sherburn,  an  Orphan  by  the  death  of  his 
father,  born  14th  of  Feby.  1785,  was  admitted  1st  of  October 
1792. 
George  Nettleton  of  Saxton,  a  supposed  Orphan,  his  Father 
having  run  away  and  left  his  mother,  about  8  Years  of  Age, 
was  admitted  the  18th  of  Novr.  1792.    Nettleton  was  born 
12th  of  June  1784. 
John  Stephenson  of  Sherburn,  born  28rd  May  1785,  admitted 

the  4  of  March  1794. 
Samuel  Brook  of  Newthorp,  an  Orphan  born  the  8rd  of  April 

1785,  admitted  the  18  of  March,  1794. 
W.  Mellard  went  out  at  Easter  1794. 
G.  Thirkle  went  out  at  Michaelmas  1795. 
William,  2nd  son  of  Wm.  Goodall  of  Sherburn,  Labr.  Born 
Friday  22nd  of  June,   Bap.  Thursday  5th  of  July  1788. 
Admitted  the  21st  Jany,  1799. 
George  Silverwood,  an  Orphan  by  the  Death  of  his  Father, 
born  the  21st  Novr.  Baptd.  the  25th  of  Deer.  1790.  Admitted 
the  21st  Jany.  1799. 
Wm.  Goodall  went  out  of  the  hospital  the  3rd  May  1808. 
Joseph  Fisher  went  out  25th  July  1808.     Remain  as  follow, 
Joseph  Robinson,  gone  out. 
Geo.  Silverwood,  gone  out. 
Wm.  Walker,  gone  out. 
Edwd.  York,  gone  out. 
Thos.  Roodhouse,  gone  out. 
£.  Capstick,  gone  out. 
W.  Vevers,  gone  out. 
W.  Walker,  gone  out. 
W.  Kettlewell, 
J.  Nat  trass, 
W.  Gibson. 
Wm.  Gibson  of  Roth  we  11,  admitted  28  Sept.  1805. 
George  Purdon  of  Appleton,  admitted  16  April  1806. 
Charles  Growcock  of  Kippax,  aged  8  years  was  admitted  28 

July  1806. 
Thos.  Hey  wood  of  the  Parish  of  Sherburn,  aged  9  years,  was 

admitted  29  June  1807. 
Henry  Lodge  admitted  the  1st  Octr.  1807.     Aged  11  years. 
The  Balance  drawn  between  John  Dinnison  late  Master  of  ye 
Hospital  &  John  Clayton  his  successor.  £     h.     a. 

Due  to  John  Dinnison  at  Midsummer  for  keeping  \   aP  + «     a 
the  Boys  in  Sherburn  School    £    „.    d.  )    b0  iy    4 

Deduct  for  6  weeks  keeping     15  16  10  )  Q1  -_     A 

Half-years  Rent        -        -  15  18    6   j         "       ax  I&    4 

Balance  £84  18    0 


276  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 

From  whence  it  appears  that  tho'  John  Clayton  entered  to 
ye  Hospital  at  Old  May-day  1766.  Yet  John  Dinnison  kept  the 
Boys'  till  Midsummer  following. 

Memorandum  made  May  31st  1782.  That  Joseph  Brown  a 
poor  Orphan  in  the  School  and  Hospital  at  Sherburn  was 
turned  out  of  the  Hospital.  This  Boy  was  received  again  into 
the  School  and  Hospital  the  next  day. 

[Here  follow  several  pages  of  accounts  for  school-books  Ac. 
bought  for  use  of  the  boys.] . 

Wm.  &  Thomas  Hunter  to  read  &  write  Jany.  20,  1788. 
George  Ellerton  to  write.  Do. 

Joseph  Ellerton  to  read.  Do. 

Thos.  Baines  of  York  was  admitted  the   25  of  July   1808, 

Aged  9  years. 
Wm.  Lumb  aged  11  Years  was  admitted  18  Sept.  1808. 
Novr.  24th  1810.    Wm.  Lumb  was  expell'd  for  dishonesty,  &c. 

PART    II. 

1665. 

Old  Grammar  School  Book. 

A.    In  Chancery.     Between  Sir  James  Scarlett,  Ent.  His 

Majesty's  Attorney  General  agt  Richard  Oliver  Gascoigne  and 

others. 

25th  October  1881.  At  the  execution  of  a  Commission  for 
the  examination  of  Witnesses  in  this  Cause  This  Book  mark'd 
"  A  "  was  exhibited  to  us  and  shewn  to  the  Rev*-  Sam1-  Wasse 
and  by  him  deposed  unto  at  the  time  of  his  examination  on  the 
part  of  the  Informant. 

Will--  Geo.  Mataule. 
Thos.  Wm.  Tottie.* 
Thomas  Knowles,  Barkston,  came  to  School  7th  Peby.  1792.  t 
A  Register  of  ye ffor  ye  Hospital  at  Shernboume. 

1655. 
Mathew  Smith  of  Shernboume  ye  first  of  August. 

John der  of  Barkestone  ye  first  of  May  1655. 

Edward  Waborne  of  Hamleton  may-day  1655. 

Joseph  Oldfeild  of  Yorke  ye  first  of  August  1655. 

Richard  Apedale  of  Yorke  ye  ijth  of  Novembr  1655. 

John  Crosland  of  Sherebourne  ye  ijth  of  Novembr  1655. 

Thomas  Charleton  of  Yorke. 

James  Ellis  of  Yorke  ye  first  of  November  1656. 

Cressy  Hamond  of  Barkestone  ye  first  of  Novembr  1658. 

Fran.  Heptenstall  of  South  Milforth  ye  first  of  Pebr.  165... 

Willia1  Punder  of  Barkestone  aboute  ye  10th  of  March  a  moneth   / 

or...  before  his  time  being  may-day  1657  or  8. 
Tho.  Smith  of  Shernburne  on  May-day  1658. 

♦This  sentence  is  written  inside  the  cover  of  the  Register,    t  on  FJy  leaf. 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  277 

Brian  Crosland  buried  on  May-day  or  ye  evening  before  1658. 

Anthony  Hnrtley  buried  ye  7th  of  May  1658. 

Willia'  Mason  ye  ijth  of  November  ye  yeare  1657. 

James  Tasker  ye  ij^  of  November  1657. 

Stephen  Hewitson  ye  eleaventh  of  November  1657. 

John  Wilson  Buried  the  j**  day  of  January  1658. 

Thomas  Leigh  Buried  the  ij*  day  of  Aprill  1659. 

Thomas  Headley  Buried  the  18  day  of  May  1659.* 

Thomas  Osburne  went  out  the  14  day  of  november  1659. 

John  Ellis  of  Micklefeild  buried  the  2  day  of  July  1660. 

William  Osburne  went  out  the  12th  day  of  november  1660. 

William  Hague  went  out  the  12th  day  of  november  1660. 

John  Nelson  went  out  at  Lamas  1661. 

John  Booth  went  out  at  Martinmas  1661. 

John  Stevenson  went  out  at  Martinmas  1661. 

John  Tasker  went  out  at  Candlemas  1661. 

William  Flint  went  out  May-day  1662. 

John  Wolger(?)  went  out  at  Candlemass  1662. 

Will'm  Ewerby  Buried  the  18th  of  August  1668. 

Nehemiah  Imson  went  out  at  Lamas  1668. 

Tho.  Oreggs  went  out  at  Lamas  1668. 

John  Richardson  went  out  at  Martinmas  1668. 

Thomas  Morit  went  out  at  Lammas  1664. 

Robert  Dawson  went  out  at  Candlemas  1664. 

William  Armstronge  went  out  at  Martinmas  1665. 

Thomas  Hagur  went  out  at  Martinmas  1665. 

Christopher  Taplow  went  out  at  Martinmas  1665. 

James  Smith  went  out  at  Candlemas  1665. 

John  Shaw  went  out  at  Lammas  1666. 

Edward  Powl  went  out  at  Lam'as  1666. 

James  Stuthard  dyed  at  York  10***  19  1666. 

Nicholas  Dawson  went  out  at  Martinmas  1666. 

Robert  Benson  went  out  at  Martinmas  1666. 

Richard  Pearson  buried  27  of  January  1666. 

Joseph  Lee  buried  12  of  February  1666. 

Marmaduke  Fenton  went  out  the  1  of  May  1667. 

William  Johnson  of  Sandhutton  went  out  at  Lamas  166[7]. 

William  Taylor  buried  the  14  of  September  1667. 

Edward  Nicholson  of  Sandhutton  buried  the  8th  of  October 

1667. 
Robert  Ellnison  went  out  at  Martinmas  1667. 
Samuel  Musgrave  of  Yorke  went  out  at  Martinmas  [1667] 
Thomas  Barker  of  Sherburne  went  out  ye  1st  of  May  1668. 
John  Shithard  of  Sherburne  went  out  ye  1st  of  May  1668. 
John  Brooke  of  Sherburne  dyed  ye  18  day  of  May  1668. 
Thomas  Roe  of  Yorke  dyed  ye  22nd  of  January  1668. 

•It  appears  from  a  memorandum  in  another  part  of  the  book  that  he  "died 
the  13th  day  of  May  about  four  a  clock  in  the  morning." 


278  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 

William  Powle  dyed  ye  17  of  March  1669. 
William  Hast  of  Saxton  went  out  ye  1st  of  May  1670. 
Matthew  Gilliam  of  Saxton  went  out  ye  1st  of  May  1670. 
Anthony  Summer  of  Sherburne  went  out  at  Lamas  1670. 
Roger  Barker  of  Sherburne  went  out    ....     1670. 
Robert  ?  Hope  of  Barkeston  went  out  at  Martinas    •    .    . 
William  Jolmson  of  Yorke  went  out     .... 
Bottom  of  fol.  la. 


Commencement  of  fol.  2a. 
James  Webster  of  Yorke  went  out  at  Candlemas  1670. 
Edward  Lee  of  Yorke  went  out  at  Candlemas  1670. 
Thomas  Dawson  of  Saxton  went  out  at  May-Day  1671. 
John  Lister  of  Barkeston  went  out  at  Martinmas  1671. 
Robert  Wray  of  Saxton  went  out  at  Martinmas  1671. 
William  Linch  of  Sherburn  went  out  at  Martinmas  1671. 
Thomas  Beilby  of  York  dyed  ye  16  of  January  1671. 
Christopher  Law  of  Yorke  went  out  ye  1st  of  May  1672. 
William  Ibyson  of  Sherburne  was  buryed  ye  15  of  July  1672. 
Arthur  Scowfield  of  Yorke  went  out  ye  first  of  August  1672. 
Thomas  Foster  of  Yorke  went  out  at  Martinmas  1672. 
Robert  Johnson  of  Sandhutton  act  Mayday  1679 
Matthew  Haye  of  York  went  out  to  be  a  soldier  about  Whit- 

sundie  1678. 
Thomas  Hayes  of  Sherburne  went  out  at  Lammas  1673. 
John  Allison  of  Saxton  went  out  at  Candlemas  1678. 
Thomas  Oliver  of  York  died  ye  24th  of  April  1674. 
Thomas  Hembrough  of  Yorke  went  out  at  May  1674. 
Matthew  Baker  of  Sherburne  went  out  at  Lammas  1674. 
Anthony  Wray  of  Saxton  went  out  at  Lammas  1674. 
Edward  Pearson  of  Saxton  went  out  at  Lammas  1674. 
John  Beckwith  of  Yorke  went  out  at  Candlemas  1674. 
Simon  Linch  of  Sherburne  went  out  at  Martinmas  1675. 
Rodger  Patison  of  Sandhutton  went  out  at  Candlemas  1675. 
Robert  Ibyson  of  Sherburne  was  buried  ye  5  of  October  1675. 
Thomas  Raper  of  Sherburne  was  buried  ye  7th  of  Decern:  1675. 
George  Allinson  of  Saxton  went  out  at  May-day  1677. 
Jeremiah  Busfeild  of  Yorke  went  out  at  Martinmas  1677. 
Laurence  Wetherill  of  Sherburne  went  out  at  Candlemas  1677. 
Richard  Sissons  of  Yorke  went  out  at  May-day  1678. 
Thomas  Avisson  of  Sandhutton  went  out  at  May-day  1678. 
Benjamin  Brooke  died  the  tenth  day  of  May  1678. 
Will :  Burland  of  Sherburne  died  the  tenth  day  of  April  1678. 
Thomas  Jackson  of  Yorke  went  out  at  Lammas  1678. 
John  Mountain  of  Yorke  went  out  at  Lammas  1678. 
William  Johnson  of  York  went  out  at  Candlemas  1678. 
John  Simpson  of  Yorke  went  out  at  Candlemas  1678. 
Richard  Allison  of  Saxton  went  out  at  May-day  1679. 


WITH    YOEKSHIBE    FOLKLORE    JOURNAL.  279 

John  Hardystie  of  Yorke  went  out  at  May-day  1679. 
John  Barker  of  Sherburne  went  out  at  May-day  1679. 
Edward  Wetherell  of  Sherburne  went  out  at  Lammas  1679. 
John  Parthridge  of  Yorke  died  ye  tenth  day  of  January  1678. 
Benjamin  Manklin  of  Yorke  went  out  at  Martinmas  1679. 
John  Calvert  of  Sherburne  went  out  at  Candlemas  1679. 
John  Pattison  of  Sandhutton  went  out  at  Candlemas  1679. 
John  Fairburn  of  Yorke  went  off  at  Martinmas  1687. 
John  Topham  went  off  at  May-day  (ffor  Camb.)  1688. 
Thomas  Squire  of  Sandhutton  Dyed  Aprill  ye  5th  a  Blucoat 

1688. 
John  Barnett  of  Sherbum  went  out  at  May-day  1688. 
Mark  Hurd  of  York  went  out  at  Martinmas  1688. 
Thomas  Loft  of  Saxton  went  out  at  Martinmas  1688. 
Andrew  Slater  of  Sherbum  went  out  at  May-day  1689. 
Wm.  Charter  of  Sherburn  went  out  at  May-day  1689. 
John  Wright  of  York  went  out  at  Lamas  1689. 
Bich*-  Stringer  of  York  dyed  at  York  Jany  ye  12  1689 
Len*-  Battersbie  of  York  went  out  at  May -day  1690. 
John  Bewley  of  York  went  out  at  Martinmas  1690. 
John  Hall  of  Saxton  went  out  at  Martinmas  1690. 
Bich**  Pickering  of  Sherburn  went  out  at  May-day  1691. 
Simon  Bycroft  of  Sherburn  went  out  at  May-day  1691. 
John  Shaw  of  Sherburn  went  out  at  Midsummer  1691. 
Thomas  Hague  of  Sherburn  went  out  at  Lammas  1691. 
Joseph  Brown  of  Sherburn  went  out  at  Lammas  1691. 
Henry  Calvert  of  Sherburn  went  out  at  Lammas  1691. 
Tho.  Pierson  of  York  went  out  at  May-day  1692. 
Bichd-  Fletcher  of  Saxton  went  out  at  May-day  1692. 
John  Hesle  of  York  went  out  at  Martinmas  1692. 
Stephen  Wheatley  of  York  went  out  at  Martinmas  1692. 
Wm.  Dodgson  of  Sherburn  dyed  November  ye  6th  16 [92]. 

End  of  fol.  2a. 


1694. 


Commencement  of  fol.  8a. 
Joseph  Howdell  of  Sherburn  went  out  at  May-day  169[8] 
Joseph  Herrington  of  York  went  out  at  Lamas  1698. 
Benjamin  Nickleson  of  Sherburn  went  out  at  Candlemas  1694. 
Tho.  Gilliam  of  Saxton  dyed  in  Aprl.  '94.  & 
George  Howard  (who  had  been  7  months  abst.  by  reason 

of  sickness)  re-entred 
Mark  Featon  of  Sherburn  went  out  at  May-day  1694. 
James  Dodgson  of  Sherburn  dyed  in  June  '94,  &  \m>qa 
Thomas  West  of  York  supplyed  his  place  j 

Charls  Sharpus  of  York  went  out  at  Lamas  1694. 
George  Dobson  of  Sherburn  went  out  at  Lamas  1694. 
Josuah  Dobson  of  Sherburn  dyed  in  ffebruary  &  j  ^qqa 
Bob4-  Dobson  his  brother  succeeded  him  j 


280  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 

James  Todd  of  York  went  out  at  Martinmas  1694. 
Wm.  Sykes  of  York  went  out  at  Martinmas  1695. 
Rob*-  Walker  of  York  went  out  at  Martinmas  1695. 
Michael  Otley  of  York  went  out  at  Martinmas  1696. 
Franois  Watson  of  York  went  out  at  Martinmas  1696. 
George  Howard  of  York  went  out  at  Martinmas  1696. 
Henry  Thirkel  of  Sherburn  went  out  at  Martinmas  1696.  . 
John  Wkarldale  of  Sherburn  went  out  at  May-day  1697. 
John  Brown  of  Sherburn  went  out  at  Lamas  1697. 
George  Wheatley  of  York  went  out  at  Martinmas  1697. 
Rich*-  Pierson  of  York  went  out  at  Martinmas  1697. 
Timothy  Webster  of  York  went  out  at  May-day  1698. 
Rich*-  Jackson  of  York  went  out  at  May-day  1698. 
Michael  Duke  of  York  went  out  Candlemas  169?  (sic) 
William  Wheatley  of  York  went  out  at  May-day  1699. 
Thomas  Bolton  of  Sherburn  went  out  at  May-day  1699. 
John  Sadler  of  Sherburn  went  out  at  May-day  1699. 
Francis  Park  of  Sherburn  went  out  at  Martinmas  1699. 
Jon-  Harrison  of  Sand-hutton  went  out  at  Martinmas  1699. 
John  Cook  of  Sherburn  died  May  ye  23d  1700. 
Thomas  Pullan  of  Sherburn  died  June  ye  16th  1700. 
Alvary  Webster  of  York  went  out  at  Lamas  1700. 
Henry  Alderson  of  York  went  out  at  May-day  1701. 
Richard  Brusbie  of  York  went  out  at  May-day  1701. 
Hugh  Jewitt  of  Sherburn  went  out  at  Lamas  1701. 
Henry  Harrison  of  Sandhutton  went  out  at  Martinmas  1701. 
John  Casson  of  York  went  out  at  May*- 1708. 
Jeremiah  Wheatley  of  York  went  out  at  May*  1708. 
Peter  Allan  of  York  went  out  at  May-day  1708. 
Charles  Hillary  of  York  went  out  at  May**  1708. 
John  Benson  of  Sandhutton  went  out  at  May-day  1708. 
Thomas  Cruttenden  of  York  went  out  at  Candlemas  1708. 
Benjamin  Turner  of  York  went  out  at  Lady-day  1704. 
Phillip  Pierson  of  York  went  out  at  Lamas  1704. 
William  Foxon  of  York  went  out  at  Candlemas  1704. 
Francis  Cary  of  York  went  out  at  Candlemas  1704. 
Wm.  Harison  of  Sandhutton  went  out  at  Candlemas  1704. 
Edw*-  Turner  of  York  went  out  at  May-day  1706. 
Sam11-  Turpin  of  Sherburn  went  out  at  May-day  1706. 
End  of  fol.  So. 


Commencement  of  fol.  4a. 
Christopher  Sanderson  of  York  went  out  at  Lamas  1706. 
George  Coupland  of  Sherburn  went  out  at  Lamas  1706. 
Joseph  Stephenson  of  Milforth  went  out  at  Lamas  1706. 
William  Charter  of  York  went  out  at  Martinmas  1706. 
William  Bentley  of  York  went  out  at  May-day  1707. 
Cornelius  Benson  of  Sandhutton  went  out  at  Mart.  1707. 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  281 

John  Carlin  of  Milforth  went  out  at  Martinmas  1707. 

Tho.  Adcock  Hutchisson  of  York  went  out  at  May-day  1708. 

John  Turpin  of  Sherburn  went  out  at  May-day  1708. 

George  Walker  of  York  went  out  at  May-day  1708. 

John  Hollinworth  of  Sherburn  at  Lamas  1708. 

Rich*-  Smith  of  York  went  out  at  Martinmas  1708. 

Win.  Clerk  of  Sandhutton  went  out  at  Martinmas  1708. 

Tho.  Jarvis  of  York  went  out  at  Candlemas  1708. 

John  Pollard  of  York  went  out  at  Lady-day  1709. 

Rob**  Anderson  of  York  went  out  at  May-day  1709. 

Wm.  Booth  of  York  went  off  at  Lamas  1709. 

John  Bond  of  Sherburn  went  off  at  Mart.  1709. 

Joseph  Stephenson  of  Sandhutton  went  of  at  May-day  1710. 

Thomas  Boswell  of  Sandhutton  died  March  ye  5th  1710. 

Thomas  Hick  of  Abbaford  went  out  at  May-day  1711- 

George  Benson  of  Sandhutton  went  out  at  May-day  1711- 

1712. 
Jno.  Chapman  went  out  at  May-day  1712. 
Benj.  Leak  went  out  at  May-day  1712. 
Joseph  Slater  went  out  at  Lamas  1712. 
Hugh  Walker  went  out  at  Mart.  1712. 

1713. 
Tho.  Mint  of  York  went  out  at  May-day  1718. 
Chr.  Akrid  of  Sandhutton  wfc-  out  at  Mart:mass 

1714. 
Willm-  Chamberlain  went  out  at  May-day  1714. 
Jno.  Matheror  at  May-day  1714. 
Jno.  Turpin  at  Martinmass  1714. 
Will™-  Brown  at  Martinmass  1714. 

1716. 
Thomas  Mason  of  York  went  out  at  May-day. 
Joseph  Abbot  of  Sherbourn  went  out  at  May-day. 
Richard  Poole  of  Sherbourn  went  out  at  May-day. 
John  Standeaven  of  Sherbourn  went  out  at  Lamas. 
Benjamin  Smith  of  Sherbourn  went  out  at  Lammas- 
Richard  Gyll  of  Sherbourn  went  out  at     .     .     . 

End  of  fol.  4a. 


Commencement  of  fol.  46. 
William  Brook  of  Sherburn  went  out  at  Martinmass. 
Thomas  Brook  of  Sherburn  dyed  at  Christmass. 
Christopher  Cave  of  Yorke  went  out  at  May-day. 

1717. 
Rob*-  Hardy  of  York  went  out  at  May  Day. 
Christopher  Cave  of  York  went  out  at  May  Day. 
Edward  Wood  of  York  drowned  at  York  ye  16th  of  June. 
Huggins  of  Saxton  ran  away  at  Christmas  1717. 
Caesar  Chamberlayne  went  out  at  Martinmas. 


282  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 

1718. 
Tho :  Abbot  went  out  at  May  Day. 
John  Flint  went  out  at  May  Day. 
John  Hammond  went  out  at  May  Day. 
John  Gyll  went  out  at  Lammas. 

1719. 
Thomas  Shepperd  went  out  at  May  Day. 
Thomas  Butler  went  out  at  May  Day. 

1720. 
Benjamin  Whiteoat  went  out  at  May  Day. 
Arthur  Cunningham  went  out  at  May  Day. 
Will.  Fentiman  went  out  at  May  Day. 
Jno.  Stainburn  went  out  at  May  Day. 
Tho.  Bolton  went  out  at  May  Day. 
Jno.  Mason  went  out  at  May  Day. 
Tho.  Richardson  went  at  May  Day. 
Tho.  Cunningham  died  at  Xmas. 

1722. 
Wm.  Sheppard  of  Sand-hutton  went  out  at  May-Day. 
John  Terry  of  York  went  out  at  May-Day. 
George  Fentiman  of  Sherburn  went  out  at  May-Day. 
John  Smelt  of  York  went  out  at  Candlemas. 

1723. 

1724. 
Elnathan  Coulton  of  York  went  out  at  May-day. 
William  Stanidge  of  Sherburn  went  out  at  May-Day. 
Christopher  Richardson  of  York  went  out  at  Martinmass. 
John  Punder  of  Barkston  went  out  at  Martinmass. 

1725. 
John  Burton  of  Sherburn  went  out  at  May  Day. 
Matthew  Hall  of  Saxton  went  out  at  May  Day. 
John  Holmes  of  York  went  out  at  May  Day. 
John  Whitehead  of  York  went  out  at  Martinmas. 

End  of  f  oL  46. 


Commencement  of  fol.  5a. 
1726. 
Thomas  Chamberlayne  went  out  at  Midsummer  to  Cambridge. 
Michael  Goswel  of  York  went  out  at  Candlemas. 

N.B.— He  did  not  return  to  School  after  y«  Xmas  holidays  so  y*  h« 
may  be  said  to  hare  left  y«  School  abt  10th. 
1727. 
Thoinas  Bonell  of  Sherburn  went  out  at  May-day. 
John  Brook  of  Sherburn  went  out  at  May-day. 
Tho.  Walker  of  Sherburn  went  out  at  May-day. 
James  Dobson  of  Sherburn  went  out  at  May-day. 
Wm.  Calverley  of  Sherburn  went  out  at  Martinmas. 

1728. 
Bichard  Harrison  of  Sherburn  went  out  at  May-day. 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE    JOURNAL.  28S 

1729. 
John  Richardson  of  York  went  out  at  May-day. 
Thomas  Dale  of  York  went  out  at  May-day 
John  Bonell  of  Sherburn  went  oat  at  May-day. 
John  Leaf  (?)  of  Sherburn  went  out  at  May-day. 
John  Slater  of  Sherburn  went  out  at  Martinmas. 
James  Calverley  of  Sherburn  went  out  at  Candlemas. 

1730. 
John  Whitfield  of  Saxton  went  out  at  May-day. 
Wm.  Whitfield  of  Saxton,  run  away  from  School  July  18, 

returned  and  submitted  ye  day  following. 
Wm.  Brooks  of  York  went  out  at  Lammas. 
James  Barnes  of  Heck  went  out  at  Lammas. 
Mark  Conn  of  York  went  out  at  Martinmass. 
John  Paver  of  Milford  went  out  at  Martinmass. 

1781. 
Hannover  Hill  of  York  went  out  at  May  Day. 
Wm.  Speight  of  York  went  out  at  May  Day. 
Rowland  Richardson  of  York  went  out  at  Lammas. 

1732. 
William  Whitfield  of  Saxton  went  out  at  May  Day. 
John  Barber  of  York  went  out  at  May  Day. 
John  ye  son  of  Will.  Cooper  of  Sand-Hutton  detained  at  Home 

October  ye  ii**-      N.B. — Had  stayed  half  a  year  longer  than 

his  time  for  want  of  a  Certificate. 

1733. 
John  Heslegrave  of  Saxton  went  out  at  May-day. 
John  Dobson  of  Sherburn  went  out  at  May-day. 
John  son  of  Matthew   Sampson  of  Abbetford  went   out  at 
Martinmas. 

1734. 
John  son  of  John  Bannister  of  Sherburn  went  out  at  Lammas. 

End  of  f ol.  6a. 


Commencement  of  fol.  5b. 

1735. 
Charles  son  of  James  Barnes  of  Heck  went  out  at  May-day. 
Tho :  son  of  Tho :  Wilkinson  at  Barkston  went  out  at  May-day. 
William  son  of  William  Standen  at  York  went  out  at  Michael- 
mas. 
William  son  of  John  Brooks  at  York  went  out  at  Christmas. 

1736. 
William  son  of  William  Chamberlain  of  Shereburn  went  out  at 

May-day. 
Christopher  the  son  of  Christopher  Fothergill  of  Kippax  went 

out  at  May-day. 


284        YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 

Richard  son  of  Rich**  Herwood  of  York  went  out  at  Michaelmas. 
Daniel  the  son  of  Daniel  Walker  of  Towton  in  the  pariah  of 

Saxton  died  in  the  Hospital  the  fourth  of  October. 
John  Tenant  son  of  Charles  Tenant  of  York  went  oat  at  Xtmas 
Tho.  son  of  Tho.  Eliot  of  York  went  out  at  Christmas. 

1737. 
Matthias  son  of  Rich*-  Lidgley  went  out  at  Lammas. 
Tho.  son  of  Tho.  Frear  of  York  went  out  Aug.  ye  80th. 
John  the  son  of  John  Hayes  of  York  went  out  September  ye  17th 

1738. 
David  son  of  Christopher  Fothergill  of  Kippax  went  out  March 

ye  29th. 
Bam.  son  of  Rob*-  Hick  of  Abborford  went  out  at  Martinmass. 
John  son  of  John  Mountain  of  Saxton  went  out  at  Christmass. 

1739. 
John  son  of  Tho.  Eliot  of  York  went  out  at  May-day. 
Tho8-  son  of  Tho.  Nixon  of  York  went  out  at  Lady-day  1739. 

End  of  fol.  56. 


Commencement  of  fol.  6a. 
Ananias  son  of  Ananias  Bottomley  of  York  went  out  at  Mid- 
summer 1789. 
William  son  of  William  Forster  of  Newthorp  went  out  at 

Michaelmas  1789. 

1740. 
Tho.  son  of  John  Houseman  of  Sherbarn  went  out  at  May-day 

1740 
John  son  John  Foster  of  Saxton  went  out  tft  Candlemas  1740-1. 

1741. 
Lancelot  son  of  Tho.  Foster  of  Shereburn  went  out  at  May-day 

1741. 
Edwd-  son  of  George  Dolphin  of  York  went  out  June  ye  1st 

1741. 
Tho.  son  of  Rio*  Heaton  of  York  died  May  18th  1741. 
John  son  of  John  Winterbourne  of  Newthorpe  went  at  Lammas 

1741. 
Willm*  son  of  John  Smith  in  Se-  Lawrence  parish  York  went  oat 

out  at  Candlemas  1741-2. 
John  son  of  Jabez  Manning  of  York  went  out  at  Candlemas 

1741-2. 
Will"-  son  of  Will*-  Joy  of  York  went  out  at  Candlemas  17412. 

1742. 
Henry  son  of  John  Ouseman  of  Shereburn  went  out  the  1st  of 

March  1741-2. 
John  son  of  William  Eland,  Mariner,  went  out  the  1st  of  March 

1741-2. 
William  son  of  Silvan  Austine,  Weaver,  went  out  at  Midsummer 

1742. 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE    JOURNAL.  285 

John  son  of  William  Clough  went  out  at  Midsummer  1742. 
William  son  of  Rick*-  Thackera  went  out  at  Midsummer  1742. 
End  of  fol.  6a. 

Commencement  of  fol.  66. 

1743. 
John  ye  son  of  George  Dolphin  of  York  went  out  Jan1?*  ye  1st 

1743. 
Rob'*  son  of  Mary  Eccles  of  Towton  went  out  at  Candlemas 

17428. 
Will10-  Bateman  in  ye  Parish  of  X*'0  Xh  York,  went  out  at  East? 

1748. 
John  son  of  Rio**  Horwood  of  York  went  out  at  Martinmass 

1748. 

1744. 
George  son  of  John  Shipperd  of  Sherebum  went  out  at  Easter 

1744. 
John  son  of  Joseph  Calvert  in  ye  parish  of  Saxton  went  out  6th 

August  1745. 

1745. 
William  son  of  Tho.  Higgins  of  Saxton  went  out  at  Martinmas 

1745. 

1745-6. 
William  son  of  John  Stephenson  of  Towton  in  the  parish  of 

Saxton  went  out  at  Candlemas  1745-6. 

1746. 
Edward  son  of  Edward  Taylor  of  York  went  out  at  Candlemas 

1746. 

1746. 
Christopher  Randerson,  son  of  John  Randerson  of  Towton  went 

out  at  Christmas  1746. 

1747. 
Rob*-  Smith  son  of  Richard  Smith  of  Milford  went  out  tenth  of 

April  1747. 

•  1747. 
Charles  son  of  Charles  Kipling  of  York  went  out  at  Midsummer 

1747. 
John  son  of  Wilfrid  Rothwell  of  Batley  went  out  the  17th  of 

July  1747. 
John  son  of  John  Silcock  of  York  went  out  the  22nd  of  August 

1747. 
George  son  of  George  Ledger  of  Ullerskelf  went  out  the  4th  of 

March  1748. 
John  son  of  John  Chambers  of  York  went  out  at  Midsummer 

1748. 
Tho.  son  of  John  Stephenson  of  Towton  went  out  at  Midsummer 

1747. 


286  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 

George  son  of  John  Silcock  of  York  went  oat  the  28th  of  Not- 
ember  1748. 

James  son  of  John  Driffield  Sadler  in  York  died  May  the  1st, 
1749. 

Tho.  son  of  Tho.  Hope  of  Shereburn  went  away  Decern*  the 
10  1748. 

[  Josjeph  of  Joseph  Calvert  of  Saxton  went  away  May  10th  1749. 

End  of  f  ol.  66. 


Commencement  of  fol.  la. 
Anthony  son  of  Anthony  Dunnel  of  Kippax  went  out  Septem- 
ber 18th  1749. 
John  son  of  John  Killingworth  of  Whitley  in  the  parish  of 

Kellington  went  on  November  the  80th  1749. 
Francis  son  of  John  Sharp  of  Shipton  in  ye  parish  of  Overton 

went  out  December  the  9th  1749. 
Benjamin  son  of  Edward  Smith  of  Cliff  went  oat  Feby.  the  18th 

1749. 
Tho.  son  of  George  Ledger  of  Ullerskelf  labourer  went  oat  the 

12th  of  March  1749. 
Bichard  son  of  Tho.  Massey  of  York  went  oat  the  24th  of 

March  1749. 
John  son  of  John  Moor  of  York  went  away  abruptly  the  10th 

of  April  1750. 
William  son  of  Rob*  Fowler  of  Lumly  went  out  April  the  1st 

1750. 
Rich**  &  Rob*-  sons  of  William  Simpson  of  Barkstone  went  out 

July  the  1st  1751. 
John  son  of  John  Field  of  Newthorp  went  out  Jan1*  the  8th 

1752. 
William  son  of  John  Flemming  of  York  west  oat  at  Candlemas 

1752. 
David  son  of  William  Tuke  of  York  went  out  February  22nd 

1762. 
William  son  of  Samuel  Clark  of  York  went  out  May  21st  1752. 
John  son  of  Wm.  Biscomb  of  Saxton  went  out  April  9th  1758. 
John  son  of  John  Roebuck  of  York  went  out  at  Lady-Day  1758. 
Tho.  son  of  Francis  Thirkel  of  Shereburn  went  out  at  May-Day 

1758. 
Joseph  son  of  William  Williamson  of  York  went  out  at  May-Day 

1758. 
Rob*-  son  of  Henry  Ovington  of  Bilton  went  out  at  Candlemas 

1754. 
William  son  of  Tho.  Sharp  of  Saxton  went  out  at  Lady-Day 

1754. 
Job  son  of  William  Shields  of  York  went  out  at  X*mas,  1754. 
Rob*-  son  of  Rob*-  Flowet  of  Abberford  went  out  June  1st  1755. 
Tho.  son  of  Ric*-  Thompson  of  Shereburn  went  out  Aug*-  1st 

1766,  End  of  fol.  7«. 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  287 

Commencement  of  fol.  7b. 
John  son  of  John  Smith  of  Saxton  went  Aug.  28th  1755. 
Tho8-  son  of  Tho«-  Oldridge  went  out  May  the  28th,  1756,  the 
Reason  why  he's  plac'd  here  went  away  June  the  24  1755, 
he  was  admitted  again. 
Jno.  son  of  Wm.  Woodhouse  of  Bishophill,  York,  went  out 

Aug*  18th  1755. 
*WUUam  son  of  Edward  Smith  of  York  went  out  December  80th 

1755. 
Norfolk  son  of  Francis  Jackson  of  York  went  out  December  80th 

1755. 
William  son  of  Robert  Clayton  of  Sherburn,  went  out  May  the 

20th  1756. 
John  son  of  Thomas  Wood  of  Sherburn  went  out  June  the  28rd, 

1756. 
George  son  of  George  Stephenson  of  South  Millford  run  away 
Sept.  ye  18th,  1756. 

1788. 

John  Baker    Jan  25. 

Geo.  Thompson  -  25. 

—  Middleton  May  26. 

Rest  of  half  of  fol.  76  blank.    The  whole  of  fol.  8a  is  blank. 


Commencement  of  fol.  86.    The  entries  above  over  again  in  origl. 
John  son  of  David  Benson  of  York  went  out  April  the  6th  1757. 
John  son  of  William  Bolton  of  York  went  out  July  ye  19th 

1757. 
William  son  of  William  Smith  of  York  went  out  August  the  2nd 

1757. 
John  son  of  Jno.  Bolton  of  Sherburn  went  out  October  the  10th 

1757. 
John  son  of  Sam61*  Walker  of  St.  John's  Micklegate  York  went 

out  Octte-  28rd  1757. 
Henry  son  of  William  Biscomb  of  Saxton  went  out  Feb1*-  the 

12th  1758. 
John  son  of  William  Buley  of  York  went  out  March  the  18th 

1758. 
Abraham  son  of  John  Smales  of  York  went  out  May  the  18th 

1758. 
Stephen  son  of  John  Gill  of  Sherburn  went  out  June  22nd  1758. 
William  son  of  Tho.  Hope  of  Sherburn  went  out  August  the 

10th  1758. 
Thos.  son  of  Paul  Winterburn  of  All  Ste-  York  went  out  August 

the  14th  1758. 
Thos.  son  of  Thos.  Summers  Buried  March  28th  1759. 
George  son  of  Sam1*  Hogg  of  York  went  out  November  29th 

1759. 

*  These  words  have  been  erased. 


288  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 

John  son  of  Wm.  Ryther  of  South  Millford  went  out  May  14th 

1760. 
George  son  of  William  Biscomb  of  Saxton  went  out  Janry.  2nd 

1761. 
Thomas  Bolton  son  of  John  Bolton  of  Milford  went  out  March 

25th  1761. 
David  son  of  Andrew  Joy  of  Sherburn  went  out  Not.  14th 

1761. 
John  son  of  John  Shoot  of  Micclesneld  went  out  Not.  80th 

1761. 
Robert  son  of  Robert  Clayton  of  Sherburn  went  out  July  29 

1762. 
Thomas  son  of  Thomas  Smith  in  the 'Parish  of  All  Saints  with- 
in the  City  of  York  went  out  Augst.  17  1762. 
Edmund  son  of  Robert  Leach  of  Abberford  in  the  Parish  of 

Sherburn  went  out  Septbr    18  1762.    Henry  Todd  in  his 

place. 
Thomas  son  of  Robert  Clayton  of  Sherburn  went  out  March 

ye  14th  1768.     H.  Whetherill  in  his  place. 
Thomas  son  of  Robt.  Lee  of  Sherburn  went  out  May  ye  8th 

1768.     John  Spencer  in  his  place. 
Ananias  son  of  Ananias  Bothemley  went  out  June  27th  1768. 

John  Middlewood  in  his  place. 
William  son  of  Richard  Hill  went  out  Jan.  1st  1764.    Wm. 

Todd  in  his  place. 
Robt.   son  of  William  Biscombe  went  out    Jan.   1st   1764. 

Matthew  Brown  in  his  place. 
Wm.  son  of  John  Simpson  went  out  Jan.  1    1764.    John 

Nournvale  in  his  Place. 
Thos.  Hanson  went  out  2d  April  1764.    William  Falkingam  in 

his  Place. 
Thomas  Hudson  went  out  25th  June,  1764,  Lancelot  Simpson 

in  his  Place. 
Wm.  Settle  went  out  19th  September  1764.    William  Black- 
burn in  his  Place. 
Joseph  Hope  went  out  22d  November  1764.    Thos.  Barker  in 

his  Place. 
George  Brown  went  out  at  Christmas  1764.    Wm.  Summers  in 

his  place. 
Robert  Bothemley    went  out   at  Christmas    1764.      George 

Middlewood  in  his  place. 
James  Stoner  went  out  June  24th  1765.    James  Shaw  in  his 

Place. 
Thos.  Brown  went  out  June  24, 1765.    Edward  Spencer  in  his 

Place. 
Thos.  Jackson  went  out  August  15th  1765.    John  Bothomlay 

in  his  Place. 


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$atittz  of  Jhto  Unnks. 

Mr.  William  Brigg,  B.A.,  18,  Park  Bow,  Leeds,  has  in  the 
press  for  Subscribers  at  12s.  6d.,  "  The  Registers  of  St.  Nicholas 
Aeons,  London,"  1589-1812.  Only  150  copies  are  being  printed. 

The  Begistebs  op  the  Pakish  of  Wandsworth,  Surrey,  1608- 
1787.  Transcribed  by  John  Traviss  Squire,  a  Solicitor  of  the 
Supreme  Court.  Lymington,  C.  T.  King,  1889.  Imp.  8vo., 
pp.  iv.,  558.  The  Index  occupies  94  pages  of  three  columns 
each,  and  without  doubt  many  Yorkshire  names  occur ;  thus, 
the  burial,  Aug.  14,  1668,  of  William,  son  of  Mr.  William 
Horsefall.  The  work  forms  a  most  valuable  addition  to  the 
genealogist's  library,  and  not  alone  regarding  the  families  of 
Surrey,  but  all  the  counties  whence  London  and  its  vicinity 
drew  the  ever  increasing  population. 

Yorkshire  Arcreological  Association. — Becord  Series,  Vol. 
viii.  for  1889.  Feet  of  Fines  of  the  Tudor  Period.  Part  iv. 
Printed  for  the  Society.  1890.  pp.  viii.,  262  +  Beport,  14 
pages. 

The  index  fills  57  pages,  and  as  in  previous  vols.,  mentions 
almost  every  township  and  old  family  then  existing  in  the 
county. 

Yorkshire  Archaeological  Association. — Annual  Beport, 
January  1890.     11  pages. 

The  "  Journal "  and  "  Becord  Series  "  have  outgrown  in  the 
annual  issue  of  pages  the  promised  quantities,  and  have  to  be 
curtailed  unless  an  accession  of  new  members  takes  place. 
The  Yorkshire  County  Councils  should  make  grants  for  the 
publications  of  the  Index  of  Wills,  &c.  We  find  fault  with  the 
nsertion  of  one  word  where,  regarding  the  loss  of  books  from 
;he  Library,  the  Council  trill  have  to  make  more  stringent 
regulations.  One  half  of  Watson's  Halifax  (being  bound  in 
iwo  volumes),  was  lost  before  the  books  were  deposited  in  the 
present  room. 

Old  English  Country  Dances. — Edited  by  Frank  Kidson, 
Burley  Boad,  Leeds.  Londo"h,  W.  Beeves,  Fleet  Street,  1890. 
[n  fancy  boards,  oblong  octavo,  2s.  6d.  Also  80  copies  on 
land-made  paper  at  5s.  25  pages  of  music  printed  on  one 
side,  in  18th  century  style,  followed  by  80  pages  of  notes  and 
Dance-music  bibliography.  Half-a-dozen  at  least  of  the  64 
neces  bear  Yorkshire  titles. 

It  is  well  known  that  Mr.  Kidson  is  the  authority  we  look  to 
n  these  matters,  especially  for  Yorkshire,  and  we  are  pleased 
o  see  that  the  "  Country  Dances  "  is  but  an  earnest  of  good 
hings  to  come.  He  is  preparing  for  publication  at  5s.  a 
Collection  of  Ballad  Tunes,  chiefly  gathered  in  Yorkshire  and 
South  Scotland. 

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290  YORKSHIRE    NOTE3    AND    QUERIES, 

Wilsden  Almanac,  1890.  Third  year  of  publication,  2d. 
B.  Binns  &  Son. 

The  first  sixteen  pages  include  interesting  local  items  in 
prose  and  verse.     The  rest  is  not  locally  printed. 

The  Gilchrist  Lectures,  delivered  at  Wath-on-Dearoe, 
1888-9.  Mexboro' :  Walter  Turner,  Mexboro*  and  Swinton  Times 
Office,  1889.     Reprinted  from  news  columns. 

Dr.  Dallinger  on  "  Infinitely  Great  and  Small : "   pp.  25. 

Sir  R.  Ball  on  "  The  Telescope  : "  pp.  88. 

Dr.  Williamson  on  "  Limestone  Rtick:"  pp.  20. 

Mr.  W.  L.  Carpenter  on  "  Niagara : "  pp.  25. 

Prof.  Seeley  on  "  Water  in  Land-shaping : "  pp.  20. 

Dr.  Wilson  on  "  Chalk  and  Coral : "  pp.  29. 

These  form  a  neat  volume,  and  we  are  not  surprised  to  hear 
that  it  is  now  sold  out. 

Index  to  the  First  Volume  of  the  Parish  Registers  op 
Gainford,  County  Durham.  Part  II.,  Marriages,  1669 — 1761. 
London  :  E.  Stock,  1889.     Pp.  iv.,  96. 

We  heartily  welcome  the  second  part  of  this  carefully  edited 
" Index,"  but  we  prefer  to  name  it  "Register,  arranged  in 
Index  form."  Paper,  printing,  binding  are  excellent.  We 
believe  Mr.  Walbran,  of  Ripon,  printed  four  copies  of  Gainford 
Registers,  one  of  which  was  deposited  in  the  British  Museum. 

The  Diary  of  Mr.  Justice  Rokeby. — Printed  from  a  MS.  in 
the  possession  of  Sir  Henry  Peek,  Bart.  Privately  printed. 
Handmade  paper,  vellum  cover,  4to.,  pp.  iv.  59.  The  preface, 
dated  Nov.  1887,  is  signed  by  William  Boyd. 

Mr.  Justice  (Thomas)  Rokeby  was  the  second  son  of  Thomas 
Rokeby,  Esq.,  of  Burnoy  and  Sandal,  and  entered  Gray's  Inn 
in  1650,  aged  about  nineteen.  He  married  Ursula,  daughter  of 
James  Danby,  Esq.,  of  Newbuilding,  Thirsk.  He  was  the  prin- 
cipal adviser  of  the  Nonconformists  in  the  North  of  England, 
and  was  a  great  supporter  of  William  III.  He  was  appointed 
Justice  (Common  Pleas)  in  May,  1689,  and  was  removed  to  the 
King's  Bench  Oct.  1695.  He  died  Nov.  26, 1699,  and  was  buried 
at  Sandal. 

An  index  of  cases,  1687-8,  mostly  Yorkshire  ones  seemingly, 
occupies  the  first  eight  pages,  and  then  commences  the  brief 
record  of  his  travels  in  the  middle,  south  and  west  of  England 
as  Justice.  Their  great  interest  tends  to  increase  our  deep 
regret  that  the  other  diaries  of  Justice  Rokeby  are  lost.  The 
book  affords  a  treat  to  the  antiquaries  of  the  districts  named, 
and  is  a  neat  memorial  of  a  Yorkshire  worthy :  but  how  elated 
we  should  have  been  to  find  similar  entries  regarding  Yorkshire 
sheriffs,  prisons,  coiners,  jailers,  highways,  &c. 

Yorkshire  Legends  and  Traditions,  as  told  by  her  ancient 
Chroniclers,  her  Poets,  and  Journalists.     By  the  Rev.  Thomas 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  291 

Parkinson,  F.B.  Hist.  Soc.  Second  series.  London,  Elliot 
Stock,  1889.    8vo.,  pp.  x,  246. 

As  of  the  First  Series,  we  need  but  say — "  Welcome,  well 
done,"  and  venture  to  hope  that  a  Third  Series  may  speedily 
follow.  The  bye-paths  of  Yorkshire  literature  are  being  well 
explored. 

Records  op  Yarlington. — Being  the  History  of  a  Country 
Village.  By  T.  E.  Rogers,  Esq.,  M.A.,  Chancellor  of  the  Diocese 
of  Bath  and  Wells.  London,  Elliot  Stock,  1890.  Small  4 to., 
pp.  viii,  94. 

Mr.  Rogers  seems  favourable  to  the  theory  that  Yarlington 
and  our  own  Qirlington  mean  "  towns  of  the  Girlings,"  a  name 
that  still  exists  in  East  Anglia  as  a  surname.  He  rapidly 
traces  the  Manor  from  Domesday  Survey  to  the  present,  and 
gives  pedigrees  of  the  Nevilles  (King  Makers'  family),  Berkeleys, 
and  Godolphins,  and  thus  introduces  to  us  Mary,  daughter  of 
Francis,  2nd  Earl  Godolphin  by  Lady  Henrietta  Churchill, 
daughter  of  John,  Earl  of  Marlboro*.  This  Lady  Mary  died  in 
1764,  having  married  Thomas  Osborne,  Duke  of  Leeds,  K.G., 
who  died  in  1789,  whose  son  Francis,  born  1751,  became 
Marquis  of  Carmarthen.  Of  him,  Mr.  Rogers  gives  an  interest- 
ing account  condensed  mainly  from  Browning's  "Political 
Memoranda  of  the  Duke  of  Leeds,1'  (Camden  Soc,  1884).  Mr. 
Chancellor  Rogers  has  done  well  in  issuing  this  neat  little 
volume,  and  we  hope  it  may  stimulate  other  representatives  of 
old  families  and  manorial  lords  to  do  likewise. 

Pages  in  Facsimile  fbom  A  Layman's  Prayer  Book  in  English, 
about  1400  A.D.  Containing  Mediaeval  versions  of  the  Lord's 
Prayer,  Te  Deum,  Magnificat,  etc.,  edited  from  the  Original  in 
the  British  Museum,  MS.  27,592.  By  Henry  Littlehales. 
London,  Rivingtons,  1890.  Small  4to.,  twelve  pages  of  intro- 
duction, and  fourteen  leaves  (printed  on  one  side  only,)  of 
facsimiles.     Price  8s.  6d. 

Every  fragment  that  restores  to  us  the  orthography  of  early 
English  is  of  great  value  to  the  philologist,  and  of  general  in- 
terest to  the  historian,  and  to  Mr.  Maskell  and  Mr.  Littlehales 
our  thanks  are  due  for  their  valuable  contributions.  We  have 
read  the  instructive  introduction  with  considerable  profit,  and 
some  acquaintance  with  old  hand  printing  and  ancient  manu- 
scripts gave  us  a  zest  for  the  facsimiles,  that  prompted  the 
desire  that  the  whole  book  should  be  printed  with  modern  type 
opposite.  Mr.  Littlehales*  work  is  a  curiosity,  but  it  is  much 
more  to  the  student  of  the  English  Language,  as  we  find  in 
such  lines  as  this  which  we  are  compelled  to  give  in  modern 
type,  "  Yeync  shal  he  come  vs  alle  to  deme"  (judge). 

J3sop  Redivivus.  By  Mary  Boyle.  London,  Field  and  Tuer, 
1890.    Is.    152  pages.    Quaintly  illustrated.    Old  cuts  are  here 


292        YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 

wedded  to  new  fables,  bat  there  is  an  old  world  quaintness 
about  the  fables  as  well  as  the  cats.  The  type  and  paper  well 
match,  and  combine  in  making  a  very  pleasant  volume  of 
modern  morals. 

Lord  Strafford.  By  H.  D.  Traill.  (English  Men  of  Action 
Series).  London,  Macmillan  &  Co.,  1889.  Portrait  by  Laconr, 
after  Vandyke,  pp.  vii,  206. 

Dr.  Traill  has  particularly  placed  Yorkshiremen  under  obliga- 
tions by  this  talented  and  vigorous  memoir  of  the  London-born 
Yorkshire  man.  The  reader,  who  followed  Lord  Houghton's 
vindication  in  our  last  issue,  will  be  eager  to  master  the  closely- 
printed  analysis  of  the  master-mind  which  dominated  England 
nearly  three  centuries  ago.  We  are  scarcely  prepared  to  accept 
Dr.  Traill's  statement,  that "  the  once  imposing  train  of  believers 
in  the  divine  right  of  Democracy  is  diminishing  every  day." 

Dr.  Erskine  Stuart,  Staincliffe,  Dewsbury,  promises  what 
cannot  fail  to  be  an  attractive  volume,  "  The  Literary  Shrines 
of  Yorkshire."  Airedale,  Bolton  Abbey,  Bradford,  Galder  Vale, 
Coxwold,  GhapeMe-dale,  Dotheboys  Hall,  Fulneck,  Gomersall, 
Halifax,  Haworth,  Hull,  Enaresbro',  Temple  Newsam,  Tanfield, 
Rotherham,  Teesdale,  Winestead,  and  Walton  Hall,  form  a 
goodly  start. 

Hollinqworth's  Psalmody. — A  Manual  of  Hymn  Tunes  and 
Chants.  Edited  by  the  Composer.  Price  8s.  (Wm.  Holling- 
worth,  Little  Horton,  Bradford).  Printed  at  Leeds,  (1889). 
pp.  vii,  190. 

The  808  tunes,  comprised  in  this  neat  volume,  are  the  com- 
positions of  Mr.  W.  Hollingworth,  except  one  by  his  father, 
written  in  1840.  They  are  all  named  and  dated,  and  are  suit- 
able for  any  hymn-book,  being  unaccompanied  by  words.  The 
naming  of  tunes  is  a  difficult  matter,  and  we  think  it  would 
have  been  better  to  add  "  Hollingworth's  "  before  such  names 
as  La  Trobe,  Fulneck,  and  other  well-known  titles,  to  distinguish 
them  from  the  previously  published  tunes  of  those  names.  We 
can,  however,  highly  commend  the  volume  for  the  grand  and 
simple  harmony  that  pervades  the  large  number  we  have  tried, 
and  can  recommend  the  work  for  either  public  worship  or  family 
use. 

A  History  of  Cawthobne. — By  Charles  T.  Pratt,  M.A.,  Vicar. 
Barnsley,  Davis,  printed  for  the  Author,  1882,  pp.  xvi,  175. 
Photo,  view  of  the  village.  8s.  6d.  (With  seven  photos.,  7s.6d. 
but  these  are  all  sold). 

By  a  surprising  oversight,  this  interesting  local  work  has 
escaped  our  notice  till  now,  and  we  can  scarcely  justify  our 
existence  without  giving  most  gladly  our  highest  commendation 
of  the  work,  though  not  so  promptly  as  we  would  otherwise 
have  done. 


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Thb  Elland  Tragedies,  viz: — The  Murders  of  Sir  Robert 
Beaumont,  of  Crosland;  Hugh  de  Quarmby  of  Quarmby, 
Esquire ;  John  de  Lockwood  of  Lockwood,  Esquire ;  Sir  John 
Eland,  senior,  at  Brighouse ;  Sir  John  Eland,  junior,  and  his 
son,  at  Eland,  and  others:  with  the  exploits  of  Wilkin  de 
Lockwood  at  Gannon  Hall,  and  Adam  de  Beaumont  at  Honley, 
and  in  Bhodes  and  Hungary,  as  recorded  in  ancient  manu- 
scripts in  prose  and  verse,  with  notes,  pedigrees,  and  evidences 
recently  brought  to  light.     Edited  by  J.  Horsfall  Turner.    2/- 

Notable  Yorkshire  Churches.  "  Church  Bells  "  Office, 
London,  W.C.     Price  Is.,  70  pages,  4to.  82  largo  engravings. 

We  can  but  presume  that  all  our  readers  obtained,  when 
first  issued,  a  copy  of  this  interesting  addition  to  the  Yorkshire 
Library.  If  not,  we  urge  them  not  to  miss  the  opportunity  of 
the  re-issue  to  do  so  at  once.  It  is  a  rare  treat  to  turn  to  these 
fine  engravings. 

Pleasant  Walks  all  round  Bradford,  (180).  By  Johnnie 
Gray,  author  of  "  A  Holiday  in  Western  France,"  "  A  Tourist's 
View  of  Ireland,"  "  In  the  Land  of  the  Pipe  and  Kilt."  Under 
his  proper  name,  Johnnie  Gray  has  already  made  himself 
known  by  his  facile  pen  to  our  readers,  and  we  are  sure  that 
this  profusely  illustrated  guide,  of  about  180  pages,  will  be  well 
worth  the  2s.  charged,  and  as  the  book  is  to  be  ready  early  in 
April,  our  readers  should  lose  no  time  in  sending  stamps,  or 
order,  to  Johnnie  Gray,  Gaythorne  View,  West  Bowling. 
Pleasant  and  practical,  we  dare  vouch  for  the  work  unseen. 

A  History  of  Cumberland.  By  Richard  8.  Ferguson,  M.A., 
F.S.A.,  Chancellor  of  Carlisle,  President  of  Cumberland  and 
Westmorland  Antiquarian  Society.  London,  Elliot  Stock,  1890. 
Popular  County  Histories :  contains  812  pages. 

The  publisher  has  been  very  fortunate  in  obtaining  the  ser- 
vices of  Mr.  Chancellor  Ferguson  as  author  of  the  Cumberland 
volume,  which  is  a  masterly  production,  and  a  pattern  for  the 
historian  of  the  neighbouring  counties.  It  is  a  county  history, 
and  at  the  same  time  a  key  to  what  has  been  written  on  the 
topography  of  the  county.  The  ancient  history  fills  two-thirds 
of  the  book,  and  is  written  in  a  captivating  style.  To  us,  it 
reads  like  a  Yorkshire  history,  so  nearly  are  we  akin.  With 
pleasure  we  refer  our  readers  to  the  constant  Yorkshire  refer- 
ences in  this  excellent  and  marvellously  cheap  volume. 


A  Witty  Doctor. — In  the  reign  of  George  II.,  the  see  of 
York  falling  vacant,  and  His  Majesty  being  at  a  loss  for  a  fit 
person  to  appoint  to  the  exalted  office,  asked  the  opinion  of  the 
Bev.  Dr.  Mountain,  who  had  raised  himself  by  his  remarkably 
facetious  humour  from  being  a  son  of  a  beggar  to  the  see  of 
Durham.     The  doctor  wittily  replied,  "  Hadst  thou  faith  as  a 


294        YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 

grain  of  mustard-seed,  then  would  ye  say  unto  this  mountain/" 
at  the  same  time  laying  his  hand  upon  his  breast,  "be  ye  re- 
moved and  cast  into  the  sea  (see)."  The  king  laughed  heartily, 
and  forthwith  conferred  the  appointment  upon  the  facetious 
doctor. 

A  Centenarian. — In  February  1890,  Mrs.  Betty  Webster,  an 
inmate  of  Dale  Orange  Almshouses,  Askrigg,  attained  her  100th 
birthday,  having  been  born  at  Thwaite,  near  Muker,  Swsledale, 
on  February  25, 1790.  She  is  at  present  both  hale  and  hearty, 
and  possessed  of  all  her  faculties,  and  so  physically  strong  that 
she  performs  all  her  own  household  duties.  She  has  been  a 
widow  68  years,  and  an  inmate  of  the  almshouses  since  I860. 
Mrs.  Winn,  Winnville  House,  Askrigg,  kindly  invited  about  80 
inhabitants  of  Askrigg  over  60  years  of  age  to  tea  in  the  even- 
ing to  meet  Mrs.  Betty  Webster,  to  celebrate  the  unique  event, 
and  a  very  pleasant  evening  was  spent.  Mrs.  Webster  was  the 
recipient  of  numerous  presents  and  congratulations  during  the 
day. 


(Snualagtcal  $tot*s  from  tHttakdulfr  JKanor  floUs. 

These  notes  were  taken  in  1876,  by  leave  of  Mr.  Stewart  and 
Mr.  Townend,  from  the  marvellously  long  and  complete  series 
of  Rolls,  preserved  at  Wakefield.  We  can  but  give  the  genea- 
logical information  they  contain  for  one  district  of  that  vast 
section  of  Yorkshire  lying  about  the  two  valleys  of  Calder  and 
Colne.  The  Manor  of  Wakefield  is  situated  within  the  wapen- 
takes of  Agbrigg  and  Morley,  and  is  one  of  the  most  extensive 
and  populous  manors  in  England,  embracing  the  whole  of  the 
parishes  of  Wakefield,  Sandal  Magna,  Woodkirk,  Dewsbury, 
Emley,  Eirkburton,  Halifax  (except  the  townships  of  Elland- 
cum-Greetland  and  Southowram) ;  and  parts  of  the  parishes  of 
Almondbury,  Kirkheaton,  Huddersfield,  Normanton  and 
Thornhill. 

Within  the  manor  are  holden  four  Court  Leet  or  Sheriff 
Toms,  viz : 

Wakefield,  including  the  Constabularies  of  Wakefield,  Stan* 
ley,  Sandal,  Crigglestone,  Walton-cum-Bretton,  Horbury, 
Ossett,  Normanton,  Soothill,  Dewsbury,  West  Ardsley,  and 
Eccleshill. 

Halifax,  including  the  Constabularies  of  Halifax,  Sowerby, 
Skircoat,  Ovenden,  Warley,  Wadsworth,  Rushworth-cum- 
Norland,  Stansfield,  Langfield,  Heptonstall,  Erringden,  and 
Midgley. 

Briohouse,  including  Northowram,  Shelf,  Hipperholme-cum- 
Brighouse,  Rastrick,  Quarmby,  Dal  ton,  Fixby,  Stainland, 
Barkisland,  and  Hartishead-cum-Clifton. 


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Holmfirth,  including  the  Constabularies  of  Burton,  Shelley, 
Shepley,  Flockton,  Cumberworth,  Thurstonland,  Emley,  and 
Holme. 

No  history  of  any  one  of  these  towns  can  ever  be  written, 
worthy  of  being  called  a  history,  until  Wakefield  Manor  Rolls 
are  explored.  We  therefore  deem  it  one  of  the  first  duties  of  a 
County  Antiquarian  Society  to  get  permission  to  print  such 
magnificent  rolls  verbatim.  These  Courts  were  held  twice  a 
year,  and  in  addition  the  Court  Baron  (which  was  always  held 
on  the  same  day  as  the  Court  Leet)  was  also  frequently  held  at 
the  Moothall  in  Wakefield. 

In  many  parts  the  Manor  is  broken  into  by  the  Honour  of 
Pontefract,  but  it  will  be  noticed  that  the  jurisdiction  reached 
from  Norm  an  ton,  four  miles  east  of  Wakefield,  to  Todinorden, 
about  thirty-four  miles.  Eccleshill  is  surrounded  by  the  Brad- 
ford section  of  the  Honour  of  Pontefract,  and  is  eight  miles 
from  the  nearest  part  of  the  rest  of  Wakefield  Manor.  Dalton, 
near  Huddersfield,  is  also  encompassed  by  Pontefract  Honour. 
The  Wakefield  branch  of  the  Manor  is  about  ten  miles  long  by 
seven  or  eight  broad  at  widest  part.  The  Holmfirth  branch 
reaches  the  borders  of  Cheshire,  and  is  about  fourteen  miles 
long.  The  Halifax  branch,  commencing  at  Hartishead,  is  about 
twenty-three  miles  long.  Besides  the  gallows  at  Wakefield, 
the  Lord  of  the  Manor  had  the  power  of  gibbetting  at  Halifax, 
over  a  limited  portion  known  as  Sowerby shire. 

Our  notes,  at  present,  are  mostly  genealogical,  and  culled 
from  the  Brighouse  section  of  the  Bolls.  It  will  be  noticed 
that  in  the  early  Bolls  the  word  Brighouse  is  sometimes  con- 
joined with  Bastrick.  We  accept  the  endorsement  dates  on 
the  Bolls,  though  one  or  two  before  1811  may  be  slightly  in 
error.  The  oldest  Boll  is  endorsed  1272.  Of  course,  it  is  un- 
necessary to  state  that  they  consist  of  skins  stitched  together 
and  thus  form  a  roll  of  from  thirty  to  forty  feet,  written  the  full 
length,  and  a  considerable  part  of  the  opposite  length.  After- 
wards they  comprise  say  a  dozen  long  skins  stitched  together 
in  book  form,  and  then  rolled  up.  The  following  is  a  mixture 
of  English  and  abbreviated  Latin,  just  as  the  readiest  word 
came  to  the  pencil  of  a  hurried  writer,  and  does  not  convey  the 
full  sentences. 

Probably  Wakefield  Manor  was  granted  to  the  Warrens  by 
Henry  I.,  in  1116.  The  eighth  Earl  died  in  1847.  In  1464, 
the  Manor  of  Wakefield  is  recorded  as  belonging  to  the  Crown. 
In  1554,  it  was  united  to  the  Duchy  of  Lancaster ;  and  in  1681, 
it  was  granted  to  Henry,  Earl  of  Holland.  It  came  into  the 
possession  of  Sir  Oervase  Clifton,  Knt.  and  Bart.,  by  marriage. 
He  sold  it  about  1668,  to  Sir  Christopher  Clapham,  whose  heirs 
disposed  of  it  in  1700  to  the  Duke  of  Leeds,  in  whose  family  it 
still  remains. 


296  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 

A  few  explanations  may  be  useful : — dat,  dant  means  gave ; 
p.  lie.  cap.  duas  acras  means  for  leave  to  take  two  acres ;  p. 
virid,  spivis,  sice,  refer  to  cutting  wood  in  the  forests ;  fil,  filius, 
filia  means  son  or  daughter ;  ux,  wife ;  que  sunt  ux,  widow ; 
pater,  father;  vast.  terr.  means  waste  land;  bosc.  means 
wood ;  Hypm  is  Hipperholme ;  non.  ven.  means  not  attending ; 
brae = brewing;  esch. =eeca,f  food;  succid.  virid.  =succidit  cut 
down  viride,  '  vert/  i.e,  green-wood  ;  spinis  for  thorns ;  Urra 
nativa.  land  subject  to  the  services  of  neifs,  alias  villeins ;  op. 
se  v.=opponit  se  versus  (spoken  of  a  plaintiff)  opposes  himself 
against;  Calumpnia  vers,  a  claim  against;  calumpniator, 
claimant ;  calumpniare,  to  claim  ;  p.  sice,  for  dry  wood  opposed 
to  '  vert ; '  Uvavit  hittes  (hutesia)  raised  hue  (and  cry) ;  puUrus 
or  pellus,  a  young  horse  ;  mantella  de  wacheto,  a  watchet,  Le., 
blue  mantle  ;  juvencam,  a  heifer ;  fleobotenavit,  let  blood  ;  fukerct 
is  I  believe  an  English  opprobrious  term  ;  Molend  means  Mil- 
ner  ;  trax.  sang,  drawing  blood  ;  B.  B.  E.  p'mo,  1st  year  of 
King  Edward's  reign  ;  Cur.  apud,  Court  at ;  p.  dec,  after  the 
death ;  freg.  fald,  broke  open  the  pinfold  or  pound ;  p'pos, 
ppus,  ppm,  is  propositus  or  greave  ;  vend  contra  ass.,  selling 
contrary  to  the  law  ;  cl'icus,  clerk ;  mia,  mulct,  fine  ;  molus 
manuales,  hand  mills ;  boues,  oxen.  The  large  numbers  who 
were  fined  for  brewing,  and  quarrelling,  will  be  noticed. 

1272. 

Bichard  fil  Henry  de  Bokes  paid  viiis  iij  for  relief  of  his  tene- 
ments. 

Beatrix  de  Totehill.  Thomas  de  Totehill  executor  of  Thomas 
de  ffekisby. 

Henry  de  Northcliff  dat  vid  p.  lie.  cap.  duas  pts.  vn  acre  in 
Hiprm  de  Will,  fil  Ade. 

Hiperom  Elias  fil  Xpiane  and  Bobert  his  brother  gave  iis.  p. 
lie.  concord  cu  Bic.  de  Ouorom  de  plito  turnns. 

Hypm.  Henry  ffabr.  de  Chepedene  vie/  lie.  cap.  iij  pts.  ten. 
in  Schepeden  de  John  fil  Wymarke. 

Hypm.  Alexander  de  Brighouses  p.  virie/.  virf.  Megge  de 
Brighouses  p.  sice.  vid. 

Bastrick.  Henry  fil  John  de  Bastrik  p.  virid  vief.  Bichard 
fil  Mallin  p.  virid  vid.  Will,  fil  Nalle  p.  virid  vid.  Anote  de 
Bastrik  p.  sico.  vid. 

Hypm.  Elias  fil  Xpiane  de  Northowram,  xii  acres  in  North- 
owram  of  John  de  Shawe. 

Hypm.  William  Talvate  xiid.  for  vi  acres  super  Clegcliffe. 

Hypm.  Adam  by  the  broke  p.  spivis  iiijef.  Roger  del  Clyff  p. 
spivis  \id.     Thomas  del  N  or  then  d,  p.  sice.  iijd. 

[Willm  le  Horseknave,  Sourby  p  esch.  i  equ.  ijd.] 

Cure  apud  Bastrik,  feast  St.  Barnabas. 

Hpm.  William  fil  Adam  de  Schepden  dat  xijrf.  for  1J  acre 
new  land  in  Schepden  of  the  waste. 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LOBE    JOURNAL.  297 

Jordan  fil  Adam  de  Shepden  vid.  for  half  acre  in  Northow- 
ram. 

Jolin  fil  Adam  de  Hiprm.  vid.  for  half  acre  of  waste  in 
Hiperom. 

John  fil  Adam  del  Whytehill  xviijrf.  for  two  acres  in  North- 
owram. 

Richard  fil  Jordan  de  Northowram  vid.  for  i  rod  in  Northow- 
ram. 

[Thomas  fil  Xpiane  de  Linthwaite  ij*.  for  land  in  Quermby.] 

John  fil  Adam  de  Lockwode  xijd.  fealty. 

Hipm.  William  fil  WilUam  del  Hingandrode  asprt.  bosc. 
crescente  xii  in  salis  Ric.  del  Wode. 

Thomas  fil  Modeste  xijrf.  de  plito  debi. 

Henry  Abraham  xijd.  to  take  iii  rodes  new  land  from  waste 
in  the  wood  of  Hipperholme. 

Rastrik.  John  del  Botherode  vid.  p.  sice. 

Henry  fil  Modeste  p.  virid.  vid. 

Johna  fil  Xpiane  p.  virid.  vid. 

Sabina  que  sunt  ux  John  fil  Henry  p.  sice. 

William  Burreheved,  Mathew  de  Totehill,  ditto. 

Hiprm.  Walter  fil  Elie  de  Ourom  iiijrf.  &  Thomas  frater  iiijd. 
p.  spiuis. 

Michael  de  Haddegreue,  Richard  fil  Walter,  John  le  Pinder 
de  Ourom,  ditto. 

Jordan  de  Haddegreues  p.  virid.  iijd. 

Thomas  del  Broke,  John  del  Wroo,  Eva  ux  Thomas  le  Heyr, 
John  del  Rode,  Thomas  del  Rode,  Roger  del  Brighouses,  senior, 
Thomas  fil  Roger  del  Cliffe,  John  fil  Henry  de  Astay,  John  fil 
Walter,  Richard  fil  Jordan,  John  de  Whytehill,  Jd  de  Hallewaye 
Simon  fil  Jordan,  Henre  de  Coldelay,  Henry  de  Goppelay, 
Henry  le  Mar  we,  from  iiid.  to  vid.  each  for  viride,  spiuis,  or 
sice. 

Roger  del  Clifton  vid.  cap.  1  rod  in  bosc.  of  Hippm. 

Henry  Abraham  xijd.  cap.  £  acre  vasto. 

Turn  at  Rastrik.  Jury : — Alan  del  ffrith,  Thomas  de  Dal- 
ton  ffis,  Radus  de  Gouthelaghcharthes,*  Henry  le  ffrankisse  de 
Staynland,  [Ivo]Talvate,  John  de  Bristall,  John  del  Rode, 
John  Cricus  de  Hertesheved,  Henry  de  Coldelay,  John  de  P'rcy, 
Thomas  de  Wytewode  and  Roger  de  Clifton. 

Hiprm.  Villata  de  Hipm.  xiirf.  non  ven.  Turn. 

ux  Roger  fil  John  senior,  brae.  iiij<Z. 

Magota  de  Chepelay  brae.  vid. 

Ux  Ad.  Carpentare  vjd.  brae. 

Ux  W.  Molendinare  brae,  iiijrf. 

Ux  Ric.  le  Taillour  brae.  vid. 

Alex.  Molend.  de  Brighouses  non  ven.  vid. 

•Golcar. 


298        YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIE8, 

Due  pultre  wayue  sunt  in  ppositura  de  Hipum  vnde  annus  et 
dies  elaps  est  que  vendi — del  Wode  p.  vijs.  Yid.  Et  ppus  de 
Hipum  inde  cartat. 

Johnes  Percy  de  Clifton  p.  non.  ven.  iijd. 

Annabil  de trax  sang,  de  Agnete  Rot-e  her  servant. 

Will,  le de  Thornhill  and  John  le  Strengfelagh  burga- 

verunt  domu  Thorn,  del  Wode,  took  goods  to  value  of  xl*. 

Hugh  fil  Will,  fil  Eve  de  Wakefeld  trax  sang,  de  Rio.  del 
Lathe  de  Clifton  io  attach. 

Rob.  Spillewoode  trax  sang,  de  Alex.  Molend  de  Brighouses, 
vid. 

Beatrix  ux  Ade  le  Waynwrith  trax  sang  de  Emma  Pynder  de 
Hipum,  vid. 

Alan  de  Bothomlay  trax  sang  de  Cecil  fil  Will,  de  Bothomley. 

Hipum.  Will,  fil  Robert  de  Haldeworth  gave  yid.  for  leave  to 
take  2£  acres  in  Haldeworth  which  John  de  Skirootes  formerly 
held  of  waste. 

[Will,  de  Burga,  psona  of  Thornhill.] 

Hipum.  Roger  de  Clifton  ii*.  virf.  for  2  acres  1  rod  of  waste 
in  Wolueker. 

Thomas  le  Webbester  xijrf .  for  1  acre  waste  at  Underhouth. 

Math,  de  Totehill  iij*.  for  2  acres  of  land  in  Bosoo  de  Hipum 
in  le  Slede. 

Richard  de  Bosco  vi£  acres  waste  in  Chypedene. 

[Waterhouse  family  at  Holme,  this  date.] 

Hipum.  Richard  de  Ouerom  quer.  de  Elia  fil  Xpiane  and 
Robert  his  brother. 

Cur.  apd  Brighouses  die  Mart,  feast  St.  Edmund  Reg.  Anno. 
R.  R.  E.  pmo. 

Hip.  John  fil  Walt,  de  Oueron  insult  fee.  Walter  fil  Elie  de 
eadm.  and  Matilda  filie  sue.  The  said  Walter  and  Matilda 
versus  Richard  brother  of  the  said  John. 

John  Molend  and  Matilda  his  wife. 

John  fil  Oalfri  le  Colier  gave  vta.  for  heriot  6  acres  in  Ourom 
p.  dec.  Galfri  his  father. 

Will  fil  Ade  de  Hipron,  vi<2.  heriot  1  acre  p.  dec.  Ade  his 
father. 

John  fil  Will.  Molend  vM.  heriot  iij.  parcels  in  Ourom  p.  dec. 
of  Thomas  his  brother. 

John  fil  Ade  fil  John,  xij<2:  heriot  4  acres  p.  dec.  Ad.  his 
father. 

Will,  del  Hengandrode  virf.  heriot  iii.  prcels  in  Ourom  p.  dec. 
Will,  his  father. 

Richard  le  Taillour  virf.  for  i  rod  in  Brighouse  of  Roger  de 
Chepelay. 

Molend  (mill)  de  Rastrick  farmed  to  William  del  Bothes  and 
Alex,  del  nrith. 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL. 

Turn  at  Brighouse.  Jury: — John  de  Locwode,  Alex,  del 
ffrith,  Thomas  de  Dalton,  John  le  fflemynge,  John  fil  Ade  de 
Locwode,  John  de  Hertesheued,  John  de  Percy  de  Clifton,  Galfri 
del  Dene,  John  de  Bristall,  Henry  de  Coildelay,  Henry  ffranceys 
and  Louecok  de  Nettleton. 

ux  Kio.  de  Schelff  brae. 

Boger  fil  Hanne  de  ffekesby  trax.  sang.  Agnes  ux  Thomas 
de  ffekesby e. 

ux  William  de  Bradeley  brae. 

Ada  ffullo.  de  Goulayecarthes  tr.  sang  de  Alan  de  Aldelay. 

Malina  de  Holewaye  de  Northowram  trax.  sang.  Malina  ux 
Ivonis  de  eadm. 

fil.  Ivonis  de  Prestlay  tr.  sang.  Will.  Coker.  Alex,  le  Wayn- 
wriht  tr.  sang  Henry  le  Pynder  de  Hipm. 

Alcok  del  Wodehouse  tr.  sang  Will,  ffoune.  Ux  Boger  de 
Brighouses  brae,  ux  Will.  Molend  brae,  ux  Bic.  le  Taillor  brae. 

Pannage  de  Bosco  de  Hypm.  vendit  in  gross  to  Will  del 
Bothes  and  Alex,  del  ffrith  p.  vj/i. 


*Bic  Thornhill  pardoned  for  taking  a  stag  in  Saltonstall,  1274. 

Alan  de  ffekisby,  a  juror  at  Bastrike,  1274. 

Turning  a  road — To  be  returned,  1274. 

Bobt.  Saltonstall  encroached  on  waste  at  Saltonstall  1274. 

Bic  fil  Thos  of  Fixby  8*/-  for  leave  to  take  4  acres. 

1276. 

Hipum.  John  fil  Jordan,  Henry  de  Northwod,  Peter  de  Hyp'm, 
Will.  Drake  freg  fald. 

John  de  Haylay  fforestar. 

Will  fil  Hugh  de  Schypedene  1  acre  which  William  del  Dene 
surrenders. 

Yvo  ffabr  de  Schypden. 

John  le  Barn  xijdL  for  2  rods  in  bosc.  Hypm. 

Bichard  de  Hypm.  owes  xiij*.  iiijrf.  to  John  fil  Jordan,  pleg. 
Hanne  de  Nortwode  and  Peter  de  Hypm. 

Matthew  and  John  sons  of  Boger  de  Bosco,  Bastrik,  heriot. 

Hyprra.  Hanne  de  Northwod  de  Hypum  vid.  for  leave  couend 
meren  dome,  de  Boger  fil  Hanne. 

Gilbert  del  Bothes  ijs.  for  leave  to  give  in  marriage  his  dau. 
Alice,  pleg.  Hanne,  ppos. 

Anno  ERE.  quinto.  Henry  fil  Boger  de  North wode  gave  viiid. 
for  the  relief  of  his  father's  lands  in  Prsteley :  pleg  Henre  de 
Northwode  &  Bic.  de  Coppelay. 

Alan  prest  de  ffekesby. 

Hypm.  John  clicus  dm.  Ingelard,  Yicare  de  Halifax  dat  His. 
p.  fidelitate. 

Wayf.  vno  pullo  de  Wayuo.  at  Sandall. 

North bryg,  Halifax,  mentioned. 

•  1274,  or  2nd  Roll  very  imperfect. 


800       YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 

Ad  fil  Will  de  Hypm,  Alice  de  Coldelay,  Richard  de  Hyp'm, 
Will  fill  Hugh  de  Schepden  xijd.  for  1  acre. 

Bad.  de  Bayrestowe  ija.  for  4  acres  of  John  fil  Roger  and  Ad. 
fil  Henry  in  le  Brerechaye,  Northowm. 

1284. 

John  fil  Jordan  de  Shypedene  mortus  est ;  lands  in  hands  of 
the  lord. 

Henry  de  Risseworth,  a  juror,  at  Halifax. 

Rastrik  Turn.  Jury :  Robert  de  Stokkes,  John  de  Schelf,  Ad. 
de  Ourom,  Henry  p'pus  de  Hypm,  John  de  Querneby,  John  le 
Barne,  Hen.  de  Dalton,  Robert  fil  Dolfin,  Gilbert  Dynes,  Robert 
de  Thackmache(r),  Alan  de  fekesby,  Thomas  de  Nettleton. 

Peter  de  Nettleton  broke  the  head  of  Thos.  Edward  virf. 

Yx  Robert  Bate  vend  contr  ass.  vid.  Eva  de  Rastrik  ditto  xii</. 

Gilbert  de  Astay  gives  to  Richard  his  son  2  acres  in  Hyperm. 

Thomas  fil  Thomas  de  Hyperum  took  Jordan  ffabr.  (deodand). 

Hypum.  John  de  Rastrik,  ppm,  and  Will,  fil  Peter  de  Hipprum, 
house  and  4  acres  in  Hypm. 

Roger  fil  John  Molend  xijd.  for  leave  to  take  2  acres  in  Hiprnm 
of  Gilbert  de  Astay. 

Will.  Bercar  ij  hogges  in  bosc.  de  Hypm.  iiij d.  John  Molend, 
Henry  de  Astey,  Jordan  le  cuiside,  Jake  de  Halifax,  Alicia  fil 
Mygeryth :  ditto.  Peter  fil  Alot  de  Hyprm  esson  John  de  Lewys, 
pleg  Hanne,  ppos. 

Gilbert  de  Astay  op  se  vs  Thos.  de  Hylton  insult  fee.  in  bosco. 
de  Hypm. 

Hypm.  John  de  Stanclyff. 

Thos.  Hogson  p.  sicca  bosc.  vW.  pleg.  John  le  Barn. 

William  de  Hypum  placed  his  two  cows  in  the  common  pas- 
ture of  the  field  of  Hiperum. 

[Will  fil  Roger  de  Podesay.] 

1285.  (A  good  Roll.) 

Rich,  fil  Symon  del  Bothes  gave  half  a  mark  to  have  his  lands 
in  peace  till  of  age. 

Jordan  de  Bosco  gave  6d.  for  the  relief  of  |  acre  to  John  his 
son :  pleg.  Henry  ppos. 

Ad.  Here  de  Hypu  p.  virid  vW.  pleg  Roger  del  Clyff. 

Mathew  de  Sonderland,  tenant,  is  dead. 

Gilbert  del  Bothes  p.  sicca  bosco  vid. 

Bate  del  Bothes  ditto. 

Hugh  le  Tinker  p.  vir.  vici.  Will,  del  Scholecotes,  do. 

Will,  de  Hypun  quer.  Thos.  le  Webester. 

Walter  fil  Matthew  de  Sonderland  gave  vi<Z.  for  relief  of  6 
acres,  his  father's  lands. 

Relicta  Peter  de  Haldeworth  sicca  busca  vid.  Henry  le 
Hopper  q.  de  El.  de  Schelff  de  pi.  verb.  pleg.  Geppe  del  Dene. 

Terra  Will,  le  Toller  taken  by  the  lord. 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  801 

Thomas  le  Webster  gave  6d.  for  leave  to  agree  with  Will,  de 
Hypu'. 

Gristiana  fila  Ric :  de  Totehyll  quer  de  Will,  fil  Roger  de 
Bosco.  de  pi  verb  vocata  &  non  ven  vid. 

[Sourby.  Ad  fil  Matth.  de  Saltletonstall.] 

Rastrik.  Roger  fil  Walter  de  Rastrik  gave  vid.  for  leave  to 
take  5£  acres  with  messuage  in  Rastrik  of  Walter  his  father. 

Cristiana  fil  Richard  quynel  dat  xiid.  for  leave  to  marry: 
pleg  John  ppos. 

Will,  del  Bothes  vs.  leave  to  take  messuage  and  xx  acres  in 
Hypu'  of  Alice  de  Hypu*  and  Peter  her  son :  pleg  Henry  pps. 

Distring.  Ric.  fil  Walter  de  Sonderland  ad  respond  Alice  de 
Southoru'. 

Nalle  de  Dene,  Henry  de  Hipum. 

Lands  of  Ad.  fil  Will  le  Schapman  in  the  hands  of  the  lord, 
he  being  dead. 

John  de  Goldelay  gave  6d.  p.  auxo.  habend  ad  recupand  qd 
4am  debitute  Thorn  fil  Alot. 

Henry  le  Pynder  vid.  1£  rode  in  Hypu  of  Thos.  fil  Alot  de 
Hypm ;  pleg.  Thos.  de  Hypum. 

Henry  de  Risse worth  foreman  juror,  Turn  apd  Alifax. 

Curia  apd  Rastrik  die  martis  px  post  native,  be  marie. 

Ricus  Cade  de  Schypedene  qs  de  Bate  Bolder  de  plito  verber. 
pi.  de  ps.  Math,  clicus. 

Mathew  de  Schelf  qe  de  Alex  fil  Walter  de  Sonderland  and 
John  his  brother  de  plito  trsgr.  ps.  Will  fil  Ivon  de  Hypu.  Math, 
gave  6d.  for  leave  to  agree. 

John  de  Hovendene  6d.  for  special  trial  against  Will.  Drake. 

Cecilia  de  Hypum  op  se  vs.  Alice  fil  Mygeryt  &  die  qd  ipa 
•  ienet  Nalle  fil  sue  in  vno  Wynd  auene  for  x  years. 

John  le  Barne  dat  vid.  p.  inquis  habend  de  vnaporco  occiso 
in  Schypedene  &  inquis  die.  qd  cains  Thos  fil  Magot  dc.  porcu 
jugulavit.  ido  satis  in  mia  vid.  pleg.  Henre  ppus. 

Juliana  fil  Will  de  Schypedene  gave  2/-  for  relief  of  lands  of 
Adam  fil  Will  le  Schapman. 

Richard  del  Bothes  qr  de  Henry  de  Northwode  and  John  de 
Bayrstowe  de  plito  debi  vs.  Mia  xijrf. 

Richard  Cade  gave  6d.  p.  retraxit  se  v*.  Bate  Bolder  pleg. 
Alcok  del  Clyf. 

Rastrik.    Richard  fil  Ad.  de  Totehyll. 

Hipu'.  Gilbert  del  Bothes  op  se  vs  petre  ppm.  vid.  pleg. 
Henry  pps. 

John  Jordan  versus  Gilbt  del  Bothes  vid.  pleg  Jordan  his 
brother. 

Thomas  le  Spensr  qr  de  Roger  del  Clyf  and  John  fil  Richard 
de  vno  qarto  auene  vid. 

Ric.  fil  Waltr.  de  Sonderlande  vid.  p.  lie.  concord,  cu  Alice 
mx  Will  de  Suthorum. 


802  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 

Ttirn,  Brighouse  Jury :  phs  de  Schelf,  Henry  de  Dalton,  John 
de  Quernby,  Robert  del  Stokkes,  Alan  del  Glyf,  John  de  Lok- 
wode,  Gibt.  Dynes,  Jordan  de  Rokes,  Ad.  de  Hourum,  Wills  de 
Bradelay,  Will  fil  Vidue  and  Yvo  ffabr. 

Rastrik.  Robert  fil  Robert  ad  exitu  ville  (Town  end)  trax  sang, 
de  Rob  fil  John  le  flemang  2/-. 

Hyp.  Henry  pps  de  Hypu  cepit  de  Robo  Cosyn  latrone  vnn 
mantella  de  Wacheto  &  ipe  euas.  de  pa.  Henre  uestiente  ipm 
esse  latrone  ido  distring. 

John  fil  Sybbe  and  Cecil  ux  Ad.  Molend  asportaverunt  boaa 
noctant. 

Rastrik.  Will  fil  Roger  de  Wodhouses. 

Hyp.  Julian  de  Schoulecotes  est  prgnans  on  Hugh  le  Tynker 
&  p.  villata  de  Northouron  nolveri  illd.  prsentare  ido  in  mia  4 
mark. 

1297. 

John  de  Bristall  p.  virid.  vid.  pleg.  Walter  de  Ourum. 

John  del  Wytehill        ,,  „        Ric  de  Bosco. 

Ric.  de  Bosco  for  1  ranis  vento  prstrate  iijd. 

Will  Swyer  p.  esch.  iii  pore  vid.  pleg  Peter  del  Clif. 

Petre  de  Sutteclyf  p  esch  iii  pore  ujd. 

John  de  Astay,  Henry  de  Goppelay  for  ditto. 

Alex  fil  Ad  Molend  vid.  lie  concord  Wm.  Molend. 

Hiperum.  Will  fil  Nalle  villans  co  his  cattle  with  auene  on 
the  land  of  Henry  de  Hipron  which  Will  del  Both  pps.  sold  for 

ijj.  sine  licence. 

Cure  and  Turn  apd  Rastrik.  Jury : — John  de  Quernby,  John 
le  Barn,  John  le  fflemyng,  Thos.  de  Dalton,  Alex  del  firith, 
John  clicus  de  Hartisheved,  John  de  Prey,  John  del  Rode,  Ad 
del  Locwod,  John  de  eadam,  Henry  de  Hiperon,  John  de  la  Haye. 

Richard  Baton  trax  sang  de  Henry  de  Wyahou. 

Richard  Baton  and  Matilda  his  mother  tr.  sang  Adam  fil  Yuon. 

Galfri  le  Colyer  leuauit  vthes  sup  William  ppm  de  Hipperom. 

Eva  del  Broke  habet  molas  manuales  ad  nocument  dmn.  que 
nullas  debet  hore. 

William  le  pipr  qe  de  Alcok  le  Waynwrth  and  Ad  fil  John. 

Henry  de  Schepden  mortus  est ;  lands  to  the  lord. 

John  del  Rode  p.  sicca  vid.  pleg  Ad  de  Brigghuses. 

Alcok  del  Clif  p.  virid  ii]d.  pleg.  Henry  de  Northwod. 

Willm.  de  Heley  p.  eschap  ij  boues  iid.  pleg.  Peter  de  la  Lathe. 

Walter  fil  Macok  p.  virid  vid.  pleg.  Will  de  Sohypden. 

Malekyn  de  Haldeworth  p.  eschap.  i.  bou  ]d.  pleg.  Petre  de  1* 
Lathe  (Barn). 

Matilda  relicta  Ivon  ffabr.  vid.  trax  sang.  Ad.  fil  Yvon. 

John  fil  and  her.  Hen.  del  Dene  xij d.  for  relief  of  his  father's 
lands. 

Will,  de  Hagenewrth  vid.  leave  to  take  Alice,  widow  of  Robert 
fil  Will,  le  Chapman  to  wife :  pleg.  William  ppos. 


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[John  fil  John  Wyclif,  Wakefield,  relieved  his  father's  land.] 

Adam  le  Waynwrth  virid  vid.,  John  de  Holeway  p.  esch.  iiijc/. 
Ad  le  Dyr  esch.  iiijd.  Henry  de  Coppeley  virid  vjrf.  pleg.  Ad. 
Home.  Thorn  fil  Elie  virid  vid.  pleg  Rio.  de  Sonderland.  John 
fil  William  virid  vie/,  pleg  Walter  fil  Eli :  Henry  del  Rode  sicca 
Yid.  pleg.  Henry  ppos.  Roger  fil  Walter,  sicca  vjd.  pleg  Will. 
de  Schepden.  Will.  Garpentr.  esch.  iiijd.  pleg  Adam  Molend. 
Roger  de  Briggehuses,  senior,  sicca  iiijrf.  pleg.  Adam  his  brother. 

Will  fil  Walter  de  Schepden  ijs.  p.  lie.  cap.  bovate  in  Hypm. 
de  Roger  garcoe  Rici  de  Clifton  for  xvi  years,  pleg  Ad.  ppi 
Rastrik,  and  Roger  fil  John. 

[Ellen  fil  Matilda  of  Fixby  agt  Henry  de  Fixby  that  he  was 
a  bastard.  Thos.  Saltonstall  bovate  &  half  in  Saltonstall,  Rent 
7*.  bd.  Ric.  Saltonstall  2£  bovates  at  9 /lid.  Licence  to  build 
a  bakehouse. 

Richard  de  Totehyll  mortus  est :  lands  in  the  hands  of  the  lord. 

Court  at  Rastrik.  Beatrix  fila  &  her  Hugo  de  ffekesby  xijd.  for 
relief  of  her  father's  lands.  Thomas  del  Cote  de  ffekisbye  xijd. 
for  1  acre,  pleg.  Adam  ppos.  Rastrik. 

Cecilia  relict  Richard  de  Totehill  ijs.  relief. 

Hyp.  Eli  de  Benteley  owes  vs.  to  Eue  de  Hiperm. 

Roger  fil  John  Molend  ij*.  for  leave  to  take  1  acre  and  edifice 
of  Adam  his  brother  in  Briggehuses. 

Rastrik.  Thomas  fil  Ric.  de  Totehyll  vis.  viijrf.  for  the  lands 
of  his  father,  pleg.  Richard  pps.  Rastrik. 

Hypm.  Adam  fil  Henry  de  Northwod  xviijd  for  x  acres  de 
Adam  fil  Yvon  ffabrin  Breriehaye,  Schepden. 

Richard  fil  Hugh  de  Schepden  dat  xhZ.  p.  existend  sub. 
manucapt  Rici  fil  Yuon  de  Hyp'on,  John  de  Ouerum,  Simon  de 
.Schepeden,  Thomas  fil  Elie  de  Ouerum,  Ade  fil  Iuonis  and  Ric. 
del  Wode. 

Ric.  fil  Yuon  de  Prestely  levavit  (ditches)  Shelf. 

Cecil  ux  Ad  Molend  brae  virf. 

Will  fil  Radulph  de  Bayrestowe  furabat  de  domo.  Will  fil 
Oton  de  Schipden  cags.  &  alia  minuta  ad  val.  viijd.  io  attach. 

Richard  fil  Hugh  de  Schepden  furabat  viijd.  from  vid  Will  de 
Pudesheye  &  qd  est  latro  de  plitz  latrimis. 

Richard  fil  Thomas  del  Cote  iijs.  ingress  1  bovate  land  in 
ffekesby  voc.  Bernard  oxe  gangs  de  Thomas  attecote,  also  xijrf. 
for  iiij  acres  '  tre  nativ,'  and  x  acres  tre  in  custerode  de  Thos. 
his  father. 

Hypm.  Malina  que  sunt  ux  Ad.  de  Northowram  land  and 
edifice  to  Richard  fit  Jordan  de  Northowram  and  John  fil  Walter. 

Roger  fil  Will  del  Briggehuses  ijs.  cap.  1  bovate  tre  nativ.  and 
4  acres  free  land  at  Longeley  in  Hiperm.  de  Will  fil  Petre  de 
Hipron. 

Rastrik.  Adam  ppos.  de  Rastrik  \id.  for  1  rod  new  land  at  the 
Briggerode. 


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[Soureby.  Geppe  le  forester.] 

[Ossett.  Malina  de  Thyngelawe  (Tingley).] 

[Sourby.  Ad.  fil  John  de  Horton  land  to  Robt.  fil  Will,  de 
Saltonstall.] 

Hypm.  Agnes  ux  Ralph  de  Bayrestowe  eschap  iiijd.  John  de 
Bayrestowe  ditto  ijd.  pleg.  Will  fil  Ede.  Geppe  le  Colier  ditto 
in  le  Blacker  virf.  pleg  W.  Balder.  Will  de  Halifax  ditto  iiij</. 
Will  Yunghare  ditto  iiijrf.  pleg  for  each  other. 

Roger  fil  John  Molendinare  gave  i  mark  for  leave  to  take  J 
acre  new  land  adjoining  his  garden  and  i  acre  in  the  Smythieker. 
Richard  fil  Hugh  de  ffekisbye. 

Hypm.  Gilbert  del  Bothes  op  ves.  Ric.  le  Bagger.  John  fil 
Thos.  Textor  op  se  vs  Alkoc  le  Waynwrth.  Ad.  fil  John  Molend 
frater  of  Hanne  pps.  John  le  Barn  qe  de  Rio.  fil  Yuon  de 
Presteley. 

Turn  at  Rastrik.  Jury :  Robert  del  Stockes,  John  le  ffiemeng 
Ad  de  Locwod,  Magr  Thomas  de  Dalton,  John  le  Barn,  Will  de 
Bradelaye,  Alex,  del  ffrith,  John  de  Hertesheved  clicus,  Bad. 
de  Goutlekarwes,  John  del  Rod,  John  de  Proy,  Tliomas  de 
ffekisbye. 

[John  fil  Will  fil  Emme  de  Staynland  trax  sang  de  Will  le 
Pinder  de  Staynland. 

Hypm.  Jacke  blade  alias  Mauk  qr  de  Ric  &  Hugh  de  Presteley. 

[John  de  Doncastre,  seneohl.] 

Rastrik.  Adam  ppos.  de  Rastrik  xijct.  cap  8£  tre  of  Hanne 
Molendinare. 

Hypm.  Henry  del  Rode,  Thos.  de  Hipern,  Will  de  Bayrestowe 
sicca  iiijd.  each,  plegs.  Petre  Suthclife,  Ad.  Brighuses,  Ad. 
fforestar. 

Petre  de  la  Lathe  de  Haldeworth. 

Adam  fil  John  de  Hiprom. 

[Ossett.  Dns  Ric  fil  Walter  de  Heton,  capells.  Sum  Total 
Annum  pquis— Rastrik  xvs./vid.    Hyper,  xxviij*.  vd. 

[Adam  the  Baker  living  &  having  lands  in  Fixby  viri.  for  not 
coming  to  Brighouse  Court.  Fixby  vill.  xita.  not  presenting 
the  same. 

1306. 

Cecila  de  Brigghuses  gave  vid  for  leave  to  hold  a  toft  in 
Briggehuses  and  1  acre  8  rodes  in  Rastrik  which  Adam  le 
Molend.  formerly  held :  pleg  Roger  de  Briggehuses. 

Petre  de  Suthcliff  qe  de  Ad.  fil  John. 

Thos.  de  Totehill  qe  de  John  Spillewood  about  land  at 
Briggehuses. 

Alcok  le  Waynewrth  virf  to  take  £  acre  of  Adam  fil  Alote. 

Roger  fil  John  Molend  and  John  de  Sunderland  paid  ij*.  each 
fine  for  not  serving  as  greaves,  as  elected. 

Roger,  senior,  of  Briggehouses  took  of  the  waste. 

Roger  fil  John  Molend  qe  de  John  fil  Ric. 


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iti&fcr&al*,  "  Sfrt  j&imtyrlanfc  of  (Bnglaitfc." 

Without  claiming  folly  the  title  sometimes  given  as  above, 
or  that  Nidderdale  contains  so  much  magnificent  scenery  in  so 
little  space  as  Ingleton,  none  will  deny  that  it  is  a  charming 
district  in  which  to  spend  a  few  days,  and  we  therefore  hail 
with  pleasure  the  attempts  of  the  Pateley  Bridge  Improvement 
Association,  which  was  formed  in  May,  1887,  with  the  intention 
of  making  Pateley  Bridge  better  known  as  an  inland  health 
resort. 

The  early  history  of  Nidderdale  and  its  inhabitants  is  written 
in  the  Stone  Celts  and  Flint  Arrow  Heads,  which  have  been  un- 
earthed from  time  to  time,  and  which  bear  testimony  to  its 
having  been  inhabited  by  the  ancient  Britons. 

At  Blayshaw  Bents,  (8  miles  from  Pateley  Bridge)  are  a  num- 
ber of  pit  dwellings  belonging  probably  to  the  same  epoch.  At 
one  end  is  an  enclosure  known  as  the  "Roman  Camp,1'  and 
adjoining  these  pits  are  heaps  of  slag  or  refuse  from  iron 
smelting  works,  indicating  that  at  one  time  iron  ore  has  been 
won  and  smelted  here;  but  whether  by  the  Romans  or  the 
Monks  of  Byland  has  not  been  determined. 

The  Romans  have  left  traces  of  their  visit.  They  had  a  camp 
here,  the  site  of  which  is  now  occupied  by  the  residence  of 
George  Metcalfe,  Esq.,  and  the  house  retains  the  name  by  which 
the  camp  was  known — Castlestead.  Castlestead,  or  Castle- 
steeds,  is  said  to  have  been  the  common  name  given  to  the 
Castella  on  the  wall  of  Hadrian,  and  near  Corbridge-on-Tyne, 
there  are  two  forts  called  Castlesteeds. 

Philologists  say  that  Habewell,  (Soldiers'  well)  which  is 
about  a  mile  from  Castlestead,  has  been  so  named,  because  there 
may  have  been  a  well  there  which  supplied  the  soldiers  of  the 
garrison  at  Castlestead  with  water ;  but  it  is  scarcely  likely  they 
would  be  under  the  necessity  of  going  such  a  distance  for  their 
supplies. 

Harefield,  (the  soldiers'  field)  the  name  by  which  the  resi- 
dence of  William  Harker,  Esq.,  J,P.,  is  known,  has  doubtless 
also  originated  from  its  proximity  to  the  camp  named. 

The  Roman  occupation  is  further  borne  witness  to  by  Roman 
Coins,  31  of  which  were  found  in  How  Stean,  and  these  with  the 
exception  of  ten  duplicates  that  were  given  to  the  then  Lord  of 
the  Manor,  (John  Yorke,  Esq.,)  are  in  the  possession  of  Mr. 
Metcalfe,  the  owner  of  the  property ;  also  by  two  pigs  of  lead 
dug  up  on  Hayshaw  Bank,  bearing  the  inscription — 

"  Imp.  Cffls :  Domitiano,  Avg.  Cos :  vii. — Brio." 
— taking  back  the  history  of  lead  mining  at  Greenhowhill  to  at 
least  the  year  81  a.d. 

y.n.q.  u 


806  YORKSHIRE.    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 

That  the  Saxon  and  Dane  settled  here  in  their  respective 
periods  there  is  little  doubt,  but  peaceful  times  were  evidently 
vouchsafed  to  this  corner  of  the  country  at  that  time,  for  they 
have  left  their  impress  only  on  the  language  of  the  people.  The 
ginger-whiskered,  cheek-boned  dalesmen  flock  down  the  valley 
to  Pateley  fair,  and  the  family  likeness  is  very  remarkable. 

At  the  time  of,  and  after  the  Norman  Conquest,  the  neigh- 
bourhood seems  to  have  been  wild  and  uncultivated,  and  of  little 
value,  as  shown  by  the  entries  in  the  Domesday  Book. 

Less  than  a  century  after  the  Domesday  survey  nearly  the 
whole  of  the  valley,  excepting  Bishopside,  which  belonged  to  the 
Archbishops  of  York,  came  into  the  possession  of  the  family  of 
Mowbray,  by  whose  generosity  it  was  afterwards  divided  be- 
tween the  monasteries  of  Fountains  and  Byland. 

Numerous  granges  rose  under  both  houses,  and,  to  meet  the 
spiritual  needs  of  the  monks'  retainers,  Chapels  were  erected  at 
Bamsgill,  by  the  monks  of  Byland,  and  at  Bewerley  by  those  of 
Fountains.  Only  one  gable  of  the  former  now  remains,  and 
is  in  the  present  churchyard  at  Bamsgill,  but  the  one  at  Bewer- 
ley situated  a  few  yards  from  the  Hall,  is  in  a  good  state  of 
preservation.     The  motto  in  large  old  English  letters, 

"Jfrott  9*0  ijonov  *t  gloria*" 
and  the  large  initials  "  $jtt.  $•"  of  Marmaduke  Huby,  Abbot  of 
Fountains  from  1494  to  1526.  are  yet  conspicuous  on  the  walls. 
The  motto  is  on  the  East  end,  and  the  initials  on  the  East, 
North,  and  South  sides.  The  gardener's  house,  near  to,  is  an 
interesting  Tudor  building  which,  tradition  says,  was  the 
Priest's  House. 

Another  relic  of  the  same  period  is  Padside  Hall,  which, 
though  not  strictly  in  Nidderdale,  is  but  a  short  distance  from 
Pateley  Bridge. 

In  the  building  of  some  parts  of  their  abbey,  the  monks  of 
Fountains  made  use  of  their  Nidderdale  possessions,  marble 
from  the  bed  of  the  Nidd  finding  a  place  in  that  vast  pile ;  and 
its  roofs  being  covered  with  lead  from  Greenhow.  In  those  days 
the  lead  was  smelted  a  little  distance  from  Brimham  Bocks,  and 
the  hamlet  that  grew  around  the  Smelting  house  retains  to  this 
day  the  name  "  Smelthouse."  Cornfield  Crag,  near  Smelt- 
house,  two  miles  from  Pateley,  commands  a  prospect  of  the 
whole  valley. 

Within  a  comparatively  short  time  after  the  dissolution  of  the 
monasteries  the  major  part  of  the  dale  came  into  the  possession 
of  the  Yorke  family,  the  Lords  of  Studley  and  Orantley,  and  the 
Ingilby's  of  Ripley,  getting  other  portions,  and  Bishopside  re- 
maining in  the  hands  of  the  Archbishops  of  York. 

Gowthwaite  Hall,  the  former  residence  of  the  Yorke  family, 
is  a  fine  relic  of  early  17th  century  architecture.     Here  the 


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807 


Gowthwaite  Hall,  where  Eugene  Aram  taught. 

notorious  Eugene  Aram,  who  was 
born  at  Bamsgill,  (two  miles  farther 
up  the  valley,)  and  baptised  and 
married  at  Middlesmoor  Church, 
taught  a  school. 

Pateley  Bridge,  the  metropolis  of 
Nidderdale,  was  600  years  ago  of 
sufficient  importance,  that  in  the 
year  1819,  King  Edward  II.  granted 
a  charter  for  a  weekly  market  to  be 
held. 

The   Old  Church,  now  in  ruins, 
takes  us  back  to  a  yet  earlier  date  in 
the  town's  history,  it  probably  having 
beegi    built    about    the    year    1250, 
though  the  tower  was  not  erected  till 
1691.     Walking  in  the  Church 
the  visitor  will  find  many  evidences 
of  the  longevity  of  the  dales- 
(some  having  reached  the  age 
years,)   telling  of  such   a  purity 
atmosphere  as  quite    warrants 

present  inhabitants  pushing  before  Yorke  Arms, 

the  notice  of  the  public  the  claims  of  the  valley  as  a  health 
resort. 

The  pure  invigorating  air  that  comes  down  the  valley  from 
the  moors  that  skirt  it  on  three  sides,  and  the  excellent  water 


hyard,      /  N. 

idences  y^  ^V  ^# 

people,    \         X    X         / 
of  120     \X  X/ 

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YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 

which  abounds  are,  however,  not  the  only  arguments  in  favour 
of  its  becoming  a  health  and  holiday  resort ;  for  in  this  quiet 
retreat  is  contained  a  number  and  variety  of  places  of  interest 
and  beauty  that  can  rarely  be  found  in  combination  within  a 
similar  area.  The  district  is  rich  in  studies  for  the  artist,  the 
geologist,  the  botanist,  and  the  antiquary. 

Brimham  Rocks  (Si  miles  from  Pateley  Bridge),  are  amongst 
the  greatest  natural  wonders  of  the  country,  and  are  particularly 
interesting  to  geologists  as  an  example  of  sub-aerial  denudation, 
(at  least  in  the  later  stages  of  their  formation).      They  are  the 


The  Baboon's  Head,  Brimham  Rocks. 

remains  of  a  thick  bed  of  coarse  sandstone  or  grit — the  Third 
Grits  in  the  Millstone  grit  series, — the  rest  having  been  removed 
by  the  effects  of  wind,  frost,  and  rain.  The  ground  occupied  by 
them  is  about  60  acres  in  extent,  and  forms  a  moorland  plateau 
which  is  about  990  feet  above  the  level  of  the  sea. 

It  is  difficult  to  convey  an  idea  of  the  appearance  of  these 
rQcks  to  those  who  have  not  beheld  them.  They  have  been  des- 
cribed as  a  forest  of  massive  boulders  carved  by  nature  into 
fantastic  and  bewildering  shapes.  Grange  says — "  No  descrip- 
tion can  do  justice  to  them ;  their  grotesque  singularity  and 
rugged  grandeur  alike  defy  the  pen  of  the  poet,  and  pencil  of  the 
artist.  Produced  by  a  violent  disruption  of  nature,  when  the 
crust  of  the  earth  has  been  rent  asunder,  and  these  heavy  masses 
of  millstone  grit  upheaved  and  piled  around  in  random  con- 
fusion ;  afterwards  washed  and  worn  into  crevices,  and  their 
forms  rounded  and  smoothed  by  the  waves  of  a  sea  beating  on 
and  around  them,  the  softer  parts  have  yielded  to  the  action  of 


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these  elements,  which  the  harder  have  resisted,  hence  their 
strange  and  uncouth  forms  which  fill  all  beholders  with  amaze- 
ment. Thousands  of  years  must  have  elapsed  since  any  material 
change  has  taken  place  in  their  forms,  as  they  are  thickly  coated 
with  mosses  and  lichens,  and  no  process  of  waste  is  visible  at 
present.  Many  of  their  heads  are  crested  with  masses  of 
heather  or  ling,  growing  out  of  a  stratum  of  peat,  in  some  cases 
fifty  or  sixty  feet  above  the  surface." 

Names  suggested  by  their  appearances  have  been  given  to 
many  of  the  rocks,  amongst  the  great  number  of  which  are  the 
"Idol  Rock,"  " Baboon's  Head,"  "Pulpit  Rock,"  and  "Yoke 
of  Oxen."  The  first  of  these  is  one  of  the  most  wonderful,  being 
about  20  feet  high,  and  perhaps  40  feet  in  circumference ;  yet 
resting  on  a  pedestal  which,  in  its  narrowest  part,  is  but  twelve 
inches  in  diameter.  There  is  an  extraordinary  group  of  Rocking 
Stoxes  which  can  be  easily  moved.  The  largest  of  the  group  is 
supposed  to  be  a  hundred  tons  weight. 

Another  moveable  stone  called  the  Boat  Rocking  Stone,  is 
probably  40  tons  weight,  and  is  nicely  poised  on  the  edge  of  a 
precipice.  It  oscillates  with  slight  pressure,  and  though  its 
falling  over  the  cliff  seems  imminent  when  in  motion,  it  would 
take  more  than  human  strength  to  dislodge  it. 

The  Great  Split  Rock  which  is  in  three  parts,  the  whole 
being  about  one  hundred  yards  in  circuit,  marks  the  line  of  a 
fault,  which  divides  two  portions  of  the  rock  from  the  third. 
This,  taken  into  consideration  with  the  fact  that  the  strata  of 
Brimham  on  one  side  of  the  valley,  coincide  with  the  strata  of 
Guyscliffe  on  the  opposite  side,  is  very  suggestive  as  to  the  way 
in  which  the  valley  has  been  formed. 

The  view  from  the  rocks  h  magnificent,  extending  to  Whern- 
side,  Simon's  Seat,  York  Minster,  the  Plain  of  Mowbray,  and 
the  Cleveland  Hills.     Admission,  6d. 

South  of  the  Rocks  is  Brimham  Tarn,  about  half  an  acre  in 
extent ;  and,  on  the  opposite  side  of  the  road,  about  a  quarter  of 
a  mile  distant,  has  been  a  lake  covering  about  10  acres,  but  the 
embankment  is  now  broken  in  the  middle.  No  doubt  is  enter- 
tained that  the  latter  was  one  of  the  fish  ponds  belonging  to  the 
abbots  of  Fountains.  The  hollows  of  two  other  fish  ponds 
which  belonged  to  the  same  epicurean  proprietors  also  remain 
near  Brimham  Hall,  which  edifice  occupies  the  site  of  an  old 
monastic  grange,  and  is  built  of  the  stone  of  the  former  house, 
with  the  letters  of  the  inscriptions  which  were  thereon,  indis- 
criminately distributed. 

Akin  to  Brimham  Rocks  in  their  formation  and  appearances 
are  Cornfield  Crag,  near  Smelthouse,  Magil  Crag,  on  Pateley 
Moor,  and  Crocodile  Rock,  near  Guyscliffe,  each  surrounded  by 
scenery  variously  picturesque. 


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Guyscliffe,  (a  mile  from  Pateley  Bridge)  the  counterpart  of 
Brimham  Bocks,  but  which  the  elements  have  attacked  in  a 
different  fashion,  is  a  prominent  cliff,  1000  feet  above  the  sea 
level,  and  600  feet  above  the  valley  below,  forming  a  boundary 
line  between  two  classes  of  scenery  widely  different.      Looking 


Guyscliffe  Tarn. 

from  the  cliff  over  the  valley,  the  spectator  has  before  him  a 
prospect  of  York  Plain,  a  panorama  of  nearly  the  whole  of 
Nidderdale,  and  immediately  beneath,  the  extensive  Guyscliffe 
Woods  commence  at  the  foot  of  the  precipice,  whilst  behind 
stretches  a  vast  tract  of  moorland  scenery. 

Quietly  nestling  in  the  wood  below  is  Guyscliffe  Tabn,  about 
200  yards  from  the  foot  of  the  Cliff,  and  situated  in  a  deep 
hollow  formed  for  its  reception  by  a  land  slip.  It  is  of  an 
oval  shape,  about  one  hundred  yards  long  and  half  as  wide, 
and,  whether  viewed  from  the  top  or  contemplated  from  its  own 
banks,  with  the  cliff  towering  high  above  it  in  the  back  ground, 
and  the  trees  intervening,  it  is  a  charming  addition  to  the  land- 
scape. The  face  of  the  cliff  is  worn  as  by  waves  of  the  sea  into 
innumerable  crevices  and  crannies,  which  are  tenanted  by  the 
oak,  holly,  mountain  ash,  and  other  trees  and  plants.  The 
woods,  in  which  the  oak  trees  predominate,  are  intersected  by 
many  walks,  and  bestrewn  with  numerous  huge  boulders,  which 
at  some  time  have  broken  away  from  the  mass  above,  and  now, 
being  covered  with  mosses  and  lichens,  enhance  the  picturesque- 
ness  of  the  scene.  A  breach  in  the  cliff  has  received  the  name 
"  The  Three  Gaps."     "  Katie's  Parlour  "  is  a  cave  covered  with 


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a  large  crag;  and  among  the  rocks  dignified  with  particular 
names  are  "  The  Giant's  Chair,"  "  The  Needle's  Eye,"  "  Pulpit 
Rock,"  "  The  Trough,"  and  the  "  Crocodile  Rock." 

Ravensgill,  near  to,  is  the  most  beautiful  of  the  many  glens 
of  which  the  valley  boasts,  among  them  being  Biddings-Gill, 
Helks  Gill,  Colthouse  Gill,  Burn  Gill,  Ramsgill,  and  Brayshaw 
Gill,  and  a  brief  description  of  the  first  will  indicate  the  beauties 
of  the  remainder.  The  ravine  is  densely  wooded,  and,  emerging 
as  it  does  in  the  vicinity  of  Guycliffe,  is  of  unusual  depth  on 
each  side.  Entering  it  at  its  foot,  a  path  sloping  upward  and 
climbing  over  mossy  banks  leads  to  the  heart  of  the  ravine.  At 
first  the  scene  is  merely  pretty ;  on  the  south  is  a  plantation 
of  tall  larches,  and  beneath  the  path  flows  the  waters  of  the  gill. 
Further  on,  where  the  walk  winds  among  tall  ferns  and  taller 
trees,  the  effect  of  the  glen  becomes  magnificent.  Grey  crags 
and  lofty  cliffs  of  gritstone  rear  their  grotesque  shapes  against  a 
back  ground  of  scotch  firs  and  spruces,  whose  foliage  seems  to 
rise  to  the  highest  sky  ;  and  far  below,  the  restless  brook  gleams 
in  the  sun's  rays,  as  it  bounds  over  huge  rocks  singing  of  its  own 
loveliness.  The  moorland  valley  of  desolation  beyond  presents 
a  scene  very  similiar  to  the  celebrated  Doon  Valley  in  Devon. 
Tickets  for  Whitewood,  Ravensgill,  and  Guy's  Cliffe,  6d.,  (or  3d. 
each  in  a  party)  from  the  steward  of  T.  E.  Yorke,  Esq.,  Bewer- 
ley  Hall. 

The  way  hence  to  Pateley  Bridge  can  be  taken  through  Fish 
Pond  Woods,  where  man's  efforts  in  the  formation  of  the  lake 
have  most  nearly  imitated  nature.  Encircling  the  pond  is  a 
footpath  shaded  by  fine  beeches,  which  at  places  overhang  the 
road,  dipping  the  tips  of  their  branches  in  the  water  and  form- 
ing natural  arches. 

It  is  an  easy  walk  from  Pateley  Bridge  to  Eagle  Hall,  Woods 
and  Lakes,  where  a  strong  force  of  water  issuing  from  the  en- 
trance to  a  disused  lead  mine  (Eagle  level),  feeds  the  two  lakes, 
and  waters  the  beautiful,  wooded  glen  on  its  way  to  the  Nidd. 

Eagle  Hall  received  its  name  from  the  crest  (an  eagle  rising 
with  expanded  wings',  from  a  ducal  coronet)  of  the  White  family 
to  whom  the  estate  formerly  belonged.  The  last  of  the  family 
interested  in  this  estate  was  Sir  Thomas  Woollaston  White, 
Babt.  The  hall  is  the  residence  of  the  Hon.  H.  E.  Butler,  J.P., 
and  tickets  to  view,  price  3d.,  may  be  had  at  the  Pateley  Bridge 
Cocoa  House,  which  is  now  mainly  managed  and  supported  by 
Mr.  Butler,  and  is  a  great  boon  to  visitors.  Lodgers  will  find  an 
excellent  library  and  reading  room. 

Panorama  Walk,  in  an  opposite  direction,  extends  a  similar 
distance  from  the  town  past  the  Old  Church,  leading  to  the 
Knott,  and  by  the  road  side,  a  massive  rock,  fenced  and  seated 
round,  makes  a  splendid  coign  of  vantage  from  which  another 


312  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 

magnificent  view  of  the  dale  is  obtained,  looking  upon  Guyseliffe. 
Ravensgill,  Bewerley  Hall,  Gastlestead  and  Eagle  Hall. 

Stump  Cross  Limestone  Caverns,  (four  miles  from  Pateley 
Bridge,  in  the  direction  of  Skipton)  were  discovered  in  1860,  by 
two  miners.  As  far  as  they  have  been  explored  they  are  about 
1100  yards  long.  In  some  places  so  high  that  the  roof  is  hardly 
visible,  in  others  so  low  that  the  visitor  is  obliged  to  stoop — 
almost  to  creep,  they  are  well  adorned  with  an  endless  variety 
of  stalactites  and  stalagmites,  the  former  of  which  when  slightly 
struck,  emit  musical  sounds  varying  according  to  the  length  and 
bulk  of  the  stalactite.  Some  of  the  parts  have  received  names 
appropriate  to  their  appearance.  «*  The  Church,"  a  spacious 
part  so  named,  (30  feet  by  12  feet  high)  contains  a  series  of 
stalactites  close  together  against  one  side  called  "  The  Organ/* 
and  when  struck  in  quick  succession,  emit  musical  sounds  like  a 
set  of  bells.  The  pillars  are  columns  of  snowy  whiteness  rising 
from  floor  to  roof.  The  Fairy  Fountain  is  a  small  well  of  the 
clearest  water,  supplied  by  a  single  drop  from  the  roof  which 
keeps  the  cup  filled  to  its  brim.  The  Snow  Drift  is  a  congealed 
mass  of  dazzling  whiteness.  The  Crystal  Column  is  an  upright 
cylindrical  shaft  which  divides  the  passage  into  two.  There  are 
many  other  objects  of  interest. 

Another  cavern  of  similar  formation  has  recently  been  dis- 
covered at  Blayshaw,  near  Lofthouse,  but  as  yet  no  facilities  are 
offered  for  the  ingress  of  visitors,  and  even  if  it  were  open  to  the 
public  it  would  not  at  present  be  safe  for  any  but  expert  cave 
hunters  to  venture  in. 

Wath  Woods  and  Waterfall,  are  one  mile  and  three  quarters 
from  Pateley  Bridge.  Here  is  a  patch  of  charming  woodland 
scenery  in  the  most  romantic  part  of  which  is  perhaps  the  best 
example  of  a  waterfall  the  valley  contains.  Tickets  for  the 
waterfall,  3d.  each,  from  Mr.  Leach,  Wath. 

How  Stean  is  about  seven  miles  and  a  half  from  Pateley 
Bridge,  and  equi-distant  from  Lofthouse  and  Middlesmoor.  On 
the  road  thither  the  tourist  will  pass  Gowthwaite  Hall,  and  get 
a  view  of  some  of  the  sites  of  the  old  monastic  grange — Sigs- 
worth,  The  Holme  Houses,  Calfal  House,  Bowthwaite,  and 
Sikes ;  and  on  one  side  of  the  Helks  Gill,  may  be  noticed  a 
large  barrow  (about  twelve  yards  in  length,  by  four  in  breadth, 
and  three  feet  in  height),  which  has  yet  to  yield  up  its  secret  to 
the  excavator. 

At  Ramsgill  in  the  churchyard  is  the  ruin  of  a  previous  edifice. 
The  cottage  in  which  Aram  was  born  is  demolished,  but  a  rude, 
flabby  image  of  a  man's  face,  the  nose  broken  off  but  carefully 
preserved,  is  preserved  over  a  newly  built  cottage  mantelpiece, 
which  was  cut  on  Aram's  cottage  as  a  memorial  of  him. 

How  Stean,  as  a  piece  of  picturesque  scenery  has  few  rivals  ia 
the  country;    and  as  a  geological  curiosity,  Professor  A.  H. 


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818 


Bridge  over  How  Stean  Beck. 

keen,  who  occupies  the  Geological  Chair  at  Oxford,  says — "  It 
not  equalled  in  England."  The  water's  course  is  through  a 
•ecipitous  chasm,  or  gorge  of  mountain  limestone,  about  seventy 
et  deep,  with  a  rugged  bed  of  the  same,  which  in  the  upper 
trt  is  rich  in  encrinites. 

The  sides  composed  of  numberless  advancing  and  receding 
elves,  hollow  crannies  and  crevices  of  every  imaginable  form, 
d  one  long  stretch  of  shelving  limestone,  provides  a  terrace 
,1k  with  another  shelving  part  overhanging  it.  An  abundance 
mosses,  lichens,  and  ferns,  beautify  the  stones  and  furnish  the 
iny  niches  and  projecting  shelves,  whilst  a  thick  growth  of 
a,  ash,  oak,  hazel  and  other  trees  interlace  each  other's 
lghs  across  the  chasm,  which  is  spanned  by  three  bridges  at 
rerent  altitudes.  This  interesting  spot  affords  an  example  in 
liature  of  the  wonderful  canons  of  Colorado.  It  probably 
3s  its  character  in  its  initial  stage  to  a  natural  crack  in  the 
ita  ;  and,  subsequently,  to  the  two-fold  action  of  the  waters, 
;hanical,  in  carrying  away  objects  which  impeded  its  progress, 
chemical,  in  dissolving  the  carbonate  of  lime  contained  in 
limestone.  It  is  impossible  to  describe  the  grandeur  and 
uty  of  the  scene.  A  winding  walk  along  the  side  of  the  pre- 
ce  affords  innumerable  views  into  the  gulf  below,  and  im- 
^e  merits  made  lately  allow  this  to  be  done  without  danger. 
Abyss  is  bridged  at  one  point,  and  the  view  from  here  is  one 
nique  beauty.  The  Black  Maiden  Hair,  Maiden  Hair  Spleen 
•t,  Prickly  Shield  Fern,  and  Hart's  Tongue  are  to  be  seen  at 
place. 


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YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 


On  the  north  east  side  is  the  entrance  of  a  cavern  known  as 
"  Tom  Taylor's  Chamber,"  the  other  end  opening  into  a  field 
about  a  hundred  yards  distant.  It  was  in  this  cave  that  the 
Soman  coins  were  found.  They  were  placed  perpendicularly  in 
a  crack  in  the  rock,  partially  covered  with  water,  and  some  of 
the  coins  were  even  worn  to  a  sharp  edge  with  the  continual 
washing. 


Gorge  and  How  Stean  Beck. 

On  the  same  side,  about  200  yards  from  the  stream,  is  the 
mouth  of  a  subterraneous  passage  known  as  Eglin's  Hols.  It 
is  of  unknown  length  and  extent.  Some  say  it  has  been 
explored  to  a  distance  of  two  miles  from  the  entrance ;  others 
that  it  extends  under  the  village  of  Middlesmoor.  No  authentic 
account  however  exists  of  any  thorough  exploration. 


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815 


Middlesmook  (eight  miles  from  Pateley)  stands  on  a  hill  which 
vides  the  valley  of  the  Nidd  proper  from  that  through  which 
ow  Stean  beck  flows.  There  is  a  fine  view  from  the  church- 
,rd. 

Goydon  Pot  is  in  the  former  valley,  about  two  miles  from 
rfthouse,  nine  from  Pateley,  and  is  reached  by  a  pleasant  foot- 
th  on  the  riverside.     It,  and  Manchester  Hole,  are  caverns 


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nto  which  the  river  Nidd  runs,  commencing  its  two  miles'  sub- 
terranean course  which  terminates  near  Middlesmoor  Vicarage. 
Except  in  times  of  flood  these  openings  in  the  rock,  suffice  to 
sarry  the  whole  of  the  river,  leaving  the  former  bed  dry,  save  for 
the  mountain  streams  that  flow  therein  further  down.  The 
mouth  of  Goydon  Pot  opens  at  the  corner  of  an  angular  cliff  of 


816  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 

mountain  limestone,  and  is  about  nine  feet  in  height,  by  twelve 
in  breadth,  and  the  bottom,  at  an  entrance,  has  a  descent  of  four 
or  five  feet.  The  cavern  has  been  explored  for  a  distance  of  642 
yards,  at  the  end  of  which  the  rock  above  and  the  water  beneath 
meet  and  prevent  further  progress.  In  some  parts  it  is  necessary 
to  stoop  and  even  crawl,  whilst  at  one  place  the  cavern  opens 
out  to  such  an  extent,  that  one  explorer  says  it  could  easily  hold 
a  couple  of  ordinary-sized  churches.  A  little  distance  further 
down,  the  water  forms  an  immense  cascade  of  three  leaps,  each 
about  ten  feet  in  height. 

Merryfield  Glen,  two  miles  from  Pateley,  is  a  pretty  dell, 
through  which  flows  Foster  beck. 

Besides  the  many  places  of  attraction  within  an  easy  circuit  of 
Pateley  Bridge,  that  town  is  not  an  inconvenient  centre  from 
which  to  visit  Ripley  Castle,  (where  Oliver  Cromwell  spent  the 
night  before  Marston  Moor),  Fountains  Abbey,  Hackfall,  and 
Bolton  Abbey,  and  the  pedestrian  tourist  could  easily  combine  a 
visit  to  Nidderdale  with  his  tour  to  Wharfedale,  Wensleydale,  or 
Coverdale.  [The  Editor  has  twice  crossed  from  Pateley  Bridge, 
via  Bamsgill,  Howstein,  Lofthouse,  (with  its  remarkable  Nidd 
issues,  seven  miles  from  Pateley)  Middlesmoor,  Lodge  (with  its 
broken  bridge  over  Nidd,  its  wooden  bridge,  waterfall,  its 
"  Wesleyan  chapel,  1858,"  a  wee  building  indeed,  but  ample  for 
the  half-dozen  houses  around,  its  guide  post,  four  miles  from 
Middlesmoor,  ten  from  Ley  burn),  a  mighty  climb  over  the  flank 
of  Little  Whernside  (beyond  which,  rising  stiff  and  sullen,  is 
Great  Whernside),  to  desolate  Upper  Coverdale,  a  trackless  climb 
over  a  boggy  mountain  due  north  to  the  more  lonely  Walden 
Beck  dale,  down  which  we  proceed  to  West  Burton,  a  quaint  old 
market  town,  with  renovated  market  cross,  an  extensive  green 
where  the  April  and  May  fairs  for  Scotch  cattle  are  held,  an 
Independent  chapel,  a  Church  schoolroom,  a  beautiful  water- 
fall and  other  objects  of  interest  may  be  seen,  to  Aysgarth.  Let 
none  but  the  very  strong  attempt  this  in  a  day,  and  be  sure  to 
have  daylight  wherein  to  finish  your  work,  for  do  as  you  will, 
you  are  likely  to  get  into  swamps,  and  lose  the  tracks  and  have 
to  climb  loosely  built  walls  of  six  feet.]  The  following  descrip- 
tion of  Lower  Nidderdale  gives  one  no  idea  of  the  utter  desolate- 
ness  of  the  Whernside  dales,  but  aptly  describes  the  Pateley 
district. 

"  Nature,  in  her  own  careless,  bountiful,  generous  way,  has 
done  more  for  the  spot  than  the  niggard  and  restricted  hand  of 
man  could  ever  hope  to  accomplish.  Great,  circling  mountains 
sever  the  valley  from  the  world,  and  within  the  vast  amphi- 
theatre thus  created,  scenes  the  wildest  and  the  sweetest*  the 
most  rugged  and  the  most  rural,  are  to  be  found  in  equal  profu- 
sion. From  far  Whernside  to  the  barren  heights  of  Brimham 
lies  an  infinite  variety  of  land  and  water ;  land  which  sometimes 


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rises  abruptly  towards  the  middle  sky,  and  sometimes  slopes 
gently  under  acres  of  corn  ;  and  water  which  sometimes  rushes 
over  mighty  cliffs  in  a  foaming  cataract,  and  sometimes  winds 
along  the  valley  in  a  succession  of  silver  links.  Over  all  hangs 
an  air  of  isolation  which  even  that  pioneer  of  noise,  the  railroad, 
cannot  altogether  dispel.  The  long,  irregular  ridges  which  de- 
scend from  the  moors  on  either  side  are  dotted  with  red-tiled 
villages,  not  the  least  attractive  of  which  is  Pateley  Bridge  itself, 
with  its  steep  main  street,  and  numerous  wynds  branching  out 
to  right  and  left." 

For  much  of  our  information  we  are  indebted  to  Mr.  W. 
Grange's  interesting  and  exhaustive  work  on  "  Nidderdale," 
the  copyright  of  which  is  owned  by  Mr.  J.  Mason,  Pateley  Bridge, 
and  we  hereby  acknowledge  our  obligations. 

W.  H.  D.,  P.— B. 


HALIFAX    SUBSCRIPTION    LIBRARY    AND    MUSEUM. 


This  building  was  erected  in  1828  under  the  superintendence 
and  from  the  designs  of  Mr.  John  Oates,  a  noted  Halifax  archi- 
tect at  that  time.  Every  visitor  to  Halifax,  of  literary  tastes, 
will  make  his  way  to  Harrison  Road  to  see  the  library  as  well 
as  the  museum.  The  Halifax  Literary  and  Philosophic  Society 
was  instituted  in  1881.  Its  earliest  supporters  were  Christopher 
Rawson,  Esq.,  Edward  Nelson  Alexander,  Esq.,  F.S.A. ;  John 
Srnith,  Esq.,  Dr.  Moulson,  Dr.  Kenney,  and  the  Rev.  J.  B. 
Reade.  The  subscription  library  was  established  so  early  as 
1769. 


Rishworth  School. — Among  the  many  Yorkshire  grammar 
schools  unnoticed  in  Carlisle's  Grammar  Schools  is  that  at  Rish- 
worth, near  Halifax.  The  best  account  we  know  of  is  given  in 
*'  Crabtree's  Halifax."  It  was  founded  by  John  Wheelwright, 
of  North  Shields,  in  Northumberland,  gentleman,  who  by  will 
dated  October  14th,  1724,  gave  his  Yorkshire  estates  upon  trust 
to  John  Wheelwright,  of  Norland  ;  Ely  Dawson,  of  Clay  House ; 


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YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 


and  Abraham  Thomas,  of  Dewsbury,  for  building  a  school  at 
Dewsbury  and  another  at  Rishworth.  Authority  was  obtained 
in  1824  to  abandon  Goat  house  in  Rishworth,  where  the  school 
had  been  kept  and  the  master  lived,  and  erect  the  school 
shewn  in  the  engraving,  kindly  lent  to  us  by  Mr.  Birtwhistle, 
Halifax  ;  to  whom  we  are  indebted  for  the  preceding  and  follow- 
ing blocks. 

o 

Halifax  ftarisb  €\jnvt\j  lUgtsttrs. 

An  attempt  was  made  some  years  ago  to  print  the  first  volume 
of  these  registers  as  an  appendix  to  the  localized  "Parish  Maga- 
zine," but  when  ninety-six  pages  of  print  were  issued,  recording 
the  entries  from  December  1588,  to  November,  1541,  the  work 
ceased.  Mr.  Lister  transcribed  the  work  thus  far,  and  the  writer 
partially  continued  the  transcription  as  follows : — 

Thomas  Mychell  de  Skyrcote  sepult  fuit  xv*°  Novemb.  [1541.] 

Johes  fil.  Willm  Gawkroger  de  Sowrby  sepult  fuit  xxj°  die. 

Johana  fil.  Rici  Berstow  de  Ovenden  sepult  fuit  xxiiij0  die. 
Hie  incipit  mens  Decemb.  Ano.  Dm.  1541° 

Margaret  ux.  Alex.  Jackson  de  Halifax  sepult  fuit  sod.  die. 

Johanna  Mydylton  de  Sowrby,  sexto  die 

Johes  f.  Rici  Bynnes  de  Wrley  xij. 

Johnna  f.  Thoe  [Thomas]  Bayts  de  Sowrby  xv. 

Margareta  nupr.  relict  W.  Bowland  de  HypromeJ     .. 

Elena  nupr.  relict  Johis  Payge  de  Ovend.  |XV1J# 

Agnes  f.  Gilbt.  Whewell  de  Northour.  xviij  die. 

Johanna  f.  Richard  Best  de  Halifax  xxij  die. 

Alicia  nupr.  relict  Thome  Horsfall  de  Sowrby,  vidua,  xxiiij. 

Johanna  nupr.  relict  Johis  Haldesworth  de  Sowthor.  vidua ) 

Margaret  f.  Will.  Whytngham  de  Ovenden  jxxix. 

Hie  incipit  mens.  Januarij  Ano.  Dm.  1541. 


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Sliz.  f.  Will.  Lystr  de  Halifax,  primo  die. 

tobtus  Crowther  de  Sowrby,  scdo  die. 

Tohn  Cokecroft  de  Ovynden,  quinto  die. 

illizth.  Carcey  de  Halifax  )       , 

k)hn  f.  John  Rauson  de  Hiprome  }sext0 

Cds.  f.  bast.  Will.  Threpeland  &  Mgt.  Stansfeld  xiiij. 


Ilizth Rici  Turner  de  Sowrby  xix. 

[gt.  nupr.  relict  Thoe.  Sunderland,  Halifax,  vid.  | 


XX111J 


ohanna  f.  Oliveri  Ramesden  de  Sowrby 
licus  f.  Rici  Stoks  de  Ovenden,  xxviij. 
largareta  f.  Jacobi  Walker  de  Wrley  sepult  penultio  die. 
Hie  incipit  mens  February  Ano.  Dm.  1541° 


820  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUEBIE8, 

Bicus  Smyth  de  Hiprome  }       A 

John  f.  inft.  Henr.  Bayneforth,  Warley[scnao- 

Eliz.  f.  W.  Gryar  de  Ovenden,  quarto. 

Wm  f.  Ed.  Bomesden  de  Halifax,  sexto. 

Wm  f.  John  Dykson  de  Sowrby  septio. 

Ghristabella  nnp  relict  Gilbt  Berstow,  Hx.  vid. )   ••• 

Eliz.  f.  Bic.  Nycoll  de  eadem  J™# 

Robt.  Coke  de  Hiprome,  xij. 

Isabella  nup  relict  Johis  Cokschote  de  Sorby  xiij. 

Robt.  f.  Georgii  Dukeworth  de  Sorby  xiiij. 

Isabella  nup.  relict  Johis  Walker  de  Halifax,  xvij. 

Agnes  f.  ffrancissi  ffawcett  de  Halifax  xviij. 

Jacobz.  f.  Thome  Raynr  de  Halifax  xxiij. 

Margaret  f.  John  Beke  de  Wragby  xxv. 

Margaret  nup  relict  Johis  Jaggar  de  Halifax  xxyj. 
Hie  incipit  mens.  Mrcii  Ano.  Dm.  1541° 

Robtus  f.  Laurentij  Bayts  de  Northor.  quarto  die. 

Isabella  f.  Henrici  Batt  p.  de  Byrstall,  x. 

Dns.  Thomas  Gleydehyll  Cantarist  in  Gantarie  vocat  Wylbe 
Ghauntre  ac  quond.  vicarius  de  Gunesburghe  sepult  f.  xij  die. 

Edwardus  f.  Bici  Dobson  de  Sowrby         )    -. 

Johana  nup  relict  John  Nuttr.,  Hyprom  )     ^ 

Willm  Pyghylls  de  Mygeley  xv. 

Johana  nup  relict  W.  Holmes  de  South,  vid.  xvij. 

Bobt.  Estwod,  Hx.  xx° 

Itm  Bicus  Beurley*  de  Sowrby  Decollate.  &  Sepult.  fuit  eodm 
die  &  ano. 

*  Baptisms  1542  (from  p.  86)  (Marcii). 

Anna  filia  Bichardi  Hebeltwaite  de  Skyrcote  baptizata  fuit 
xxvjfc  die  eiusdem. 

Bobertus  filius  Johannis  ffornesse  de  Halifax     ) 

Georgius  filius  Johannis  Halde worth  de  Schelff  J 

baptizati  fuerunt  xxvij°  die  mensis  ejusdem. 

Bichardus  filius  Wilhelmi  Hochsonson  de  Northourum  bapt. 
fuit  xxix°  Mrcij  1542. 

Margareta  fiUa  Edwardi  Gybson  de  Northorum  bapt.  xxix. 

Bichardus  filius  Xpoferi  Hooll  bapt.  fuit  ultimo  die  Mrcij  1542. 
Aprell  1542. 

Agnes  et  Elizabetha  filiae  gemelli  Johannis  Wales  baptizate 
fuerunt  primo.  Ap. 

Henricus  filius  Johannis  Sayvyll  de  Skyrcote  bapt.  tercio. 

Bobertus  filius  Bichardi  Waterhouse  de  Skyrcote) 

Itm  Georgius  fil.  Johannis  Herteley  de  Ovenden  I 

bapt.  fuerent  viij°  die  mensis  eiusdem. 

Georgius  filius  Bichardi  Gawkeroger  de  Sowerby  bapt.  fuit 
nono  die. 

*  Beverley,  not  Bentley  as  generally  printed. 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  821 

Baptisms  Wanted — April  to  November,  1542.        \      ,  nrk™*A 
Sepulti  Wanted— May  1542  to  1st  April,  1548.    J  n01  copiea 
o 

Elizabetha  filia  Henrici  Holl  de  Soyland  baptizata  fuit  xxix° 
die  mensis  ejusdem  (Nov.) 

Johannes  filius  Johannis  Bynnes  de  Sowerby  baptizatus  fuit 
vltimo  die  Novemb.  1542. 

Johannes  filius  Richardi   Lyster  de  Halyfax  baptizatus  fuit 
primo  die  Mensis  Decemb.  1542 

Hie  incipit  secund.  die  mens.  Decemb. 

Item  Richardus  filius  Bichardi  Longbothum  de  Warley  bap- 
tizatus fuit  eodem  die  &  ano. 

Henricus  filius  Edmundi  Tylson  de  Sowerby  bapt.  fuit  scdo. 
die  mensis  eiusdm. 

.  Hugo  filius  Oliveri  Speight  de  Warley  bapt.  fuit  x°  die. 
B.     Johannes  fil.   bastardus  Briani  Haldesworth  &   Johanne 
ffayreburne  de  Northorum,  xij° 

Eufemia  filia  Xpoferi  Smythe  de  Skyrcote,  bapt.  xyj° 

Isabella  filia  Wilhelmi  Shepperd  de  Halifax  bapt.  xx° 

Esabella  filia  Roberti  Waide  de  Sowerby  bapt.  xxvj* 

Johanna  filia  Edmundi  Bynnes  de  Skyrcote  bapt.  xxviij0 

Thomas  fil.  Richardi  Haldesworth  de  Northorum  bapt.  vltimo 
die. 

Hie  incipit  mensis  Januarij  Ao.  Dm.  1542. 

Isabella  filia  Henrici  Redehaughe  de  Warley  bapt.  fuit  tercio. 

Item  Johannes  filius  Johannis  Hellewell  de  Sowerbi  bapt.  fuit 
eodem  die. 

Johannes  filius  Johannis  Nayler  de  Sowerby  bapt.  fuit  quarto 
die. 

John  f.  John  Haldesworth  de  Northorum) ,      ,         .     ,. 

Alicia  f.  Roberti  But  [h]  rode  de  Halifax  l™*1'  sext0  me- 

John  f.  Richard  Benne  de  Schelff  bapt.  viij°  die. 

Robert  f.  Edwardi  fforest  de  Halifax  bapt.  nono  die. 

Anna  f.  Georgii  Holl  de  Sowland  bapt.  eodem'  die. 

Brian  f.  Robert  Walker  de  Sowthorum,  x° 

John  f.  Robert  ffowrness  de  Halifax       \ 

Richd.  f.  Richd.  Grenewod  de  Sowerby  )  XV11J 

Edward  f.  John  Murgaterode  de  Warley,  xix. 

Wilhelmus  filius  bastardus and  Isabelle  Estwod,  Sowerby, 

eodem  die. 

John  f.  Thome  Bolland  de  Hyprome,  xxij. 

Paulus  f.  Ed'  Dobson  de  Hiprome,  xxvto 

Elizabeth  f.  Thome  Baits  de  8owerby,  xxvj*> 

John  f.  Richd.  Holmes  bapt.  xxvij*0 

Sepult  Isabella  f.  Thome  Leigh  de  Halifax ) ,      ,    -  ^       .         0 

Henricus  f.  Henrici  Whytacr  de  Sowerb.  \h^L  fuenmt  **** 

Agnes  f.  Richardi  Oldefeld  de  Warley  bapt.  xxx. 

Hie  incipit  Mensis  ffebruarij  Ano.  Dm.  1542. 

v.n.q.  v 


822  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 

Margareta  filia  Georgii  Crowther  de  Sowerby  bapt.  fuit  secundo 
die. 

Margareta  f.  Edwardi  Banaster  de  Sowerby  bapt.  vij° 

Isabella  f.  Edwardi  Heyley  de  Ovenden  bapt.  xj° 

Elizabetba  f.  Jacobi  Smyth  de  Sowerby  bapt.  xij. 

Isabella  f.  Henrici  Talyour  de  Sowthorum,  xiij. 

Agnes  f.  Roberti  Sutclyffe  de  Hep  ton  stall,  xv. 

John  f.  Badulphi  Stansfeld  de  Warley,  xyj. 

Elizabetha  f.  Bichardi  Schay  de  Warley,  xyj. 

Milo  f.  Bichardi  bryge  de  Warley  xviij 

John  f.  Bobert  Crabtre  de  Sowerbi  xxiiijto 

Margareta  f.  Bichard  Denton  de  Halifax,  vlt. 

Eds.  filius  Henrici  law  de  Northorum,  sepult  fait  vltimo  die. 
Hie  incipit  mensis  Marcij  Ao.  Dm.  1542. 

Edwardus  f.  Wilhelmi  Dughty  de  Ovenden  bapt.  fait  primo. 

Bobertus  f.  Brianij  Crowther  de  Warley         \   K     .    *,«-„«* 

Bobt.  f.  Bobt.  Vycars  de  Northowrome  I    ^^JJS 

Willms.  f.  Jacobi  Grenehawghede  Sowerby    mensis  eiusdem. 

Isabella  f.  Bobt.  Schoffeld  de  Hyprome  J  "ltmBls  ««■««■• 
B.  Johane  filia  bastarda  Bichardi  Berstowe  de  Halifax  & 
Johanna  Gray  iij. 

John  f.  Caroli  Broke  de  Lyghtclyff 

John  f.  Gilbt.  Pennyngton  de  Warley    -bapt.  quarto  die. 

Agnes  f.  Alanj  Hopkynson  de  Sowerby) 

Bobert  f.  John  Schor  de  Ovenden  bapt.  fait  eodem  die. 

Agnes  f.  Persevalli  Deyne  de  Mygeley  bapt.  quinto. 

Willm.  f.  Hugonis  Bayneforth,  Halifaxie       U      .       ^ 

Thomas  f.  Wilhelmi  Myggelay  de  Myggelay  J     F       K 

Agnes  f.  Thome  Oldefeld  de  Warley  bapt.  nono. 

Bobert  f .  Brian  Doggeson  de  Halifax       )    . 

Agnes  f.  Bichardi  Brodeley  de  Hyprome  )  •** 

EHzabeth  f.  Thome  Longebothum  de  Sowthorum,  xiij° 

Edward  f.  John  brodeley  de  Halifax,  xvij. 

Margaret  f.  Gilbt.  Deyne,  Warley,  xxj° 

Agnes  f .  Boberti  Appostelles  de  Ovenden )     - .. 

Agnes  f.  Xpoferi  Cosyn  de  eadem  )        ^ 

[1543]  John  f.  Bichard  Nycoll  de  Halifax,  xxv*  die  Mensis 
Mrcij  Ao  Dm.  1548. 

Nupti  1542. 

Badulphus  Stansfeld,  Elizabetha  Bynnes ) 

Georgius  Estwode,  Margareta  Harryson   j 

contraxerunt  matrimonium  vicesimo  tercio  die  Aprilis  1542. 

Willmus  Brodeley,  Margaret  Deyne,  vidua,  xxiiij. 

Bichardus  Brodeley,  Isabella  Cokecroft,  contrax  matm.  solemn. 
vij°  die  Maij. 

Edmund  fforness,  Agnes  Cowpon,  ix  Maij. 

Edwardus  Haldeworth,  Helena  Smythe,  quinto  Junij 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL. 

Jt  Sag  at  Skipton. 

The  Bradford  Historical  Society  had  its  first  excursion  for 
1890,  on  May  3rd,  when  over  a  hundred  persons  availed  them- 
selves of  the  opportunity  of  visiting  Skipton  Church  and  Castle, 
under  the  guidance  of  Mr.  W.  Harbutt  Dawson,  the  author  of 
the  "  History  of  Skipton,"  (Edmondson  &  Co.)  To  illustrate 
Mr.  Dawson's  paper,  we  have  added  a  large  number  of  engrav- 
ings, two  of  which  are  kindly  lent  by  him,  three  by  Messrs. 
Edmondson,  of  the  West  Yorkshire  Pioneer,  Skipton  ;  five  by  our 
printer ;  ten  by  Mr.  Townsend,  of  the  Craven  Herald,  Skipton ; 
the  remaining  sixteen  are  our  own.  Some  of  the  blocks  are 
of  early  workmanship,  but  even  these  have  a  history  to  tell,  in 
themselves,  of  the  progress  that  has  recently  been  made  in 
book  adornment.  Mr.  Dawson  commenced  as  cicerone  by  read- 
ing the  following  account  of  the  Parish  Church  : 


"  To  deal  first  with  historical  data.  We  are  not  justified  in 
believing  that  a  church  existed  at  Skipton  before  the  Conquest. 
The  Domesday  Survey,  completed  in  the  year  1086,  at  any  rate 
makes  no  reference  to  one.  Robert  de  Romille,  on  whom  the 
Conqueror  bestowed  the  honour  of  Skipton,  was  the  original 
founder  of  the  church  as  he  was  of  the  castle.  The  earliest 
mention  of  a  church  at  Skipton  is  in  the  time  of  William  de 
Meschines,  who  married  Cecilia,  a  daughter  of  Romille.  In  the 
year  1120  this  church,  with  the  chapel  of  Carle  ton  and  village  of 
Embsay,  formed  the  endowment  of  the  priory  of  Embsay. 

How  long  the  original  Norman  structure  continued  in  use  it 
is  impossible  to  say ;  we  know,  however,  that  at  the  beginning  of 
the  fourteenth  century  an  enlargement  took  place.  Before  the 
extension,  the  church  was  doubtless  without  the  north  and  south 
aisles,  as  well  as  the  clerestory,  and  in  length  it  cannot  have 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLKLORE    JOURNAL.  825 

extended  beyond  the  fourth  pier  from  the  west  end.  At  the  be- 
ginning of  the  fourteenth  century  a  tower  was  probably  added, 
and  aisles  were  attached  to  the  north  and  south,  and  were  con- 
tinued as  far  as  the  western  tower-wall.  The  sedilia  in  the 
south  wall  must  be  referred  to  this  period,  probably  also  the 
door  in  the  north  wall  now  walled  up,  and  the  recess  near  it 
used  for  holy  water. 

Whitaker  thinks  the  sedilia  may  be  dated  considerably  earlier. 
"  These,  if  they  have  not  been  removed  (of  which  there  is 
neither  tradition  nor  appearance)  will  prove,  first,  that  the 
former  church  consisted  of  one,  or  at  most  of  two,  aisles  only ; 
secondly,  that  the  whole  choir  of  three  aisles  has  been  added  to 
the  original  building  eastward,  and  the  appearances  of  the 
masonry  confirm  this  supposition." 

The  church  was  considerably  enlarged  in  the  latter  part  of  the 
fifteenth  century,  when  the  choir  (with  aisles)  was  continued 
to  its  present  extent.  Not  only  does  the  appearance  of  the 
masonry  support  this,  but  the  fact  that  upon  his  accession  to  the 
throne  in  1488,  Richard  III.,  who  was  for  some  time  lord  of  the 
castle  and  honour  of  Skipton,  ordered  the  payment  of  £20  to- 
wards the  repair  of  the  parish  church  here. 

The  stonework  of  the  western  portion  of  the  church  is  clearly 
shown  by  the  north  and  south  walls  to  be  of  much  older  date 
than  the  eastern.  Against  each  of  these  walls  there  are  six 
buttresses,  and  the  westernmost  three  are  far  more  massive 
than  the  others,  although  that  nearest  what  is  now  the  vicar's 
vestry  appears  to  have  been  restored  at  a  date  not  far  distant. 
Near  the  westernmost  window  of  the  north  wall  is  a  door- way 
which  has  been  walled  up.  This  is  evidently  of  old  date.  A 
little  farther  a  window-space,  about  five  feet  in  height,  and  of 
rectangular  form,  has  also  been  closed.  The  tracery  of  the 
north  windows  is  in  four  styles,  and  the  south  wall  furnishes 
another.  The  western  portion  of  the  south  wall,  as  of  the 
clerestory,  it  may  be  noted,  is  battlemented. 

A  vicarage  was  endowed  here  in  1826  by  Archbishop  Melton. 
However  a  fonner  endowment  existed,  for  in  1267  a  vicar  was 
instituted,  and  in  Archbishop  Melton's  endowment  the  former 
endowment  is  said  to  be  insufficient.  In  early  times  there  were 
several  charities  here,  and  mention  is  made  of  the  charities  of 
the  Rood,  of  Our  Lady,  and  of  St.  Nicholas. 

In  the  time  of  the  Civil  Wars,  Skipton  church  was  greatly 
damaged  by  the  Parliamentary  forces,  but  was  repaired  by  Lady 
Anne  Clifford.  Even  before  she  began  to  restore  the  castle 
Lady  Anne  turned  her  attention  to  the  church.  In  her  pri- 
vate memorials  Lady  Anne  refers  to  the  repairing  of  the 
church : — "  In  the  Summer  1665,  whilst  she  was  at  Appleby 
Castle,  at  her  own  charge  she  caus'd  the  steeple  of  Skipton 
church  to  be  built  up  againe,  which  was  pull'd  down  in  the  late 


326 


^YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIE8, 


Warrs,  and  leaded  it  over  and  then  repaired  some  part  of  the 
Church  and  new  glaz'd  the  Windows,  in  every  of  which  Window 
she  put  quarries,  stained  with  a  yellow  Colour,  these  two  letters, 
viz.,  A  P,  and  under  them  the  year  1655.  .  .  .  Besides  she 
raised  up  a  noble  Tomb  of  Black  Marble  in  memory  of  her  War- 
like Father."  Six  of  the  original  quarries  inserted  in  the  windows 
still  remain.  During  the  siege  of  Skiptbn  Castle  in  the  same 
wars,  the  steeple  received  very  rough  treatment.  Whitaker  says 
that  it  was  "  nearly  beaten  down  by  random  balls."  No  doubt 
this  statement  is  tolerably  correct,  for  Lady  Anne  Clifford  herself 
speaks  of  causing  "  the  steeple  of  Skipton  church  to  be  built  up 
again,  which  was  pulled  down  in  the  time  of  the  late  wars,"  and 
of  leading  it  over.  The  Lady's  act  is  recorded  upon  a  tablet 
affixed  to  the  north-east  pinnacle  of  the  steeple. 


Skipton  Church  and  Castle. 

The  fine  oaken  roof  is  one  of  the  most  interesting  features  of 
the  church.  It  was  constructed,  it  is  supposed,  ^n  the  time  of 
Richard  III.,  and  is  nearly  flat.  Whitaker  does  not  refer  the 
roof  to  so  early  a  period,  believing  that  it  cannot  be  older  then 
Henry  VIII.'s  time. 

The  ancient  screen  is  a  beautiful  piece  of  workmanship.  It  is 
said  to  have  come  originally  from  Bolton.  Prior  to  1802,  the 
screen  supported  a  handsome  rood-loft,  but  in  that  year,  the 
east  or  organ  gallery  was  erected,  and  the  rood-loft  was  con- 
sequently taken  down  and  the  screen  moved  forward.  Formerly 
the  screen  bore  an  inscription  with  the  date  1538.  It  will 
hardly  be  believed  that  when  the  church  was  restored  in  1854-5, 
the  churchwardens  had  the  screen  removed,  and  but  for  the 
entreaties  of  the  architect  and  of  some  reverent  worshippers  it 


WITH  YORKSHIRE  FOLK-LORE  JOURNAL.     827 

old  have  been  banished  from  the  church  for  ever.  The  late 
.  R.  H.  Sidgwick  kept  it  in  his  safe  possession  for  some  time 
»  it  had,  against  his  protest,  been  taken  down. 
Che  south  porch  was  erected  in  1866.  Reference  must  be 
de  to  the  Clifford  tombs,  which  help  to  make  Skipton 
ish  church  so  exceptionally  interesting  to  the  antiquary, 
talton  Abbey  was  originally  the  place  of  interment  for  those 
he  Clifford  family  who  died  in  this  county.  After  the  Dis- 
ltion,  however,  the  sepulchre  was  disused,  and  Skipton  church 
ame  the  burial  place.  Henry  Lord  Clifford,  the  "  Shepherd 
d,"  was  the  last  Clifford  interred  at  Bolton,  and  Henry  first 
*1  of  Cumberland  was  the  first  interred  at  Skipton.  Here 
e  been  interred  the  bodies  of  five  earls,  three  countesses,  and 
r  earls'  sons.  The  tombs  stand  within  the  communion  rails, 
are  three  in  number,  but  there  is  also  a  mural  tablet  close 
The  tombs  are  those  of  (1)  Henry,  first  Earl  of  Cumberland, 
Margaret  Percy,  his  wife  ;  (2)  Francis,  son  of  George  Earl 
Jumberland  ;  (8)  Earl  George.  The  tablet  is  to  the  memory 
"rancis,  Charles,  and  Henry,  sons  of  Henry,  last  Earl  of  Cum- 
and. 

i  the  time  of  the  Civil  War,  as  I  have  said,  the  church 
3red  greatly  at  the  hands  of  the  Roundheads.  During  the 
•s  of  the  siege  of  the  castle,  or  the  years  immediately  follow- 
most  of  the  brasses  upon  the  two  tombs  then  in  existence 
that  of  George  Earl  of  Cumberland  was  built  by  the  Lady 
ie  Clifford  in  1654)  were  displaced,  and  the  tombs  themselves 
*  damaged.  Within  late  years,  however,  five  of  the  original 
ses  have  been  found.  They  were  discovered  about  1850  in 
Duse  at  Thorlby  which  was  undergoing  repairs.  These 
ses  consist  of  the  figure  of  the  Trinity,  and  the  second  of  the 
;  on  the  tomb  of  Earl  Henry,  and  three  shields  on  the  altar 
b.  The  brasses  yet  missing  were  replaced  by  the  Duke  of 
onshire  when  he  generously  restored  the  tombs  in  1867,  at 
>st  of  J61000.  Fortunately,  before  the  tombs  were  spoiled 
ng  the  Civil  War,  Dodsworth,  the  eminent  antiquary,  had 
ed  the  inscriptions.  The  tomb  of  Henry,  first  Earl  of  Cum- 
ind,  bears  an  inscription  round  the  edge  of  the  slab  recording 
leath  in  April,  1542.  Upon  the  slab  are  effigies  in  brass  of 
earl  and  his  wife.  It  will  be  noticed  that  he  is  clad  in 
Dur,  and  wears  broad-toed  sabatons.  Round  his  left  leg  is 
Garter,  and  his  head  rests  upon  a  tilting  helmet,  with  crest, 
'vern  sejant.  His  feet  rest  upon  a  greyhound.  He  carries 
ord  and  dagger,  and  a  cross  suspended  from  his  neck  by  a 
n.  At  his  feet  is  a  shield  within  the  Garter,  Clifford  impal- 
the  old  Percy  arms  (for  similarity,  see  also  the  arms  of 
npton).  Over  his  head  within  the  Garter  are  the  Clifford 
3.  His  wife  Margaret,  daughter  of  Percy,  Earl  of  North- 
erland,  is  represented  reposing  her  head  on  a  handsome 


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pillow.  Over  her  gown  is  a  mantle  bearing  the  arms  of  Clifford, 
Percy  and  Lucy  quarterly,  Bromflete,  old  Percy  (Plumpton), 
Vesci,  and  Poynings.  The  mantle  is  attached  by  a  cord  from 
the  neck  to  the  waist,  and  the  two  tassels  hang  near  her  feet, 
which  rest  upon  a  dog,  the  token  of  fidelity.  Above  her  are  the 
so-called  Old  Percy  arms ;  beneath  her  feet  the  Clifford  arms 
within  the  Garter.  Upon  a  stone  standing  vertically  at  the  head 
of  the  tomb  are  brasses  of  Henry  second  Earl  of  Cumberland 
and  his  two  sons  kneeling  in  tabards  charged  with  the  Clifford 
arms,  the  Earl's  impaling  Dacre,  and  over  their  heads,  as  shown 
in  the  figure,  a  scroll  inscribed — 

§'cta  trmitas  un'  fpeu*  mt«*xre  nob*. 


<g> 

• 

ft 

ill 

w^ 

~            — IHTiU   l 

Brasses,  on  Clifford  Tomb  in  Skipton  Church,  of  Sons  and  Daughters 
of  Clifford. 

the  right  are  his  two  wives  and  two  daughters  kneeling,  one 
>rged  with  Clifford  impaling  Dacre  on  her  mantle,  one  with 
(Ford,  the  daughters  in  plain  gowns.     On  the  scroll  is — 

<y}ater  be  cell*  be*  tnteeveve  nob\ 

»  central  emblem  indicates  the  Trinity ;  and  those  at  the 
-  corners  represent  the  Evangelists.  Beneath  the  figures  we 
I — 

ce  lictiy  $iv  SJemnj  Cliffovb  &ntj&kft  f&avi  of 
ttxbexlanb  anb  &mt  Ijtj*  ttttjffe  banQljtev  of 
llictrtx    Sovfr    J! acre    of   GMUcslanfr    mijick)   gptr 


880  YORK8HIRE    NOTJJS    AND    QUERIES, 

genrtj  btpavttb  tijte  life  tkje  tiglftl?  haxje  of  gten- 
uarie  in  it}*  tjerc  of  our  iorfr  @ob  mcxcccbex. 

This  slab  was  formerly  concealed  by  the  large  tablet  now  in  the 
east  wall,  but  in  1844  it  fell  down  and  exposed  the  original  slab 
to  view.  With  the  exception  of  the  figure  of  the  Trinity  and 
that  of  the  second  son,  all  the  brasses  upon  this  tomb  are 
modern  restorations.  A  long  inscription  referring  to  Earl  Henry 
and  his  family  will  be  found  on  the  east  wall. 

At  the  head  of  the  tomb  of  Earl  Henry  is  an  altar-shaped 
tomb  to  the  memory  of  Francis,  son  of  George  Earl  of  Cumber- 
land. This  Francis  was  scarcely  six  years  of  age  at  the  time  of 
his  death,  which  took  place  in  December,  1589.  Upon  the  slab 
of  this  tomb  are  several  brasses,  three  original.  The  brass 
containing  the  original  inscription  was  stolen  with  others,  and 
Lady  Anne  Clifford  replaced  it  with  another,  now  remaining. 

The  tomb  of  Earl  George  stands  on  the  south  side  of  the  altar, 
precisely  opposite  to  that  of  Earl  Henry.  It  is  most  elaborately 
adorned  with  armorial  bearings.  Whitaker  remarks — "  I  much 
doubt  whether  such  an  assemblage  of  noble  bearings  can  be 
found  on  the  tomb  of  any  other  Englishman."  There  are  no 
fewer  than  seventeen  richly  ornamented  shields  upon  this  tomb. 

The  tomb  was  erected  by  Lady  Anne  Clifford.  I  came  across 
the  original  agreement  made  for  its  completion  at  Skipton, 
shewing  that  £20  was  paid  for  polishing  the  marble  slab  and 
lettering.  It  is  entitled  "  Agree*  with  Jo.  Ellis  for  finishinge 
the  Tomb  att  Skipton,  all  saue  the  Tombe-stone,"  and  is  dated 
9th  October,  1654. 

A  slab  bearing  a  long  inscription  referring  to  Earl  George  will 
be  found  on  the  east  wall. 

In  the  churchyard  are  several  interesting  tombstones,  includ- 
ing one  in  Latin  to  a  member  of  the  Longfellow  family.  By  the 
south-west  buttress  of  the  tower,  indeed  partially  beneath  it,  is 
an  ancient  tombstone.  It  is  supposed  that  it  was  removed  from 
its  original  position  at  the  extension  of  the  old  Norman  church 
and  placed  here.  Near  the  porch  is  also  a  tombstone  of  ancient 
date,  but  it  is  not  inscribed  in  any  way. 

o 

[Another  gravestone  records  in  Latin  the  death  of  Ann, 
daughter  of  William  West,  of  Eastby,  gentleman,  and  Ann  his 
wife,  obijt  7  die  9  bris,  1716,  aetat  6  "  Hie  etiam  jacet  supra- 
dictus  Gulielmus  West  qui  obijt  14°  die  Januarij,  sepult  17°  et 
Anno  Christi  1728°  ^Statis  suae  69°  .  In  pace  quiescat."  Two 
brasses  are  affixed  on  the  stone  to  other  members  of  the  West 
and  Baynes  families.  Another  stone  states  that  Mr.  John 
Swire  died  November  20th,  1760,  aged  forty-eight.  A  stone 
bears  a  Latin  inscription  to  the  memory  of  two  children  of 
Jonathan  Colton,  who  was  "  Schol.  in  hoc  Oppido  Grammat* 
sub-praeceptor,"  nat.  1708  ;  ob.  1778. 


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As  usual  in  churchyards,  there  are  several  instances  of  the 
epitaph : 

•"  Affliction  sore 
Long  time  she  bore 

Physicians  were  in  vain. 
Till  God  did  please 
To  give  her  ease 

And  cure  her  of  her  pain." 
In  one  case  there  is  a  departure  from  the  stereotyped  form 
though  at  the  expense  of  mixing  up  the  third  and  first  persons 
feminine : 

M  Affliction  sore  long  time  she  bore 
All  human  help  was  vain, 
Till  death  gave  ease  and  God  did  please 

To  free  me  from  my  pain. 
From  floods  of  tears,  from  ills  and  woes, 

The  Lord  hath  set  me  free 
And  crowned  me  with  immortal  bliss 
A  happy  state  for  me." 


Tufton.  Tufton  (Baronet.) 

Clifford  arms  :  chequy,  or  and  azure,  a  fess  gules. 

Tufton  arms  :  sable,  an  eagle  displayed  ermine  within  a  bordure 
argent. 

Tufton  arms,  baronet :  bordure  wavy  argent. 

Eussell,  Baron  de  Clifford :  argent,  a  lion  rampant  gules  on 
a  chief  sable,  three  escallops  of  the  first.  Crest — A  goat  statant 
argent,  attired  or.  Supporters — Dexter  a  wy vern  gules ;  sinister 
a  monkey  proper,  ringed  round  the  loins  and  chained  or. 

Coussmaker :  quarterly,  one  and  four,  azure  on  a  chevron  be- 
tween three  mullets  or,  as  many  trefoils  slipped  vert :  two  and 
three  (for  Southwell),  vgent»  three  cinquefoils  gules,  on  each 
six  annulets. 


CHE-  SARA-SARA 

Russell— -Baron  de  Clifford. 


Cavendish. 


Southwell— Baron  de  Clifford. 


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Southwell,  Baron  de  Clifford :  see  two  and  three,  Coussmaker. 
Supporters,  see  Russell. 

Cavendish :  sable,  three  bucks'  heads  cabossed  argent,  attired  or. 

Robert  de  Clifford,  first  Lord  of  Skipton,  son  of  Roger,  by  Isabel 

de  Veteripont  (Vipont),  was  slain  at  Bannockburn  in  1814. 


^      ' 

The  Rev.  P.  C.  Kidd,  late  vicar. 

rge,  Lord  Clifford,  thirteenth  Lord,  and  third  Earl  of  Cum- 
rland,  married  Margaret  daughter  of  Francis  Russell,  Earl 
Bedford.  Anne  Clifford,  their  daughter,  sole  heiress,  was 
m  at  Skipton  in  1589.  She  married  the  Earl  of  Dorset  in 
08-9,  and  the  Earl  of  Pembroke  in  1630.  Her  daughter 
Etrgaret  (by  the  first  husband)),  was  eventually  sole  heiress, 


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having  married  John  Tufton,  Earl  of  Thanet.  The  grand- 
daughter of  the  sixth  Earl  of  Tufton  married  in  1729,  Edward 
Southwell,  M.P.,  but  their  grandson  Edward,  Baron  de  Clifford, 
died  without  issue,  and  his  niece,  Sophia  Goussmaker  became 
Baroness.  Her  grandson,  Edward  Southwell  Bussell,  is  now 
Baron  de  Clifford.      Sir  Richard  Tufton,    natural  son   of 


Rev.  H.  L.  Cook,  present  vicar. 

Tufton,  eleventh  Earl  of  Thanet,  was  father  of  Lord  Hothfield, 
of  Hothfield,  Skipton,  Appleby,  and  Brougham. 

Henry  Clifford,  fifth  Earl  of  Northumberland,  nephew  of  George 
the  third  earl,  had  an  only  daughter  who  married  Richard 
Boyle,  first  Earl  of  Burlington,  whose  descendant  Charlotte 


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885 


Elizabeth  Boyle,  Baroness  Clifford,  married  William  Cavendish 
Marquis  of  Hartington,  fourth  Dnke  of  Devonshire. 


Lady  Grisold,  Countess  of  Northumberland,  (mother  of  Henry, 
Lord  Clifford,  the  last  Earl  of  Northumberland,  Lady  Margaret 
Wentworth,  and  Lady  Frances  Clifton,)  was  buried  at  Londes- 
borough  in  1618. 

Edmondson's  "Baronage"  gives  forty-nine  quarterings  as  belong* 
ing  to  the  baroness  of  Clifford  in  1784,  including 
Tufton,  Clifford,  an  augmentation,  azure  three 
(chain  shots)  or ;  Vipont,  six  annulets  or,  three, 
two,  and  one. 

The  eight  quarterings  in  our  illustration  are,  Clifford,  (Scu- 
damore),  Bromflete,  Vescy,  Flint  (?),  Vipont,  Atton,  St.  John. 

Notes,  Ed.] 


Quarterings  used  by  Earls  of  Cumberland. 


886  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIE8, 


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887 


®he  Castl*. 

Mr.  Dawson's  second  paper  was  as  follows : — 

Regarding  the 
original  castle  of 
Skipton  two  facts 
may  be  taken  as 
certain:  that  Robert 
de  Romille,  the 
first  Norman 
grantee  of  the 
honour  of  Skipton 
was  its  founder,  and 
that  it  was  built  in 
the  last  quarter  of 
the  eleventh  cen- 
tury— that  is,  at 
the  end  of  the  Con- 
aeror's  reign  or  the  beginning  of  his  successor's.  Of  the 
mracter  of  the  structure  we  cannot  judge  from  the  remnant 
tat  remains,  and  we  must  therefore  assume  the  building  to 
ive  followed  the  usual  Norman  style.  The  remains  of  the  first 
stle  include,  at  most,  the  western  doorway  of  the  inner  castle 
Wiitaker :  "the  treble  semi-circular  arch  supported  upon  square 
ers  ")  and  the  dungeon.  In  Mr.  Whitaker's  opinion  this 
?stern  doorway  is  the  only  remnant  we  have. 
It  is  very  probable  that  in  the  twelfth  century  Skipton  Castle 
s  very  roughly  treated,  if  not  indeed  actually  destroyed.  The 
untess  of  Pembroke  records  in  her  Memorials  that  Robert  de 
fford  "was  the  chief  builder  of  the  most  strong  parts  of  Skipton 
?tle,  which  had  been  out  of  repair  and  ruinous  from  the  Albe- 
r/es'  time."  Six  Earls  of  Albemarle  held  the  honour  of 
pton  during  the  second  half  of  the  eleventh  and  the  first 
f  of  the  twelfth  century.  That  period  was  one  of  disquiet 
bloodshed.  Independently  of  constant  struggles  among 
m  selves,  the  barons  were  at  continual  variance  with  their 
?s,  and  more  than  one  of  the  Albemarles  rebelled  against 
crown.  It  seems  to  me  probable  that  Skipton  castle  was  de- 
yed  during  the  time  of  William  Fitz  Duncan,  who  became  lord 
kipton  in  1152.  This  Fitz  Duncan  was  a  nephew  of  David 
*  of  Scotland,  and  he  desolated  Craven  in  1188.  Fourteen 
s  after  (1152)  he  was  established  by  his  uncle  in  the  honour 
Sciptun  and  Crafna,"  and  John,  Prior  of  Hexham,  records 
-ding  the  struggle  that  took  place  at  the  time,  that  King 
d  "  destroyed  a  small  fortress  built  by  the  enemy."  This 
ass  I  take  to  mean  Skipton  castle,  for  cogent  reasons  which 
mot  advance  here. 

e    *'  chief  builder  "  of  Skipton  castle  (to  use  the  words  of 
A ime  Clifford,)  was  Robert  de  Clifford,  who  entered  upon 
.q.  w 


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the  honour  of  Skipton  in  1809.  Clifford  no  doubt  found  the 
residence  which  had  stood  since  the  time  of  the  earlier  Albe- 
marles  neither  strong  enough  nor  sufficiently  pretentious  for  a 
noble  of  his  importance.  The  mode  of  warfare  and  the  style  of 
military  architecture  were  changing.  It  was  during  the  reign  of 
Edward  I.  that  round  towers  became  fashionable,  and  after  that 
model  Clifford  began  the  erection  of  a  fortress.  It  must  be  borne 
in  mind  that  the  eastern  part  of  the  castle  is  of  comparatively 
modern  date,  having  been  erected  in  the  sixteenth  century.  The 
quadrangular  court  which  is  formed  by  a  series  of  rectilinear 
apartments,  and  into  which  the  Norman  arch  opens,  is  known 
as  the  Conduit  Court,  and  is  so  called  from  the  fact  that  the 
conduit  bringing  the  supply  of  water  to  the  castle  terminates 
here.  The  thickness  of  the  walls  varies  from  nine  to  ten  or 
eleven  feet. 


Skipton  Castle. 

Not  long  after  the  re-erection  of  the  castle  by  Robert  de  Clif- 
ford, it  was  visited  by  royalty.  Edward  II.  is  known  to  have 
been  at  Skipton  on  the  1st  and  2nd  of  October,  1828,  for  several 
royal  mandates  printed  in  Rymer's  Fadera  are  dated  from  Skipton. 
The  same  Edward  was  in  Skipton  in  1824. 

The  eastern  portion  of  the  castle,  about  sixty  yards  in  length, 
the  terminating  point  of  which  is  the  Octagon  Tower,  is  of  date 
much  more  modern  than  the  western.  It  was  built  by  Henry 
the  first  Earl  of  Cumberland  in  1586  for  the  reception  of  Lady 
Eleanor  Brandon,  who  married  his  son  Henry  Clifford  in  1587. 
This  lady  was  the  daughter  of  Charles  Brandon,  Duke  of  Suffolk, 
and  niece  of  Henry  VIII.,  and  it  was  in  consequence  of  her  high 
rank  that  the  Earl  deemed  this  enlargement  of  his  castle  neces- 
sary.   The  erection  of  this  eastern  part  occupied  no  longer  time 


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YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 


than  four  or  five  months.  The  entrance  at  the  western  end  of 
the  castle  was  built  by  Lady  Anne  Clifford  after  the  siege  of  the 
seventeenth  century. 

To  the  west  of  the  castle  stand  the  remains  of  what  was  once 
the  Castle  Chapel.  Whitaker  supposes  it  to  have  been  founded 
by  Alice  de  Romille.  In  Archbishop  Holgatc's  Return  of  Chan- 
tries and  also  in  an  inspeximus  of  Henry  Lord  Clifford,  dated 
1512,  the  founder  is  said  to  have  been  an  Earl  of  Albemarle. 
The  original  shell  of  the  building  may  yet  be  traced,  although 
additions  have  been  made  to  it  in  modern  times.  Several  win- 
dows and  the  original  door  are  easily  distinguishable,  while  the 
piscina  still  retains  its  position  in  the  south  wall.  This  sacred 
building  is  now  used  as  a  stable ! 


Skiptou  Church  and  Castle. 

To  refer  to  some  of  the  characteristics  of  the  castle  as  it  is. 
There  is  first  the  tower  with  the  conspicuous  motto  "  Desormais  " 
(Henceforth),  twice  repeated.  In  a  moulding  extending  round  the 
parapet  of  the  central  chamber  of  the  gate-house  is  an  inscription, 
taken  from  one  of  Horace's  Odes,  intended  to  perpetuate  the 
renown  of  George,  Earl  of  Cumberland.  Below  ••  Desormais  " 
and  just  over  the  gateway  are  the  arms  of  Henry,  fifth  Earl, 
with  the  initials  H.  C.  and  the  fractured  date  16—. 

Right  of  the  archway  is  the  Shell  House,  so  called  because  the 
four  walls  of  one  of  the  lower  rooms  are  decorated  with  sea  shells, 
Neptune  being  shown  over  the  fireplace.  Tradition  says  that 
George,  Earl  of  Cumberland,  brought  the  shells  home  from  one 
of  his  expeditions. 

•  Passing  through  the  modern  entrance  to  the  western  portion 
of  the  castle,  we  stand  in  a  wide  arched  passage  leading  to  the 
inner  court.  Facing  the  doorway  a  staircase  leads  to  a  spacious 
apartment  used  as  the  steward's  office.  The  walls  here  are  but 
four  feet  thick,  while  those  of  the  older  portions  are  nine  feet 


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and  upwards.  Facing  this  staircase  is  another  narrow  one  ok 
stone.  An  ascent  of  eighteen  steps  brings  us  to  what  is  known 
as  "  Fair  Rosamond's  Liner  Chamber,"  a  strange  title,  seeing 
that  that  Clifford  died  many  years  before  Skipton  Castle  came 
into  the  hands  of  her  family.  At  the  head  of  the  passage  can 
be  traced  the  groove  in  which  a  portcullis  was  worked.  This  is 
by  the  side  of  the  Norman  arch,  which  Whitaker  believes  to  be 
the  only  vestige  of  the  original  castle.  We  now  enter  the  Inner 
or  Conduit  Court,  which  is  tenanted  by  a  ancient  yew  tree.  Of 
what  age  it  is,  cannot  be  determined  with  any  degree  of  certainty. 
Whitaker  supposes  it  to  have  been  planted  here  in  the  place  of 
one  destroyed  during  the  siege  of  1642-5,  but  the  conjecture  is 
perhaps  a  doubtful  one.  It  is  probable  the  tree  is  much  older. 
However  that  may  be,  it  still  continues  to  flourish,  notwithstand- 
ing the  persistent  unkindness  of  relic-hunters.  Three  particulars 
of  the  castle  are  worthy  of  notice  :  (1)  every  one  of  its  numerous 
rooms  has  a  separate  level,  that  is,  cannot  be  reached  without 
either  going  up  or  down  a  step  or  a  series  of  steps.  (2)  Each  room 
has  two  doors,  for  egress  in  case  of  danger.  (8)  There  were  no 
windows  but  such  as  faced  the  interior  quadrangle.  Many  loop 
holes  have  been  made  into  windows  in  modern  times. 

The  first  door  to  the  left  of  the  courtyard  leads  to  the  dun- 
geon reached  by  fifteen  steps.  This  dungeon  was  doubtless 
frequently  used  in  olden  times.  As  early  as  the  reign  of  King 
John  prisoners  for  offences  within  the  fee  of  Albemarle  were 
committed  to  Skipton  Castle,  and  afterwards  removed  for  trial  at 
York.  Henry,  first  Earl  of  Cumberland,  towards  the  close  of 
Henry  VIII's  reign,  had  amongst  other  prisoners  a  notorious 
deer-stealer  named  West,  of  Grassington.  It  appears  also  from 
records  at  Bolton  that  in  1559  one  Francis  May  was  imprisoned 
in  the  castle  for  hunting  at  night  in  Skipton  Park,  but  he  es- 
caped ;  wherefore  searching  questions  were  sent,  on  the  Earl  of 
Cumberland's  behalf,  to  John  Henry  son,  the  gaoler. 

Near  the  dungeon  is  another  very  interesting  apartment.  The 
floor  lies  some  four  feet  lower  than  the  passage  by  which  it  is 
approached.  The  present  entrance,  however,  cannot  be  the 
original  one  ;  it  must  have  been  broken  through  the  wall.  The 
condition  of  the  passage  wall  and  the  direction  in  which  a  door 
at  the  head  of  the  passage  has  opened  seem  to  support  this  view. 
Furthermore,  entrance  to  the  room  can  only  be  gained,  when  a 
temporary  ladder  is  taken  away,  by  a  sheer  jump  of  several  feet. 
The  apartment  is  nearly  circular,  and  is  arched,  and  at  the  west 
side  a  loop-hole,  now  filled  up,  can  be  detected.  The  room, 
which  is  under  the  kitchens,  is  about  eighteen  feet  in  diameter, 
and  sixteen  feet  in  height,  although  the  proper  floor  is  a  little 
lower  than  the  present  one.  To  the  right  of  the  entrance  is  a 
perfect  archway,  some  six  feet  high,  going  beyond  the  wall 
several  feet,     Where  this  leads  to  is  yet  a  mystery,  but  I  cannot 


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avoid  coming  to  the  conclusion  that  the  room  was  originally 
entered  by  this  arch.  Of  coarse  conjectures  as  to  the  use  of 
this  place  are  abundant.  Some  hold  that  it  was  merely  used  in 
•conjunction  with  the  kitchen,  others  that  it  was  a  dungeon, 
while  another  conjecture  is  that  from  this  room  in  times  of 
danger  a  secret  place  of  concealment  was  offered  to  the  pursued ; 
and  yet  another  that  the  archway  referred  to  is  the  head  of  a 
subterranean  passage  of  indefinite  extent.  The  last  conjecture 
is  unworthy  of  consideration.  And  though  I  should  hesitate 
before  setting  this  down  as  one  of  the  "  secret  chambers  "  which 
are  supposed  to  be  appurtenant  to  every  ancient  fortress,  it 
seems  pretty  clear,  both  from  its  extreme  height  and  the  pecu- 
liarity of  ingress,  that  the  room  was  not  one  for  ordinary  domes- 
tic use.  It  is  of  evident  antiquity.  A  little  labour  spent  in 
excavation  here  might  yield  very  interesting  results. 

Returning  from  this  gloomy  cellar  to  the  court-yard,  we  reach 
the  banqueting-hall,  on  the  same  side,  by  means  of  a  flight  of 
steps.  A  door  to  the  left  leads  to  the  spacious  kitchen,  where 
are  two  or  three  good  old-fashioned  fireplaces.  The  banqueting 
hall  adjoins  the  withdrawing  room,  in  which  there  is  a  large 
window  facing  the  mill  and  the  Springs.  The  door  leading  out 
of  this  room  is  of  very  modern  construction.  The  original  one 
was  in  the  centre  of  the  wall  facing  the  door  from  the  banqueting 
room,  and  was  scarcely  three  feet  wide.  It  opened  into  a 
passage  almost  as  narrow,  from  which  it  reached  that  famous 
apartment — absent  from  no  well-ordered  castle — Mary  Queen  of 
Scots'  Room.  I  suspect  that  Queen  Mary's  visit  is  an  imaginary 
one.  The  Queen  was,  however,  imprisoned  in  Bolton  Castle, 
Wensleydale.  Very  near  this  room  is  a  spacious  drawing-room, 
which  can  also  be  reached  from  the  court-yard.  From  this  room 
a  door  leads  to  the  Muniment  room,  which  is  very  rarely  entered. 
Here  are  drawers  and  chests  full  of  unsorted  documents  relating 
to  the  Cliffords,  the  Earls  of  Thanet,  and  the  Craven  estates. 
From  the  drawing-room  a  bed -room  is  entered,  which  is  lighted 
from  the  court-yard.  A  passage  leads  into  what  is  known  as 
the  Watch  Tower,  so  named  from  its  being  the  highest  of  the 
towers.  Near  this  apartment  is  a  staircase — the  narrowest  in 
the  whole  castle.  The  entrance  will  scarcely  admit  the  shoulders 
of  a  man  of  even  ordinary  size,  as  it  is  not  more  than  eighteen 
inches  wide.  The  staircase  leads  to  another  bedroom,  in  which 
are  four  windows.    From  this  room  access  is  gained  to  the  roof. 

The  first  door  to  the  right  of  the  entrance  to  the  court-yard 
leads  into  a  dark  apartment  in  which  there  is  a  loophole,  now 
nearly  concealed  by  a  fireplace,  Farther  on,  in  the  Watch 
Tower,  is  the  "  guard-room,"  which  commands  a  view  of  the 
gateway,  the  castle  entrance,  and  the  bailey.  There  are  here 
three  loopholes.  Over  several  of  the  doors  in  the  court-yard  are 
carved  the  arms  and  quarterings  of  the  Cliffords.     The  eastern 


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part  was  built  in  the  sixteenth  century,  and  contains  beautiful 
old  tapestry;  famous  portraits,  including  those  of  Cromwell, 
Lady  A.  Clifford,  George,  Earl  of  Cumberland;  and  other 
objects  of  interest.  In  the  Earl  of  TlmneVs  bedroom  the  tapestry 
designs  are  "  Solomon  passing  his  judgment,'1  "  Queen  Esther 
and  King  Ahasuerus,"  and  "  Joseph  and  his  brethren — the  dis- 
covery of  the  cup."  In  another  bed-chamber — the  one  in  which 
the  second  Earl  of  Cumberland  is  said  to  have  lain  when  in  a 
trance — the  scenes  pourtrayed  are  "  An  Eastern  marriage," 
several  New  Testament  incidents,  and  "  Forest  scenes."  In  the 
drawing-room  the  "  Four  seasons  "  are  beautifully  represented. 
The  highest  room  of  the  Octagon  Toner,  known  as  the  "  State 
Chamber,"  also  contains  some  very  curious  tapestry  work.  The 
"  Siege  of  Troy  "  forms  the  subject  of  one  portion,  two  forest 
scenes  occupy  another  side  of  the  room,  while  the  "  Spanish 

Inquisition  "  is  a  piece  of  work  of  very  large  dimensions. 

o 

[The  original  Clifford  picture  is  at  Appleby  Castle,  and  the 
Skipton  copy  is  now  at  Hothfield.  It  was  drawn  up  by  the 
accomplished  Lady  Anne,  Countess  of  Pembroke.  It  is  8£  feet 
high  within  the  frame,  and  the  two  folding  side  pictures  are 
three  feet  ten  inches  wide.  The  frame  is  five  inches  wide. 
The  middle  picture  represents  George  Earl  of  Cumberland,  his 
countess  holding  in  her  left  hand  a  book  (Psalms),  their  eldest 
son  Francis,  and  their  son  Robert.  The  earl  wears  a  blue  sash, 
and  the  garter  is  buckled  round  his  left  leg.  A  ring  adorns  the 
thumb  of  the  countess's  right  hand.  Francis  holds  an  ancient 
shield,  F.,  on  which  is  a  long  biographical  account  of  the  two 
boys.  Three  books,  "Alkimee",  "Senekae",  the  Bible,  are  shown 
on  a  shelf.  At  A  is  inscribed  a  biographical  account  of  the  earl ; 
at  G,  his  arms  within  the  garter ;  B,  is  the  portrait  of  Lady 
Frances,  wife  to  Baron  Wharton,  with  inscription  below  ;  C,  is 
the  portrait  of  Anne,  Countess  of  Warwick,  with  inscription ;  Dr 
is  the  portrait  of  Elizabeth,  Countess  of  Bath,  with  inscription  ; 
E,  Lady  Margaret,  Countess  of  Derby,  with  inscription.  Around 
the  border  of  the  centre  picture,  beginning  at  the  bottom  of  the 
left  side  is  the  pedigree,  with  shields,  from  Norman  times.  J  is 
a  scroll  containing  a  memoir  of  Roger  de  Clifford. 

The  left  hand  picture  represents  Lady  Anne  Clifford  when 
young.  M  contains  a  biographical  account ;  K,  is  the  portrait 
of  Samuel  Daniel,  her  tutor ;  L,  is  Mrs.  Anne  Taylour,  her 
governess. 

The  right-hand  picture  represents  the  Countess  Dowager  of 
Pembroke  ;  P,  gives  further  biographical  notices  of  her  ladyship ; 
N,  is  the  portrait  of  the  Earl  of  Dorset,  her  first  husband ;  0, 
that  of  Philip  Herbert,  Earl  of  Pembroke,  her  second  husband. 

A  full  account  of  this  genealogical  work  of  art  will  be  found 
in  the  third  edition  of  Whitaker's  Craven. 


846 


YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 


Of  Skipton  worthies  of  the  present  day,  we  have  pleasure  in 
giving  the  portraits  of  Walter  Morrison,  Esq.,  of  Malham  Tarn 


Walter  Morrison,  Esq.,  M.P. 


House,  the  present  M.P.  for  Skipton  division  (Liberal  Unionist) ; 
S.  Cunliffe  Lister,  Esq.,  of  Swinton  and  Manningham,  who 


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847 


S.  Cuuliffe  Lister,  Esq. 


?ted  as  Conservative  candidate  for  the  division  when  first 
d  in  1885  ;    and   Sir  Mathew  Wilson,  Bart.,  of  Eshton 


848 


YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 


Sir  Mathew  Wilson,  Bart. 


(Liberal),  who  gained  the  seat  in  1885,  and  had  previously 
represented  it  and  the  rest  of  the  North  West  Riding.  A  fine 
statue  of  Sir  Mathew  stands  near  the  Parish  Church  gate,  at 
the  head  of  the  Market  Place,  High  Street. 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  849 


J.  Conlthorst,  Esq. 


850 


YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 


Conservative  Club. 


J.  Coulthurst,  Esq.,  J.P.,  D.L., 
has  served  as  High  Sheriff  of  York- 
shire. The  pedigree  of  the  family 
will  be  found  in  Whitaker's  Craven, 
third  edition.  Mr.  Coulthurst  is 
the  president  of  Skipton  Conserva- 
tive Association. 

The  next  portrait  is  that  of  the 
president  of  the  Skipton  Liberal 
Association,  J.  B.  Dewhurst,  Esq., 
J.P.,  and  County  Councillor,  whose 
great  firm  is  known  far  and  wide, 
and  whose  beautiful  factory  is  at 
once  an  ornament  and  a  Boon  to 
the  town. 


Coulthurst  Arms. 


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851 


J.  B.  Dewhurst,  Esq.,  J.P. 


the  important  buildings  that  adorn  Skipton  we  can  only 
iews  of  the  Conservative  Club,  Christ  Church,  the  Grammar 
d1  and  the  Wesleyan  Chapel,  but  many  more  should  be 


?52 


YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 


Christ  Church. 


Grammar  School. 


In  the  Grammar  School  is  deposited  the  remnant  of  the  Petyt 
Library,  which  belongs  to  the  town,  the  gift  of  Sylvester  Petyt, 
Esq.,  whose  portrait  in  oil  may  be  seen  in  the  parish  church  ves- 
try. It  is  rich  in  seventeenth  century  volumes,  but  has  been  greatly 
neglected  in  former  years.  There  is  a  manuscript  catalogue  winch 
reveals  that  many  volumes  are  missing,  and  the  town  authorities 
would  do  well  to  have  a  new  catalogue  made  by  an  expert 
bibliographer,  and  have  the  volumes  placed  where  they  will  be 
available  as  a  reference  library. 


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854 


Y0RK8HIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL. 


855 


Wesleyan  Chapel. 

are  is  an  old-world  quaintness  still  lingering  about  the 
of  Skipton,  notwithstanding  the  great  alterations  made  in 
resent  century.  Its  central  importance  in  the  old  coaching 
is  represented  by  two  direction  boards  near  the  church 
:  Settle  16  miles,  Kendal  45,  Lancaster  43 ;  Knaresboro' 
les,  Harrogate  21,  Ripon  80.  Even  the  bellman,  in  his 
ed  coat,  hat  girdle,  and  scarlet  waistcoat,  has  a  glamour  of 
times.  Two  old  views  will  show  the  reader  what  Skipton 
riien  the  railway  first  reached  it.     There  is  now  a  fine  new 


SOME    ACCOUNT    OF    THE 
.RISH    CHURCH    OF     ST.     MARY'S,    HONLEY; 
By  Mrs.  Mary  A.  Jaoger.     Continued  from  page  240. 

e  Inscriptions  written  in  Latin  on  the  old  Church  plate, 

Tated,  are  as  follows : — 

l  the  large  paten, — "  To  the  glory  and  honour  of  God,  for 

)eople'8  convenience,  and  for  the  welfare  of  the  Chapel  of 

ey,  this  piece  of  silver  have  the  inhabitants  presented, 

her  with  the  rest,   for   the  constant  celebration   of  the 

larist." 

i  the  small  paten, — "  Sacred  to  God  and  the  Church,  at 

ost  of  the  inhabitants.     A.D.  1792." 

i  the  chalice,—44  Honley  Chapel,  A.D.  1754." 

itherthong  and   Crosland,   though    now    separated   from 

ley  with  regard  to  Ecclesiastical  matters,  looked  upon  the 

edifice  with  a  little  envy.    When  the  natives  of  these  two 


856  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 

townships  were  returning  home  on  a  Saturday  evening,  or  from 
the  far-famed  Honley  feast,  they  were  wont  to  stand  under  the 
Church  wall  and  shout  derisively  at  the  new  building.  Then 
farewell  greetings  were  not  at  all  respectful.  They  would  ex- 
claim— "  We  neither  care  for  your  new  church,  nor  yet  for  your 
grand  steeple  with  its  four  clock  faces,  and  your  pinnacles ;  *e 
won  you  at  York!  we  won  you  at  York!"  This  pleasing 
retrospect  of  their  last  victory  so  elated  the  natives  of  Cropland 
that  when  they  arrived  at  the  bottom  of  the  defile,  known  as 
the  "  Sentry,"  the  superfluous  high  spirits  had  to  be  let  off. 
Mag  bridge  divided  the  two  townships,  Honley  and  Crosland, 
and  this  structure  had  to  be  the  safety-valve ;  for  as  a  rule,  the 
coping  stones  on  Honley  side  were  toppled  over  into  the  water. 
Honley  resented  this,  and  took  the  same  trouble  with  the 
coping  stones  on  the  other  half  belonging  to  Crosland.  The 
bridge  stood  almost  as  many  sieges  as  Pontefract  Castle,  and 
often  was  utterly  dismantled,  and  dangerous  to  cross. 

The  new  Church  arose  to  its  completion  amidst  many 
difficulties;  for  there  was  carelessness  and  mismanagement 
on  the  part  of  both  Contractor  and  Clerk  of  Works.  It  required 
all  the  activity,  diligence,  and  ability  of  Mr.  James  Stocks,  the 
Churchwarden,  to  bring  it  safely  through  its  various  troubles. 

The  cost  of  the  re-building  of  St.  Mary's  Church  amounted 
to  over  £4000.  The  following  is  a  list  of  the  donors,  none 
with  the  exception  of  two,  any  longer  worshipping  here  in  the 
"  Temple  made  with  hands :" — 

£  s.  d. 
The  Ripon  Diocesan  Church  Building  Society  ...  400  0  0 
The  Right  Hon.  William,  Earl  of  Dartmouth     ...     820     0    0 

Miss  Mary  Anne  Armitage  500     0    0 

William  Brooke,  Esq 600     0    0 

Thomas  Brooke,  Esq 200     0    0 

George  Jessop,  Esq.  150    0    0 

Mrs.  John  Allen       100    0    0 

John  Brooke,  Esq 50    0    0 

Geo.  Beaumont,  Esq.  50    0    0 

Mrs.  Waddington     50    0    0 

James  Stocks  80    0    0 

Honley  Co-operative  Society  24     6    0 

Charles  Brook,  Edward  Brooke,  Enoch  Vickerman, 

Mr.  Teale  and  Edward  Lees,  each  £20 100    0    0 

Godfrey  Drake,  Esq.  10  10    0 

Miss  Brooke,  Miss  E.  Brooke,  B.  L.  Shaw,  Wm. 
Wilkinson,  Benj.  Mellor,  Joseph  Haigh,  John 
Dyson,  Thomas  Dyson  and  Wm.  Leigh  Brook, 

each  £10 90    0    0 

Joseph  Milner  ...         5    5    0 

Thomas  Schofield 5    5    0 


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£  B.  d. 
Walter  Piatt,  Rev.  C.  Drawbridge,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Tidswell,  W.  Green  Armitage,  Wm.  Leigh,  Wm. 
Drawbridge,  Abraham  Lit  tie  wood,  George  Lock- 
wood,  B.  France  &  Son,  Wm.  Bottomley,  Mrs. 
Donkersley,  B.  Little  wood,  Joseph  Littlewood, 
Mrs.  Eastwood,  Charles  Hallas,  Miss  Smith, 
Bev.  Geo.  Hough  and  Mrs.  W.  Leigh,  each  £5      90    0    0 

Smaller  Subscriptions         42  17  10 

Received  for  Vaults 20    7  10 

Bank  Interest  47  15  11 


£2,785     6    7 
William  Brooke,  Esq.  made  up  the  balance     ...    £1,484  11     8 


Total  Cost         ...        £4,219  18    8 

In  the  summer  of  1878,  considerable  improvements  were 
carried  out.  Previously,  gas  had  been  introduced.  The  Church 
was  cleaned  and  all  the  woodwork  repainted.  New  systems  of 
ventilation  and  of  heating  by  hot  water  were  introduced.  The 
pews  in  the  body  of  the  Church  were  altered,  so  as  to  allow 
kneeling  more  conveniently,  and  a  wooden  screen  with  folding 
doors  was  thrown  across  the  entire  width  of  the  Church  at  the 
west  end,  as  a  protection  from  draughts.  The  total  cost  defrayed 
by  subscriptions  and  collections  was  £469.  Mr.  Thomas  Farrar, 
who  was  then  Churchwarden,  devoted  much  time  and  energy  to 
these  alterations. 

The  Bells. — Two  new  bells  and  a  clock  were  added  to  the 
Church  in  1885.  The  bells  were  supplied  by  Messrs.  Taylor, 
of  Loughboro,  and  their  cost  was  defrayed  by  public  subscrip- 
tion. The  large  bell  weighs  over  one  ton ;  the  small  bell,  five 
cwt.  They  were  dedicated  to  the  service  of  the  Church  on 
Sunday,  October  25th,  1885.  The  morning  preacher  at  this 
interesting  ceremony  was  the  Bev.  Canon  Bardsley,  vicar  of 
Huddersfield,  and  Rural  Dean.  His  text  was  "They  made 
them  golden  bells."  In  the  evening,  the  Rev.  Canon  Ingham 
Brooke,  Rector  of  Thornhill  and  Rural  Dean,  occupied  the 
pulpit.  He  preached  to  a  crowded  congregation  from  the  text 
44  Where  art  thou  ?  " 

The  new  clock  was  supplied  by  Messrs.  Potts,  of  Leeds ;  and 
the  sole  cost  was  defrayed  by  a  lady  parishioner.  The  old  clock 
had  begun  to  exhibit  signs  of  age,  and  was  very  erratic  in  its 
moods,  cold  and  changeable  weather  having  a  disastrous  effect 
upon  its  internal  organisation.  The  new  clock,  which  is  a  great 
boon  to  the  inhabitants,  chimes  the  hour  and  half-hour;  and  its 
deep  rich  sonorous  tone  sounds  over  hill  and  valley.  The  old 
bell,  which  previously  hung  in  the  tower,  has  been  transferred 


858        YORKSHIRE  NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 

to  the  chapel  in  the  Cemetery.  On  account  of  its  cracked  tone 
it  was  re-oast  in  the  year  1758,  and  bears  that  date.  As  previ- 
ously stated,  it  is  said  that  the  old  chapel  was  nick-named 
"  Old  Peg,"  on  account  of  the  cracked  tone  of  its  bell ;  but  I 
cannot  Touch  for  the  truth  of  this  statement.  Harsh  or  har- 
monious as  the  tone  may  be,  its  death-toll  has  long  sounded 
down  the  valley  telling  of  man's  mortality.  There  is  an  old 
custom  associated  with  this  bell  that  makes  it  interesting.  The 
custom  may  be  only  a  relic  of  Popery,  when  people  went  to  the 
Old  Oratory  to  be  shriven ;  but  in  our  enlightened  age  we  can 
afford  to  forget  that  fact.  I  refer  to  the  ringing  of  the  "  Pancake- 
bell."  Formerly,  its  first  toll  was  the  signal,  that  in  Honley 
all  parish  apprentices,  as  well  as  other  apprentices  to  any 
handicraft,  were  free  from  their  master's  control  on  that  day. 
Though  freedom  is  not  as  pleasant  as  its  sound,  the  apprentices 
were  wont  to  rush  up  Church  Street  with  wild  whoops  of 
delight,  to  salute  the  old  bell  and  play  sad  havoc  for  the  rest  of 
the  day,  chiefly  kicking  the  football  in  the  streets. 

The  ringing  of  the  "  Pancake-bell M  is  still  kept  up,  and  I  hope 
the  day  is  far  distant  ere  the  time-honoured  custom  will  be  dis- 
continued. On  each  Shrove-Tuesday,  the  children  will  rush 
out  of  school,  and  with  the  trust  of  childhood,  which  even  an 
advanced  education  cannot  altogether  crush,  look  up  at  the 
steeple  with  wistful  earnestness,  as  if  they  expected  the  pancakes 
falling  down,— a  belief  not  quite  extinct  in  the  village. 
Baptisms  and  Marriages. 

Previous  to  1813  all  baptisms  and  burials  belonging  to 
Honley  Parish  are  recorded  in  the  Parish  Church  at  Almond- 
bury.  The  first  baptism  entered  in  the  Honley  register  is  thai 
of  Matthew  Roberts,  son  of  Charles  Hallas,  Clothier,  LudhiH, 
Deer.  18th,  1812.  A  license  was  granted  on  July  11th,  1887, 
for  the  solemnisation  of  Marriages  in  St.  Mary's  Church,  and 
the  first  marriage  that  took  place  was  on  Dec.  3rd,  1887, 
between  Henry  Beever,  of  Honley,  and  Anne  Brooke,  of  Brock- 
holes.  Previous  to  this  date,  all  marriages  took  place  at 
Almondbury.  I  have  heard  the  description  of  the  picturesque 
bridal-train,  as  they  set  out  from  some  hill-side  home;  the 
lady  decked  in  her  bridal  finery,  mounted  upon  the  pillion ;  the 
gentleman  upon  his  good  pack-horse,  that  for  once  was  exoner- 
ated from  the  prosaic  duty  of  carrying  pieces  to  Hudderofield 
Market.  The  bright  colours  worn  by  those  who  accompanied 
them,  rivalling  in  appearance  the  bloom  of  the  blushing  gone 
and  heather,  that  they  mayhap  rode  through.  After  the  cere- 
mony, the  best  mounted  in  the  train  would  race  back  to  the 
village,  the  first  to  arrive  having  the  honour  of  kissing  the 
bride.  Old  customs  die  hard,  like  the  fox ;  and  many  Honley 
natives  have  had  the  same  inclinations  to  wend  their  way  to 
Almondbury  to  perform  this  important  ceremony. 


WITH    YORKSHIRE    FOLK-LORE    JOURNAL.  859 

Again  Honley  people  have  been  troubled  with  the  disease  of 
restoration.  The  attack  is  so  mild,  however,  that  it  has  only 
developed  into  "  proposed  alterations."  I  am  glad  to  say  that 
the  Church  will  not  have  to  pass  through  the  same  fiery  ordeal, 
as  many  other  luckless  edifices  have  had  to  do. 

At  a  public  meeting  of  the  Parishioners,  held  on  Monday, 
Deer.  20th,  1887,  in  the  National  School,  it  was  resolved  to 
alter  the  interior  of  the  present  Church.  A  building  com- 
mittee was  formed,  and  it  was  decided  that  Mr.  C.  Hodgson 
Fowler,  Diocesan  Architect,  Durham,  should  be  intrusted 
with  the  alterations.  The  organ  is  to  be  removed  from  the 
West  to  the  East  end  (its  once  original  position).  The  high 
singing-gallery  is  to  be  abolished ;  and  oak  choir-stalls  to  be 
substituted  in  the  Chancel.  The  body  of  the  Church  will  be 
re-seated  with  open  benches ;  but  not,  I  am  glad  to  say,  made 
of  the  now  hackneyed  pitch-pine.  The  pews  in  the  galleries 
remain  intact,  but  the  fronts  of  the  galleries  are  to  be  moved 
further  back.  An  improved  system  of  heating  and  ventilation 
is  also  to  be  introduced.  A  new  pulpit  and  Lectern  is  to 
take  the  place  of  the  present  pulpit,  reading  and  clerk's  desk. 
Captain  Jessop  and  Miss  Siddon  intend  to  present  the  Church 
with  the  new  pulpit,  in  memory  of  the  departed  ones  of 
their  family.  The  three  large  East  windows  of  transparent 
glass  are  to  be  replaced  by  memorial-windows.  These  windows 
are  to  the  memory  of  the  late  Mr.  Thomas  Brooke,  of  Northgate 
House,  placed  there  by  his  family.  No  words  of  mine  are  re- 
quired to  bring  to  memory  the  noble  traits  of  this  good  man. 
I  can  only  say  of  his  deatb,  what  David  said  of  Abner's  death, 
"that  a  great  man  had  fallen  in  Israel,"  and  my  readers  will 
echo  this.  The  subjects  of  the  middle  window  are  the  Birth 
and  Crucifixion  of  our  Lord,  and  of  His  being  seated  at  God's 
right  hand  after  His  ascension.  The  two  side  windows  contain 
illustrations  from  the  Te  Deum. 

Near  upon  a  thousand  pounds,  the  proceeds  of  a  bazaar,  the 
subscriptions  of  the  members  of  the  congregation,  and  dona- 
tions from  outside  Churchmen,  have  already  been  collected  and 
promised  for  the  proposed  alterations.  Other  gifts  for  various 
purposes  have  also  been  promised.  A  surpliced  Choir  of  men 
and  boys  is  to  take  the  place  of  the  present  mixed  choir,  one  of 
whom,  Miss  Brooke,  of  Northgate  House,  has  faithfully  per- 
formed her  voluntary  duties  as  leading  Soprano  for  22  years. 

In  closing  this  account  of  our  church,  I  can  only  hope  that 
the  poor  memorial  will  be  received  in  the  same  spirit  that  it  is 
written:  to  the  memory  of  those  who  ought  to  have  "the 
pleasing  tribute  of  a  Sigh." 


860  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 

Witty  Doctor. —  (Page  298).  Archbishop  Mountain  was 
appointed  to  the  See  of  York,  1628.  It  is  therefore  clear  that 
Charles  I.  was  then  reigning  and  not  George  II.  F.G. 

Denison. — Wanted  baptismal  register  of  John  Denison,  who 
was  residing  at  Pontefract  from  1750  to  1789,  and  his  marriage 
certificate  to  Miss  Hagar  or  Eager.  N. 

Denton  Beoisteb. — In  your  notice  of  Oainford  Register, 
(p.  290),  it  should  have  been  stated  that  Mr.  Walbran  tran- 
scribed Denton  Register,  and  had  eight  copies  printed  by  Mr. 
W.  Harrison,  Ripon.  See  Mr.  Walbran 's  History  of  Gainford. 
Denton  is  a  chapelry  in  Oainford  parish.  £. 

Kildwick. — Few  Yorkshire  people  pass  through  Kildwick 
Railway  Station  without  making  a  remark  on  this  name, 
"  killed- wick,"  that  is,  "  killed-alive ;"  and  especially  since  the 
railway  accident  here  a  few  years  ago.  The  false  explanation 
comes  more  readily  than  the  real  one  "The  wyke  of  Kilda, 
or  Childe."  Archil  held  Ghildeuuic,  Gamel  had  Fernehil, 
Ravenchil  owned  Sutun,  Torchil  had  Cutnelai  (or  Cononley), 
Gamelbar  held  Esebrune,  whilst  Bradelai  was  held  by  Archil, 
Torchil,  and  Gamel,  under  the  King,  in  1085.  "  Chil"  forms 
part  of  the  name  of  three  owners,  and  probably  all  the  five 
were  descendants  of  Childe,  whose  name  is  associated  to-day 
with  this  extensive  Airedale  parish.  Very  shortly  these  pos- 
sessions were  annexed  to  Skipton  under  Robert  de  Romille. 
Gislebert  Tyson  held  Estbrune,  and  also  Stiueton  (Steeton), 
which  previously  belonged  to  Gamelbar,  and  also  Glusebrun 
and  Chelohis  (Melsis),  which  Gamel  had  held  ;  whilst  Osbern 
de  Arches  held  Siglesdene  (Silsden).  William  de  Percy  got  a 
part  of  Gamel's  lands  in  Glusebrun  and  Ghelchis. 

Kildwick  Church  is  one  of  the  two  in  Craven  mentioned  in 
Domesday.  It,  with  the  village  and  manor  of  Kildwick,  was 
given  by  Cecilia  de  Romille  to  the  priory  of  Embsay,  afterwards 
Bolton.  Robert  Wilkinson  and  Thomas  Drake,  two  Halifax 
men,  obtained  Kildwick  at  the  Dissolution  of  Monasteries,  and 
Drake  alienated  the  manor,  in  2  Edw.  VI.,  to  John  Garforth, 
of  Farnhill,  from  whom  it  passed  by  purchase,  1  Eliz.,  to  Henry 
Currer,  Esq. 

Kildwick  Hall  is  sheltered  from  the  east  wind,  and  commands 
a  fine  prospect  of  Airedale,  the  river  winding  between  high 
embankments,  a  clear,  undented  stream.  Abandoned  river-beds 
tell  tales  of  ancient  floods,  and  changes  of  course.  Whitaker 
gives  a  full  list  of  Vicars  since  1272.  The  Church  is  176  feet 
long,  and  is  generally  spoken  of  as  the  Lang  Bark  of  Craven. 
It  was  rebuilt  in  Henry  VIII 's.  reign,  and  consists  of  nave,  and 
north  and  south  aisles.  In  the  outer  north  wall  may  be  seen 
some  big,  unshapely  blocks  of  stone.  The  east  window  was 
erected  in  1854  by  W.  Bradley  Wainman,  of  Carr-heai,  to  the 


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Sir  Robert  de  StWeton. 


WITH  YORKSHIRE  FOLKLORE  JOURNAL.     861 

memory  of  three  of  his  children.  There  are  seven  lights,  the 
figure  of  the  Saviour  in  the  centre,  two  evangelists  on  each  side, 
Peter  and  Andrew  at  the  extremities.  At  the  east  end  of  the 
north  aisle  is  the  Gurrer  chapel,  and  at  the  east  end  of  the 
south  aisle  is  the  Horsfall,  or  Malsis  chapel,  the  Horsfalls  hav- 
ing owned  Malsis  before  the  Spencers,  whose  vault  is  below, 
and  to  whom  (the  Spencers)  a  stained  window  and  mural  tablet 
have  been  erected.  In  the  chancel  is  a  stone  bearing  the 
inscription — "Hie  jacet  Willielmus  Horsfall,  mercator  Londin- 
ensis  ....  1668,  August."  The  Horsfalls'  arms,  three 
horses'  heads,  but  no  bezant,  are  cut  at  the  head  of  the  stone. 
On  the  top,  right  corner  of  the  shield  is  a  crescent.  The  re- 
gister records  his  burial  thus: — Gulielmus  Horsfall,  marctor 
Londinensis,  de  Malsis  Hall  in  Sutton,  bur.  26  Aug.  1668.  In 
the  north  aisle  is  a  gravestone  with  Calvary  Cross.  There  are 
several  mural  tablets,  and  brasses  to  Joseph  Heaton,  .Weinmans, 
Smiths,  Ianson,  Holmes  1728  (a  fine  one  with  carved  oak  frame). 
The  memorial  windows  are  to  the  memories  of  the  Rev.  Thomas 
Marsden;  the  children  of  Thomas  Bairstow;  Thomas  and 
Richard  Robinson  and  Robert  Smith ;  Richard  Hartley ;  Joseph 
Heaton ;  Maria  Sarah  Marsden,  ob.  1871,  aged  71 ;  and  Rev.  J. 
T.  C.  Fawcett,  M.A.,  24  years  vicar,  died  26th  Aug.,  1867, 
erected  by  parishioners  and  friends.  In  the  chancel  is  an  old 
oak  box,  like  a  coffin,  used  for  storing  choir  music.  An  old 
oak  pew,  1683  E.E.,  and  another,  1681,  are  worthy  of  note. 
The  font  is  over  four  hundred  years  old.  It  is  octagonal,  hav- 
ing sculptured  on  the  sides  (1)  gt.  j)»  ©«,  (2)  f#U»  (8)  reed 
and  sponge  in  saltire,  (4)  two  whips  in  sal  tire,  (5)  three  nails 
and  two  dice,  (6)  sword  and  torch  in  saltire,  (7)  hammer  and 
pincers,  (8)  !*♦  ©♦  $♦  $»  An  old  font  cover  was  broken 
up  and  made  into  chairs,  and  a  new  carved  oak  one  has 
been  lately  substituted.  The  tomb  of  Sir  Robert  de  Steeton 
is  a  great  attraction.  He  died  in  1807,  and  his  effigy  has 
been  well  preserved,  see  the  illustration  herewith.  On  both 
sides  is  a  modern  inscription — Robertus  de  Styveton  obiit 
a.d.  mcccvii,  and  at  the  foot  the  words — Renewed  by  sub- 
scription, 1854.  In  the  windows  of  the  north  aisle  are  several 
shields  of  arms,  ancient  and  modern.  On  the  huge  stone  clock 
face  of  the  tower  is  painted — "The  gift  of  William  Currer, 
Esq.,  of  Steeton,  late  citizen  of  London,  1709.  Renewed 
by  subscription  1828."  The  horse-steps  and  remains  of  the 
stocks  near  the  gate,  and  the  old  coach-house  are  mementos  of 
early  times.  The  registers  reach  back  to  1575,  and  amongst 
the  burial  entries  is  one  to  a  person  aged  112,  I  am  told.  The 
first  book  is  beautifully  written,  but  the  second  volume,  1626,  is 
a  gem.  They  are  about  the  finest  and  best  preserved  I  have 
seen.  The  oldest  dated  gravestone  now  remaining  in  the  yard 
is  to  Mary  Craven,  of  Bradley,  1672.    Near  the  s.w.  door  is  one 


802  YORKSHIRE    NOTES    AND    QUERIES, 

"  to  the  memory  of  the  Rev.  Mr.  Robert  Hargreaves,  late  curate 
of  Todmorden,  in  Lancashire,  died  Aug.  6,  1770,  aged  77.  He 
was  born  in  Farnhill,  and  was  only  son  of  Mr.  James 
Hargreaves,  an  eminent  tradesman/'  (At  Farnhill  lived 
Turner  the  soldier,  whose  fame  is  recorded  in  a  local  book  on 
natural  history,  in  a  series  of  oil  paintings  in  the  possession  of 
a  descendant  at  Bradford,  for  having  slain  a  tiger  in  India,  and 
old  people  remember  the  travelling  exhibition  of  Turner  and 
the  tiger.)  In  the  chancel  are  stones  to  commemorate  William 
Bawdwen,  Esq.,  of  Stone-gap,  who  died  Jan.  22,  1776,  aged  55, 
and  Roger  Coates,  Esq.,  of  Kildwick  Grange,  who  died  March 
17,  1660,  aged  41.  Of  the  intermarriages  of  the  Coates,  Swires 
and  Horsfalls,  we  have  not  space  to  write  at  present.  A  tablet 
bearing  arms,  is  erected  to  the  memory  of  Samuel  Swire,  Esq., 
of  Cononley,  died  May  5,  1763,  aged  62 ;  Elizabeth  his  wife, 
died  April  12,  1790,  aged  85 ;  rtoger  their  son,  died  Jan.  22, 
1778,  aged  42,  and  Elizabeth  his  wife,  died  July  18,  1773,  aged 
48.  Close  to  the  south  wall  of  the  church  is  an  inscription  as 
follows : — "  This  stone  rescues  from  oblivion  the  memory  of 
Thomas  Wade,  of  Silsden  moor,  who  after  a  life  of  plainness, 
uprightness  and  temperance,  died  Feb.  11,  1810,  in  the  103rd 
year  of  his  age."  With  notes  from  three  more  gravestones  (at 
the  east  end,)  we  will  conclude.  (1)  Thomas,  eldest  son  of  Rev. 
Thomas  Marsden,  Vicar  of  Kilawick  and  Skip  ton,  died  14 
March,  1850,  aged  54.  Maria  Sarah,  daughter  Rev.  Thomas, 
died  17  Oct.,  1871,  aged  71.  Henry  Horner  Granger,  6urgeon, 
Skipton,  grandson  of  Rev.  Thomas,  died  17  Oct.,  1878,  aged 
64,  and  Elizabeth,  relict  of  H.  H.  O.,  died  14  July,  1888,  aged 
75.  (2)  Rev.  Mr.  John  Topham,  late  vicar,  died  August  5, 
1788,  aged  61.  (8)  Thomas  Dewhurst,  of  Sutton,  died  Nov. 
29,  1755,  aged  81 ;  a  descendant  of  Thomas  Dewhurst,  late  of 
London,  minister.  Mrs.  Ann  Dewhurst,  of  Sutton,  died  Nov. 
15,  1758,  aged  72,  mother  of  above-said  Thomas  Dewhurst,  of 
Sutton,  and  relict  of  above  Thomas  Dewhurst,  late  of  London, 
minister.  (It  is  marvellously  true  to  name  a  son  a  descendant.) 
The  Garforth  or  Garthford  family  have  resided  at  Steeton  more 
than  three  centuries,  one  of  whom  was  vicar  of  Kildwick  in 
1659,  and  of  Gargrave  in  1667.  The  Plumptons  held  the 
manor  of  Steeton  after  the  Steetons,  and  most  of  the  manor 
was  acquired  by  the  Garforths  in  1600-4. 


Into*  iSominum* 


Allen,  10, 13, 14. 
Aram,  54,  55,  306. 
Arches,  360. 
Archil,  360. 
Arlush,  50. 
Armytage,  7,  10, 15. 

Bailey,  180. 
Beaumont,  65,  96. 
Bevors,  6. 
Boardingham,  1. 
Booth,  34. 
Boynton,  100,  251. 
Brigg,  88. 
Brierley,  57. 
Bronte,  49. 

Credmon,  52. 
Calverley,  5. 
Canute,  Cnnt,  187,  241. 
Cave,  254. 
Cavendish,  332. 
Childa,  360. 
Clarebro',  6. 
Clifford,  325,  345. 
Coates,  361. 
Collyer,  85. 
Colton,  330. 
Cook,  334. 
Copley,  168. 
Coulthurst,  349. 
Cowper,  6. 
Crawshay,  30,  203. 
Crossley,  32. 
Cunliffe,  254. 
Currer,  360,  361. 

Denison,  360. 
Dewhurst,  350,  362. 
Dickenson,  34. 
Dixon,  16. 
Dove,  140. 
Downes,  7. 
Doyle,  51. 
Drake,  360. 

EUah,  202. 
EUand,  292. 
English,  253. 

Fawkes,  208. 
Federer,  56. 
Fitzhugh,  103. 
FitzwilUam,  10,  12, 14. 
Foljambe,  19. 
Forshaw,  143. 
Frobisher,  66. 


Gamel,  360. 
Gamelbar,  360. 
Gargrave,  119. 
Garforth,  362. 
Gent,  56. 
Gould,  271. 

HargreaTes,  361. 
Hildyard,  176. 
Hill,  7. 
Hilton,  179. 
Hinchliffe,  253. 
Horsfall,  254,  361. 
Hunter,  252. 

Ismay,  65,  253. 

Jackson,  28. 
Jenkinson,  116. 
Jennings,  254. 
Jollie,  40. 

Kay,  Key,  5,  6,  196. 
Kendrew,  68,  202. 
Kidd,  333. 
Kilner,  252. 

Lang,  208. 
Langfellow,  18. 
Lanchester,  252. 
Linton,  141. 
Lister,  347. 
Logan,  253. 

Maister,  180. 
Mangery,  48. 
Mawd,  23. 
Marsden,  361. 
Marvel,  176. 
Metcalfe,  55,  80. 
Middleton,  21. 
Mirfield,  109. 
Monceanx,  99. 
Morris,  142. 
Morrison,  346. 
Mountain,  298,  360. 

Nowell,  53. 

Osborne,  291. 

Peel,  56. 
Percy,  360. 
Petyt,  852. 
Pritchett,  122. 


Batcliffe,  6. 
Ravenchil,  360. 
Rayner,  6,  98. 
Riley,  51. 
Rokeby,  290. 
Rollit,  181. 
Romille,  360. 
Rotherfields,  105,  107. 

Saville,  5,  120, 168. 
Dee,  «r«/> 
Settle,  98. 
Shepherd,  7. 
Sbipton,  54,  82. 
Sill,  6. 
Skelton,  6. 
Somester,  5,  6. 
Spencer,  361. 
St.  Qointin,  102. 
Steeton,  361. 
Storr,  101. 
Strafford,  292. 
Stranbenzie,  7. 
Sunderland,  98. 
Swinglehurst,  33. 
Swire,  362. 
Sykes,  169. 

Taylor,  271. 
Topham,  362. 
Torchil,  861. 
Tufton,  331. 
Turner,  252,  362. 
Turton,  141. 
Tyson,  360. 

Ulf,  139. 

Wade,  362. 
Wainman,  360. 
Walbran,  290,  360. 
Warburton,  244. 
Watson,  66. 
Waugh,  1,  7. 
Webster,  294. 
Wentworth,  117,  292. 
West,  330. 
Wheelwright,  817. 
Wild,  140. 
Wilkinson,  50. 
Wilson,  35,  348. 
Wordsworth,  257. 
Worral,  62. 

Torke,  306. 


Mnbtx  Jtatatmn. 


Aldborough,  138. 
Arthington,  62. 
Askrigg,  258,  294. 

Bacup,  87. 
Burden,  266. 
Barmston,  98. 
Barnoldswiok,  33, 84, 37. 
Barnsley,  163. 
Bedale,  64. 
Bolton,  263-5. 
Bradford,  53,  272. 
Bradley,  360. 
Brandesbnrton,  102. 
Brighouse,  295-304. 
Brimbam,  308. 

Cawthorne,  292. 
Ohapeltown,  269. 
Chiirwell,  270. 
Gononley,  360. 

Danby,  62. 
Darlington,  128. 
Doncaster,  272. 
Dovecote-gill,  189. 
Drigblington,  180. 
Dumb-steeple,  49. 

Easby,  50. 
Easingwold,  64. 
Eastbnrn,  360. 
Elland,  292. 
Embsay,  362. 

Farnbill,  362. 
Fewston,  269. 
Filey,  56. 
Flambro',  62. 
Fnlford,  132. 
Fulneck,  142. 

Gainford,  290,  360. 
Gallowbill,  252. 
GilderBome,  35. 
Goodmanbam,  182. 
Gordale,  261. 
Gowtbwaite,  306. 
Goy  don-pot,  315. 
Granny-ball,  97. 
Grindleton,  57. 


Halifax,  124,  262,  -294, 

817,  319. 
Harrogate,  52. 
Hardraw-scar,  259. 
Helmsley,  208. 
Hillhouse,  164. 
Hilston,  101. 
Hipperbolme,  295-304. 
Holling-baU,  18,  251. 
Honley,  193,  238,  355 

359. 
Howden,  50,  62. 
Howley,  104. 
How-stean,  813. 
Huddersfield,  10, 15. 
HnU,  101,  172,  207,  252. 
Hnmber,  204. 
Hunslet,  268. 
Hnnton,  252. 

Bkley,  138,  250. 
Ingleborougb,  16,  65. 

Keigbley,  87, 145,  225. 
Kildwick,  360-2. 
Kilnsey,  257. 
KnareBbro',  63,  66,  134, 
262. 

Leeds,  48,  64, 141, 169. 
Lightcliffe,  122. 

Malbam,  260. 
Malsis,  360-2. 
Melbeeks,  271. 
Mexborough,  252. 
Middlesmoor,  316. 
Millsbaw,  253. 
Mirfield,  64,  253. 
Mount  Grace,  52,  61. 
Morley,  117,  268. 

Nidderdale,  805. 
Northallerton,  141. 
Nunbuxnholm,  181. 

Ossett,  141. 
Otley,  64,  253. 
Owram(North),  298-304. 

Pateley-bridge,  305. 
Pontefract,  206. 
Pudsey,  127. 


Bastrick,  295-304. 
Rawden,  87. 
Ravensthorpe,  126. 
Beetb,  131. 
Richmond,  50,  258. 
Bipon,  161. 
Rishworth,  317. 
Riveaux,  260. 
Rodhill-end,  35.  37. 
Rotherham,  165. 
RothweU,  270. 
Roundhay,  269. 
Rowley,  251. 
Ryedale,  138. 
Rylston,  266. 

Saddleworth,  142. 
Saltburn,  125. 
Saxton,  273. 
8carbro\  162. 
Sedbergh,  190. 
Belby,  123. 
Semerwater,  54. 
Settle,  51. 

Sheffield,40,166,167,253. 
Shelf,  131. 
Sherburn,  208,  273. 
Shipley,  256. 
Silsden,  360. 
Skipton,  322-355. 
Skipae*,  269. 
Sproatley,  267. 
Stamford,  85. 
Stanbury,  231. 
Steeton,  360. 
Sutton,  87,  860. 

Todmorden,  63. 

Wakefield,  1,5, 136, 202, 

294. 
Warley,  62. 
Washburn,  58. 
Wath,  290. 
Whitby,  128,  252. 
Wilsden,  290. 
Winestead,  173. 
Winteringham,  267. 

York,  1,  63,   187,  202, 

207,  241,  269,  273. 
Yorkshire,  East,  205,255. 
Yorkshire,  West,  3. 


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